#Americans #Women #XIXCentury
XII I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf
768 When I hoped, I recollect Just the place I stood— At a Window facing West— Roughest Air—was good—
496 As far from pity, as complaint— As cool to speech—as stone— As numb to Revelation As if my Trade were Bone—
984 ’Tis Anguish grander than Delight ’Tis Resurrection Pain— The meeting Bands of smitten Face We questioned to, again.
401 What Soft—Cherubic Creatures— These Gentlewomen are— One would as soon assault a Plush… Or violate a Star—
‘Faithful to the end’ Amended From the Heavenly Clause - Constancy with a Proviso Constancy abhors - ‘Crowns of Life’ are servile Priz…
528 Mine—by the Right of the White E… Mine—by the Royal Seal! Mine—by the sign in the Scarlet p… Bars—cannot conceal!
690 Victory comes late— And is held low to freezing lips— Too rapt with frost To take it—
886 These tested Our Horizon— Then disappeared As Birds before achieving A Latitude.
Air has no Residence, no Neighbor… No Ear, no Door, No Apprehension of Another Oh, Happy Air! Ethereal Guest at e’en an Outcast…
141 Some, too fragile for winter winds The thoughtful grave encloses— Tenderly tucking them in from fros… Before their feet are cold.
547 I’ve seen a Dying Eye Run round and round a Room— In search of Something—as it seem… Then Cloudier become—
XXIII A bird came down the walk: He did not know I saw; He bit an angle-worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw.
43 Could live—did live— Could die—did die— Could smile upon the whole Through faith in one he met not,
XVIII READ, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid;