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)
Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm - That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm -
I've heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - Yet, never, in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of Me.
You see I cannot see - your lifetime - I must guess - How many times it ache for me - today - Confess - How many times for my far sake The brave eyes film - But I guess guessing hurts - Mine - got so dim! Too vague - the face - My own - so patient - covers - Too far - the strength - My timidness enfolds - Haunting the Heart - Like her translated faces - Teasing the want - It - only - can suffice!
I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet - And I tip - drunken - Let no Pebble - smile - 'Twas the New Liquor - That was all! Power is only Pain - Stranded, thro' Discipline, Till Weights - will hang - Give Balm - to Giants - And they'll wilt, like Men - Give Himmaleh - They'll Carry - Him!
Over the fence - Strawberries - grow - Over the fence - I could climb - if I tried, I know - Berries are nice! But - if I stained my Apron - God would certainly scold! Oh, dear, - I guess if He were a Boy - He'd - climb - if He could!
Notti Selvagge - Notti Selvagge! Fossi io con te Notti Selvagge sarebbero La nostra voluttà! Inutili - i Venti - A un Cuore in porto - Via il Compasso - Via la Mappa!
Vogare nell'Eden - Ah, il Mare! Potessi soltanto ormeggiare - Stanotte - In Te!
I shall keep singing! Birds will pass me On their way to Yellower Climes - Each - with a Robin's expectation - I - with my Redbreast - And my Rhymes - Late - when I take my place in summer - But - I shall bring a fuller tune - Vespers - are sweeter than Matins - Signor - Morning - only the seed of Noon.
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile - the Winds - To a Heart in port - Done with the Compass - Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden - Ah, the Sea! Might I but moor - Tonight - In Thee!
Why - do they shut Me out of Heaven? Did I sing - too loud? But - I can say a little "Minor" Timid as a Bird! Would'nt the Angels try me - Just - once - more - Just - see - if I troubled them - But dont - shut the door!
Oh, if I - were the Gentleman In the "White Robe" - And they - were the little Hand - that knocked - Could - I - forbid?
What would I give to see his face? I'd give - I'd give my life - of course - But that is not enough! Stop just a minute - let me think! I'd give my biggest Bobolink! That makes two - Him - and Life! You know who "June" is - I'd give her - Roses a day from Zenzibar - And Lily tubes - like Wells - Bees - by the furlong - Straits of Blue Navies of Butterflies - sailed thro' - And dappled Cowslip Dells - Then I have "shares" in Primrose "Banks" - Daffodil Dowries - spicy "Stocks" - Dominions - broad as Dew - Bags of Doubloons - adventurous Bees Brought me - from firmamental seas - And Purple - from Peru -
Now - have I bought it - "Shylock"? Say! Sign me the Bond! "I vow to pay To Her - who pledges this - One hour - of her Sovereign's face"! Extatic Contract! Niggard Grace! My Kingdom's worth of Bliss!
Forever at His side to walk - The smaller of the two! Brain of His Brain - Blood of His Blood - Two lives - One Being - now - Forever of His fate to taste - If grief - the largest part - If joy - to put my piece away For that beloved Heart -
All life - to know each other - Whom we can never learn - And bye and bye - a Change - Called Heaven - Rapt Neighborhoods of Men - Just finding out - what puzzled us - Without the lexicon!