Poetessa, nato venerdì 10 dicembre 1830 a Amherst, Massachusetts (USA - Stati Uniti d'America), morto sabato 15 maggio 1886 a Amherst, Massachusetts (USA - Stati Uniti d'America)
Some - Work for Immortality - The Chiefer part, for Time - He - Compensates - immediately - The former - Checks - on Fame - Slow Gold - but Everlasting - The Bullion of Today - Contrasted with the Currency Of Immortality -
A Beggar - Here and There - Is gifted to discern Beyond the Broker's insight - One's - Money - One's - the Mine.
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I'm so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him -
I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - It's sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering -
It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight.
How many Flowers fail in Wood - Or perish from the Hill - Without the privilege to know That they are Beautiful - How many cast a nameless Pod Upon the nearest Breeze - Unconscious of the Scarlet Freight - It bear to Other Eyes.
The Winters are so short - I'm hardly justified In sending all the Birds away - And moving into Pod - Myself - for scarcely settled - The Phebes have begun - And then - it's time to strike my Tent - And open House - again -
It's mostly, interruptions - My Summer - is despoiled - Because there was a Winter - once - And all the Cattle - starved -
And so there was a Deluge - And swept the World away - But Ararat's a Legend - now - And no one credits Noah.
What Soft - Cherubic Creatures - These Gentlewomen are - One would as soon assault a Plush - Or violate a Star - Such Dimity Convictions - A Horror so refined Of freckled Human Nature - Of Deity - ashamed -
It's such a common - Glory - A Fisherman's - Degree - Redemption - Brittle Lady - Be so - ashamed of Thee.
There is a flower that Bees prefer - And Butterflies - desire - To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming Bird - aspire - And Whatsoever Insect pass - A Honey bear away Proportioned to his several dearth And her - capacity -
Her face be rounder than the Moon And ruddier than the Gown Or Orchis in the Pasture - Or Rhododendron - worn -
She doth not wait for June - Before the World be Green - Her sturdy little Countenance Against the Wind - be seen -
Contending with the Grass - Near Kinsman to Herself - For Privilege of Sod and Sun - Sweet Litigants for Life -
And when the Hills be full - And newer fashions blow - Doth not retract a single spice For pang of jealousy -
Her Public - be the Noon - Her Providence - the Sun - Her Progress - by the Bee - proclaimed - In sovereign - Swerveless Tune -
The Bravest - of the Host - Surrendering - the last - Nor even of Defeat - aware - When cancelled by the Frost.
Rehearsal to Ourselves Of a Withdrawn Delight - Affords a Bliss like Murder - Omnipotent - Acute - We will not drop the Dirk - Because We love the Wound The Dirk Commemorate - Itself Remind Us that we died.
I saw no Way - The Heavens were stitched - I felt the Columns close - The Earth reversed her Hemispheres - I touched the Universe - And back it slid - and I alone - A Speck upon a Ball - Went out upon Circumference - Beyond the Dip of Bell.
To lose one's faith - surpass The loss of an Estate - Because Estates can be Replenished - faith cannot - Inherited with Life - Belief - but once - can be - Annihilate a single clause - And Being's - Beggary.
Andai in Cielo - Era una piccola Città - Illuminata - da un Rubino - Lastricata - con soffici Piume - Più silenziosa - dei campi Ricoperti di Rugiada - Bellissima - come Dipinti - Che mai Uomo disegnò. Gli abitanti - come la Falena - Di Pizzo - le strutture - I doveri - di impalpabile Velo - E di Piuma d'oca - i nomi - Quasi - contenta - Io - potrei essere - In mezzo a tale singolare Società.