greykit.poetry — #1870s

• 1904 [christina-rossetti] In the Bleak Midwinter
  The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti

  Earth hard as iron, water like a stone — what can she give the Lord God in the bleak midwinter? Only what she can: give my heart.

  #hymn#christmas#devotional#1870s
• 1878 [emily-dickinson] Success is counted sweetest
  Poems

  Only those who never succeed can define success — not the purple host that took the flag, but the defeated dying man who hears the distant strains of triumph break agonized and clear.

  #lyric#victory#loss#1870s
• 1875 [edgar-allan-poe] Alone
  Poems (1849)

  From childhood's hour, unable to take his passions from a common spring — the mystery that binds him still drawn from every depth of good and ill, and a demon in the cloud that took the form of a view.

  #lyric#solitude#childhood#1870s