 Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves.  The Book Buyer - 7. oldal1893Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Emily Dickinson - 1894 - 760 oldal
...request was as characteristically piquant as her answer to his question of her age: — [July, 1862.] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? It often alarms father. He says death might occur, and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1906 - 492 oldal
...request was as characteristically piquant as her answer to his question of her age: — [July, 1862.] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? It often alarms father. He says death might occur, and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1909 - 410 oldal
...some impression of my enigmatical correspondent. To this came the following reply, in July, 1862: — Could you believe me without ? I had no portrait,...like the wren ; and my hair is bold like the chestnut bur ; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1909 - 412 oldal
...? I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren ; and my hair is bold like the chestnut bur ; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well ? It often alarms father. He says death might occur and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould... | |
 | William Valentine Kelley - 1911 - 440 oldal
...her to send a photograph, she answers that she has no picture, and adds this nai've penportrait: "I am small like the wren, and my hair is bold like the red chestnut burr, and my eyes like the sherry in the glass which the guest leaves. Would this do just... | |
 | Marsden Hartley - 1921 - 282 oldal
...— who gave so charming a portrait of herself to the stranger friend who inquired for a photograph: "I had no portrait now, but am small like the wren,...like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves," this written in July, 1862 — shall be of course familiar with the undeniable originality of her personality,... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1921 - 468 oldal
...breathing as she did the intoxicating air of Transcendentalism. In person she described herself as "small, like the wren; and my hair is bold like the...like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves." "You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog large as myself." These, and not... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 432 oldal
...my preceptor, Mr. Higginson? To the same [In reply to a request for a likeness of her] [July, 1862] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? It often alarms father. He says death might occur, and he has moulds of all the rest, but has no mould... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 428 oldal
...my preceptor, Mr. Higginson? To the same [In reply to a request for a likeness of her] [July, 1862] Could you believe me without? I had no portrait, now,...like the chestnut burr; and my eyes, like the sherry hi the glass that the guest leaves. Would this do just as well? It often alarms father. He says death... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 oldal
...an achievement of the highest type." THE PROFOUND TRIVIALITIES OF A LITTLE SISTER OF THE POETS 1HAVE no portrait now, but am small like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut bur, and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves!" This was Emily Dickinson's portrait... | |
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