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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOMEN Matches Found: 7762 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FAREWELL, MY MISTRESS! I'LL BE GONE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and they call her 'sack,' my dear!" Subject(s): Women "I SING OF A MAIDEN [OR, SYGE OF A MAYDEN]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sing of a maiden that is makeles Last Line: Well may such a lady / goddes mother be Variant Title(s): Two Carols To Our Lady Subject(s): Christmas Carols;mary. Mother Of Jesus;religion;women - Bible; Virgin Mary;theology "LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And share our every load Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; "ON A SHREW, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: After some three-score years of caterwawling Last Line: "for she'd as lief be damned, as be at rest" Subject(s): Shrews (women) "PRECIOUS FINGERS, PRECIOUS TOES", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Precious fool that lets 'em slip Subject(s): Women "SAID A MAID, 'I WILL MARRY FOR LUCRE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I notice she did not rebuchre Subject(s): Love - Materialism;women "SALVE, SANCTA PARENS!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, lovely lady, leman bright / mighty mother, and maiden mild" Last Line: "that we may sing with joy to thee, / salve, sancta parens!" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary "STILL THY SORROW, MAGDALENA!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "welcome love, and welcome gladness! / hallelujah!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene "THE GENTLEMAN'S STUDY, IN ANSWER TO THE LADY'S DRESSING-ROOM", by MISS" "W---- [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "some write of angels, some of goddess" Last Line: "they are still fulsome, wretched man" Alternate Author Name(s): "w----, Miss; Subject(s): "man-woman Relationships;men;swift, Jonathan (1667-1745);women's Rights;" Male-female Relations;feminism 0.05, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a nickel Last Line: Be going home Subject(s): Women 1. SOLITUDE, by 'ENAYAT JABER Poem Source First Line: The boxes, %having waited so long Last Line: Or heed the evils of bad company Subject(s): Arabs - Women 100,000 UPON 100,000, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of my friend florence who teaches yoga Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women 12 EAST SCOTT STREET, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: We move back to my father's home Last Line: The top, then working her way down Subject(s): Women 129F. A RESPONSE TO SHAXPER'S SONNET 129, by DOROTHY HICKSON Poem Source First Line: Th' expense of spirit as a def'nite act Last Line: That rapture (all too often faked) be felt Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights 12:02 P. M., by DORIS VANDERLIPP MANLEY Poem Source First Line: Briefcases %under armpits Last Line: They look so un Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women 17 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN, by BARBARA LOUISE UNGAR Poem Source First Line: You can't trust him Last Line: You think you can change him Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women 19-NOV-42, by DEBORAH ESTHER SCHIFTER Poem Source First Line: The stench, it seemed, had been there forever. %the jews of Last Line: Then they were told to enter the shower Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 1932, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Harry saul wraps the leather straps of tefillin boxes around Last Line: She makes the man oatmeal and coffee Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews - Women 1933, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The saw gleams in her hand like a cat's teeth Subject(s): Rape; Women 1940, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I hated %mother's tennis dress Last Line: My german clown %my wind-up doll Subject(s): Jews - Women 1941, by BARBARA M. SIMON Poem Source First Line: In her best brown suit Last Line: And mother still waiting %for the music to begin Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women 1958 FRUIT CUTTING SHED, by JENNIFER LAGIER Poem Source First Line: It's where I learned %about french kisses, cruising Last Line: My fingers harden %strengthen and bleed Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women 1974: THE YELLOW FARMHOUSE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Daisies. %daisies on the rue Last Line: Perked in a bin on rue %saint antoine Subject(s): Women's Rights 1994, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was leaving my fifty-eighth year Last Line: From your own shivering life Subject(s): Affliction; Breasts; Cancer, Breast; Women 2. CLARITY, by 'ENAYAT JABER Poem Source First Line: My desire is %to open the door, %even when the knock is faint Last Line: A moment is not moments, %or a place to let go Subject(s): Arabs - Women 24 AT THE DOOR OF ANTICIPATION, by HALA MOHAMMAD Poem Source First Line: I sat %weaving seconds %on a tiny straw chair Last Line: At the door of anticipation, %I have chairs lined up Subject(s): Arabs - Women 27, by LINA TIBI Poem Source First Line: Striding, shuddering %I leave behind a summer, a winter Last Line: It is only when listening to you %that I love my life Subject(s): Arabs - Women 3. SMELL, by 'ENAYAT JABER Poem Source First Line: Small but splendid is, %the disappearing vision Last Line: Why the ribbons when they kill my poetry? Subject(s): Arabs - Women 323 ON MONDAY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: A sudden burst of wind %herds the leaves Last Line: The last sense, they say %to go Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women 35/10, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing out my daughter's dark Last Line: The story of replacement Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women 350-LB. POEM, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: My sisters appear in monosyllabic bikinis Last Line: And try to appear %in small print Subject(s): Language; Obesity; Poetry And Poets; Women 4 WHAT AM I CHASING?, by HALA MOHAMMAD Poem Source First Line: From afar I beheld him %like a magic carriage Last Line: No trace of him %no trace Subject(s): Arabs - Women 4. CIRCLE, by 'ENAYAT JABER Poem Source First Line: He breathed deeply, %when the street awoke Last Line: Overflows from her hands, roaming %on his back Subject(s): Arabs - Women 43 THE MAN WHO OFFERS ME HIS CHEST, by HALA MOHAMMAD Poem Source First Line: To whose chest I give my five senses %has long been placing Last Line: Been giving his chest %just a head Subject(s): Arabs - Women 58 LOVE BURNED OUT THE LIGHT, by HALA MOHAMMAD Poem Source First Line: With all my possessions %I listened to it Last Line: My walls %until the darkness was burned Subject(s): Arabs - Women 70'S, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will be the days Last Line: Having lost some %begun much Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States A BALLAD OF BEDLAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o lady, wake! The azure moon" Last Line: "till the creation I am thine, / to some rich desert fly with me" Subject(s): Nonsense;women A BALLAD OF BURDENS, FR. STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of fair women. Vain delight Last Line: This is the end of every man's desire. Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Burden Subject(s): Grief; Life; Trials; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A BALLAD OF FAIR LADIES IN REVOLT, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the sweet women, friend, that lean beneath Last Line: He who's for us, for him are we! Subject(s): Debates; Women's Rights; Feminism A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal Last Line: Started and screamed with fear. Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A BEAUTIFUL LADY, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We like to listen to her dress Last Line: "miss josephine is going by." Subject(s): Beauty; Women A BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BEVY OF BEAUTIES, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE Poem Text First Line: With paper, pen, patience, and pleasure as well Last Line: Would you claim as your choice from this bevy of beauties? Subject(s): Beauty; Women A BIRD IN THE HAND, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were three young maids of lee Last Line: These three old maids of lee. Subject(s): Courtship; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People A BOOK ON ECONOMICS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between long rows of figures lurk Last Line: I see death freeze a baby's smile. Subject(s): Child Labor; Poverty; Women A BRONZEVILLE MOTHER LOITERS IN MISSISSIPPI, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the first it had been like a / ballad Subject(s): African Americans - Women A CASTAWAY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little diary, with its simple thoughts Last Line: Most welcome, dear: one gets so moped alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Prostitution; Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels A CERTAIN YOUNG LADY, by WASHINGTON IRVING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a certain young lady Last Line: And you know very well whom I mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Oldstyle, Jonathan Subject(s): Women A CHARACTER OF SARAH HALLOWELL VAUGHAN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such were the dames of old heroic days Last Line: High o'er the forest lift their verdant head. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women A CHILD'S PRAYER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother! Holy mother! / in the dark I fear Last Line: One to waken me. Subject(s): Angels; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS EVE CHORAL, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / what sound is this across the dark Last Line: Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja! Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary A CLEVER WOMAN, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You thought I had the strength of men Last Line: O evil angel, set me free! Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Women A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips A CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin stills the crying Last Line: "my jesu, sleep!" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A CRY TO MARY, by GODRIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sainte marye virgine Last Line: Bring me winne with the self god. Alternate Author Name(s): Godric Of Finchale; Godric, Saint Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A DAKOTA IDYL, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, gray, purple, gold! Last Line: With the treasure of her heart. Subject(s): Farewell; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women; South Dakota; Parting; Squaws A DECADE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you came, you were like red wine and honey Last Line: But I am completely nourished. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A DEFENCE FOR WOMEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naught are all women: I say no Last Line: A good and bad. Sirs credit me. Subject(s): Women A DIALOGUE BETWEEN STREPHON AND DAPHNE, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er Last Line: Making fools, than keeping lovers. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Women A DIALOGUE FROM PLATO, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd 'read' three hours. Both notes and text Last Line: Profoundly confidential. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Women A DILEMMA, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady fair had lovers three Last Line: "the captain answer'd, ""take the dry un." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Courtship; Women A DISTAFF, by ERINNA Poem Text First Line: Pilot-fish, who giv'st to sailors pleasant sailing Last Line: Hushed among the dead. My voice goes down the night. Subject(s): Women A DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you blame me that I loved him? Last Line: In man's cannot be right. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Hypocrisy A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read, before my eyelids dropt [or, dropped] their shade Last Line: Faints, faded by its heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Sea; Sleep; Women; Ocean A FATHER OF WOMEN: AD SOROREM E. B., by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father works in us Last Line: Now that your sons are dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Butler, Elizabeth Thompson (1844-1933); Fathers & Daughters; Women's Rights; Feminism A FIFTH AVENUE PARADE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this silent, dark crowd Last Line: Machines and armies sensitive as souls. Subject(s): Funerals; New York City; Parades; Triangle Factory Fire (1911); Women; Burials; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A GAME OF FIVES, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five little girls, of five, four, three, two, one Last Line: "the answer to that ancient problem ""how the money goes!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Girls; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN (IN THE DORIC MANNER), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Echo, I ween, will in the wood reply Last Line: Guard her well. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Misogyny; Women A GIRL, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of life's pioneers Last Line: Her tidings far away. Subject(s): Women A GLIMPSE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glimpse, through an interstice caught Last Line: Little, perhaps not a word. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Men; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A GOOD FRIDAY DEVOTION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Lo, even now, the sky's far rim Last Line: Forever more 'tis easter morn. Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; The Resurrection; Virgin Mary A GOOD ORISOUN OF OUR LADIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "christ's dear mother, mary mild" Last Line: "christ's dear mother, saint marie!' amen" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A HEAD, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dead boy living among men as a man Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A HELPMEET FOR HIM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman was made for man's delight Last Line: Woman was made. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of on that [pat] is so fayr and bright Last Line: "mayde milde, moder es / effecta" Variant Title(s): A Hymn To Mary;in Praise Of Mary Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to one that is so fair and bright, / velut maris stella" Last Line: "and the pit hath closed, I wis, inferni!'" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A JEWELLED SELL, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Pale pearls / are best for girls Last Line: A capetown garnet, is it? Oh, all right! Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Women; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces A KISS IN THE RAIN, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One stormy morn I chanced to meet Last Line: I kissed her in the rain. Subject(s): Kisses; Women A LADY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are beautiful and faded Last Line: That its sparkle may amuse you. Subject(s): Beauty; Women A LADY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps beneath a canopy of carnation silk Last Line: And the weariness of futile flesh! Subject(s): God; Women A LAY OF THE TAMBOUR FRAME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bending with straining eyes Last Line: She is ever the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women's Rights; Work; Workers; Feminism A LETTER, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a woman's letter, brown with age Last Line: Let us rejoice, while yet the sun doth shine. Subject(s): Letters; Women A LETTER FROM ARTEMISA IN THE TOWN TO CHLOE IN THE COUNTRY, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe, / in verse by your command I write Last Line: Farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women A LETTER SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end. Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A LILY OF THE FIELD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all his glory, solomon Last Line: God stooped from highest heaven to bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. A WOMAN'S HAND, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: None ever climbed to mountain height of Last Line: A woman's sacrifice and tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Diaries; Women A LOYAL WOMAN'S NO, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! Is my answer from this cold Last Line: Take my life's silence for your answer: no! Subject(s): Evil; Freedom; Loyalty; Marriage; Women's Rights; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A MADONNA OF DOMENICO GHIRLANDAJO, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let thoughts go hence as from a mountain spring Last Line: God's meaning hand, thou chosen, upon thee. Subject(s): Ghirlandajo, Domenico (1449-1494); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449-1494); Bigordi, Domenico (1449-1494); Virgin Mary A MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He meets her twice or thrice a year Last Line: A saint, a sinner, or a fool. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Women A MAN'S REQUIREMENTS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, sweet, with all thou art Last Line: As a man is able. Subject(s): Women A MARRIED COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sit still, I say, and dispense with heroics! Last Line: And put out the lights. We are through with our play. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation A MERRY CHRISTMAS - IN SPITE OF ALL!, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago in london town Last Line: Can rob us of our christmas cheer. Subject(s): Christmas; Gays & Lesbians; Nativity, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A MIRACLE OF OUR LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whoso loves our lady aye / she his love will well repay Last Line: "mary maid, by this, thy might, / bring us safe to heaven so bright!" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A MIRROR FOR DETRACTORS. ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, by ESTHER LEWIS Poem Text First Line: This wit was with experience bought Last Line: And smile upon my humble flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Sylvia; Clark, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism A MITHER'S CRY (WRITTEN ON A SISTER'S GRAVE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We played together, she and I Last Line: And her two bairns upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Sisters; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A MONA LISA, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to creep Last Line: In their depths? Subject(s): African Americans - Women A MONARCH'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monarch on his deathbed lay Last Line: Imperial albert died! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Albert I, King Of Germany (1255-1308); Assassination; Kindness; Women A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A MOTHER UNDERSTANDS, by GEOFFREY ANKETELL STUDDERT-KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, I hold my hand to take Last Line: The mystery of thy pierced hands—the broken bread. Alternate Author Name(s): Willie, Woodbine Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A MUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was wakened from her afternoon nap today by a fierce Last Line: I wrote the poems for her. I still do. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discontent; Mothers & Daughters; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Dissatisfaction; Feminism A MUSE OF WATER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who must act as handmaidens Last Line: Is water deep enough to drown. Subject(s): Literary Form; Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Muses; Sea; Water; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Ocean; Feminism A NEW WOMAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Spring blossoms with a world of eyes Last Line: "a drowsy, faint ""dood night!" Subject(s): Beauty; Women A OUTRANCE (FRANCE, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY), by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigho! Why the plague did you wake me? Last Line: De genlis, my love to madame. Subject(s): Women A PARTING HYMN, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's royal robes of white Last Line: Are blest and freed from every thrall. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Commencement; Farewell; Graduation; Parting A PARTING SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will ye think of me, my friends? Last Line: So let it be. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Farewell; Women; Parting A PIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I know a certain woman who is reckoned with the good Last Line: To tidy up the world for me, by picking up this pin. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Deception; Pins; Wit & Humor; Women A PINDARICK TO MRS. BEHN ON HER POEM ON THE CORONATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, thou sole empress of the land of wit" Last Line: Since the first mother of mankind rebell'd Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);james Ii, King Of England (1633-1701);life;poetry & Poets;women; A POEM, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tags of songs, like salvaged buttons Subject(s): Women A POEM FOR THE OLD MAN, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God love you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POEM FOR TRAPPED THINGS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning with a blue flame burning Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism A POET'S EDUCATION, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A POET'S HOUSEHOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The stout poet tiptoes Last Line: Is chanting words to himself. Subject(s): Family Life; Poetry & Poets; Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963); Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Feminism A POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Hughes, Edward James; Male-female Relations; Feminism A PORTRAIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave up beauty in her tender youth Last Line: To raise it with the saints in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Last Line: And custom for the spreading laurel tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Daughters; Fathers & Daughters; Ireland; Life Change Events; Mothers; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Women; Childhood; Irish; Parenthood A PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "gentle mary, noble maiden" Last Line: This our prayer is: hail! All hail! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary A PREACHING FROM A SPANISH BALLAD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies who in chains of wedlock Last Line: Man in metal was the blade. Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was bent and feeble Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips. Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism A QUOI BON DIRE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seventeen years ago you said Last Line: You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A REFLECTION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eve upon the first of men Last Line: That adam was not adamant! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Apples; Bible; Fruit; Pity; Sin; Women; Eve A REGULAR GIRL, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, what do you mean by a regular girl? Last Line: And a regular mother as well. Subject(s): Admiration; Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism A REMINISCENCE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: Twas long ago - but I remember Last Line: She left him too, sir — gad, she did! Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of; Women A RENUNCIATION, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If women could be fair, and yet not fond Last Line: To play with fools, o, what a fool was I! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): Of Women Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women A REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistress Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A RETORT UNCOURTEOUS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where london's city skirts the thames Last Line: "a never-was-er like yourself." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): London; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements A RIVER OF WOMEN, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women A RODOMONTADE ON HIS CRUEL MISTRESS, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse Last Line: The devil, and be the damning of us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Variant Title(s): Impromptu Subject(s): Women A RONDELAY, by PETER ANTHONY MOTTEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man is for woman made Last Line: And woman made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Motteux, Pierre Antoine Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A ROYAL PRINCESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, a princess, king-descended, deckt with jewels, gilded, drest Last Line: I, if I perish, perish: in the name of god I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poverty; Women A SAINT, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary most pure Last Line: Is complete. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SATYR, by ELIZABETH TIPPER Poem Text First Line: As dungeons are for criminals prepared Last Line: Make me true christian, tho' no satyrist. Subject(s): Life; Prisons & Prisoners; Sin; Women A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known her too long Last Line: Of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Loss; Love; Memory; Midas; Mirrors; Sex; Women A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who was once my mistress Last Line: Focus to this dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Midas; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dead, The A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 15, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look not in my eyes, for fear Last Line: A jonquil, not a grecian lad. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 44, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shot? So quick, so clean an ending? Last Line: But wear it and it will not fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A SKETCH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred Last Line: And festering in the infamy of years. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Household Employees A SKETCH, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the ground Last Line: It was said. Subject(s): Women A SKETCH FROM LIFE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its eyes are gray Last Line: To life! Subject(s): Life; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A SONG FOR MURIEL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one explains me because Last Line: To see how they get it wrong. Subject(s): Death; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Feminism A SONG FOR WOMEN, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a dreary narrow room Last Line: The meadow pool is smooth as glass. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism A SONG OF MARY, by AGNES H. BEGBIE Poem Text First Line: Closely to my heart I hold thee Last Line: Close this little one! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG OF MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere it being yesterday Last Line: I smiling an ordinary smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG OF ST. ANNE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our lady in cold stable lay Last Line: And the rose-leaf of his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A SONG TO A FAIR YOUNG LADY GOING OUT OF TOWN IN THE SPRING, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not the cause, why sullen spring Last Line: To be the victim for mankind. Variant Title(s): To A Fair Young Lady Subject(s): Flora (goddess); Flowers; Love; Spring; Women; Chloris (goddess) A SONG TO MARY, by WILLIAM OF SHOREHAM Poem Text First Line: Marye, maide, milde and fre Last Line: And of davies kende. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion A SPRIG OF ROSEMARY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see your face Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A STREET SKETCH, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the kerb, a maiden neat Last Line: Upon the kerb! Subject(s): Streets; Women; Avenues A SWEET NOSEGAY: A CAREFULL COMPLAYNT BY THE UNFORTUNATE AUCTOR, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good dido stint thy teares, and sorrowes all resigne Last Line: Ye sisters three dispatch my dayes and finysh all my care. Subject(s): Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery A SYNOPSIS OF LORD LYTTLETON'S 'ADVICE TO A LADY', by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be plain in dress and sober in your diet Last Line: In short my dearee, kiss me, and be quiet. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Lyttleton, George. 1st Baron Lyttleton; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism A TAIL OF A KANGAROO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "it wasn't on the chinee coast, nor yet upon japan" Last Line: As their parents are to travellers who've anything to lose Subject(s): Fights;kangaroos;women A TERRIBLE INFANT, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recollect a nurse call'd ann Last Line: "-- and that's my earliest recollection." Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Babies; Nurses; Women; Infants A THOUGHT FROM PROPERTIUS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She might, so noble from head Last Line: Drunk with the unmixed wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women; Beauty A TOAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here's to ye absent lords, may they" Last Line: The health of other absent lords Subject(s): Women A TOAST, by HENRY MORGAN STONE Poem Text First Line: Clink, clink / fill up your glasses Last Line: Drink to the dearest of mortals, the ladies. Subject(s): Household Employees; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids A TRIO, by ALLAN S. LAING Poem Text First Line: In a nook apart from the busy street Last Line: Though it was but a humble human heart. Subject(s): Women A TRUE MAID, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, no; for my virginity, / when I lose that,' says rose, 'I'll die' Last Line: "rose, were you not extremely sick?'" Subject(s): Women A VAGRANT HEART, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O to be a woman! To be left to pique and pine Last Line: What matters then our judging? We are face to face with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Women A VISIT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Wine A VOYAGER'S DREAM OF LAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hollow dash of waves! The ceaseless roar! Last Line: The sea-bird's wail shall vex my soul no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sea Voyages; Women A WEATHER-DREAM, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Mary and her angels Last Line: Torn from virgin mary's veil! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary A WIDOW IN WINTERTIME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a baby gargled in the throes Last Line: Or waken in a caterwaul of dying. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Self-consciousness; Widows & Widowers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs A WILDFLOWER BY THE WAY, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun-rays burned like brands a-fire Last Line: "the wildflowers by the way!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Desire; Drovers; Women A WINTER TWILIGHT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silence slipping around like death Last Line: One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Evening; Sunset; Twilight A WISE COUNSELOR, by MAGGIE SHADES Poem Text First Line: If you're up against a problem Last Line: -- 'tis a woman. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN, by JOHN C. ADLER Poem Text First Line: Gold in the sunlight Last Line: Be the woman I love? Subject(s): Beauty; Women A WOMAN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They loved each other beyond belief Last Line: And a bumper she drank, laughing gaily. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Love; Women A WOMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, dwarfed and wronged, and stained with ill Last Line: Who dare to scorn the child he loves? Subject(s): God; Shame; Women A WOMAN HOMER SUNG, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any man drew near Last Line: But an heroic dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Women A WOMAN I KNEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a woman that I knew Last Line: "I envy her!"" the pale drab woman said." Subject(s): Aging; Envy; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN LIKE ME, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanna hear something really funny? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials A WOMAN OF WORDS, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: One sweet of hands,one starred for grace Last Line: That there are children to be borne . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN POSSESSED, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She remembered the charge Last Line: And the woman, old Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Women; Bulls A WOMAN SPEAKS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon marked and touched by sun Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women A WOMAN SPEAKS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You held me as the harbor holds the tide Last Line: But no man's body binds a woman's soul. Subject(s): Freedom; Women; Liberty A WOMAN WRONGED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead and in my grave Last Line: Let me alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WOMAN'S ANSWER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I will not let you say a woman's part Last Line: O, more a thousand times, than all the rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women A WOMAN'S CHARMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My purse is yours, sweet heart, for I Last Line: Than thou hast charms from which to choose. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S CONCLUSIONS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, if I might go back again Last Line: Is the best -- or it had not been, I hold. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S DEATH-WOUND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It left upon her tender flesh no trace Last Line: "did I deserve to die this bitterest way?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Murder; Women; Dead, The A WOMAN'S DELUSION, by SUSAN HOWE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S HAND, by THEODOR STORM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, I know, complaining word Last Line: Upon your heart's adversity. Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S HAND, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft and tender, smooth and white Last Line: A woman's hand. Subject(s): Hands; Women A WOMAN'S HISTORY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When mary price was five years old Last Line: And beaten it to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Innocence; Women A WOMAN'S ISSUE, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman in the spiked device Last Line: Who invented the word love? Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S KNOWLEDGE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose to smell a moment, then to leave Last Line: Since your chance gift you cannot take away. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Knowledge; Women A WOMAN'S QUESTION, by LENA LATHROP Poem Text First Line: Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Last Line: Are not to be won that way. Variant Title(s): A Woman's Answer To A Man's Question Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S SHORTCOMINGS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has laughed as softly as if she sighed Last Line: Oh, never call it loving! Subject(s): Love; Women A WOMAN'S SONG, by MILDRED LOUISE KILGUS Poem Text First Line: There was a song I thought I'd sing to you Last Line: A woman there who loves too much to mind? Subject(s): Women A WOMAN'S VOICE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His head within my bosom lay Last Line: "within thy heart and mine as one." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Women A WOMAN-GROWN, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: In grief I would have cried out yesterday Last Line: A woman -- grown. Perhaps a woman old! Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Old Age; Women A YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life spills over, some days Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth ABANDONED, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gladys, where did you go? Last Line: To recall you to your creation Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ABANDONED CHURCH OF CHRIST, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: No song for the unseen Last Line: In the february morning, disburdening %no song Subject(s): Abandonment; Churches; Women's Rights ABANDONMENT, by AL-ZAHRA AL- MANSOURI Poem Source First Line: Like an extinguished star, %in the sea's bed she sleeps Last Line: Salwa, the remnants of grief Subject(s): Arabs - Women ABEL'S BRIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman fears for man, he goes Subject(s): Abel; Women ABEL'S BRIDE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman fears for man, he goes Last Line: Is a cave, there are bones at the hearth Subject(s): Abel; Women ABIGAIL, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: I care for him, although he is a fool Last Line: And reason with the sot when I get back. %but my guess is he'll have a heart attack! Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ABISHAG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, your servants sought me and I came Last Line: Is this way slowly easier? It is well. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by MOSHE DOR Poem Source First Line: When david is cold, abishag Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by JACOB FICHMAN Poem Source First Line: I waste my teeming age. I do not know Last Line: All of my warmth I give to the old king %his heart plays th e weeping of my spring Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Spring; Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At god's word david's kinsmen cast Last Line: Believe that of my body Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little tender rose of bethlehem Last Line: The mirrored portrait of myself seems young. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my defiance in the past, I lay Last Line: A brief bow following on the final leap Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG THE SHUNAMMITE (1), by DEBORAH BURNHAM Poem Source First Line: The king's ribs rise like cool stone rods beneath my check Last Line: Of air where his stories lie, where small flames disappear %when they are blow out Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible ABISHAG TO DAVID, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am afraid, my lord. I am afraid. Last Line: You would be dwelling in god's house - %god's home - forever Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ABISHAG WRITES A LETTER HOME, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: Abishag sits in her room Last Line: While girlish in a corner %a dream sobs tenderly Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Women In The Bible ABISHAG: RECOLLECTIONS IN OLD AGE, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: I have know horrors Last Line: He never knew me Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Old Age; Women; Women In The Bible ABLUTION, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus drowsy atthis, laughing at my door Last Line: "shall wreathe thy hair while thirsting for thy song." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Flirtation; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women ABOUT CLEANING BATHROOMS, by KATHRYN EBERLY Poem Source First Line: It seems I'm always barging in Last Line: As far as I'm concerned if you've seen %one ass, you've seen them all Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ABOUT THE MEN, by ADELE NE JAME Poem Source First Line: The white moon, perfect %in the desert sky, in its precisely Last Line: Somewhere, the inaccuracy %beginning Subject(s): Arabs - Women ABOUT THIS BOOK, by MECHTHILD VON MAGDEBURG Poem Source First Line: I was warned about this book Subject(s): Women's Rights; Writing And Writers ABOUT YOUR SISTEN, HELEN, by SUSAN O'DELL UNDERWOOD Poem Source First Line: About your sister, helen, who lives husbandless, deep Last Line: Unseen, unmoving, but smouldering, we dance with her Subject(s): Women ABSCHIED SYMPHONY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women; Dead, The ABSCHIED SYMPHONY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Last Line: A peace we could rise to Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women ABSENCE OF COLOR, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: My mother wears black well Last Line: Black says I will dive into the dark well %of my throat and come up singing Subject(s): Women ABSENT, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: When pigeons returned %to the roof of the house, we said Last Line: Wrote upon the clouds' palm a symbol %and hid within the folds of words Subject(s): Arabs - Women ABSOLVED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far floating o'er its native fen Last Line: Of radiant rest, appears. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clouds; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ABUTILON IN BLOOM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cultivated inside out of the bounds Last Line: We must burst forth with orange flowers %with savage hues of our captivity Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights too warm for tv Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights too warm for tv Last Line: The crawlspace filling up, packed solid %as any foundation Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping ACCREDITATION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Miriam's brief biography Last Line: And recognize %her stature? Subject(s): Women - Bible ACHILLES: THETIS' SONG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's so touchy, a word that's injurious Last Line: And all for reasons she keeps to herself. Subject(s): Women ACHING, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: I should like on this divine october afternoon Subject(s): Women's Rights ACT II, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Backstage - one-pulling-ropes is Last Line: One-pulling-ropes - backstage is Subject(s): Women's Rights ACT OF BREAD, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: That happy multiplying Last Line: And gave it to the cold november morning Subject(s): Jews - Women AD ASTRA: 16, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Nature is like a woman greatly loved Last Line: No answering love-light to our own replies! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Nature Of; Women AD ASTRA: 24, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The day of chivalry can never die Last Line: That with her rests the future of the race. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Women AD CHLOEN, M.A.; FRESH FROM HER CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Lady, very fair are you Last Line: Magistra. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Cambridge University; Women ADA RUEL, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queens of hell had lissome necks to crane Subject(s): Youth; Women - Old Age ADAM AND EVE CLOTHESPIN DOLLS, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: I do not know from what tree Last Line: Just as neither he nor eve was asked %to hold things up alone, %or, when the time was ripe, %to let Subject(s): Women ADAM'S CURSE REVISITED, by DEBRA PENNINGTON Poem Source First Line: So master william has decreed the stitching Last Line: That you can both shape and stitch the world? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) ADDIE HALL., by JEANNE M. NICHOLS Poem Source Last Line: Ready for the spring thaw when next it came Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ADDRESSED TO A LADY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my garden, though I dare confess Last Line: Nor how, nor whence, they come care I to seek. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Botany & Botanists; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Women ADDRESSED TO MISS MACARTNEY, AFTERWARDS MRS. GREVILLE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And dwells there in a female heart Last Line: Or lively fancy guess. Subject(s): Greville, Francis (fanny) (1724-1789); Women ADJUSTMENTS, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: I place a pile of credits to my left Last Line: Or go out into the parking lot %and scream Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ADMIRAL'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Noah's wife Last Line: To leave %or lose Subject(s): Women - Bible ADMONITIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys / I don't promise you nothing Last Line: She don't have no sense Subject(s): African Americans - Women ADMONITIONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys %I don't promise you nothing Last Line: She is a poet %she don't have no sense Subject(s): African Americans - Women ADOLESCENCE: 1, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In water-heavy nights behind grandmother's porch Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ADOLESCENCE: 1, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In water-heavy nights behind grandmother's porch Last Line: Against a feathery sky Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ADOLESCENCE: 2, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ADOLESCENCE: 2, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting Last Line: Night rests like a ball of fur on my tongue Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ADOLESCENCE: 3, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With dad gone, mom and I worked Subject(s): Adolescence; Baby Boom Generation; Women; Teen Agers ADOLESCENT RAG: GREECE, NEW YORK, 1981, by MICHELE SPRING-MOORE Poem Source First Line: Get over it or die with it, we threw at those who scrutinized Last Line: I thought it dreadful that someone dared look at us wrong Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ADULTERY AT THE RITZ, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: My lover calls, it's 6 am Last Line: Had stenciled the letters of a name Subject(s): Women ADVICE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Friends, leave off the argy-bargy Last Line: Around something to love Subject(s): Women's Rights ADVICE, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were a sophist Last Line: Through the dusk softness %of my dream stuff Subject(s): African Americans - Women ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women ADVICE, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My hazard wouldn't be yours, not ever Last Line: Don't confuse hunger with greed; %and don't wait until you are dead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women ADVICE FROM NANA, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: Always wear your clothes like they have only been yours Last Line: I always found good men by their smell Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ADVICE GRATIS TO CERTAIN WOMEN, BY A WOMAN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my strong-minded sisters, aspiring to vote Last Line: You can cease to be babies, nor try to be men! Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism ADVICE TO LADIES, by ROBERT DE BLOIS Poem Source First Line: Ladies will pay but little mind Last Line: When hard the freeze, the more lies frozen Subject(s): Women ADVICE TO RODRIGO I, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Don't you forget, rodrigo diaz Last Line: Reveling in her danger Subject(s): Women's Rights ADVICE TO RODRIGO II, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Look out Last Line: Of true %rites Subject(s): Women's Rights ADVICE TO WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In may hit murgeth when hit dawes Last Line: Wip selpe we weren sahte! Subject(s): Women ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Day after day I sit and write Last Line: Be ever our desires. Subject(s): Advice; African Americans - Women; Human Behavior; Religion; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Theology AESTHETIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a garb that was guiltless of colors Last Line: "I was thinking of nothing in space." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Praise; Women AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BLUES (1993), by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right now two black people sit in a jury room Last Line: I am not a pinata, rodney king insists. Now can't we all get along? Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, by JENNIFER BROWN Poem Source First Line: I came to you Subject(s): Women AFRICAN BEAUTY, by TAIWO OLALEYE-OREUNE Poem Source First Line: Who say we no get beauty for africa Subject(s): Women AFRIKAN FLAG, by DEIDRA SUWANEE DEES Poem Source First Line: When she was a child Last Line: Making them accept their blame Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Identity AFTER A DARK WINTER, by ELIZABETH TIBBETTS Poem Source First Line: Medium is best, the two friends agree Last Line: Waiting to enter real lives Subject(s): Love; Sex; Women AFTER A POEM FOR COCKSUCKERS, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have never stopped loving him Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Unrequited; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AFTER A WOMAN AGENT HAD CALLED, by AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE Poem Text First Line: She raved in words in wild confusion mixed Last Line: Untaught of grace or wisdom's ways profound. Subject(s): Women AFTER ALL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: This will only hurt a little. We promise Last Line: I am very good Subject(s): Women AFTER ARGUING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Lavender snow, night tilts beyond Last Line: All the wings I've hidden in the lake Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives AFTER BASHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tentatively, you Last Line: Pallid, famous moon. Subject(s): Moon; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER BAUDELAIRE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I am bored in america Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTER BAUDELAIRE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I am bored in america Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights AFTER BOURLON WOOD, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: In one of london's most exclusive haunts Last Line: But georgius rex, it seems, is awfully keen %to give me the m.C. For being good Subject(s): Women; World War I AFTER DEGAS' 'COMBING THE HAIR', by ALLISON BENNIS Poem Source First Line: The way a woman's hair is painful - pulled Last Line: And the usual death: their inverted embrace Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Hair; Paintings And Painters; Women AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF MARRIAGE, by MAMTA KALIA Poem Source Last Line: And smiled a smile of great content Subject(s): Women AFTER HE STRIPPED OFF MY CLOTHES, by VILLANA Poem Source Last Line: But the love god %who teaches us how to faint? Subject(s): Women AFTER HORACE: THE PASTOR'S WIFE DELIVERS SOUP, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: Don't ask, patricia stone, when you will join Last Line: Arrange myself -- the pastor's coming home Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER MANY YEARS, GRISELDA LOSES PATIENCE, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: Tonight, I saw him watching her again Last Line: What I've made of him Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights AFTER MY GRANDMOTHER'S DEATH, by MICHELE ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Each day is a full Subject(s): Women AFTER OUR LADY'S PRESENTATION, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wife, my wife our journey o'er Last Line: To her according to thy word! Subject(s): Angels; Babies; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women In The Bible; Infants; Paradise; Virgin Mary AFTER RADICAL SURGERY, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: In this twilight Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women AFTER READING BRYANT'S LINE TO A WATERFOWL, by ELOISE BIBB THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: No forward soul, ambition stung Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women AFTER REPEATED ATTEMPTS, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source Last Line: What it was about you %and I won't remember Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AFTER SIXTY, by MARILYN ZUCKERMAN Poem Source First Line: The sixth decade is coming to an end Last Line: Smoke pipes of wisdom %-- fly Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AFTER SLEEP THE WILD MORNING, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: Glory's uninterrupted vine %describes a furtive turning on the barbed Last Line: Dilates and acquires %I live from myself like a suitcase Subject(s): Women's Rights AFTER SURGERY, by ALICE J. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I am lopsided Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women AFTER THAT, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every story has its lean meat Last Line: I've kissed her fright. Subject(s): Rape; Revenge; Slavery; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating AFTER THE ANNUNCIATION, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: Mary, the maiden, walked out in the country Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AFTER THE FUNERAL, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: My aunt and I are drinking coffee Last Line: Who've travelled enough distance %to let them Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers AFTER THE JAPANESE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Night turned over Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women AFTER THE PARTY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid glasses clinking, mineral water, schnapps Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AFTER THE RIOTS, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I am released through the anxious gate Last Line: Keen in the dark garden until dawn Subject(s): Women's Rights AFTER THE SECOND MISCARRIAGE, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are no guarantees in marrying doctors Last Line: Under foot, our strong arms skimming %the water like loons Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Home is a fortress where your name Last Line: Hands flutter, shrink a powdery farewell Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Protestantism; Trials; Women - Captives AFTERGLOW, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through you, I entered heaven and hell Last Line: To live it all again! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory AFTERNOON HAPPINESS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a party I spy a handsome psychiatrist Last Line: There is only this useless happiness as gift. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Poetry & Poets; Psychiatry; Women; Women's Rights; Joy; Delight; Psychiatrists; Feminism AFTERNOON IN THE WORLD, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how the nuns %spit it out, hissing Last Line: Lemon, watermelon, lime %and cherry, those lifesavers Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AFTERTHOUGHT, by MAXIANNE BERGER Poem Source First Line: Epimetheus, as an afterthought, blamed Last Line: Soberly blame his victim for the rape? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights AFTERTHOUGHTS OF DONNA ELVIRA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, after all, were good Last Line: Or else we have never been born. Subject(s): Love; Praise; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism AFTERWARDS, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, my beloved, shall you and I Last Line: To have your body lying here %in sheer, underneath the larches? Subject(s): Women; World War I AFTERWARDS, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Text First Line: I know that these poor rags of womanhood Last Line: "with these words carv'd, ""I hop'd, but was not sure." Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Women AGAIN EVERYTHING HAS GONE QUITE WELL, by GABRIELLE WOHMANN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights AGAIN I SEE HER FACE, by ETTA MAY VAN TASSEL Poem Text First Line: Again I see her face among the crowd Last Line: In sudden sweetness on a stranger's face! Subject(s): Faces; Women AGAINST ALL REASON, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: All the locusts stuck to the busted screen Last Line: They're what's being emptied out Subject(s): Women's Rights AGAINST THEM WHO LAY UNCHASTITY TO THE SEX OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They meet but with unwholesome springs Last Line: Tis majesty to rule alone. Subject(s): Fidelity; Lust; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy AGAINST WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "looke well about, ye that lovers be" Last Line: Beware! Therefore: the blind eteth many a fly Subject(s): Women AGATHA, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mountain, not where rocks Last Line: Give us with the saints a place! Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Women; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips AGE OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES, by KATE GLEASON Poem Source First Line: My sister and I, being girls %wasted the better part Last Line: That what words said %was what they meant Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AGITATOR?, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Was huldah Last Line: The holy impetus %her nation needed? Subject(s): Women - Bible AGNODICIA, OR IGNORANCE BANISHED FROM THE PRESENCE OF WOMEN, by CATHERINE DES ROCHES Poem Source First Line: There is no passion that torments our life Subject(s): Women's Rights AH WRETCHED ME, WHO LOVED A SPARROW HAWK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights AH! IT'S CHIC TO BE THE DAUPHIN, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: It's a ship carried aloft by multiple waves Subject(s): Women - Writers AHOLIBAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning god made thee Last Line: If his were that aholibah. Subject(s): Beauty; Bible; Creation; God; Religion; Women; Theology AILING EAGLE, by ANNETTE FREIIN VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: Near a lifeless stump in a fertile lea Subject(s): Women's Rights AIN'T I A WOMAN, by SOJOURNER TRUTH Poem Source First Line: That man over there say %a woman needs to be helped into carriages Last Line: Together women ought to be able to turn it rightside up again Subject(s): African Americans - Women AIN'T I A WOMAN?, by SOJOURNER TRUTH Poem Source First Line: Taht man over there say Subject(s): Women AIN'T IT AWFUL, MABEL?, by JOHN EDWARD HAZZARD Poem Text First Line: It worries me to beat the band Last Line: Ain't it awful, mabel? Subject(s): Life; Women AIRMAN, R.F.C., by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: He heard them in the silence of the night Last Line: And find a better world than he had found Subject(s): Women; World War I AISHAH SCHECHINAH, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shape, like folded light, embodied air Last Line: Her awful child: her son. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AKATHISTOS HYMN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He who was bodiless, having heard the bidding secretly Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ALA, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Face up Subject(s): Women ALBUM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Her blonde head always dips so her eyes slant more Subject(s): Rape; Women ALCHEMY OF DAY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Let no girl wait on you on that day when you bind your wild Last Line: Called for a second time, day rises in words like huge poppies %exploding on their stems Subject(s): Women - Abused ALCIDA: VERSES WRITTEN ON TWO TABLES AT A TOMB, ON THE FIRST TABLE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graces in their glory never gave Last Line: Than virtue's glory which in her remains. Subject(s): Virtue; Women ALIBI, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: We smoke in the tv's static, after prime time Last Line: They'll all want to know Subject(s): Women's Rights ALICE IN THE HALLWAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've got a golden key, and hands Last Line: It's sugar on top for those flowerbeds Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES A LETTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Dear me - ! Last Line: I am no longer one of you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE WRITES HER MEMOIRS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Begin with taken, meaning; distance Last Line: Of all want, my fists tight in prayer Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALICE, FALLING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What edges the world has! Last Line: I'm beyond punishment Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ALIEN, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: She speaks with the accent of her savage seas Subject(s): Women's Rights ALIZA SAYS, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Aliza says %that everyone went to pray at the cave of machpelah Last Line: Immaterial %unidentified %frozen %barren Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights ALL DAY WE'VE LONGED FOR NIGHT, by SARAH WEBSTER FABIO Poem Source First Line: In this room, holding hands Last Line: May hope to be, locked in %our day-long longing for night Subject(s): African Americans - Women ALL I WANT, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once Last Line: On windy, woodchopping afternoons Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women ALL ISADORA: 1. ALWAYS MOVING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Out of the sea under aphrodite's star Last Line: One's childhood is for life Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 10. NO SHOW NO RAINCHECKS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: All ready to go on - the stage set Last Line: No greater tragedienne. %can we go on? Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 11. THE RED SAILS BEFORE SUNSET, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The money gone again, I give my last Last Line: My hand. %revelation and the end coincide Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 13. RUSSIA: COMING AND GOING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Arriving - narva - I couldn't wait to begin Last Line: Just once more, with feeling: come, full circle Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 17. REVIVING A CUBAN BACCHANAL: A DANCING LESSON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: O it's all very rum rum rum so rum Last Line: Naturally, to be on your toes Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 18. WRITING MY LIFE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: My life, my foot! The publisher says put it Last Line: Nietzsche, amanuensis to my feet...You too? Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 20. LAST WORDS WITH MARY DESTI: SEPTEMBER 14, 1927, NICE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Remember, mary, how the last time in paris Last Line: We're off! Adieu, mes amis, je vais a ma gloire! Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 3. OPENING IN BUDAPEST, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I am still virgin - to open in budapest! Last Line: My first - big deal - love's labors lost Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 4. A MIXED LETTER TO GORDON CRAIG, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear growly tiger, %the days here glide Last Line: Love meyou darling - %your topsy Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 8. OPERA COMIQUE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Champagne and flattery Last Line: A pastime as well as a tragedy Subject(s): Women ALL ISADORA: 9. TURNING BACKWARD, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: It was not as if I was not prepared for the worst Last Line: Turn backward then. %turn backward then Subject(s): Women ALL OF THE EASINESS GONE, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights ALL TENDERNESS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Each moment of loving Last Line: And all life loved Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights ALL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME AFRICA, by ANOMA KANIE Poem Source Subject(s): Women ALL THE DEAD DEARS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rigged poker-stiff on her back Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women ALL THE DEAD DEARS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rigged poker-stiff on her back Last Line: Riddled with ghosts, to lie %deadlocked with them, taking roots as cradles rock Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women ALL THE TIME, by MICHAEL ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: It was 93 degrees Last Line: To get someone's %attention Subject(s): Women ALL THE WAY TO L.A., by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: No one's seen the hobbler for awhile Last Line: Hobbler don't need no damn train after all, %says the woman of too many days Subject(s): Homeless; Women ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness ALL THINGS INSENSIBLE, by KATHLEEN TANKERSLEY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: I envy the sleep Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT., by TOM TICO Poem Source Last Line: The sound of foghorns Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A bachelor sat in his chair - and he thought Last Line: "but they thought, and they thought, and they thought" Subject(s): Women ALL-GIRL RODEO, 1959, by DAN LAMBERTON Poem Source First Line: My mother wore red-leather riding boots Last Line: As ours, where, in shades of bunch grass, cloud and granite,%their own wild horses would be strainin Subject(s): Rodeos; Women In Sports ALLA PETRARCA, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown / madison, wisconsin at night Last Line: (receding footsteps) Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Scholarship & Scholars; Women; Male-female Relations ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER, by HERMANUS CONTRACTUS Poem Source First Line: Gracious mother of our redeemer, for ever abiding Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever I am, and whatever I do Last Line: Than ever be freed from her pow'r. Variant Title(s): Song: Phyllis;prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 4 Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs ALMIGHTY FIREBALL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I won't go shopping. I won't visit friends Last Line: Will scatter them without care, perfumes, or rites Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Innocence; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives ALMOST LOVE, by MAGALY SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: It happen sometimes; a pair of eyes a profile Last Line: And it's almost love Subject(s): Love; Women ALMOST SILENCE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: At night the dreams that are stored in the earth Last Line: Speak only to those who walk above ground Subject(s): Women's Rights ALMSWOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Friendship ALMYRA WILMARTH; 3 YRS. 7 MOS. 4 DAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A suffering little child has come unto thee Last Line: And in your bosom of love have comfort and rest Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women ALPACA BERETS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The merchants on san angelmo in puerto montt Last Line: A fresh coat of down beginning %on its skin and shining Subject(s): Rape; Women ALPHABET OF COAL, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: This is my grandfather working his stall in the mine Subject(s): Rape; Women ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women ALTHOUGH I WAS HER PUPIL, by CORINNA (6TH CENTURY B.C.) Poem Source Last Line: She was a mere woman poet %yet she challenged pindar Alternate Author Name(s): Korinna Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women ALTHOUGH THE SKY..., by ELMAZ ABINADER Poem Source First Line: Reaches down like a hood %and meets the horizon on my left and right Last Line: To the next, sun set and moon rise %in one breath Subject(s): Arabs - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 1. TWO ROOMS, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: I can still see nanny bending Last Line: And laughter without forgetting %the presence of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 2. ONE-EYED JOKER, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: After pappy died, nanny followed Last Line: Nanny would life her teacup %and tell me a story Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AM I NOT THE LACEMAKER OF SHADOW, by CHARLOTTE CALMIS Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights AM LIT, by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: So emily sat with her brother walt Last Line: In that grass %a narrow fellow Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights AMA CREDO, by MARGARET RECKORD Poem Source First Line: Needing %to go separate Subject(s): Women AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing & Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove Last Line: Holding his body up to pain Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing And Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping AMAZING GRACE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Oxidized bathing beauty %dives straight into the bubbled Last Line: And wretches among us Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women AMAZONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the rookery of women Subject(s): Amazons; Breast Cancer; Women AMAZONS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the rookery of women Last Line: Had already written this poem Subject(s): Amazons; Cancer, Breast; Women AMAZONS, SELS., by MARIE-ANNE DU BOCCAGE Poem Source First Line: Theseus: wil you never view us without distrust Subject(s): Women's Rights AMBITION, by MARY ASTELL Poem Text First Line: What's this that with such vigour fills my brest? Last Line: Great o my god, great in humilitie. Subject(s): Ambition; Women AMBULANCE TRAIN 30, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: A.T. 30 lies in the siding Last Line: And the occupying army boards her for cologne Subject(s): Women; World War I AMELIA, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had lived centuries apart. The imperial Last Line: Of sky and scudding clouds. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AMELIA EARHART, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: While other girls wore skirts and pinafores Last Line: It's just like flying!' Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes AMELIA EARHART AND THE GENERATION GAP, by ENOCH DILLON Poem Source First Line: My daughter named granddaughter sally ride Last Line: But if she should, would poets fashion legends %as they did about amelia? Subject(s): Earhart, Amelia (1897-1937); Ride, Sally Kristen (b. 1951); Women AMELIA EARHART RAG DOLL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Into their faces I flew without grace Last Line: Believed the sky its sister, %flew to her Subject(s): Women AMERICAN GIRL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I call it my diamond solitaire Last Line: I've run into the earth's fair grounds Subject(s): Women AMERICAN HISTORY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those four black girls blown up Subject(s): African Americans - Women AMERICAN HISTORY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those four black girls blown up Last Line: Can't find what you can't see %can you? Subject(s): African Americans - Women AMERICAN INCIDENT, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Three years awaiting your next seizure Last Line: Don't know what on earth to do Subject(s): Women's Rights AMERICAN MELTDOWN, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Angel's in love with this white Last Line: And reach the fusing point %of a new element Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women AMONG THE THINGS THAT USED TO BE, by WILLIE M. COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Used to be %ya could learn Last Line: To ferment %a revolution Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights AMONG WOMEN, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What women wander? Subject(s): Women AMORETTI: 74, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most happy letters! Framed by skillful trade Last Line: That three such graces did unto me give. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Women AMORIS EXSUL: 12. IN SAINT-JACQUES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with the sunlight, her eyes close in prayer Last Line: But I should see only the wax and paint. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary AMOURETTE, by BEATRICE LAGONE Poem Text First Line: Because we steal this nectar, sire Last Line: May triumph, dear, when other dreams are broken. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AMPHITRYON, OR THE TWO SOSIAS: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking (and it almost makes me mad) Last Line: To get young godlings; and, so, mend our breed. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nymphs; Women AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AMY, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Amy is a tiny woman Last Line: Know why he likes it Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers; Women AN AFTERNOON GOSSIP, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is that you sistah harris? Last Line: To send abe's hatchet home. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gossip AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism AN AMERICAN POEM, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born in boston in Subject(s): Self; Gays & Lesbians; Ancestors & Ancestry; Boston; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Heritage; Heredity; Caste AN ANGINAL EQUIVALENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those little stabs of pain Subject(s): Electrocardiography (ekg); Martial (40-104); Women AN ANNUAL OF THE DARK PHYSICS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The baltic sea froze in 1307. Birds flew south Last Line: Nothing happened that was worthy of poetry. Subject(s): Baltic Sea; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); Lent; Mary Magdalen; Suicide; Women In The Bible; Eckhart, Meister; Mary Magdalene AN APOLOGY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past exchanges have left orbits of rain around my face Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism AN APPEAL, by F. ISABELL GOODWIN REID Poem Text First Line: Oh women of america. Arise! Last Line: Build again a mighty nation! Alternate Author Name(s): Reid, F. Isabelle Goodwin Subject(s): Clubs (associations); United States; Women; America AN APPEAL TO MY COUNTRYWOMEN, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You can sigh o'er the sad-eyed armenian Last Line: And sin is the consort of woe. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Southern States; South (u.s.) AN APPEAL TO WOMEN, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, woman, woman, in thy brightest hour Last Line: Upon the altar of immortal fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Women; Anti-slavery; Serfs AN AUSTRALIAN GIRL, by ETHEL CASTILLA Poem Text First Line: She has a beauty of her own Last Line: Does she disdain. Subject(s): Australia; Women AN EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Social Classes; Caste AN EPIGRAM ON WOMAN, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since man's a little world, to make it great Last Line: A heav'nly count'nance, and a heart infernal. Subject(s): Women AN EPISTLE TO LADY BOWER [BOWYER], by MARY JONES Poem Text First Line: How much of paper's soiled! What floods of ink! Last Line: An honest heart is worth its weight in gold. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women Writers AN EPISTLE TO MY FRIEND J.B., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, jack, how now? I hear strange stories Last Line: Was sure to split, and sink, and damn. Subject(s): Curses; Love; Marriage; Temptation; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ESSAY ON WOMAN, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower Last Line: Unhappy woman's but a slave at large. Subject(s): Women AN EXPOSTULATION, by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When late I attempted your pity to move Last Line: But--why did you kick me downstairs? Subject(s): Pity; Women AN HOUR OF ROMANCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were thick leaves above me and around Last Line: My heart so leaped to that sweet laughter's tone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Nature; Women AN IMPRINT OF THE ROARING TWENTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a weakness for grubbing at the salvation army's discard tables Last Line: And the cardtable-sized embroidered tablecloths Subject(s): Divorce; Childhood Memories; Tablecloths; Alcohol & Alcoholics; Women AN ODE (5), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While blooming youth, and gay delight Last Line: While still we wake to joy, and live to love. Subject(s): Love; Women; Youth AN OLD LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know an old lady of over fourscore Last Line: Sheds fragrance distilled from her joys and her tears. Subject(s): Old Age; Women AN OLD WOMAN PASSES, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman passes like a rotund tower Last Line: The vast face of god begins to rise. Subject(s): Old Age; Women AN ORIENTAL MAIDEN, by J. O. JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Thou fairest one of judah's daughters Last Line: And bid me not away Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Jews - Women; Love; Judaism ANACHRONISM, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Married %drank red wine Last Line: Learning sailing to byzantium %by cussed heart Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ANAGRAM OF THE VIRGIN MARY, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How well her name an army doth present Last Line: In whom the lord of hosts did pitch his tent! Variant Title(s): Ana-{mary/army}gram;ana {mary Army} Gram;ana (mary Army) Gram Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANALOGUES: 1. FIGHTING YOUR LIFE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The stupid bird trapped in my kitchen Last Line: Spread before it Subject(s): Women ANALOGUES: 2. DESIRE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The body wakes Last Line: Of the ground of the possible Subject(s): Women ANALOGUES: 3. MARRIAGE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The fat bee in a drowse of afternoon sunlight Last Line: You are becoming a weed Subject(s): Women ANASAZI WOMAN SPEAKS, by GINNY ODENBACH Poem Source First Line: I was here. I came this way Last Line: I was here. I came this way Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ANATOMY LESSON, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are sitting in bed, my legs on your lap Last Line: Nor I yet touched down upon from %my high expectations Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ANCESTOR, by FRANCES RODMAN Poem Source First Line: Susan was the wild one Last Line: Stares back with eyes like mine Subject(s): Jews - Women ANCESTRAL WEIGHT, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: You told me my father never wept Subject(s): Women's Rights ANCIENT BALLAD: LADY ALDA'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In paris dwelt a fair lady %orlando's promised bride Last Line: That brave orlando had been slain %in the chase of roncevalles Subject(s): Dreams; Women ANCIENT SONG OF A WOMAN OF FEZ, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see a man who is dull Last Line: To look at an ugly man %gives me a headache Subject(s): Women ANCIENT SONG RISING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salute gravettian-aurignacian Last Line: Where words collide out of igneous rubble. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Women AND / MOTHER WHY DID YOU TELL ME, by STEPHANIE MARKMAN Poem Source Last Line: From your unshed tears Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AND AFTERWARDS, WHEN HONOUR HAS MADE GOOD, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The incense of our anguish and our sweat? Subject(s): Women; World War I AND DON'T YOU BUDGE THE SKIN HASN'T SETTLED, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: For it's water out of the bath Subject(s): Women - Writers AND GOD CREATED WOMAN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To walk / with bare feet Last Line: Of a nipple Subject(s): Creation; Women AND I LIKE THE SUCKING SOUND THE AIR BRAKES MAKE, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: I've got to get somewhere again Last Line: I am cleaner than I look Subject(s): Women AND IN HER MORNING, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: The virgin mary cannot enter into Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: Not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Marriage; Sea; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean AND KNEELING AT THE EDGE OF THE TRANSPARENT SEA I SHALL SHAPE FOR ..., by ANNE CARSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wife is in the grip of being Last Line: And slides off toward the falt gray horizon, %not a bird not a breath in sight Subject(s): Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Sea; Women AND MY GOOD SHOES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is looking Last Line: And I won't come back for it %next time Subject(s): Homeless; Women AND MY MAMA USED TO TELL ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights AND OF ONE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I got up and left your lovemaking by ambulance Last Line: You could shout into that pit to save me Subject(s): Women's Rights AND SARAH SAID, 'GOD HAS MADE LAUGHTER FOR ME.', by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Back under mamre's homey oaks Last Line: On the still stretched papyrus of my belly %invents the birthcry Subject(s): Women AND SHE WASHED HIS FEET WITH HER TEARES, AND, by EDWARD SHERBURNE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible AND STILL I WONDER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source Last Line: Was meager but so full %of romance and of hope Subject(s): Women - Bible AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING, by DORIS JUANITA DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: People in gainesville %not all that different Last Line: You get started, %with that Subject(s): Appalachia; Women AND THE OLD WOMEN GATHERED (THE GOSPEL SINGERS), by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The sound of it %stayed in our ears Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women AND THUS WITH ALL PRAISE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wonderful creatures Last Line: Have these for name, none other. Subject(s): Women; Names AND TO RETURN, WHO IS A JEW?, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: And again, who is a jew Last Line: All those that suffer %for the good of others Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights AND WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT THE TEMPERATURE, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: The tale of the ox and the donkey Subject(s): Women - Writers ANDROGYNE, by MARGUERITE GREPON Poem Source First Line: It isn't between him and me. It's between me and me that the Subject(s): Women's Rights ANGEL CHIMES, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: In a few days christmas will descend Last Line: This close to christmas %she will believe %they will never turn away Subject(s): Women ANGEL OF BROWN STREET, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Sweet angel has grown %too cool to play street games Last Line: Of borrowed earth %and impossible heaven Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women ANGELA DAVIS, by ALICE S. COBB Poem Source Last Line: In the cause of freedom %the battle is yet to be won Subject(s): African Americans - Women ANGELINA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When de fiddle gits to singin' out a ol' vahginny reel Last Line: When angelina johnson comes a-swingin' down de line. Subject(s): African Americans - Women ANGELUS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, okay!, speak goodness of marriage Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANGER AS AN ACCESSORY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: When I see you wearing yours Last Line: I almost always look away to avoid the blast Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights ANGINAL EQUIVALENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those little stabs of pain Last Line: Quod satiat - which will she be? Subject(s): Electrocardiography (ekg); Martial (40-104); Women ANGLING, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: I had removed %the hook from which Last Line: As I tossed him back, %alive, in air Subject(s): Women ANN WISHES SHE'D TAKEN A LITTLE MORE HEED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Though sweet to lie, my lovely lay Last Line: Yes, once again we've been undone Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ANNA, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: No one asked anna for stories of russia Last Line: A mother could love her only daughter Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ANNA, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Hands on her thickening waist Last Line: And white linoleum's design stands out %sharp beneath her old woman's shoes Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Daughters; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary ANNA SPEAKS OF THE CHILDHOOD OF MARY HER DAUGHTER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rise up early and Last Line: To dreaming then? I fight this thing. %all day we scrubbing scrubbing Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible ANNA, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, by MERILEE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: A left eye that squints Last Line: So when can I do it again? Subject(s): Jews - Women ANNABEL LEE DOES A POST-MORTEM ON THE HAZARDS OF ROMANCE WITH A METRIC, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: When I told him my name was annabel lee Last Line: But simply a case of acute euphonia Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights ANNE HATHAWAY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once on a time, when jewels flashed Subject(s): Hathaway, Anne (1556-1623); Women ANNIAD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of sweet and chocolate Last Line: Kissing in her kitchenette %the minuets of memory Subject(s): African Americans - Women ANNIE BISSELL, WEDDING PICTURE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: I am a woman seen from a distance Last Line: Of no return Subject(s): Marriage; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Women ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT RETREAT (1915), by ISABEL CONSTANCE CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Now a whole year has waxed and waned and whitened Last Line: The victory is ours because you died Subject(s): Women; World War I ANNOUNCEMENT, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it be understood that I am don juan gomez Last Line: "and cry, ""don juan is praying, and must not pray in vain!" Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Don Juan; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Saints; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANNUNCIATIO B.V., by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Come every eare / that longs to heare Last Line: Eve's gall in maries sweets are drownd. Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANNUNCIATION, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She is reading, her brown hair pulled back Last Line: Spreading its tender red stain Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sky; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by GIUSEPPE GIOCCHINO BELLI Poem Source First Line: You know the day, the month, even the year Last Line: The angel nodded, knowing she meant cocks Subject(s): Angels; Italian Renaissance; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by MARGARET DEVEREAUX CONWAY Poem Source First Line: Not yesterday, nor yet a day Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: And was it true Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by NERSES SHNORHALI Poem Source First Line: Mary, mother of our maker Alternate Author Name(s): Nerses Glaietsi Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by KAY SMITH Poem Source First Line: For all the old paintings Last Line: Anything but the space between Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Uffizi (gallery), Florence; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our lady went forth pondering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY Poem Source First Line: It was night in the village of nazareth Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by ABBY MARIA HEMENWAY Poem Source First Line: In through every lattice-bar Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh is heretic Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women ANOREXIC, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh is heretic Last Line: And sweat and fat and greed Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Women ANOREXIC'S PROFILE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Like a soldier who buffs tarnish Last Line: Shines %like %new Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights ANOTHER BREED, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: Eros, I wish to guide you, blind father Subject(s): Women's Rights ANOTHER CYNICAL VARIATION, by UNKNOWN+48 Poem Source First Line: Gerald kissed me when he left Last Line: Gerald kissed me! Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ANOTHER EPISTLE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray lady harriot the time to assign Last Line: That a body may come to st james' to dine. Subject(s): Bodies; Prayer; Turkeys; Women ANOTHER JOURNEY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is in iceland Last Line: You never know where she'll turn up next Subject(s): Homeless; Women ANOTHER LESSON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: During my teen years Last Line: I know a shortcut! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ANOTHER OBITUARY, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were filled with the strong wine Subject(s): Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012); Women's Rights; Feminism ANOTHER ON THE VIRGIN MARY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sun-beames pierce the glasse, and streaming in Last Line: But, in a mother, kept a maiden-head. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ANOTHER ONE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: But not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANOTHER ONE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Septimius, the forms you know so well Last Line: From certitude to tock; %but not with me Subject(s): Relationships; Women ANOTHER POEM ABOUT THE MADNESS OF WOMEN, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: It began as a joke: she did not like to leave the house Last Line: She knows there is a woman in each one Subject(s): Insanity; Women ANOTHER STAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are five a-light before us Last Line: The baby, the home! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism ANOTHER WITNESS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The prosecutor wants me to open %my memory like a trunk Last Line: I who spoke love, %you who killed for that lie Subject(s): Rape; Women ANSWER IN VERSE FOR SOMEONE STUDYING IN INGOLSTADT ..., by ARGULA VON GRUMBACH Poem Source First Line: Verses against argula Subject(s): Women's Rights ANSWER TO POPE'S CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ANNE (HOWARD) IRWIN Poem Text First Line: By custom doomed to folly, sloth and ease Last Line: Than what they hear all day, or dream all night? Subject(s): Women; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ANSWERING TO RILKE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Cramped by this indoor season -- it's beginning Last Line: Figuring out that much is a beginning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights ANSWERS TO NOBODY'S PRAYERS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Today, in buenos aires Last Line: A total of four lives lost Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights ANTI APART HATE ART, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: American blacks are known Subject(s): Women ANTI-CUPID, by CATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERG Poem Source First Line: That ruthless little tyrant can trifle, flirt, and fling Subject(s): Women's Rights ANTI-RACIST PERSON, by MARSHA PRESCOD Poem Source First Line: You're an anti-racist person Subject(s): Women ANTIGONE AND OEDIPUS, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow wand'ring came the sightless sire and she Last Line: "oh! Let us hope a little ere we die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mythology - Classical ANTIGONE: WOMEN, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And then she brought more dust Last Line: She has never learned to yield Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ANTINOMY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There is no truth! Last Line: This evil thing ye publish her woman-eyes disprove. Subject(s): Disdain; Lies; Love; Truth; Women; Scorn ANTIQUE FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something Last Line: If you ever knew Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Secrets; Silence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ANTONIO'S NIGHT, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: I whisper %'yo soy marrano' Last Line: Back in new mexico %where I pick peaches %and raise pigs Subject(s): Jews - Women ANTRIM GRAVEYARD, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Great-grandmother, new england roots me to a silence Last Line: And kindly. Kindly speak to me Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Graves; Women's Rights ANTS, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: I read of a man who was tied down Last Line: By the little things. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Ants; Duty; Insects; Women; Bugs ANY ONE WILL DO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a maiden once, of certain age" Last Line: "why, any one, good lord, will do" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives ANY WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the pillars of the house Last Line: Take me not till the children grow! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Love; Mothers; Strength; Women; Childhood ANY WOMAN'S BLUES, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Soft lamp shinin Last Line: Naw. My song ain't through Subject(s): Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Women ANYUTA, by ANNE COREY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother anyuta %the woman I am named for Last Line: I hear anyuta's screams. %her screams Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women APACHE - WIFE - ARIZONA, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: In scarlet caps of sunset, swarthy hills Last Line: Now . . . Has she love or hatred for carlisle? Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws APHRODITE ADIPOSA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady blessington!' cried the glad usher aloud Last Line: A grace after dinner!—a venus grown fat. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Aphrodite; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women APOLLO, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We pull off / to a road shack Last Line: Even than we are Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women APOLLO, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pull off %to a road shack Last Line: Stranger, stranger %even than we are Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women APOLOGY, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Past exchanges have left orbits of rain around my face Last Line: Silently riding their zebras Subject(s): Women's Rights APOLOGY TO A LADY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair sylvia, cease to blame my youth Last Line: And never settle more! Subject(s): Beauty; Forgiveness; Love; Women; Youth; Clemency APOSTASY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We open our mouths and the seasons Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men APPALACHIAN WINTER, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: I sit in darkness %beside the stove, rocking Last Line: Words that say there is nothing to fear Subject(s): Appalachia; Women APPEAL TO THE PIETY OF A LEARNED WOMAN, REMEMBERING THE QUEEN, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let's toss off these heavy cloaks, my dear, and show Last Line: Press, and hush, in wonder, my god-awful babbling Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Piety; Women APPENDIX TO THE ANNIAD: 1 ( THOUSANDS - KILLED IN ACTION ), by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You need the untranslatable ice to watch Last Line: Why nothing exhausts you like this sympathy Subject(s): African Americans - Women APPENDIX TO THE ANNIAD: 2, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The certainty we two shall meet by god Last Line: Bees in the stomach, sweat across the brow. Now Subject(s): African Americans - Women APPENDIX TO THE ANNIAD: 2, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The certainty we two shall meet by god Last Line: Bees in the stomach, sweat across the brow. Now Subject(s): African Americans - Women APPLAUSE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We used to keep saying Last Line: Night just like %no one Subject(s): Women's Rights APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APPLES, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source First Line: It is already a murder mystery Last Line: Unable to weaken the gaze between %the poles marking their lips Subject(s): Women - Writers APPROACHING THE LORD, by VALLATTOL Poem Source First Line: But who is this approaching now in fear Last Line: Can hearts reach any higher bliss than this? Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible APRIL, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: Is all laze and boudoir. She reclines, wigless Last Line: Litters with lipstick imprints spring's cotillion. Subject(s): Women's Rights APRIL, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: It is april %night Last Line: And catches his breath Subject(s): Jews - Women APRIL 7, 1987 - MOM, DYING, by PEARL STEIN SELINSKY Poem Source First Line: Will they know Last Line: I wonder these last days %will anbody know Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women APRIL ELEGY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: What we expected Last Line: Of feathers fallen %out of flight Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women APRON, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: If she wore one, she'd be at the strings with a vengeance Last Line: Put their minks on your bed Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ARABELLA STUART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a dream! I saw the stag leap free Last Line: We shall o'ersweep the grave to meet. Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Seymour, William (1588-1660); Stuart, Lady Arabella (1575-1615); Women ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling Last Line: In every language and opened its doors. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ARABINNOCENTS, by JOANNA KADI Poem Source First Line: Tuesday, torrential downpours blackened %every corner of the sky Last Line: Open a hole %dissolve the rock Subject(s): Arabs - Women ARACHNE GIVES THANKS TO ATHENA, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: It is no punishment. They are mistaken Last Line: Hang them with rainbows, ice, dewdrops, darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights ARBOR, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As a child she planted Last Line: They look out on another country Subject(s): Arbors; Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women ARCHAEOLOGY, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: I am digging Last Line: By the window where I make my bread Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ARCHITECT, by HOLLY HILDEBRAND Poem Source First Line: She drew the dimensions, but did not set the bounds Last Line: Like a prodigy's black ink, down her walls %always white-lined on blue paper Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ARE WOMEN FAIR?, by FRANCIS DAVISON Poem Text Last Line: Or so kind-hearted, any may procure them. Subject(s): Love; Praise; Women AREOPAGITICA, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: When censors threaten freedom of the press Last Line: Then feed your copy of the first amendment? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ARGUING THAT THERE ARE INCONSISTENCIES, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You foolish men, who accuse Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Women's Rights ARGUMENT WITH WORDSWORTH, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are always quoting that and all of them seem to agree Last Line: Sometimes poetry is emotion recollected in a highly emotional state Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ARGUMENTS, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: Consider the infinite fragility of an infant's skull Last Line: How in these words %the world %cracks open Subject(s): Arabs - Women ARISTOPHANES' SYMPOSIUM, by RITA MAE BROWN Poem Source First Line: I have know it from the beginning Last Line: And one day you will call me, 'woman' Subject(s): Aristophanes (450-388 B.c.); Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Women ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This chair I trusted, lass, and I looted the leaves Last Line: What should have been a season of calm weather Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Women; Desire; Sex ARITHMETIC, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The woman with the full life Last Line: There isn't one %of them at all Subject(s): Women ARK, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all know Last Line: We all know Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Rites & Ceremonies; Jews; Women's Rights ARMAGEDDON, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence and the dark Last Line: Even now the dawn appears! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks ARMY OF THE ORDINARY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: For many years, like so many others Last Line: Carried his vessel of water %tight over the biceps Subject(s): Women's Rights ARRAIGNMENT OF THE MEN, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Males perverse, schooled to condemn Last Line: Or the creatures of your use! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Guilt; Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused ARS POETICA FEMINAE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Even the oaks with their crimson bunches Last Line: Betraying what stalks them Subject(s): Women ART EXHIBIT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: On the snowiest of snowy evenings Last Line: And feel the spirits moving over them Subject(s): Women's Rights ART OF NATURE, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Consider birches on their knees Last Line: Will be walking, almost human Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Shapiro, Karl (1913-2000); Women's Rights ARTEMIS, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: This road I'm taking is long and bright Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women ARTHUR'S PARTY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came with some trepidation to your vernissage Last Line: Fingered you young, as we played in our garage. Subject(s): Children; Poetry & Poets; Success; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism ARTIST, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: To liberate myself %I shall tell a story Last Line: And won't get a pulitzer prize %for simply surviving Subject(s): Identity; Women ARTIST IN INK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The octopus, artist in ink Last Line: His ocean floor abstracts %endlessly octaving Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged AS FROM A QUIVER OF ARROWS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do we do with the body, do we Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness AS IF IN FLAW, OR IN THE FLAW OF SPACE, SELS, by SABAH AL-KHARRAT ZWEIN Poem Source First Line: An abysmal circle is in the sky. At the moment we are an infinite line Last Line: Now I stand below the arch of the old window, the opposite window. %today, the face is in the sky Subject(s): Arabs - Women AS SHE WAS LIGHTING UP HER CIGARETTE, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: Like the others %just how sweet is a plot of land Subject(s): Women - Writers AS THE BOTANIST, by MARIELLA BETTARINI Poem Source First Line: Bounced from class to class, I hug the walls Subject(s): Women's Rights AS TRULY AS GOD IS OUR FATHER, SO TRULY IS GOD OUR MOTHER, by JULIAN OF NORWICH Poem Source Last Line: Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For love Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Worship ASANTE SANA, TE TE, by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Laughing eyes followed Last Line: And named me maree nage Subject(s): African Americans - Women ASHANTI, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The women sit on decorated stools Last Line: To ships that wait in the harbor Subject(s): Women's Rights ASK THE MOTHER OF THE GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ASOLANDO: THE LADY AND THE PAINTER, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet womanhood you reverence Last Line: She. That you jest! Subject(s): Women; Paintings & Painters; Models ASSISI, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Gothic cathedrals, romanesque churches Last Line: Etruscan, latin, green: sacrifice is everywhere Subject(s): Women's Rights ASSUMPTA EST MARIA, by LIAM BROPHY Poem Source First Line: Lo, she cometh to us from afar Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ASSUMPTA MARIA, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals, that behold a woman Last Line: All am I, and I am one. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary ASSUMPTION, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: O heart submissive in this martrydom Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism ASTIGMATISM, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet took his walking-stick Last Line: Peace be with you, brother. You have chosen your part Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights ASTROLOGER PREDICTS AT MARY'S BIRTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one lie down on grass Last Line: At a certain place when she see something %it will break her eye Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AT APRIL, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toss your gay heads Last Line: At our hearts? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT AUDEN'S MUSEUM, by STEPHANIE STRICKLAND Poem Source First Line: About everything, in fact, they were wrong Last Line: Dangle, broken-winged, treed, becalmed Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime AT FIRST, MARY CASSATT, by MAUREEN MOREHEAD Poem Source First Line: I wanted to save the mothers and children Subject(s): Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Paintings And Painters; Women AT GLASTONBURY, by HENRY KINGSLEY Poem Source First Line: Magdalen at michael's gate Variant Title(s): The Blackbird's Song; Magdale Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible AT GRADUATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: While looking down the green highway Last Line: While looking down! Subject(s): Commencement; Upper Classes; Women; Graduation AT HIS BODEGA, LEO SELLS EVERYTHING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His own hands fall limp at his sides, then plunge deep into his pockets Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women AT HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was dead, my spirit turned Last Line: That tarrieth but a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT MORNING SITTING IN THE STUDY AND WRITING WITH MY YOUNGER SISTER, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: Paintings and history text are our friends in the women's quarters Last Line: Our sleek hair puts other scholars to shame Subject(s): Women - Writers AT PARTING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was sad weather when you went away Last Line: And you coming home, home through the hours of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War AT PLAY WITH PURITY, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A girl's lips rehearse with silent, silent puckers Last Line: Invented kisses. Visit. Visits unreturned Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients AT THE BACK OF PROGRESS ..., by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: The fellow who sits in the air-conditioned office Last Line: Over a couple of green chilis or a handful of cooked rice Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women - Abused AT THE BRANDING, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Years ago %women were never allowed Last Line: She leaves the corral %the knife folded in her pocket Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers AT THE CAPRI, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT THE CARNIVAL, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gay little girl-of-the-diving-tank Last Line: I implore neptune to claim his child today! Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Carnivals; Negroes; American Blacks AT THE CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN THE ACADEMY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young scholar, her weeping finger Subject(s): Academia; Women; Reality AT THE CROSS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O mother, draw thou near the rood Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AT THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION, by FRANCIS CLEARY WITTMEIER Poem Source First Line: She surely did nothing %to deserve Last Line: She surely did nothing %to deserve Subject(s): African Americans; Bus Terminals; Women AT THE MOMENT, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Its green leaves barely %grazing leather Subject(s): Women - Writers AT THE MOVIES, by FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIN Poem Text First Line: They swing across the screen in brave array Last Line: Then I remember, and my heart grows cold! Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women And War; World War I; Movies; Cinema; First World War AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: A flow of people looking Subject(s): Women AT THE OTHER CHAPEL, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Was this what michelangelo meant, why he left Last Line: Sometimes the absence of god is god enough Subject(s): Women's Rights AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove hanging from his key chain. But, before that, he had come to boxi Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing idle here-the men Last Line: Regal quarts in hand- %it's payday man Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 195 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE PIPERS' CLUB, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: The session was ending Last Line: So far I've spent three times a year and a day %whistling Subject(s): Nature; Women AT THE PONCE DE LEON APARTMENTS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: The sun buzzes and slides Last Line: The one her lips were molded for Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women AT THE SHRINE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mary, humanity's woman, immaculate mother Last Line: Is it thou, thou alone, that art pure, and never another? Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Virgin Mary AT THE SHRINE OF MARY, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary mother, we are twining flowers Last Line: "those are flowers our hearts have long enshrined." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary AT THE SPRING DAWN, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the dawn come Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man, turning, moves away Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man, turning, moves away Last Line: No words. His mind on fire Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping AT THE STOCKMAN BAR, WHERE THE MEN FALL IN LOVE, & THE WOMEN JUST FALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: Black velvet shots and water back Last Line: I'll never find my way again Subject(s): Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Women; Women - Writers AT THE WHITEHORSE REARING PONDS: LETTING THE FRY GO, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: They're the one waterfall in the meadow Last Line: Entirely aware for the first time Subject(s): Rape; Women AT THIRTY-THREE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: It was all so different from what she expected Last Line: When she weeps she looks like nineteen Subject(s): Women ATHLETE GROWING OLD, by GRACE BUTCHER Poem Source First Line: The caution is creeping in Last Line: And constantly calls her %to come over, come over Subject(s): Women ATLANTIC CITY SNAPSHOT, 1944, by PAULA GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: Eight ladies walk arm in arm Last Line: I'm in the picture Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, and mumma? Ah, poor mumma Last Line: "from the snow-white clouds advancing." Subject(s): Fate; Love; Women; Destiny AUBADE ON TROOST AVENUE, by BARBARA LOOTS Poem Source First Line: The eyes open to a hopper painting Last Line: Loads and reloads her machine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Wilbur, Richard (b. 1921); Women's Rights AUDITION, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Porfirio drove mami and me Last Line: Abruptly, her singing stopped Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women AUGUST SUNDAY, by PATRICE VECCHIONE Poem Source First Line: Pressing your hand to my ass Last Line: Dissolves slowly like bitter fruit %under my weeping tongue Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women AUNT FLOSSY, by JEAN PRIESTLEY FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: She climbs the stairs Last Line: Around noon %she'll have a beer Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Women AUNT IRIS' WEDDING, by SAUCI S. CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Except for just a moment Last Line: Smothered the flames against her breast Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AUNT JANE ALLEN, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: State street is lonely today. Aunt jane allen has driven Last Line: To each of the seed of ethiopia? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks AUNT JANEY AND MABEL COOK SOUL FOOD, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey Last Line: Boil and pickle them?' she said.' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts AUNT JANEY MEETS SISTER CAUDHILL, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Aunt janey would buy her hats from sister caudhill, the hat lady, who Last Line: You at it!' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts AUNT JEMIMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights AUNT MARIE AT 99, by TOM BENEDIKTSSON Poem Source First Line: You kept your hair bound tight all your life Last Line: When you let your hair fall, too late %for anything but its elf Subject(s): Women AUNT MAVIS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: She's been here before Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ANGEL, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: Every may on the virgin's holyday Last Line: To break over the whole goddamn village Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women AUTUMN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia Last Line: All I once possessed? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AUTUMN, by MARJORIE MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Mellow sunlight, soothing, warm Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women AUTUMN POET, by VIRGINIA BARRETT Poem Source First Line: Dry leaves settle in the cool front hall Last Line: The old woman plays in a shapeless black coat %button missing, she skips through the orchard Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUTUMN ROSE, by AMAL MOUSSA Poem Source First Line: In crystal %I slept for three seasons, %then the drunkenness of sleep awoke me Last Line: Grass bursts forth, %and in autumn %my rose blooms Subject(s): Arabs - Women AUTUMN SUN., by LOUISE SOMERS WINDER Poem Source Last Line: Two canes - out of step Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUTUMN, 1914, by MARY WEBB Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The scarlet-jewelled ashtree sighed - 'he cometh' Last Line: For whom then loving-cup is poured, the wild bee hummeth.' Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War AVALANCHE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just last month Last Line: Coming soon with its wildflowers Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Women AVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of the fair delight Last Line: O mary virgin, full of grace! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary AVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary full of grace, well may thou be Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE MARIA, by HENRIETTE CHARASSON Poem Source First Line: The third sunday after easter Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE MARIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hollow spaces, large and deep Last Line: That would be the heart of the mother of god! Subject(s): Beds; Earth; Future Life; God; Mary And Martha (bible); Moon; Night; Sleep; Women In The Bible; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime AVE MARIA, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Source First Line: Lady, the soldier I would be Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE MARIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave, maria! I am tired Last Line: What it is to be so tired. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this his coming! I had hoped to see Last Line: And over both with outstretched wings the dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology AVE MARIS STELLA (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Star of ocean fairest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE REGINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, o queen of heaven enthroned! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE REGINA COELORUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Queen of the heavens, we hail thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE SANCTISSIMA!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE, FR. LOBA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lost moon sisters Subject(s): Women AVE, FR. LOBA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lost moon sisters Last Line: Om star mother ma om %maya ma ah Subject(s): Women AVE, MARIS STELLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, thou star of ocean Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AVE, VITA NOSTRA, by CLIFFORD JAMES LAUBE Poem Source First Line: Attila's spirit rides again the red roads of the east Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States AWAKENING, by FAWZIYYA AL- SINDI Poem Source First Line: Awaken, %oh, boughs of passion %saddle the wind with your exhausted words Last Line: Shaking the boughs of fear and love... %awaken Subject(s): Arabs - Women AWAY! (2), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If by one woman thou'rt jilted, love Last Line: Not much in the world below thee. Subject(s): Life; Love; Women AWFUL MOTHER, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whole weight of history bears down Last Line: Only the awful mother stirs stricken %with grief Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women AYANNA'S BLUES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: She had the kinda' beauty Last Line: Brokenphoenix fire, geechee woman blues Subject(s): Beauty; Women B'NOT SARAH, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: At the b'not sarah synagogue Last Line: Earthward %from the highest sephira Subject(s): Jews - Women BAALBECK, by NADIA TUENI Poem Source First Line: When the sun strikes a tall dead tree Last Line: Baalbeck is a gift from the world of measures Subject(s): Arabs - Women BABE DIDRIKSON, by GRANTLAND RICE Poem Source First Line: From the high jump of olympic fame Subject(s): Didrikson, Babe (1913-1956); Sports - Women BABIES, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Nowadays they wear Last Line: And make them stay put; always %all over the back of my mind Subject(s): Jews - Women BABY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Baby, glide over rivers Last Line: To paint from memory, but couldn't Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BABY BOY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knelt to the virgin mary. Help me, mary, to pray. Last Line: Oh, mary, make me as a child, and teach mine eyes to see! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BABY COBINA, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: Brown baby cobina, with his large black velvet eyes Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BACCHUS SEES ARIADNE, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: He felt as he watched her nude Last Line: And later place among the stars Subject(s): Nature; Nudity; Women BACK INTO THE GARDEN, by SARAH WEBSTER FABIO Poem Source First Line: It's a hell Last Line: Your prize and %genesis Subject(s): African Americans - Women BACK-VIEW, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you saunter down the sand Last Line: Enchanting, comic, japanese! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Women BAD ACCIDENT OF A WOMAN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: You might think I know %the woman of too many days Last Line: She happens everywhere, %like a bad accident of a woman Subject(s): Homeless; Women BAD FEET AND LITTLE PIECES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: People think pigeons like bagels %but they don't Last Line: I wonder if a revolution can begin %on bad feet Subject(s): Homeless; Women BAD LITTLE GIRL, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: There was a little girl Last Line: But when she was bad she wrote poetry Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BAG LADIES, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: We are all bag ladies Last Line: It being all we know %it being all we are Subject(s): Women BAG LADIES IN L.A., by SAVINA A. ROXAS Poem Source First Line: Sunday on santa monica boulevard Last Line: Walk the palatial boulevard %neither santa nor monica Subject(s): Women BAHIA NOTES: THE WOMEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Her face a searing sea of questions Last Line: Afraid of her vengeance Subject(s): Anger; Unfaithfulness; Vengeance; Women BAITH GUDE AND FAIR AND WOMANLY [WOMANLIE], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Baith gude and fair and womanly Subject(s): Women BAKER'S BOY, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: The baker's boy delivers loaves Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BALLAD, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O praye for peace, sweet mayde marie Last Line: That peace, joy's treasure, maye befall. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: A hundred ballads I have written Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Women's Rights BALLAD FOR PHILLIS WHEATLEY, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty little black girl Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) BALLAD MADE AT THE REQUEST OF HIS MOTHER .. PRAY TO OUR LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's lady! Regent of this world terrene Last Line: And in this faith I mean to live and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BALLAD OF A MAN-MADE WOMAN, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Sing-a-ling-lo, of a man-made woman Last Line: Yes, and never. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Women BALLAD OF A WISTFUL LADY, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: She was a wistful lady Last Line: Heigh-ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Women BALLAD OF BASEBALL ANNIE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Don't ask me why a passion starts Last Line: That nobody can deny Subject(s): Women BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BALLAD OF LADIES LOST AND FOUND, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the women who, entre deux guerres Last Line: And truncated a woman's chronicle, %and plain old margaret fuller died as well Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906); Blues (music); Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899); Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle (1873-1954); De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Eleanor Of A BALLAD OF OUR LADY, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O empress high, celestial queen most rare Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BALLAD OF THE HOPPY-TOAD, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't been on market street for nothing / with my regular washing load Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women BALLAD OF THE HOPPY-TOAD, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ain't been on market street for nothing %with my regular washing load Last Line: O hoppy-toad,' he cried Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women BALLAD OF THE WOMEN OF PARIS, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit the venice girls get praise Last Line: But no good girl's lip out of paris. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Love; Paris, France; Women BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'BUT I FANCY LOVELY NANCY', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Surely now I'm out of danger Last Line: That's some joy in misery. Subject(s): Women BALLADE, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: Lone am I, and would be Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Mourning; Women BALLADE AT THIRTY-FIVE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women - Middle Aged BALLADE DES BELLES MILATRAISSES; NEW ORLEANS, 1840-1850, by ROSALIE M. JONAS Poem Source First Line: Tis the octoroon ball! And the halls are alight Last Line: Are these black-hooded ghosts of the dancers we knew %on their knees at last? 'c'est pas zaffaire a Subject(s): African Americans - Women BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladye of heaven that o'er earth hath swaye Last Line: And in this faith I live and will goe hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Faith; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Prayer; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, tell me now in what strange air Last Line: "nay, but where is the last year's snow?" Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Ladies Of Time Pas Subject(s): Death; Snow; Women; Dead, The BALLADE OF JUSTIFICATION, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A jingle of bells and a crunch of snow Last Line: If I confess I lost my heart? Subject(s): Women; Love BALLADE OF LADIES' NAMES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown's for lalage, jones for lelia Last Line: Anna's the name of names for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Names; Women BALLADE OF THE LADIES OF TIME PAST, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me where, in lands or seas Last Line: Ah, where shall last year's snow be found? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning; Past; Women BALLADE OF WOMAN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman! Lightly the mysterious word Last Line: A woman -- and yet how much more thou art! Subject(s): Women BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BALLADE: GONE LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where in the world is helen gone Last Line: Where is the snow we watched last fall? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Women BALLADE: WOMEN OF TIME PAST, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me in what country is Subject(s): Women BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: OPHELIA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sad wind of the woods, something the night doth croon Last Line: "a rush? 'tis she, poor mime, who culls eternal dream." Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The BALLATA II, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair women I saw passing where she passed Last Line: For sobbing out my heart's full memories Subject(s): Hearts; Italian Renaissance; Love; Women BANNERS OF THE HEART, by FAWZIYYA AL- SINDI Poem Source First Line: I confess %I disperse, %like blood shed from the soil's raindrops Last Line: My voice besieged as a river as it reads Subject(s): Arabs - Women BAR TALKING, by GAYLE SPANIER RAWLINGS Poem Source First Line: Long ago - one time, many times Last Line: Left over from our %forgotten dreams Subject(s): Jews - Women BARBIE DOLL, by PATRICIA STORACE Poem Source First Line: Her body, which is perfect Subject(s): Women BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women BARBIE, KEN, AND EMMA'S DADDY, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Other girls have friends to share their dolls Last Line: Beautiful, just like barbie, just like ken Subject(s): Women BARN SWALLOWS, by LAURA STEARNS Poem Source First Line: Surrounded by birch trees and sugar maples Last Line: And the bunnell girl lying on her bed, staring %at the bluebell wallpaper suddenly grown old Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BARS FIGHT, AUGUST 28, 1746, by LUCY TERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August 'twas the twenty-fifth Last Line: Was taken and carried to canada. Subject(s): African Americans - Women BASEMENT SLOW DANCING, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: I have forgotten whose basement it was Last Line: Dancing, perfectly, feeding the bodies forever %forecasts of one and another Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BATH, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source First Line: It's better to know her name Last Line: And an approximation of ease %and charity Subject(s): Women - Writers BATHSHEBA, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King david, from his house-top / saw one whose only dress Last Line: "are flies, in the web of craft!" Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); Capital Punishment; Lust; Marriage; Women; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BATHSHEBA: LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: It was my habit when my husband Last Line: And then I wake up. Trembling in light Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BATTLE OF THE SWAMPS, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Across the blinded lowlands the beating rain blows chill Last Line: O deathless swamps of flanders, our hearts are with our men Subject(s): Women; World War I BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: A quiet tennessee childhood Last Line: Would you pay that price for fame? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BE GONE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Walk %or if you must Last Line: So good-bye and god speed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BE STILL HEART, by NILENE O. A. FOXWORTH Poem Source First Line: I wish I could rest my mind Subject(s): Women BEARING WITNESS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Long before the official declaration Last Line: Blood of their telling thickens at my feet Subject(s): Women BEATRICE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Send out the singers - let the room be still Last Line: O lift me up and I shall reach the sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful black women, fail, they act. Stop them, raining Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women BEAUTIFUL BLACK WOMEN, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful black women, fail, they act. Stop them, raining Last Line: Will you let me help you, daughter, wife-lover, will you Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women BEAUTIFUL SLAVE, by GIAMBATTISTA MARINI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black, yes, but beautiful. Sweet paradox Last Line: But whose dark eyes shine brighter than your day Alternate Author Name(s): Marino, Giambattista; Marino, Giovanni Battista Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty; Love - Cultural Differences; Slavery BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young Last Line: Than the young. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horns to bulls wise nature lends Last Line: Fire and sword with ease subdues. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Women BEAUTY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much bunk is sprung concerning beauty Last Line: "warts." Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Virtue; Women BEAUTY, by OCTAVIA BEATRICE WYNBUSH Poem Source First Line: Tis' wondrous strange in what things men find beauty Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BEAVER DAM ROAD, by SHELDON STUMP Poem Source First Line: I want to give my mother, who is sixty-three, an assignment Last Line: My father will walk in looking for his 'goddamn keys' %and she'll be gone Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BECAUSE A SHIP, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: The day was breaking %and then those two assholes Subject(s): Women - Writers BECAUSE I DID NOT WANT TO ASK, by JOLANDA INSANA Poem Source First Line: Love, you're always Subject(s): Women's Rights BECAUSE THEY ARE MINE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I am not a man Last Line: And it pleases me to love her Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights BECAUSE THEY HESITATED BETWEEN ROSES AND DARKNESS, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA Poem Source First Line: Because they loaded their rifles with rain Last Line: When they draw a blade in the mouth of a sundial Subject(s): Arabs - Women BECAUSE WE SUSPECTED, by ISE Poem Source Subject(s): Women BECAUSE: TWO LITANIES. 1. WHY HE BEAT HER, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Because the sun was in the sky Last Line: Because - why else> - he loved her Subject(s): Women - Abused BECOMING SIXTY, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: There were terror and anger Last Line: From a new friend who came %in the evening of my need Subject(s): Women BEDECKEN, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Whose smile is that? Last Line: He puts the veil down over her face Subject(s): Jews - Women BEDOUIN EYES, by DIMA HILAL Poem Source First Line: My hands turn to claws, tear %newspapers declare war Last Line: Weakens %forces my body to sink to the floor Subject(s): Arabs - Women BEDOUIN WOMEN, by SHULAMIT APFEL Poem Source First Line: Where did that bedouin woman %get all her strength Last Line: Leading himself, entirely awake, weaned, tasting milk in the air Subject(s): Arabs - Women BEEF EATER, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: I have been eating beef hearts Last Line: As if he were a fly %paced %deliberately %away Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BEER DROPS, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD Poem Source First Line: Because beer tingles Last Line: Crushing a dandelion %skull Subject(s): African Americans - Women BEFORE I DRESS AND SOAR AGAIN, by DONNA ALLEGRA Poem Source First Line: I have a question for all the sisters Last Line: How can your daughters grow? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights BEFORE I SLEPT, I SAW THE NEBULA, by KATHERINE DOAK Poem Source Last Line: I am honored beyond song Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BEFORE LEAVING THERE'S ALWAYS A GET-TOGETHER, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Young old words, available, where one can rest and %wait Subject(s): Women - Writers BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, by LYNN KOZMA Poem Source First Line: I need to do %a few important things Last Line: I want to hold the world close %spit in the face %of doom Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BEFORE SURGERY, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow I go to the hospital Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women BEFORE THE FEAST OF SHUSHAN, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Garden of shushan %after eden, all terrace, pool, and flower recollect thee Last Line: Love is but desire and thy purpose fulfillment %I, thy king,so say Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BEFORE THE IKON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, by CONSTANTINE OF RHODES Poem Source First Line: If any would portray thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BEGGAR IN THE SUBWAY, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The subway beggar crouches against the token booth Last Line: To look for sabbath inside the aquarium windows %of a public shelter Subject(s): Jews - Women BEGINNING AGAIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night Last Line: The grasses bending, the car pointing %towards the horizon I'll call home Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BEHIND THE BILLBOARDS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Picasso looked inward to find the color Last Line: Enough to fuel appetites for more Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights BEHIND THE DOOR, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: He says his heart %is like a house Last Line: What's shut behind %I can't let out Subject(s): Women BEHOLD THE WOMAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shawl of hair and sighs Last Line: A child goes forth under the changed constellations Subject(s): Women BEING AWARE, by DENNIS COOPER Poet's Biography First Line: Men are drawn to my ass by Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pornography; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BEIRUT, by CLAIRE GEBEYLI Poem Source First Line: For beirut I write Last Line: Whiteness the tombstones and the cornfields Subject(s): Arabs - Women BEIRUT, by NADIA TUENI Poem Source First Line: Let her be courtesan, scholar or saint Last Line: Where man can dress himself in light Subject(s): Arabs - Women BEKITA, by ELIS JULIANA Poem Source First Line: Lady bekita lifted up her skirt Last Line: Bekita, bekita %bekita, bekita %bekita, bekita Subject(s): Seduction; Women BELIEVIN IN AIR, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Men, says the woman of too many days Last Line: I been blue in my fingertips, ever since. %see? Subject(s): Homeless; Women BELINDA, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the white gravelled path belinda goes Last Line: Hiding her subtleties beneath the rose, Subject(s): Tradition; Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: A NOTE TO ATTACH TO THAT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Pearl, baby, there's just no tellin Last Line: Than your texas butter that is mostly lard Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: A POSTSCRIPT JUST IN CASE SHE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Now this ain't remorse, pearl, but it seems Last Line: Mine, and you must claim your own Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: A WORD ABOUT POWER PLUS A, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Just because I knew my power as a woman, pearl Last Line: Than on front street. Don't go tellin me it's what I've done Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: BEGINNING A LETTER FOR MY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: It's quieter'n a wood pussy walking on the moonlight Last Line: And ponder how she's come to live with that Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: HERE I JUST WANT HER TO KNOW, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear pearl, how I wanted you Last Line: Under the limelight? That night was the worst Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: NOT ADVISIN THAT THIS IS THE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Turns out the whole fischer gang is out there Last Line: That night I married the lot, not one, to be left alone Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: OUR FIRST DALLAS SPREE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: We had pretty near all we needed didn't we, rosie? Last Line: And leavin you, pearl, with what I can't still choose Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMEMBERING HOW SHE TURNED, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So what if the bluebirds were back and the new Last Line: Scatter him like a dose of the wind Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMINDIN HER AGAIN OF THE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: After that weddin on horseback and all the palaver Last Line: With a whiff of blood-revenges, a whiff of maniac Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMINDIN HER HOW I DID COME, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: It wasn't much fun bein stuck out in california Last Line: But I had you, baby Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMINDIN HER HOW I MET UP, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Texas was full of badmen full of brag and fight Last Line: In '66 it was and smack on valentine's day Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMINDIN HER HOW IT WASN'T, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Fatman parker ain't the only judge in my life Last Line: You see your face skim over as you're fallin in Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: REMINDIN HER HOW YOUNGER'S, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I guess you'll forgive me, pearl, if I try to scribble out Last Line: Chance to be somebody free and unattached with your mother Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: SAM STARR AND MY FIDDLER, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I'd like to know just who sam star thought he was Last Line: Strokin gut 'til it hurts Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: SEEIN THIS HEAP OF WRITIN ON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I fixed on givin you the straight tips, my rosie Last Line: With you sending me back to me still sealed Subject(s): Women BELLE STARR: THE BANDIT QUEEN REMEMBERS: THEN WHAT WHEN AFTER THAT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Jim got a bag on his head and went off with that man Last Line: Jim reed was one of the littler guys Subject(s): Women BELLS, by KARY WAYSON Poem Source First Line: She gets up, goes to the telephone, lifts it and listens Last Line: Can't feel her feet and wonders how she got these broken bones Subject(s): Bells; Bones; Women BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dancing & Dancers; Desire; Women BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Last Line: Unawakened, sweet %women Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Dancing And Dancers; Desire; Women BELLY DANCER IN THE NURSING HOME, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crazy ladies are singing again Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Old Age; Women BELONGING, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: My father belonged %first to his native place Last Line: Where he belonged %the most Subject(s): Jews - Women BELOVED, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In a reflective mood this morning Last Line: Connected with the divine source Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BELOVED OF THE HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BEREAVEMENT ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've left my fingertips on fence posts Last Line: On a shelf, lips in a jar Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BERGMAN'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: I made an effort to amuse, unrattled Last Line: Loving dampered nonsense on piano Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients BERRY ME NOT, by JEANE RHODES Poem Source First Line: Chokecherries, chokecherries, purple and round Last Line: The man that I live with is still with the living Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BERTHA IN THE LANE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put the broidery-frame away Last Line: I aspire while I expire. Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Women; Dead, The BESIDE A FOUNTAIN IN A LITTLE GROVE, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women; Love BESIDE HER HUSBAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: We sit in the courtroom's semidark %as in a far northern dusk Last Line: He answers, 'I look at the floor' Subject(s): Rape; Women BESSIE, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: My gloriana Last Line: Of our most common need Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BESSIE BROWN, M.D, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas april when she came to town Last Line: Unless -- I wed the doctor! Subject(s): Physicians; Women; Doctors BESSIE SMITH'S FUNERAL, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT Poem Source First Line: The brief procession Last Line: Her song is news, begins the dispensation %of the blues Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Funerals; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) BETA ISRAEL, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Isolate sepia people dying slowly Last Line: To whom will you teach your jewish ways, %strangers as you are even to your own kin? Subject(s): Jews - Women BETHULIA'S GATE, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have you in your apron wrapped? Last Line: Hold holofernes' head. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible BETRAYAL, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greatest delight, I sense Last Line: A god other than our own Subject(s): Betrayal; Women BETRAYAL, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greatest delight, I sense Last Line: A god other than our own Subject(s): Betrayal; Women BETSY ROSS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Some say I made it up. Some say not so Last Line: Where all the stories start... %tomorrow, then Subject(s): Love; Ross, Betsy (1752-1836); Women BETWEEN DOMINICA AND ECUADOR, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The earphoned guardians click off %the dominican republic Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BETWEEN HARD ROCKS AND SAVAGE WINDS I TRY, by VITTORIA COLONNA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Pescara, Matchesa De; Colonna, Vittoria Di Subject(s): Women's Rights BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations BETWEEN MYSELF AND DEATH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fervor parches you sometimes Last Line: Dreams instead of myself Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women BETWEEN THE ACTS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Tonight at antony and cleoptra Last Line: Holding hands, in love, laughing Subject(s): Women BETWEEN TWO LOVES, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I gotta love for angela Last Line: So w'at I gona do? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Variant Title(s): I Can No Marry Both O' Dem Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BETWEEN WIVES, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was trying to teach him a lesson Last Line: That is the killing thing about him Subject(s): Divorce; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Women BEYOND, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Swift to scatter all that charms Last Line: Love that meets him out of reach. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Charm; Women BEYOND BIOLOGY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Legs splayed open Last Line: That call forth the frogs we hung Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights BEYOND CASSIOPEIA, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I read that stardust's real Last Line: And we think -- this is the end of the world Subject(s): Women's Rights BEYOND THE EAST GATE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: I listen to the voice of the cricket Last Line: Come down from the mountain Subject(s): Desire; Hope; Introspection; Self; Women BIBLE STUDENTS IN THE SUKKAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: What does it matter Last Line: And one always had a story, %and one always said, be serious Subject(s): Jews - Women BICENTENNIAL BASTILLE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: The emblem of the week and month and year Last Line: Embroidered white blossoms on a velvet night Subject(s): Women's Rights BIG APPLE WEEKEND, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Sealed windows %facing canyons of cement and stone Last Line: Appreciated now, even more %in comparison Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BIG MAMA THORNTON, by HONOREE FANONNE JEFFERS Poem Source First Line: They call me big mama and I make Last Line: Before you even start to bleed Subject(s): Women BIG SISTER SAYS, 1967, by KATHRYN DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Beauty hurts, big sister says Last Line: When you're not born beautiful Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BIKER'S GIRL, by ANN B. KNOX Poem Source First Line: Outside las brisas bar & restaurant, neon Last Line: And looked to the sky -- wild, starry, endless Subject(s): Motorcycles And Motorcycling; Women BILINGUAL SESTINA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I have to say aren't getting said Last Line: Heart beating, beating inside what I say en ingles Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Literary Form; Travel; Women BILLIE HOLIDAY, by ANNEMARIE EWING Poem Source First Line: She was known as lady Last Line: Out of ginger...Hot tar...Pistachio...Gall Alternate Author Name(s): Towner, John H., Mrs.; Towner, Annemarie Ewing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Wouldn't you know it? -- the lady has her name Last Line: This is the lady's home %she never had Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by STERLING D. PLUMPP Poem Source First Line: Feel and hear. Last Line: Major in kneeling %with my ears Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE HOLIDAY, by HANS R. VLEK Poem Source First Line: A woman a lady Last Line: She knows %sings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers BILLIE IN SILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to say to you, billie holiday Last Line: My mouth is on fire. Let it burn Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers BILLY DE LYE WAS A RECKLESS GAMBLER, by DEIDRE MCCALLA Poem Source Last Line: He dropped his gun and I grabbed %for my last chance Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights BIOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN, by FERENC JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: She bore three sons. Has two sons. Was twenty-five Subject(s): Women BIRD, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Blue, with a wingspread %from one horizon to the other Last Line: For hope only stars in its place, only %the emptiness between stars Subject(s): Rape; Women BIRD IN THE CAGE, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: I am not better than my brother over the way Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans - Women BIRD NESTS, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The year dead-ends here. Clumsy december Last Line: Wing, flightly and blind, slowly spreading south. Subject(s): Women's Rights BIRD OF PARADISE, by HARRIET LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Orange and purple fanning outward Last Line: Unable to feel a thing %fixed around my father's neck Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BIRD OF PASSAGE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: Upon the deep ocean a schooner is lying Subject(s): Women's Rights BIRD SONG, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: So she came back from the mountains and she says Last Line: Further than my knobby old feet could carry me Subject(s): Homeless; Women BIRD WOMAN, by KATHRYN A. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Let me draw you in charcoal Last Line: A madonna on the corner %our lady of the stones Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BIRD-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The famous bird-painter hobbles by Last Line: First take singing lessons %from the birds Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BIRDS NEST IN MY ARMS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights BIRDSONG & SUN POEM FOR WINTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: A sparrow hops in the lilac on the arab side of our house Last Line: There are also the motionless junipers Subject(s): Jews - Women BIRTH IN A NARROW ROOM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeps out of western country something new Last Line: And where the bugs buzz by in private cars %across old peach cans and old jelly jars Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birth BIRTH OF MADAME DELUXE, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: It didn't start with pains Last Line: All eyes. Ass first and eager %with rip-roaring hair Subject(s): Birth; Eyeglasses; Fashion; Vision; Women BIRTHDAY, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: Such a little woman Subject(s): Nature; Women BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BIRTHDAY PORTRAIT IN MUTED TONES, by DORI APPEL Poem Source First Line: In this expanse of pale couches Last Line: Bent over the stiff, bright bows Subject(s): Women BIRTHPLACE, by TAHEREH SAFFARZEDEH Poem Source First Line: I have never seen the place where I was born Subject(s): Women BISQUE DOLL FAMILY, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Pot-bellied, they stand Last Line: Never asking my mother are they a gift %that I should keep Subject(s): Women BITCH, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when he and I meet, after all these years Last Line: "saying, ""good-bye! Good-bye! Nice to have seen you again." Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Ill-tempered; Language; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism BITCHFIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No fellas here (they're watching, though Last Line: To claw each other's eyes out. Subject(s): Fights; Violence; Women BITS AND PIECES: A COVENANT OF ONE AND ONE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Then one day I am looking up the hill from my tent door Last Line: Infinity! So many. Who needs this? Subject(s): Women BITTER END, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Bird, if you start now Last Line: To make yellow happen Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BITTERCREEK WOMEN, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Bittercreek has always been Last Line: Instead of half %alone Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BITTERSWEET, SELS., by JOYCE CAROL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: She %somersaulted Last Line: Who gave me the gift of wings Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women BLACK ARTS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I adore the pitch black nature of life Last Line: How still the waters are in the dark wine %of the womb Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Nature; Paintings And Painters BLACK BABY, by ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The baby I hold in my arms is a black baby Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Last Line: Do - do %do Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers; Women's Rights BLACK DRAFTEE FROM DIXIE, by CARRIE WILLIAMS CLIFFORD Poem Source First Line: Upon his dull ear fell the stern command Last Line: Where from the hell of war he never flinched %because he cried, 'democracy' was lynched Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK FACES, by ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: I love black faces Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BLACK GIRL FULO, by JORGE MATEUS DE LIMA Poem Source First Line: Now it so happened she came Last Line: That black girl fulo! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Brazil; Rape; Slavery BLACK GODDESS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: I am not a black goddess Last Line: Do you know what I mean? Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights BLACK LUCY; VICTORY LAKE NURSERY HOME, 1974, by ROBERT WARD Poem Source First Line: My red hair. My red hair Last Line: Sometimes I tell them, it's nice. It reminds %me of home Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BLACK MADONNA, by ALBERT RICE Poem Source First Line: Not as the white nations Last Line: The untaught %of earth Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers & Daughters; Women BLACK MOTHER WOMAN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot recall you gentle Last Line: To define myself %through your denials Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women BLACK PRIDE, by MARGARET GOSS BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: Black pride, black pride, we remember well %how beautiful you used to be Last Line: Like moses, you will lead our people over %and through Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK PURSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She shuts the black purse, tucks it away Last Line: God knows what may come from under her dress %some later day. Subject(s): Women BLACK SHAWL, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: Around me, %unraveling its garland Last Line: Tangle of black roots %that drags my hands down Subject(s): Appalachia; Women BLACK SISTER, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: Black skin against bright green Last Line: And boy, you have now become a man. So brother, %proclaim the beauty that you see, in your black sis Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK VIRGIN, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One in thy thousand statues we salute thee Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLACK WOMAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: I must not give you birth! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BLACK WOMAN, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is springy like the forest grasses Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK WOMAN, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My hair is springy like the forest grasses Last Line: Where %are my beautiful %black men? Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACK WOMAN, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: I can still smell the spray of the sea they forced me to cross Subject(s): Women's Rights BLACKBERRY PIE, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The man my mother %takes to the barn Last Line: Buzz, what I wear underneath Subject(s): Women's Rights BLACKBERRY SWEET, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black girl black girl %lips as curved as cherries Last Line: The heart in my breast %jump - stop - shake Variant Title(s): Black Magi Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLACKMWORE MAIDENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The primrose in the sheade do blow Last Line: "in blackmwore by the stour." Subject(s): Women; Country Life BLACKSTONE RANGERS: 3. GANG GIRLS; A RANGERETTE, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gang girls are sweet exotics Last Line: The rhymes of leaning Subject(s): African Americans - Women BLANCA CATS, by PENNY GASAWAY Poem Source First Line: The white girls come, the white girls come Last Line: Moaning and mewing a question one to the other %was it good? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women BLESSED AMONG WOMEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed was she that bare Last Line: Thou fill men's eyes who listen with a heart that hears. Subject(s): Blessings; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Praise; Women; Women In The Bible BLESSED BE THE EVENING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BLESSED VIRGIN (WHY IS THE B.V. CLAD IN BLUE?), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because when comes no cloud between Last Line: The livery of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BLESSED VIRGIN MARY COMPARED TO A WINDOW, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Because my will is simple as a window Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLESSED VIRGIN'S EXPOSTULATION, by NAHUM TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, some pitying angel, quickly say Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BLESSING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: May your eyes see beauty Last Line: Your kind heart %as I do Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BLESSING ON YOUR HEAD, HAND, AND FOOT, by NANCY BERG Poem Source First Line: Grandma and grandpa %get lost at ellis island Last Line: Filter out through the window screen %and perch on the branch of a tree Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BLIND, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some can make out shadows Last Line: The light. People go by without faces Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; Women BLIND CITY, by MONA SAUDI Poem Source First Line: In its streets my visions multiply %in the chaos of objects Last Line: There, life glows in an instant %born in a puddle of light Subject(s): Arabs - Women BLIND GODDESS, by FADHILA CHABBI Poem Source First Line: And the blind goddess, when we touched her %like a twinkling of the eye Last Line: And it was the insolence of the ages Subject(s): Arabs - Women BLINDING THE INFIDEL, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A week after you came home Last Line: Into the fence and darkness Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLONG IN AMERICA, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Wake up blong Last Line: Call him, where everything is promised Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women BLOOD-SISTER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoring up the ocean. A railroad track Last Line: Where survival %takes naked and fiery forms Subject(s): Women BLOW ME EYES, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and full o' pride Last Line: But, blow me eyes, she did! Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women BLOWING KISSES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Nowadays her baby teeth rattle safely Last Line: By killing children in the shark-mouthed streets Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BLUE EYE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: So many are trying to get what you Last Line: And raw, unpolished gem of my desire Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery BLUE FILLY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: She is just three Last Line: And prepare ourselves for the saddling Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BLUE HOUR, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Light taking leave of these haystacks Last Line: Turning light from page to page %past nightfall Subject(s): Women BLUE MILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Then we went to bunny's house behind the church Last Line: In the deep sinkings and returns %of their adam's apples Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BLUE SPECKS, by NURUNNESSA CHOUDHURY Poem Source First Line: In the clear world Subject(s): Women BLUE THREAD, by ANNE RICHEY Poem Source First Line: She crushes his pajamas to her face Last Line: To think, I am trying to think, I say %how to begin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BLUE, PURPLE, AND SCARLET, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The wise-hearted women used their creativity Last Line: And this is still our scarlet %blue and purple opportunity Subject(s): Women - Bible BLUES ALABAMA, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's blacker Last Line: A blessing of hatred Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women BLUES FOR BESSIE, by MYRON O'HIGGINS Poem Text First Line: Let de peoples known (unnh) / what they did in dat southern town Last Line: Wid de blood (lawd) a-streamin' down Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Racism; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Social Protest; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tick of time that stones the heads of kings Last Line: Points toward the indies of our mortal wish Subject(s): Politics & Government; Socialism; Women BLUES SUITE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Black %bitter %coffee Last Line: Please don't panic Subject(s): Identity; Women BMC BLUES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Do you think that when they built this place Last Line: They had us in mind when they built this place Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women BO-BO AT 83, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: It is warm inside my eyes Last Line: Across the valley the cricket's sound rubbed against the sky Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BOAT ON THE PACIFIC, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY Poem Source First Line: Age is what chaff %that shudders %in the palms of the tempest Last Line: She is calling upon us %to come to her bosom, %which is swollen with woes! Subject(s): Arabs - Women BOCA'S MAYOR CALLS MIKE OVER, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We've signed out in his death notebook in unerasable ink! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BODIES YOU BROKE, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: Oats we've rolled and bread you broke Last Line: Or bite us now, your teeth will crack Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights BODY, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: I have lived with it for years Last Line: Continually going about %its business, loving to lie down Subject(s): Women BODY, by MAXINE SCATES Poem Source First Line: When in interviewed for my first job %as an usherette at the fabulous forum Last Line: After all, I was a forum girl Subject(s): Sports - Arenas And Stadia; Women BODY ESCAPES, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: The square is empty Subject(s): Women - Writers BODY MODIFICATIONS, by CATHLEEN CALBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Butterfly parts her long wings / skull and crossbones Subject(s): Bodies; Women BOILED WINE, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: My brother's father-in-law kept boiled wine Last Line: I serve not wine but coffee to my guests, and pray %my children not be taken for my sins Subject(s): Jews - Women BOKE OF TWO LADIES, SELS., by DAVID MORTON Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BOMBS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: At the time of the infestation Last Line: From the unerasable scourge Subject(s): Women BONFIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My head Last Line: Wash my %hair Subject(s): Women's Rights BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnybell comes to the room of her lover Last Line: She wounds in the war. Subject(s): War; Women - Heroes BOOKMAKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the pierpont morgan I go up and down Last Line: And the handing down to the generations to come %the world's body loved by our passionate arts Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Last Line: The blur of the world. Into whoever you're going to be Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Schools; Women BORDER, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Leaping from the eucalyptus branch, the wild desert pigs Last Line: Though no one spoke of it Subject(s): Women's Rights BORDER CAMP, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: One more time I will sit vigil over this city Last Line: And the war has no respectable border Subject(s): Women's Rights BORN IN THE AFTERNOON, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Against barbed wire an antelope Last Line: Antelope, too, are born in the afternoon Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BOTTICELLI'S MADONNA IN THE LOUVRE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What strange presentiment, o mother, lies Last Line: "say to her then: ""he also rose again." Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Virgin Mary BOTTLED, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Upstairs on the third floor / of the 135th street library / in harlem Last Line: Gee, that poor shine! Variant Title(s): Bottled: New York Subject(s): African Americans - Women BOUTS RIMES IN PRAISE OF OLD MAIDS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail all ye ancient damsels fair or brown Last Line: Greatly alone you stand without a prop. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women - Old Age BOVINE PREVARICATION, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: I have observed,' he stated Last Line: My conclusions? %cows lie! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina BOW FISHING WITH MY SISTER, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: I spend saturdays poised on the edge of rock Last Line: It's easy to pull an arrow back Subject(s): Women BOWLING GREEN, SEWING MACHINE!, by PEGGY LANDSMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the street and under the stars Last Line: This pint of coffee ice cream melts Subject(s): Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BOX-CAR BERTHA, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I like the sneaky sound of it: transient, transient Last Line: You just can't be any more than the only one we are Subject(s): Women BOXED, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: This isn't about the painter, stanley boxer Last Line: Waits with passionate grace for his box Subject(s): Women's Rights BOY, by MARIE HOWE Poem Source First Line: My older brother is walking down the sidewalk into the suburban summer night Last Line: I was the girl. What happened taught me to follow him whoever he was %calling and calling his name Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BOY AND THE DREAM, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I thought of the delicate things he had said Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Women BOY IN A HOSPITAL, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM Poem Source First Line: Boy in a hospital %lying among suddenly ancient ruins Last Line: To run along the beach %your hand safely in your father's Subject(s): Arabs - Women BOYFRIEND, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: He was ugly as a troll and sturdy as a troll. His stubby arms and legs Last Line: Think of how beautiful we all were once and how we learned to love the beast Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Women - Abused BOYS I MEAN, by JULIA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: The boys I mean are too refined Last Line: They shake your world with just a glance Subject(s): Cummings, E. E. (1894-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BOYS WILL BE BOYS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys will be boys,' and boys have had their day Last Line: In love and truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Boys; Women's Rights; Feminism BRAID, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Subject(s): Hair; Women BRAID, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Last Line: And the tether cannot %be undone Subject(s): Hair; Women BRAIDING MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR, by MARCY SHEINER Poem Source First Line: This is what we waited for Last Line: My fingers fly, over and through, %over and through Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BRAIDS, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Friday morning %I braid my hair Last Line: Here is a challah from tels %taste it Subject(s): Jews - Women BRASSTOWN VALLEY, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: How fair the mountains Last Line: Asleep in the winter sun Subject(s): Appalachia; Women BRAVE-HEARTED MAID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Be glad in heart, grow great before the lord Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BREAD, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: This morning love set a table before you Last Line: Musk of the vines. At the edge of vision, %love's white skirts are vanishing Subject(s): Women BREAD IS BORN, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: How do you make bread talk, this old treasure all wrapped Last Line: The festival and the frunkenness that morning catches us %in. And daylight straddles the world Subject(s): Women - Abused BREAKIN' EVEN, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: He might sit on the steps of an evenin' Last Line: Till the day his heart breaks even Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BREAKING AND ENTERING, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: She kept a stash of forbidden matches Last Line: That strikes on love, that can get past all human walls Subject(s): Adolescence; Love Affairs; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women BREAKING FORMATION, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: The aging artist packs Last Line: Fracture the sun in a broken formation Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women BREASTS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: I've two of them still, but if I had one Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women BREATH, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI Poem Source First Line: You come to me from the oldest wound of wind Last Line: And suddenly catch you in the deepest edges of their children's eyes Subject(s): Arabs - Women BREATHINGS OF SPRING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wak'st thou, spring? Sweet voices in the woods Last Line: Yes, gentle spring! No sorrow dims thine air, breathed by our loved ones there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Women BREED, WOMEN, BREED, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Breed, little mothers Last Line: Breed, women, breed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Social Protest; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism BREEDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: You have two choices with a fast bitch Last Line: But don't breed her at all Subject(s): Sex; Women BRIDAL RITES, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN Poem Source First Line: I sniff for hot coals, search Last Line: Watching for signs: the ancient moon %the she-wolf howling Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women BRIDE, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Last Line: My love, what more can happen %to you and me? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Marriage; Women BRIDE OF QUIETNESS, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My [sculptor] husband, when he was my husband, possessed Last Line: Forever, when I cradle his cold ashes in this urn Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BRIDE'S SONG AGAINST DEMONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: High on a pillow sits with bandaged hands & feet her double sits beside her Last Line: The custom of the girls Subject(s): Brides;jews - Women;mysticism - Judaism BRIDEGROOM, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man I shall beget tomorrow Last Line: Can I then be free? Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism BRIEF DISCOURSE: THAT WOMAN'S EXCELLENCE SURPASSES MAN'S, by MARIE DE ROMIEU Poem Source First Line: It often happens that we despise a thing Subject(s): Women's Rights BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) BRIGHT NIGHT RAIN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Onto the cedar shakes of the roof it falls Last Line: Illuminated by a dead body reflecting %light from a body for the time being ablaze Subject(s): Rape; Women BRIGHT WAITING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Birds return early, hunger Last Line: You ribbon and tendril Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives BRINGING IN THE NEW DAY, by LEAH MAINES Poem Source First Line: She tries to take the sleep off her face Last Line: The cream -- the lines -- and the color Subject(s): Cosmetics; Women BRODSKY, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: First the words in english Last Line: And you turn back to your chair Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights BROKEN AND BEIRUT, by SUHEIR HAMMAD Poem Source First Line: No mistakes made here %these murders are precise %mathematical Last Line: And how sweet honey %on the lips of survivors Subject(s): Arabs - Women BROKEN BED, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Who broke the bed? Some dream monster Last Line: Soon we'll need every bandage in europe, won't we Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BRONZE LEGACY (TO A BROWN BOY), by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: Tis a noble gift to be brown, all brown Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BRONZEVILLE MOTHER LOITERS IN MISSISSIPPI, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the first it had been like a %ballad Last Line: The rest of the rugged music. %the last quatrain Subject(s): African Americans - Women BRONZEVILLE WOMAN IN A RED HAT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had never had one in the house before Last Line: Child, big black woman, pretty kitchen towels Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids BRONZEVILLE WOMAN IN A RED HAT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had never had one in the house before Last Line: Child, big black woman, pretty kitchen towels Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Household Employees BROTHER BAPTIS' ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE, by ROSALIE M. JONAS Poem Source First Line: When hit come ter de question er de female vote Last Line: Case de tears er de mudder, nur de sign, er da cross %ain't shame all de debbil yit, outen de boss! Subject(s): African Americans - Women BROWN AESTHETE SPEAKS, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: No: I am neither seeking to change nor keep myself Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women BROWNING TOCCATA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Robert browning, weighty poet, this is very strange to find Last Line: But expect your adulation to go on, and on, and on? Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights BROWNOUT, by BINO A. REALUYO Poem Source First Line: At night, the light goes out Last Line: So this is how it begins: these last hours of my womb, %the conception of fear Subject(s): Philippines; Women BRUNHILD, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: My father laid me in a ring Last Line: Or soil, that cannot yield or even %be raped except with his permission Subject(s): Women BRUSHING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Your arrival was always with cashews Last Line: I dream about somebody %brushing and combing us Subject(s): Jews - Women BRUSSELS, 1919, by CAROLA OMAN Poem Source First Line: Wide are the streets, and driven clean Last Line: But understand an english joke %upon the road to waterloo Subject(s): Women; World War I BUBBIE, MOMMY, WEIGHT WATCHERS AND ME, by BARBARA NOREEN DINNERSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The lady up front was rosalie, she used to be fat, feh Last Line: I am a strong proud jewish woman from pesant stock Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BUENOS AIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In this city Last Line: Loving you Subject(s): Women's Rights BUILDING A CITY FOR JAMIE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I am building jamie a city with plenty palaces Last Line: No city?' %no city. Of course not Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged BUILDING TRUST, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked it when he fucked me Last Line: Be trusted, not by anyone Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Love – Complaints; Distrust; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BURDENED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! There is no sadder fate in life Last Line: You are but a weak woman at the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Women; Destiny; Ocean BURROWING OWL, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: How you came to die Last Line: Your death you call your own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers BUSINESS OF KNIVES, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: He made her his wife some months ago and learned Last Line: Or how she knew his love was a savage, saving cowardice Subject(s): Women BUT IN YOUR PLACE, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: But which isn't france Subject(s): Women - Writers BUT NOW IT'S WINTER, by KATHRYN BURT Poem Source First Line: When it was spring and you turned the earth Last Line: And find myself listening outside your door %long after you've gone to sleep Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BUT ONLY ABLE, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Veil over the sky already %always black Subject(s): Women - Writers BUT TO HIS MOTHER MARY, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY MOTHER IS, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are barely able to walk Last Line: And it was good Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers And Daughters; Women BUT YOU WERE NOT A BABII YAR, MR. YEVTUSHENKO, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: You are very aware Last Line: Simply a very complicated, irremeable loss Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay! Drop the treacherous mask! Throw by Last Line: Save -- immortality of shame! Subject(s): American Civil War; Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Women BUTTERFLIES OF ANXIETY, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY Poem Source First Line: A vein under my skin %sneaking. %your blood, %which reminds me of the swords Last Line: A sea %nor found %before me someone to fight! Subject(s): Arabs - Women BUTTERFLY, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: The thing I keep thinking is these young men Last Line: The place where brown masks %protect the unbeautiful Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women BY NOW I AM SO TIRED OF WAITING, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights BY THE RIVERSIDE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived at a riverside Last Line: Only to me. The numbers have not changed. Subject(s): Native Americans; Telephone Directories; Women; Women's Rights; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Feminism BY THESE WATERS, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What begins in recognition Last Line: By these waters on my knees I have wept Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men C'MON PIGS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION EAT MORE GREASE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eat eat more marbled sirloin more pork'n gravy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CABLES ARE MADE NEAR THE WINDOW, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Time is outside, in things Subject(s): Women - Writers CACTUS, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pot itself was half the story Last Line: It is always of importance to see %the things aesthetical' Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women CAESURA, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Here, my child with fever sleeps Last Line: Blame behind a black door, a blank wall Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CAFE: 3 A.M., by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Detectives from the vice squad Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Gays & Lesbians; Negroes; American Blacks; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CAITLIN TO DYLAN: IN MEMORIAM, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Last Line: How at my sheet went the same crooked worm Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights CAKE OF SOAP, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: In a cane chair in her yard Last Line: A candle end, %enough %to reach the other side Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CALEDONIA, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: The way I hear tell aunt jennie Last Line: Until I've learned that love, like hate %is always acted out Subject(s): African Americans - Women CALIFORNIA DESERT SONG, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: This is such dry country Last Line: To bear watching Subject(s): Women CALIFORNIA SISTER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The thing about you and me Last Line: Some day we'll hold each other, woman friend %if the world survives Subject(s): Jews - Women CALL, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Who's for the trench? Last Line: Who'll stand and bite his thumbs - %will you, my laddie? Subject(s): Women; World War I CALL 1-800-MARY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: A man answers, says %we can leave a message Last Line: I too am your child %mother mary Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: APRIL. BILLIE'S BLUES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their red lamps make a childlike stab Last Line: Him. Sounds universal to me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; New York City; Singing And Singers CALLED INCONSTANT, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Ha! You think you've killed my fame Last Line: As men in motion think the trees move too. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy CALLING DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right to make my dreams come true Last Line: And stride into the morning-break! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Dreams; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares CALLING THE COYOTES IN, by KIM BARNES Poem Source First Line: Dark green ravines run like lava Last Line: Feeling all around them the closing eyes Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CALYPSO: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you clouds Last Line: She gave me a wooden flute, %and a mantle, %she wove of thiswool- %-for man is a brute and a fool Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings Last Line: Of her throat, hard enough to bruise. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CAMILLE MODERNE, by HELEN ANDERSON WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: She is not wedded Last Line: Picking flowers! Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People CAMPASPE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn from the ways of this woman! Campaspe we call her by name Last Line: Tender for her? Subject(s): Women CAN'T TELL, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: When world war ii was declared Last Line: We wore black arm bands, %put up a sign %in bold letters Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women CANARIES!, by BELL LAWRASON Poem Text First Line: Women are like canaries, born and raised in a pleasant cage Last Line: But canaries go with antimacassars! Subject(s): Cages; Canaries; Women CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Songs CANARY, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Billie holiday's burned voice Last Line: If you can't be free, be a mystery Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Drugs And Drug Abuse; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers CANCER IN THE BREAST, by PAT GRAY Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women CANCION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am the sky Subject(s): Women CANCION, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am the sky Last Line: Poems force the lock of my throat Subject(s): Women CANINE MOTHER, by DACIA MARAINI Poem Source First Line: Canine fingers, mother, wife, ox Subject(s): Women's Rights CANNIBAL BEACH, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard that the wide beach of my childhood Last Line: Mess up their chenille bedspread Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CANONIC ETUDES: 1. A BEAUTY QUEEN'S LAST RESORT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Aphrodite is surprised, diverted, but mostly Last Line: The caution: to taste no food nor open any box Subject(s): Women CANONIC ETUDES: 2. THE POINT OF THE GAME, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: This time no ant's mechanics, no thoughtful reed Last Line: Born. When, of course, this - nothing - is her only Subject(s): Women CANONIC ETUDES: 3. CURIOUSLY ON HER OWN, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Thus psyche sets out again, to sink as far Last Line: Is ever moot in questioning psyche's alternative Subject(s): Women CANTERBURY TALES [MODERN VER.], SELS., by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CANTICA OF THE VIRGIN, by GONZALO DE BERCEO Poem Source First Line: Keep watch, keep watch, keep watch Last Line: Keep watch Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CANTICLE OF THE RACE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Last Line: The flesh made the word! Subject(s): Mankind; Women; Human Race CANTIGA, by GIL VINCENTE Poem Source First Line: White and crimson, cheek and breast Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAPE COAST CASTLE REVISITED, by JO ANN HALL-EVANS Poem Source First Line: Though you are a continent and two seasons away Last Line: To face the still shackling ways of this strange, distant land Subject(s): African Americans - Women CAPROCK CANYON, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Where earth throws open her ledgers Last Line: All sharing one inheritance %with neither grief nor envy Subject(s): Women CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 1, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The light like a feeble hostage Last Line: Eyes, from the blindfold slashed and sullied from lonely times and prisms Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women; Women - Captives CAPTIVE WOMAN AND THE LIGHT: 2, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am a shadow visiting Last Line: I learn to see myself Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Women - Captives CARAVAN OF YAMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women CARD 19: THE SUN, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you show yourself to the woman Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CARIBBEAN BREAST LULLABYE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: Take it, now, while the sun is still Last Line: Sapphirine wings, vanish before I change my mind Subject(s): Bodies; Change; Women CARIBE HILTON, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The night, a swirl of city Last Line: Other voice Subject(s): Women's Rights CARMEN PASCHALE, SELS., by CAELIUS (COELIUS) SEDULIUS Poem Source First Line: Hail, maiden root! Whence lithely mounts a kingly flowering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CARMINA, 70: FEMALE INCONSTANCY, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress says she'll marry none but me Last Line: Lovers we write in rapid streams and wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy CARNAGE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: What if helen had been black? He didn't want to think about it Last Line: Thought of sheba Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Likes And Dislikes; Mythology; Mythology - Greek; Women CAROL, by CAROL BARRETT Poem Source First Line: They called you my patient Last Line: Is assigned to write %our discharge summary Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women CAROL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vines branching stilly Last Line: But she hath kissed her flower where the wounds are to be. Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CAROL, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, the mother, sits on the hill Last Line: "sleep, jesu, sleep! Ei, jesu, ei," Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CAROL, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary laid her child among Last Line: And by the death within his bones %the dead became alive Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre! Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL HOPPER, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Almost any night you can see her on the street Last Line: Square-rigged lights vanish in the dark %and carol hopper listen to the engines fade Subject(s): Women CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother Last Line: Like our god's mother. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CAROL TO CATHERINE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hallelujah, hallelujah, catherine Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Women's Rights CAROL: THE FIVE JOYS OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary, for the love of thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAROLAN'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of music, from amidst the hills Last Line: A young sweet spirit gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courtship; Harps; Musical Instruments; O'carolan, Turlough (1670-1738); Prophecy & Prophets; Women; Lyres CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long I have passed Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter long I have passed Last Line: Each in its separate cell-snug, ordered, certain Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping CARREFOUR, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you, / who came upone me once Last Line: Of the forest bees? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY', by ELMA EHRLICH LEVINGER Poem Source First Line: That's right: keep on singing, 'carry me back to old virginny' Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CARTHAGE, by NAJAAT AL- UDWANY Poem Source First Line: I am the desert %between my folds- %the memory laments Last Line: Would you accept %my suicide? Subject(s): Arabs - Women CARTWHEELS, by MARY LONNBERG SMITH Poem Source First Line: We never laughed much Subject(s): Women CASSANDRA, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To me, one silly task is like another Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Cassandra (mythology); Women CASSANDRA, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To me, one silly task is like another Last Line: The shrieking heaven lifted lover men, %not the dumb earth, wherein they set their graves Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Cassandra; Women CASSANDRA, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: O apple-man, apollo, your parched glance Last Line: Beyond belief - too soon, %too late - too bad Subject(s): Women CASSIOPEIA'S CHAIR, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: I meet myself walking through grand central station Last Line: I'd return wearing pearls, mist sprayed into stars, indestructible Subject(s): Women's Rights CASUALTIES, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Yellow tulips streak %in the wind where band practice Last Line: And the anthems still chilling %the air like frost Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CASUALTY, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John delaney of rifles has been shot Last Line: Yet he died for you and me Subject(s): Women; World War I CAT, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: The cat that someone found sat in a construction site and screamed Subject(s): Women's Rights CAT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady in the leopard skin / has a fear of plunging in Last Line: Yellow-eyed, the lady springs. Subject(s): Traffic; Women CAT FOR A NEUTERED LADY, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: Her father loved cats, collected strays Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women CATALOGS, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The little house was well supplied Last Line: And find the treasures we had lost Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CATCHING HER BLUE RIBBONS, by DICK BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: My mother %swung me all %the way Last Line: Loosed hair %white %streaming Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CATHAY, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even after the chemotherapy I said o you Last Line: All you'd have to do is say vamanos! %and I'd follow you anywhere, honey Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women CATHEMERINON, SELS., by AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CATHOLICS, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In third grade all the girls got confirmed Last Line: To your beautiful blessed mother in blue Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women CAUSE OF OUR JOY, by MARIS STELLA Poem Source First Line: O mother of fair love, it was not alone Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CAVEAT TO THE FAIR SEX, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wife and servant are the same Last Line: You must be proud, if you'll be wise Subject(s): Women's Rights CAVES, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: At the hour of sleep a woman enters her own body Last Line: Waiting like eggs to begin Subject(s): Bodies; Caves; Women CAVITIES, by LEONA GOM Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I have a daughter Last Line: No pill can work away Subject(s): Women CECILY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a laugh Last Line: Vile -- they're vile!' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Laughter; Women; Sorrow; Sadness CEDARS, by NADIA TUENI Poem Source First Line: I salute you, %you who draw life %from a single root Last Line: I love you as man loves breath %you are the first poem Subject(s): Arabs - Women CELEBRATING THE SEASON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: House decorated %with touches of christmas Last Line: Suffering with satisfaction Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CELEBRATION CAKE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: White bubble hairdo, %wonder bread skin Last Line: And the floating water, the bond %of belief and question Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CELEBRATION OF KNIVES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: So unafraid Last Line: Dreams, %desires Subject(s): Women's Rights CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we reach the field Last Line: With pollen blowing off the corn, %land that will always ownus, %everywhere it is red Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women - Writers CELESTE PAREE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Hunger scents the air Last Line: To her, all after her %very softest spot Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CELESTIAL CLOUDBURST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God's spirit Last Line: And inundations %of the spirit Subject(s): Women - Bible CELIA TO DAMON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can I say, what arguments can prove Last Line: Than any youth for any nymph before! Subject(s): Friendship; Happiness; Love; Soul; Women; Joy; Delight CEMETERY AT PETIT SACONNEX, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI Poem Source First Line: No earthbound morning is this %when we walk together Last Line: To the parched blossom of time, %wrinkled with longing Subject(s): Arabs - Women CENOTAPH, by URSALA ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: The man in the trilby hat has furtively shifted it Last Line: There's some, you see, %as can' Subject(s): Women; World War I CENOTAPH; SEPTEMBER 1919, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet will those measureless fields be green again Last Line: As they drive their bargains, is the face %of god: and some young, piteous, murdered face Subject(s): Women; World War I CENSORSHIP'S ENEMY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The straight jacket on my tongue %frees me to explain how silence kills,' Last Line: She said, speaking to save her own life Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CENTRAL PRISON, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sign passed on her way to work Last Line: So she could eat a berry and fly away, gone home Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women; Prisons & Prisoners CEREMONY, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: At the ceremony of emobo Last Line: As muslims in the north %fast for ramadan %I wait for the new year Subject(s): African Americans - Women CEREMONY, by DORIS JUANITA DAVENPORT Poem Source First Line: Soquee is a cherokee word for the hill Last Line: Don't mess with the sacred %it will get you every time Subject(s): Appalachia; Women CEREMONY, by JOHARI M. KUNJUFU Poem Source First Line: Libation %hey sisters, we the color of our men Last Line: We the %libation Subject(s): African Americans - Women CEREMONY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings & Painters; Women CEREMONY, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A striped blouse in a clearing by bazille Last Line: I think there are most tigers in the wood Subject(s): Bazille, Jean Frederic (1841-1870); Paintings And Painters; Women CERTAIN IMPERMEABLE PERSON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is quite impossible to describe Last Line: And immutable oh I know her well Subject(s): Women CERVICAL JAZZ: GIRL FRIEND POEM: 9, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his worsted socks she followed Last Line: The pillowcase makes it so Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women CHADOR, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a taxi in isfahan we have no language Last Line: As the river bosoms the brooch of the sun. Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Travel; Journeys; Trips CHAIN, by CHRISTINE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: I no longer care, keeping close my silence Subject(s): Women CHAIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faces surround me that have no smell or color no time Last Line: How do I learn to love her %as you have loved me? Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Molesting; Incest CHAITIVEL; OR, THE LAY OF LOVE'S UNFORTUNATE, by MARIE DE FRANCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and lovers, may ye dwell Last Line: And so they two fight on till doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Shaftesbury, Marie, Abbess Of Subject(s): Beauty; Future Life; Love; Women; Retribution; Eternity; After Life CHALDEAN RUINS, by DUNYA MIKHAIL Poem Source First Line: Ascetic %he emerges from its belly into the grave Last Line: What happened, or what is left Subject(s): Arabs - Women CHALK OUTLINE, by ROBIN COOPER-STONE Poem Source First Line: The woman woke and walked away, but left her hollow Last Line: Against the neutral sky, we trace the flesh of a woman %who died Subject(s): Death; Women CHALK-DUST, by LILLIAN BYRNES Poem Source First Line: I am tired of chalk-dust Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CHALLENGE, by ADA NEGRI Poem Source First Line: Oh fat world of crafty bourgeois Subject(s): Women's Rights CHALLENGES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: More challenging than an empty page Last Line: Is a woman's body full of rage. Subject(s): Anger; Women; Writer's Block CHANGE OF COLOR, by KATHINKA ZITZ-HALEIN Poem Source First Line: Why do you always dress in gray Subject(s): Women's Rights CHANGES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed Last Line: These thoughts and me. In heaven we shall know all! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Change; Life; Time; Women CHANGING OF SEASONS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: White puffs of air Last Line: And the changing of seasons Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CHANGING WOMAN, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we change as she is changing, Subject(s): Women; Change CHANT FOR DARK HOURS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men, some men Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women CHANT FOR DARK HOURS, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men, some men Last Line: (all your life you wait around for some damn man!) Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women CHANT OF DEPARTURE; A MISSIONARY'S PRAYER, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Woman who walked home on the arm of john Last Line: Stand by my side beneath the southern cross. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Missionaries & Missions; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHARACTER, by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: You're a girl Last Line: You'll keep on going, %as you're going now Subject(s): Women CHARLES, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: At twenty-one Last Line: A strong and precious daughter Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CHARLIE, ALMOST EIGHT, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: When I left you told me to bring you back Last Line: It's a good thing, but its not happy.' Subject(s): Women CHARMING WOMAN, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So miss myrtle is going to marry Last Line: Don't marry a charming woman, %if you are a sensible man! Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Subject(s): Marriage; Women CHARMS AGAINST BEARS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Walking through hardaxe red with the first cold slash Subject(s): Rape; Women CHARTED COURSE, by CLARA HYDE Poem Text First Line: Always there will be waiting women, son Last Line: Penelope will thread the patient loom. Subject(s): Advice; Mothers & Sons; Women CHARTING PROGRESS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: My first year at college, I said no to desserts, hoping Last Line: Lettuce %no fat %bones Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CHERRY TREE CAROL (4), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Joseph was an old man Last Line: Then mary went home %with her heavy load Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHESTNUT VENDOR, ROME, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: So old, she seems, the ages drape her form Last Line: I glimpse that country in her faded eyes. Subject(s): Old Age; Roman Empire; Women CHESTNUTS IN THE AIR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: On my palate Last Line: In the bonfires %of desire Subject(s): Women's Rights CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women CHILD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing Last Line: Wringing of hands, this dark %ceiling without a star Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHILD AND MOTHER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on thy mother's face Last Line: "magnificat"" in wondering love to say." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD OF MARY'S SOUL, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST Poem Text First Line: The star came out to hail him Last Line: Come in and make me whole! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary CHILD OF MYSELF, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source First Line: From cavities of bones Last Line: The child of myself Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Homosexuality CHILD'S LOGIC, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I have known all my life Last Line: I saw him %frowning %at me Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: TO IANTHE, AND CANTO 1, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in those climes where I have late been staying Last Line: Ere greece and grecian arts by barbarous hands were quell'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Farewell; Portugal; Conduct Of Life; Travel CHILDHOOD, by HODA HUSSEIN Poem Source First Line: I want to make a toast to some victory Last Line: With the tip of a thermometer %up her bottom Subject(s): Arabs - Women CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by IRENE GRIMBERG Poem Source First Line: The place was poland warsaw Last Line: I wish that I could wear one Subject(s): Jews - Women CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL Poem Text First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed. Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHILDREN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Children are curious %about the woman of too many days Last Line: They back away from her like adults do %who discover they've attracted pigeons Subject(s): Homeless; Women CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good are children anyhow? Last Line: "the way they call him, ""baby." Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Cynicism; Discontent; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Dissatisfaction; Parenthood; Feminism CHILDREN THEY, by ANGELIKA MECHTEL Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights CHIMNEY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Forget birds, rain in winter Last Line: Your ruined waist Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CHINATOWN 4, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: Each evening I watch my mother fight Last Line: They tilt upwards, cling to the air like leaves Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CHITCHAT WITH THE JUNIOR LEAGUE WOMEN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A junior league woman in blue Last Line: Underwear and -- sip, sip -- said, everything Subject(s): Conversation; Women CHITON, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I discover the gift of a chiton left on my sidewalk Subject(s): Rape; Women CHLOE, M.A, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Careless rhymer, it is true Last Line: Violet. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Blue (color); Secrets; Sin; Women CHOEURK'S EYES, by BRITTON GILDERSLEEVE Poem Source First Line: She had no choices. %always and forever Last Line: Until it is all her eyes will see %forever Subject(s): Blindness; Cambodia; War; Women CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CHOICES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I never chose birth Last Line: Let's celebrate %together Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CHOKING, by SANIYYAH SALEH Poem Source First Line: Every time I am bound towards you %my roads turn into dust Last Line: Go back to your death %mythic woman Subject(s): Arabs - Women CHOLERA, by NAZIK AL- MALAIKA Poem Source First Line: It is night. %listen to the echoing wails Last Line: O egypt, my heart is torn by the ravages of death Subject(s): Arabs - Women CHOOSING, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: We were first equal mary and I Last Line: And wonder when the choices got made %we don't remember making Subject(s): Women's Rights CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War CHRIST THE MENDICANT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger, to his own Last Line: A mother's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRIST UNCONQUERED, SELS., by ARTHUR LITTLE Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRIST'S STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How many stars so high and white Last Line: Till we shall find the promised king! Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS, by GERTRUDE VON LE FORT Poem Source First Line: Little child out of eternity, now will I sing to thy mother! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMAS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O babe who slept on mary's breast Last Line: "the swords of war at last are broken." Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS CARD FROM VENCE, FRANCE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Winter is emerging and I am Last Line: Apart, then back again %together Variant Title(s): Christmas Card For Norma Subject(s): Women's Rights CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now comes the ordered prime Last Line: That holds all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS EVE, by LIAM P. CLANCY Poem Source First Line: Let the door be open wide Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMAS EVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the death-time of the year Last Line: For christ, our lord, is born again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTMAS HYMN, SELS., by EPHREM Poem Source First Line: Virgin truly full of wonder Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CHRISTMAS MORNING., by FREDERICK GASSER Poem Source Last Line: Grandma's pin cushion %overflows Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN VENICE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Everything's like opera with the fog Last Line: Rushes toward, away, and with the sound Subject(s): Women's Rights CHRISTMAS SHOW, by HARRIET LEVIN Poem Source First Line: While my youngest sister lies Last Line: Eyes swollen, having seen enough Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Christmas; Women CHRISTMAS, 1916 (THOUGHTS IN A V.A.D. HOSPITAL KITCHEN), by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: There's no xmas leave for us scullions Last Line: And then 'good-bye' to the kitchen; %the treacle, the jam, and the cheese Subject(s): Women; World War I CHRISTMASSE DAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Wonders birthday / which maks't decembers face Last Line: It selfe more full on this contracting day. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CHRISTUS; A MYSTERY: 2. THE GOLDEN LEGEND, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten! Hasten! %o ye spirits Last Line: And labors for some good %by us not understood Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CICADA, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Strident %with just one note Subject(s): Women - Abused CINDERELLA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apart from my sisters, estranged Last Line: For her joyful heart. Subject(s): Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Mythology - Classical; Oppression; Sexton, Anne (1928-1974); Solitude; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism CINDERELLA, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: I will be patient while my lord Last Line: All praises are due to allah for the lamb Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sin CINDERELLA, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: One sister cut off her toe Last Line: As hers, nor is it ever used to trace her %to a story that ended long ago Subject(s): Women CINDERELLA 1993 STYLE, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: She stoops over the garbage bin; examines Last Line: As I saw her today, %stooped over a garbage bin, selecting Subject(s): Homeless; Women CINDY, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: I'm sending you this rose Last Line: The advice she always gave us Subject(s): Women's Rights CINQUAIN: SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do / you thus devise Last Line: "therefore." Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible CIRCE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe Last Line: He may grow up to write, and you to judge. Subject(s): Circe; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dramatists CIRCE: PROLOGUE (EARLIER VERSION), by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you but half so wise as you're severe Last Line: You should protect from death by vulgar hands. Subject(s): Circe; Davenant, Dr. Charles; Opera; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists CIRCLE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Because your men were making pigs of themselves Last Line: Even a witch can feel - %the finishing touch Subject(s): Women CIRCLE OF CHAIRS, by BERNICE RENDRICK Poem Source First Line: In her dry-goods store a haphazard Last Line: Knowning they'd soon need easter clothes Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women CIRCLE OF WOMEN, by KIM BARNES Poem Source First Line: Like an ambush, the forest Last Line: Lucky then, finding them waiting, %golden-shouldered, hungry for more Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women CIRCLES, by CELIA GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the dusk, weeping Last Line: Around her mother's neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women CIRCUS LADY, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: I am a circus lady Last Line: I want to fall on you Subject(s): Circus; Women CITY COUSIN, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: In her twentieth summer Last Line: Into the grown-up world Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CITY OF SEVEN HILLS, by PATRICIA MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Imagine last night, cracking blue crabs Last Line: From row upon row of chaff Subject(s): Bodies; Cities; Women CLADE SONG. THIS TOO SHALL PASS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think of the time Last Line: It's more than over Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CLAIM, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: Finally I just go down to bossa nova by the river Last Line: Playing the boundary between failure and grace Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CLAIMING LIVES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The woman who jumped off monroe st. Bridge Last Line: To those who die as they were born: %in broken waters Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women CLARA BARTON, by CHAMP ATLEE Poem Source First Line: She couldn't have believed Last Line: At the amusement park next door Subject(s): Fights; Violence; War; Women And War CLARIOL, THE YOUNGEST OF NANA'S GIRLS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The next meal and the next child she doesn't want Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women CLASH OF BONE: A PAINTING OF PACHYCEPHALOSAURI, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: When you were discovering your bones Last Line: On the blood's red carpet. She never knew %this new species of pain Subject(s): Women CLASS ROOM, by VIRGINIA A. HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: Behind him a picture Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CLASSICS REVISITED, by MIRKO LAUER Poem Source First Line: I fought that war Last Line: In the interior gardens Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Women And War CLEARING THE PATH, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: My husband gave up shovelling snow Last Line: To clear the way for heartier loves Subject(s): Women CLEFT, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cut in half, the breast bone broken, opened Last Line: Bones of the child's small back, wings, %she could fly, she could walk out the kitchen door Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women CLEMENTENE, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I always thought she was white, I thought she was an indian Subject(s): Women CLEONE, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Her life is a flameless fire Last Line: Dispensing an aimless smoke. Subject(s): Life; Women CLEOPATRA, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has kissed lips already grown inhuman Last Line: Indifferently, like a parting kindness, lay Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Women CLEOPATRA, by MARY MACKEY Poem Source First Line: My body Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Women CLERK'S LUNCH, by ANYA ACHTENBERG Poem Source First Line: The clerk will run blocks Last Line: Fall, her hunger so great Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women CLIFTON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved booze Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Gays & Lesbians; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CLIMB, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: It's only the uphill ride to work that gets me think Last Line: On the towering chair signal to everyone that I am the lifeguard %on duty Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights CLOE TO ARTIMESA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While vulgar souls their vulgar love pursue Last Line: "we'll scorn the monster and his mistress to, / and show the world what women ought to do" Subject(s): Women CLOSED ROOM, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Who led me here? Last Line: And let your heart and flesh ripen: %sad mates sliced and lost Subject(s): Women - Abused CLOSER FIRST TO EARTH, by ANNE HAZLEWOOD-BRADY Poem Source First Line: Complicity killed you. I know. I know Last Line: From a woman juggler, closer first %to earth, might have saved your life Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Women's Rights CLOSER YOU GET, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: To leaving - the country Last Line: I get from %gone Subject(s): Travel; Women's Rights CLOSING DOOR, by ANTONIA POZZI Poem Source First Line: As you see, sister, I am weary Subject(s): Women's Rights CLOSING DOWN: OLD WOMAN ON BOARDWALK, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Still holding on in this body Last Line: Jack - election night - the rain %with its many small noises Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CLOUD OF CARMEL, by MIRIAM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Poem Source First Line: Symbol of star or lily of the snows Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CLYTAEMNESTRA IN PARIS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I seemed to pace the dreadful corridors Last Line: "how long?"" I cried, ""how long?" Subject(s): Murder; Paris, France; Women COAL, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I / is the total black, being spoken / from the earth's inside Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Language; Words; Vocabulary COAL, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I %is the total black, being spoken %from the earth's inside Last Line: Now take my word for jewel in the open light Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Language COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Mexican Americans; Virgin Mary COATLICUE'S RULES: ADVICE FROM AN AZTEC GODDESS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule 1: beware of offers to make you famous Last Line: Rule 9: be selective about what you swallow Subject(s): Chicanos; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible COAXING MY UTERUS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I massage my belly Last Line: With desperate hope Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights COFFEE ROW, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: They gather each morning Last Line: Away from the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COLGATE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Some day, we'll end up Last Line: Two colgates Subject(s): Women's Rights COLLABORATOR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God employs Last Line: To those who use us %harshly or despitefully Subject(s): Women - Bible COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday morning, motown / forty-fives and thick seventy-eights Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday morning, motown %forty-fives and thick seventy-eights Last Line: Something to last: patch of earth, %view of sky Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women COLLECTOR, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: She amasses friends Last Line: And shrouds herself in her collection Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 1. THE WIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lot's pillar, caught in turning Last Line: "god's chastisement and derision." Subject(s): God; Gomorrah; Lot (bible); Marriage; Punishment; Salt; Sodom; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 2. THE MOTHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am god's pillar, caught in raising Last Line: "I lift and I listen. I eat god's peace." Subject(s): God; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism COLUMNS AND CARYATIDS: 3. THE LOVER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am your pillar that has fallen Last Line: And ache, and ache for that lost limb forever. Subject(s): Rape; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism COMBING, by GLADYS CARDIFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bending, I bow my head Last Line: Plaiting the generations. Subject(s): Hair; Women COME ALL YE BRAVE BOYS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all you young men that proudly display Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COME TO ME, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Come to me looking Last Line: That will leave their marks %of passion on your back Subject(s): Aging; Women COMET, by EMIL MAKAI Poem Source First Line: Cast out, amid so many companions Last Line: And nobody is left behind %and there is no goal to reach Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Comets; Women's Rights COMING, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the time is ripe, the age is ready Last Line: Comes woman to her hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism COMING CLOSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take this quiet woman, she has been Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Women; Work; Workers COMING DOWN FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women COMING HOME, by EVA REISMAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that you appeared at my side Last Line: And the whole universe will sing Subject(s): Jews - Women COMING HOME FROM NIAGARA FALLS, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: This trip isn't easy. We know, of course Last Line: We're making good time, and that's what matters Subject(s): Women COMING IN FOR A LANDING, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poet's Biography First Line: Though no pilot guarantees a bumpless arrival Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COMING OF AGE, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: We skidded up in late afternoon to the lake cottage Last Line: The sweetness raised in the pink lines of their hands Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women COMING OF KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the black god, kali Last Line: She knows I know them well. %she knows. She knows Subject(s): African Americans - Women COMING OF WINTER, by SHIRLEY VOGLER MEISTER Poem Source First Line: The winter winds have chilled the warmth we knew Last Line: That sanctify our fate and death's caprice Subject(s): Women COMMANDMENTS, by LAMIA ABBAS AMARA Poem Source First Line: All no's become yes's under the law %don't lie. %lie! Last Line: And each coin two sides %and so justice %and so freedom Subject(s): Arabs - Women COMMENT, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: A woman seldom knows the east Last Line: She moans to feel them move beneath the heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Relationships; Sailing & Sailors; Women COMMITTEE MEETING, by LILLIAN MORRISON Poem Source First Line: I'm out of place Last Line: I hear the drops hit the window %like a friend signalling Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women COMMON COLD, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Kiler koolaid on ice Last Line: Blood %on %hands Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights COMMON LIVING DIRT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small ears prick up on the bushes Last Line: On our knees, the common living dirt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion COMMON WOMAN: 1. HELEN, AT 9 A.M., AT NOON, AT 5:15, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: Her ambition is to be more shiny %and metallic, black and purple as Last Line: The common woman is as common %as the common crow Subject(s): Women COMMON WOMAN: 2. ELLA, IN A SQUARE APRON, ALONG HWY 80, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: She's a copperheaded waitress Last Line: The common woman is as common %as a rattlesnake Subject(s): Waiters And Waitresses; Women COMMON WOMAN: 3. NADINE, RESTING ON HER NEIGHBOR'S STOOP, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: She holds things together, collects bail Last Line: The common woman is as common %as a nail Subject(s): Women COMMON WOMAN: 4. CAROL, IN THE PARK, CHEWING ON STRAWS, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: She has taken a woman lover Last Line: The common woman is as common %as a thunderstorm Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women COMMON WOMAN: 5. DETROIT ANNIE, HITCHHIKING, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: Her words pour out as if her throat were a broken %artery Last Line: The common woman is as common %as the reddest wine Subject(s): Women COMMON WOMAN: 6. MARGARET, SEEN THROUGH A PICTURE WINDOW, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: After she finished her first abortion Last Line: The common woman is as solemn as a monkey or a new moon Subject(s): Abortion; Women COMMON WOMAN: 7. VERA, FROM MY CHILDHOOD, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source First Line: Solemnly swearing, to swear as an oath to you Last Line: I swear it to you on my common %woman's %head Subject(s): Women COMMUNING WITH MOTHER NATURE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON: 'I WALK ALONE'..., by MARTHA KINNEY Poem Source First Line: Hey, dig the marines taking a break Last Line: Right smack off the captain's knife Subject(s): Army Life; Nature; Women COMMUNITY BUILDING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Because the news features 'gays in america' Last Line: I don't feel like dancing when you say we should all be gay Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights COMPANIONS, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the park Last Line: And the sundial %gathers shadows Subject(s): Jews - Women COMPANIONS; A TALE OF A GRANDFATHER, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not of what we ponder'd Last Line: And what this is all about. Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers COMPANY OF WOMEN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK Poem Source First Line: I couldn't forget how much I'd paid for each dress Last Line: On a corner square, stitched taut over cotton batting Subject(s): Single People; Solitude; Women COMPLAINT TO BETELGEUSE, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: I used to know that stars were stars Last Line: That tear orion's belt, divide andromeda Subject(s): Appalachia; Women COMPLEX AUTUMNAL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I let the smoke out of the windows Last Line: With the sound of the fall in the air. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Women; Women's Rights; Fall; Feminism COMPLICATIONS, by EMILY SIMS Poem Source First Line: Late evening Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONCORD'S CHILD: LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Do you want to know the real louisa may? Last Line: Watch the shadow lengthen by my chair Subject(s): Women CONDUCT UNBECOMING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Professional caregivers - rns, cns Last Line: They could have been making fun of my mother! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina CONFEDERACY, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Wear the heart like a home Last Line: He occupies, I say, %my home, my heart Subject(s): Literary Form; Women CONFESSION, by JUDITH HEINEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have gone to the genealogy room Last Line: Not that I could do %anything differently Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFESSION, by LOUISE OTTO-PETERS Poem Source First Line: And since I was silent and lived in chaste timidity Subject(s): Women's Rights CONFESSION TO MOTHER SARAH, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: You were luckier than I Last Line: Stand on my own mt. Moriah %about to join you Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFESSIONAL, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she dead? Last Line: No, I didn't forgive her Subject(s): Forgiveness; Gays & Lesbians; Clemency; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CONFIRMATION, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: The sisters trained us how to pray Last Line: It is a taste hard to forget Subject(s): Women CONFIRMATION, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Drenched in the same waters Last Line: Oh, small taste, small sip %morsel of what's to come %I wanted more Subject(s): Women CONSORTING WITH ANGELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I was tired of being a woman Subject(s): Women CONSORTING WITH ANGELS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was tired of being a woman Last Line: I'm no more a woman %than christ was a man Subject(s): God; Religion; Women CONSTANCY, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me the key of your heart, my love Last Line: "and last night -- I changed the lock!" Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy CONSTANTLY DESCRIBING ITSELF, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The red virginia soil colors the rain Last Line: And disappear, never the same one twice Subject(s): Women's Rights CONSULATION, by THERESA (TESS) LOUISE ENROTH Poem Source First Line: It is almost a rule Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning you will cup Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women CONTACT VISIT, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: They come into the room crying Last Line: Of earthly touch they can hold Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CONTINUING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Each one had defenses, they said Last Line: To say how lonely it is here %on earth %and how the nights are cold Subject(s): Jews - Women CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among birches moving their white halfnakedness Last Line: Given and perfect and beyond and inconsolable Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Women CONTRABAND, by AVENELLE WILMETH BLAIR Poem Text First Line: A woman should think of strikes, in these hard times Last Line: Dear ... I apologize! Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism CONTRACT, by SHERRY REITER Poem Source First Line: He lay on the hospital bed Last Line: You're with me, I replied Subject(s): Jews - Women CONTRACT/1968, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: His towels %grace the floor Last Line: I whisper. Somebody %help me Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CONVALESCENCE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dragging vastness of the sea Last Line: And in the sky there blooms the sun of may. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I - Casualties CONVALESCENT, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've billiards, bowls an' tennis courts, we've teas an' motorrides Last Line: As the one when I go 'ome to 'entry street Subject(s): Women; World War I CONVERSATION, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Could we enter, then, the yellowing greek ruins Last Line: A deer lips water from some arcadian pond Subject(s): Women's Rights CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature CONVERSATION WITH THREE WOMEN OF NEW ENGLAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mode of the person becomes the mode of the world Last Line: That talk shifts the cycle of the scenes of kings? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Women COOKING THE RICE, by ANGELIKA MECHTEL Poem Source Subject(s): Housewives; Women's Rights COOLIE'S WIFE, by CHI-WAI AU Poem Source First Line: She's yelling again at the wok, blaming Last Line: Gone to seek the dollars in their hidden skies Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Women COQUETRY, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O women, fated to beguile, / your spells we all confess Last Line: The victim that endures! Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations CORDON NEGRO, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I drink champagne early in the morning Last Line: "my concerns are small Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CORINNA'S NOT GOING A-MAYING, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: I like to sleep late on these fine spring mornings Last Line: Pack it in, bob. I'm going back to bed Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights CORNKIND, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the rain falls / it drops all over the place Subject(s): Fertility; Gays & Lesbians; Morris, William (1834-1896); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CORONAL: A LEGEND OF THE ANNUNICATION, by RUTH FORBES SHERRY Poem Source First Line: Gentian blue as noon-lit sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CORONER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I had to follow her blood to its worst destination Last Line: Of the human body. I was not lost. She was Subject(s): Rape; Women CORSET, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The corset of my bubbe annie %held her to the feminine Last Line: When I was grown I wanted fat like hers %rushing over me as unrestrained as water Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women CORYDON - A PASTORAL, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good sir, have you seen pass this way Last Line: No maid at all did this way pass! Subject(s): Beauty; Women; Desire COSMOPOLITE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not wholly this or that Last Line: Contains me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women COSTANZA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fell Last Line: His last faint breath just waved her floating hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Women; Dead, The COSTUME TALK, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, %you can find the woman of too many days Last Line: For awhile and playin their costume talk %like it was for real Subject(s): Homeless; Women COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror COULDN'T, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length, there came the day my mother Last Line: And brought each other off, in the brilliant %waste of the power of creation Subject(s): Women COUNTERPOINT: TWO ROOMS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, in the room above, grown old and tired Last Line: The slow grey clouds go slowly gainst the sky Subject(s): Seasons; Death; Man-women Relationships; Despair; Happiness COUNTING THE BIRDS IN YOUR HAND, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: First try the dewey decimal system Last Line: All of which inhibit %love Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights COUNTING THE SUMS, by RITA SIMS QUILLEN Poem Source First Line: I must tell them someday Last Line: Coal grit %in the back of the throat Subject(s): Appalachia; Women COUNTRY, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID Poem Source First Line: Her hair is long, very, very long Last Line: She bathes in rain gushing forth her lap %and she dreams Subject(s): Arabs - Women COUNTRY FAIR, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amost anyone, I guess, can rent booth space Subject(s): Country Fairs; Hawks; Man-women Relationships; Dancing & Dancers; Girls COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 1. A MAN HANDS ME A ROSE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Crossing my path early one morning Last Line: A rose apprehends itself Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 2. INCEPTION, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: A woman leaves her house Last Line: Only in a new eden Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 3. THE COLONIZED, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: In my dream, a boy of fifteen writes Last Line: You bear witness only to me.' Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 4. MY REAL BODY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Just out of the shower I catch my image Last Line: As I'd dreamed nor feared Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 5. WHY A WOMAN CAN'T BE POPE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Everyone knows that under her robes Last Line: Into the last world Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 6. THEOLOGY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The immortality of the soul and war Last Line: Rises again in the physical world Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 7. BIOGRAPHY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: What does it mean to live Last Line: Nothing contains this force Subject(s): Women COUNTRY OF WOMEN: 8. THE GARDEN, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: A woman's husband meets her at the airport Last Line: As a woman's beauty Subject(s): Women COUNTRY WIFE: EPILOGUE, by WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Poem Source First Line: Now you the vigorous, who daily here Last Line: But then we women -- there's no cozening us Subject(s): Women COUNTRY ZONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A hand Last Line: Zone of %silence Subject(s): Women's Rights COUNTRY,SELS, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM Poem Source First Line: To write the country %as a poem Last Line: Retaining the once-dazzled vision %as a portable lost occasion Subject(s): Arabs - Women COUNTRYWOMEN, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These be two Last Line: Squinting through their neighbours' plackets. Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Women COUPLES SYNDROME, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's argument Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Mothers; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men COUPLETS, by NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Poem Source First Line: You asked me for a love poem Subject(s): Women's Rights COURIER, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Eleven days passed Last Line: And the pregnant promise of %next time Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina COURTESAN, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The air grows thin. The men are less bewitched Last Line: In slip and stocking feet. Left to settle %what rich, indecent cream resurfaces Subject(s): Women's Rights COURTING IN KENTUCKY, by FLORENCE EVELYN PRATT Poem Text First Line: When mary ann dollinger got the skule daown thar on injun bay Last Line: "an' mary ann says, tremblin, yet anxious-like. ""I be." Variant Title(s): The Schoolma'am's Courting Subject(s): Courtship; Kentucky; Women COVENANTERS: MARY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Model of models Last Line: The kiss he appended %to his loving epistle Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible COVERT LOVER OR HOW MY NA'ASHSHOOD DAYS ENDED, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: He was leading me behind the abandoned school buildings Last Line: Somewhere in the mountains the wind was singing Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love; Native Americans - Women COWGIRL, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boots were on the couch and had Last Line: I'll go back home where women are pliant as marshmallows. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Desire; Relationships; West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States COWPATH, by RUTH DANIELS Poem Source First Line: I walk slower... %steps more uncertain Last Line: To where the farmhouse stood Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers COYOTE BITCH, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Tonight - %I feel like a coyote bitch Last Line: Who never appear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women; Women - Writers CRACK IN THE WORLD, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I see the crack in the world Last Line: Walking on the periphery of the world. Subject(s): Birth; Bodies; Mothers; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery CRACKED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Baby tooth, I finger Last Line: New best friend Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives CRADLE SONG, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madonna, madonna / sat by the grey road-side Last Line: My baby, my dear son. Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary CRADLE SONG, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: Sleep enfold thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRADLE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesu, my sweet son dear Last Line: And with thee from the cold Variant Title(s): Virgin's Song To Her Baby Christ; The Virgin's Son Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRAVING, by DONNA HILBERT Poem Source First Line: I broke the long stems Last Line: Fine powder from a dark brown tin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CRAVING, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: It's what we want Last Line: Petals floating into wind-- %keeps our bodies bodies Subject(s): Women CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women CRAZY LITTLE THING, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: When his cousin twitched her hips Last Line: Every song rising from the flames Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CRAZY WOMAN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not sing a may song Last Line: Who would not sing in may' Subject(s): Women CREATION OF THE WORLD, by EVA TOTH Poem Source First Line: The first day Subject(s): Women CREDO, by JEAN LIPKIN Poem Source First Line: Take for the sake of example Subject(s): Women CREED, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: I'd like to believe god's like you and heaven's Last Line: Through the little hands you made for her Subject(s): Appalachia; Women CREED, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If my garden oak spares one bare ledge Last Line: I may challenge god when we meet that day, %and he dare not be silent or send me away Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women CREPE DE CHINE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These drugstore windows Last Line: Call me crepe de chine Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CREPUSCULE, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: Yellows cast their spells: the evening primrose Last Line: High grass, craven and dangerous, in the heavy red. Subject(s): Women's Rights CRICKET AT CCWF, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Can you hear it %trilling between Last Line: Croaking out one last %reprieve for us all Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights; Movies; Cinema; Feminism CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fleaneck, n.J.: the convicted felon, henry pflug, was drawn and Last Line: A lousy move, he remarked. Then, his arm gently guided by wife %nancy, he cut the cake Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Punishment; Women; Women's Rights CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Nothin grows up faster than a vacant lot Last Line: Only that crimes against humanity %make fertile soil Subject(s): Homeless; Women CRONE, by LEAH SCHWEITZER Poem Source First Line: She squats shameless Last Line: Fly %out of her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CROOKED ANSWERS; DEDICATED TO THE LAUREATE: 2. MAUD, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, I cannot come into the garden just now Last Line: Why, it's not the least business of mine. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Gardens & Gardening; Women CROSS PATCH, by HORACE HOLLEY Poem Text First Line: Her ardent spirit ran beyond her years Last Line: All hearts meet at last. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Women In Sports CROSSING, by PATRICIA MOGER VARSHAVTCHIK Poem Source First Line: I have searched, delved, studied Last Line: As I choose my name, %the water of the lakes rests nearby, %sparkling Subject(s): Jews - Women CROSSROADS, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: The second half of my life will be black Last Line: And smoke going %upward, always up Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CROUP, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: At night %in our bed Last Line: I'll be so good %you won't be sorry Subject(s): Jews - Women CROWDED OUT, by ROSALIE M. JONAS Poem Source First Line: Nobody ain't christmas shoppin' Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Christmas CROWN OF HAPPINESS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Death, become a shewolf Last Line: The poem on the summit of a high head %crown of happiness Subject(s): Women - Abused CROWN OF THORNS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Nannie sue gets up Last Line: Framed with nell's long, blonde braid Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women CRUELTY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Text First Line: Because we were all sweaty Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cruelty; Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Impotence; Dead, The CRY, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States CRY, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White legs and pink footpads, the black cat Last Line: In his teeth and offers half to me Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women CRY FROM THE BATTLEFIELD, by ROBERT MENTH Poem Source First Line: O lady, together with the child you take Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible CRYSTAL LAKE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught crawdads and let them go. Baited hooks with my Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CRYSTAL LAKE, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught crawdads and let them go. Baited hooks with my Last Line: Caught, over fish who were as long as rainbows after the coming storm Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women CRYSTALS, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1845 dr. James marion sims had seen it many times Last Line: As if his hand remained Subject(s): Physicians; Reproductive System; Women CULMINATION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God labored Last Line: The new world %right Subject(s): Women - Bible CULTURAL EVOLUTION; AFTER POPE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from his cave, young mao in his youthful mind Last Line: Marx and confucius turned out much the same. Subject(s): China; Communism; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism CUPID AND VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on. Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism CUPID'S SCHERZO: 1. A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Psyche wakes to discover she's been taken Last Line: Could psyche live with this? %yes, psyche could Subject(s): Women CUPID'S SCHERZO: 2. SOME NOT QUITE ENCHANTED EVENINGS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Soon, something funny started up at night Last Line: Before daybreak could clear her conscience up Subject(s): Women CUPID'S SCHERZO: 3. THE HUMAN REMAINS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Women CUPID'S SCHERZO: 4. ...CONTINUED, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Psyche'd been told she'd wake up married. Maybe Last Line: So much is clear. So much is not Subject(s): Women CUPID'S SCHERZO: 5. SISTERHOOD, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Where did they come from all of a sudden? Why? Last Line: ('look,' they said, 'in the dark, you can never tell.' Subject(s): Women CUPID'S SCHERZO: 6. MIDNIGHT OIL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: - so listen, this is what you'll have to do,' Last Line: Just fascination...Forbidden Subject(s): Women CURL UP AND DIET, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies smoke too much and some ladies drink too much and some ladies pray Last Line: But not so much that you cut yourself if you happen to embrace or kissome Subject(s): Dieting; Women CURSE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: What does it take Last Line: An immense peruvian river, %dark as a wineclot Subject(s): Bodies; Sex; Women CURSE ON HEROD, by AMY WITTING Poem Source First Line: May you live forever. In that eternity Last Line: But to the bad children, christmas does not come Subject(s): Bible; Rachel (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible CURTAIN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The curtain was tattered but ornate Last Line: In sweet grey gothic penryn, where the rain comes from Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged CUSP OF DESIRE, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI Poem Source First Line: He is the source of hot forests Last Line: It's then that he shrinks Subject(s): Arabs - Women CUSSIN' WOMAN, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cussin' woman's a trial to hear Last Line: Cuz I'm a cussin' woman Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers CUTTING HAIR, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People CUTTING THE JEWISH BRIDES'S HAIR, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It's to possess more than the skin %that those old world jews Last Line: But this little amputation %will shift the balance of the universe Subject(s): Jews - Women CYNARA RESPONDET, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: So that's your fashion? What a coincidence Last Line: I've been true in exactly the same sense Subject(s): Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights CYPRESSES, BATHING, by CHRISTINE STEWART Poem Source First Line: On my way, I come upon them Last Line: I am not yet ready to listen Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Women CYTHERA, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI Poem Source First Line: Small rivules ran about her feet Last Line: That shamed me Subject(s): Women D'LO, DE L'EAU, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He walked almost every day by water Last Line: He was born there. %he was borne away Subject(s): Rape; Women DABNEY'S WIFE; SPRING 1863, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: It was all their idea, not hooker's Last Line: And rinsed and did not miss a thing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Blood; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries; Women And War DACTYLIC HEART THAT IN ME IS A REBEL, by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights DAD, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Your old hat hurts me, and those black %fat raisins Last Line: My childhood buried there %already forfeit, now forever lost Subject(s): Women DAILIES & RUSHES, by SUSAN KINSOLVING Poem Source First Line: As a stunted woman (you might say Last Line: Falling into flames, I cry 'why? Why not?' Subject(s): Bodies; Women DAILY ROUND OF THE SPINSTER, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: To be solitary is shameful. All day long Subject(s): Women's Rights DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAMNED, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drawers of my mother's bedroom Last Line: Though it is not clear %if either of us can be saved Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights DAN'S WIFE, by KATE TANNATT WOODS Poem Text First Line: Up in early morning light Last Line: Dan's wife. Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating DANCE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Only children believe Last Line: Like the poppies of adonis Subject(s): Women's Rights DANCE OF DEATH: WOMAN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was as green willow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Single People; Women DANCER, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: She had been a dancer too long Last Line: That she is %still %there Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Last Line: We dance, we dance, each night Subject(s): Women; World War I DANCING GIRL, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black and tan - yeah, black and tan Last Line: Is this what your belly craves? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing & Dancers DANCING GIRL, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black and tan - yeah, black and tan Last Line: Drenched in the jazz of a swingtime band %is this what your belly craves? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing And Dancers DANCING GIRLS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome once more, ye dancing forms Last Line: My soul: delight's elixir 'tis! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Women DANGER, MEN IN TREES, by DORIS SAFIE Poem Source First Line: Quietly, they take on the color and shape Last Line: I'd change his course forever Subject(s): Arabs - Women DANGEROUS GAMES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fly a black kite on a long string Last Line: Trembling on an aphid-riddled leaf. Subject(s): Games; Kites; Women; Women's Rights; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism DAPHNE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Do you not hear her song Last Line: Half tree? Subject(s): Fantasy; Trees; Women DAPHNE, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Poet, singer, necromancer Last Line: With delight, if I so choose Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights DARK ACTRESS - SOMEWHERE, by BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: They watched her glide across the stage Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DARK DREAMING, by DOROTHY KRUGER Poem Source First Line: Arrows of rain Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DARK LADY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nighttime rubs against windows Last Line: Salk licking a man's spleen Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Night; Women DARK LADY LEARNS THAT EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Full many an amorous sonnet hast thou penned Last Line: Or fact or false, all sonnets leave me cold Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights DARK PHASES OF WOMANHOOD', by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That you like the best %you're it Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women DARK ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eager, wicked Last Line: The dark room Subject(s): Women's Rights DARK TESTAMENT, by PAULI MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Freedom is a dream Last Line: Friend and brother to every other man Subject(s): African Americans - Women DARK WATER, by KARYN M. WOLVEN Poem Source First Line: I come naked %to drink dark water Last Line: The river will carry us %to its end Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DARK WOMEN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I must not cease from singing Last Line: Outweighed them one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Memory; Women DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DARLEY DALE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I must be in darley dale before the sun dips low Last Line: But can't say, for the heart of me, the way which I should go! Subject(s): Women DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The DASH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dash, to break Last Line: The dash says %hurry up! %no, %wait Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DAT GAL O' MINE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skin as black an' jes as sof' as a velvet dress Last Line: O' mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Religion; Sabbath; Theology; Sunday DAUFUSKIE (FOUR MOVEMENTS), by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ebb %with the flow Last Line: Be %unbroken Subject(s): African Americans - Women DAUGHTER, by MARY DORCEY Poem Source First Line: And you my daughter Last Line: To bear you into Subject(s): Women DAUGHTER, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: As you once moved for me Last Line: Demanding say goodbye to me, old %woman; in your dying I dance, dance Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by SHALOM SHABAZI Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAUGHTERS OF JOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, subtle-floating, the choir Last Line: While man knows not of love, and cannot curb his fever. Subject(s): London; Love - Nature Of; Women DAUGHTERS OF OEDIPUS, by GRACE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Antigone, choosing her death Last Line: The gods have no design for me at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Women's Rights DAUGHTERS OF WAR, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space beats the ruddy freedom of their limbs Last Line: "years." Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War DAUGHTERS OF ZELOPHEHAD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The daughters of zelophehad came running up to moses. Last Line: And goes to show that women's rights can be less %fact than fiction Subject(s): Women - Bible DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If there had been Last Line: There wouldn't have been %any sons either Subject(s): Women - Bible DAVID TO ABISHAG, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Will you warm an old man Last Line: To bring me back %to manhood and desire? Subject(s): Women - Bible DAWN, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey trees, grey skies, and not a star Last Line: A hermit-thrush Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DAWN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The languorous thighs of the morning Last Line: The women who forget they were ladies! Subject(s): Dawn; Sleep; Women; Sunrise DAWN FAIRY, by DUNYA MIKHAIL Poem Source First Line: You are changing... %you have changed greatly Last Line: And out of our longing make %a home for all the birds Subject(s): Arabs - Women DAWN OF LOVE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within my casement came one night Last Line: And on my lips there fell a kiss - %speak! Fairy moon, interpret this! Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women DAY, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Day, like a spread of winds with no fear Last Line: In the bonfires beating at my faces and my lands Subject(s): Women's Rights DAY AT A COUNTRY FAIR, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: The tune of a zipper in olden times Subject(s): Women - Writers DAY I ONCE DREAMED, by PAT ARROWSMITH Poem Source First Line: This is the day I first thought of Subject(s): Women DAY ON EARTH, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %informs me this morning at the bus stop Last Line: Trees harbored in iron cages %concede their leaves %in rain Subject(s): Homeless; Women DAY THE HORIZON DISAPPEARED, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Cast out, flung to the furthest rim of neediness Last Line: On the worn nap of the threadbare world? Subject(s): Women's Rights DAY'S CATCH, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I remember you back Last Line: The truth of our hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Memory DAYENI, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Rebono, %would it not have been sufficient Last Line: Who need me to %hand grind and hand bake %matzas out of oats? Subject(s): Jews - Women DAYS ARE PASSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DAYS OF 1941 AND '44, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nightmare shower room. My tormentor leers Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DAYS OF 1986, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was believed by his peers to be an important poet Last Line: And rejoice at the inner voice, so lofty and pure. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism DE PARTU VIRGINIS, SELS., by ACTIUS SINCERUS SANNAZARIUS Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Sannazaro, Jacopo; Sincerus Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DE PROFUNDIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heed it all; no more Last Line: E'en all that god could tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary DEACON MORGAN, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His artificial feet calumped in holy rhythm Last Line: Was welcome still in the abundant household %of a loving father Subject(s): African Americans - Women DEAD FLEA, by KAREN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tis true I am not weakened by this death Last Line: Go scratch your itching in some other place Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DEAD LOVE (HEARD SUNG BY AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ISLAND OF TIREE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is the grey rock I am Last Line: As canna in wind Subject(s): Aging;gray (color);mourning;women; Grey (color);bereavement DEAF MARTHA, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor martha is old, and her hair is turn'd grey Last Line: "that ""what a man soweth, the same shall he reap. " Subject(s): Deafness; Old Age; Women DEAR ABBY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Some men Last Line: Almost as much %as her bewitching beauty Subject(s): Women - Bible DEAR ELIZABETH: (FOR ELIZABETH DIFIORE), by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are almost all homely Last Line: Told by a wanderer totally blind. Subject(s): Beauty; Women DEAR FEMALE HEART, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear female heart, I am sorry for you Last Line: You may also look most absurd with a miserable face Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Women DEAR GOD, / I AM DYING, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: All of my friends %are doing shows Subject(s): Identity; Women DEAR GONGLYA, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most inscrutable beautiful names in this world Subject(s): Names; Gays & Lesbians; Desire; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEAR LYDIA E. PINKHAM, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: 10 west fourteenth street Last Line: Remain myself, triphena twitchell-rush Subject(s): Women DEAR PAUL NEWMAN, by MARIE KENNEDY ROBINS Poem Source First Line: After all these years %it's over between you and me Last Line: I'm the same age as you, but in the dark %peter jennings will never notice Subject(s): Women DEAREST LOVE, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI Poem Source First Line: Dearest love, listen Last Line: I married my cousin after all Subject(s): Arabs - Women DEATH AND MEMORY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poor women died Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Women; Hair; Burials DEATH BY AESTHETICS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover Subject(s): Physicians; Examinations; Women Patients; Doctors DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Last Line: Especially when they fight, and when they sing Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women DEATH IN DISGUISE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: By no means young, but she was not old either Last Line: Life. Comedian? More like the letter f Subject(s): Death; Women DEATH MASK, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror now Last Line: The sudden / exhaling Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Old Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEATH OF A DOVE, by NURUNNESSA CHOUDHURY Poem Source First Line: In the first sunbath Subject(s): Women DEATH OF POETRY, by LIVIA CANDIANI Poem Source First Line: Sweet poems Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights DEATH SPELL FOR A DEPARTING LOVER, by KATE BRAVERMAN Poem Source First Line: We are good at opening dialogue Last Line: Digging in under your skin %in a way you will never forget Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women DEATH WATCH, by BARBARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Bonedust grates inside my eyes Last Line: And call me still to love Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DEATHBED DREAMS, by RITA SIMS QUILLEN Poem Source First Line: In the willows and vines along the river Last Line: In the willows and vines along the river Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Deborah sang that day Subject(s): Deborah (bible); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Women In The Bible; Judaism DEBRA, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Debra and I are different. Fundamentally different Last Line: Sometimes it got tah eb dat way Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DECANTING GRANDMA, by SUSAN FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: When we came to your house, dad and grandpa Last Line: Dad forced your door Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DECEMBER, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS Poem Source First Line: Here's an old lady walking down the street Last Line: But she smiles anyway %she breathes deeply Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DECEMBER PORTRAIT, by KATHLEEN TANKERSLEY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: She now retraces her steps once more Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DECISION, by CAMILLE BELOT Poem Source First Line: Having heard the defense and the prosecution ...' Subject(s): Women's Rights DECRIED, by J. ROY ZEISS Poem Text First Line: Of beauty there will be always Last Line: Condemn the madonna? Subject(s): Beauty; Fruit; Mary And Martha (bible); Sun; Women In The Bible DEDICATION, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This book by any yet unread Last Line: And god shall bless you from above Subject(s): Books; Children; Home; Marriage; Mothers And Daughters; Puritans; Sickness; Women DEDICATION, by EUGENIUS III Poem Source First Line: Tertius eugenius romanus papa benignus Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DEDICATION, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Madre dolorosa / o madre mia! Last Line: Madre dolorosa mia! .... Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary DEDICATION OF THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, by ROBERT FABYAN Poem Source First Line: Most blessed lady, comfort to such as call Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DEDICATION OF THE COOK, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any ask why there's no great she-poet Last Line: Will blossom from the ashes of my kitchen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins quietly Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women DEDICATION TO HUNGER: 4. THE DEVIATION, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins quietly Last Line: Of which death is the mere by-product Subject(s): Eating Disorders; Women DEEP MINING, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: Think of this: that under the earth Last Line: Throught the earth from top to bottom %and both of us are init. %one of us is always burning Subject(s): Appalachia; Women DEFEND NOT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Defend it not, defend it not Last Line: No! Firm, and good, and true art thou. Subject(s): Love; Women DEFIANCE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Catch her and hold her if you can Last Line: Sparkled, and ran into the shade. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women DEFIANCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the modern woman pants Last Line: Makes the breeches wider. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women DEFICIENCY, by UTE ERB Poem Source First Line: When I am alone, no one tells me who I am Subject(s): Women's Rights DEFINITIONS, by SUE DORO Poem Source First Line: Cheater bar - 'macho' term for long pipe Last Line: Like a woman %in a nontraditional %job Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, you dawn Last Line: It’s your winding sheet Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry & Laundering; Paintings & Painters; Women DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, you dawn Last Line: It's your winding sheet Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry And Laundering; Paintings And Painters; Women DEISREGARDING CLOCKS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Mature according to levels of laughter Last Line: Count embraces, not years. %measure love Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DEJA VU AGAIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I ask the woman of too many days %it she knows what deja vu is Last Line: You go mean just lookin at it Subject(s): Homeless; Women DELIGHT IN HER VOICE., by RUTH HOLTER Poem Source Last Line: Of five hundred miles Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DELILAH, by ELIZA GRISWOLD ALLEN Poem Source First Line: If I had known I'd reduce you to this Last Line: Remembering but cannot leave behind Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Women In The Bible DELILAH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because thou wast most delicate Last Line: A woman fair to look upon. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Samson; Women In The Bible DELILAH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midnight of darkness and terror Last Line: And drop you down to sweet hell! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Passion; Women In The Bible DELIVERANCE OF ORGOS, by ADELAIDE-GILLETTE DUFRESNOY Poem Source First Line: In days of old, a woman emulating tyrtheus Subject(s): Women's Rights DELTA, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Alabama harmattan calling me Last Line: We are blown down to the nines Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Singing And Singers DELY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' lak toddy wahms you thoo Last Line: Dat's enuff 'uligion. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty DEMETER'S DAUGHTERS, by ANNA M. WARROCK Poem Source First Line: Many women try it, the underworld descent Last Line: That's the second way. Be prepared. She dies, I live Subject(s): Women DENIALL IN WOMEN NO DISHEARTNING TO MEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women, although they ne're so goodly make it Last Line: Their fashion is, but to say no, to take it. Subject(s): Women DENISE ROBARDS USED TO LIVE AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: I drive looking for what had been Last Line: To say, 'welcome,' to let us in Subject(s): Love; Women DENNER'S OLD WOMAN, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this mimic form of a matron in years Last Line: Since apelles not more for his venus obtained! Subject(s): Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women DENVER STREET, by WILLARD JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: A garish flare of magazines Last Line: And navels before breakfast! Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Oranges; Youth; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DEPARTURE, by MAI SAYIGH Poem Source First Line: In this the moment of departure, %point your red arrows Last Line: Now you collect all the wounds, taking refuge with %death, %wearing dreams as wings Subject(s): Arabs - Women DEPRESSION, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Bees celebrate indian summer Last Line: The way I close my eyes and wait for the lights %to come back on Subject(s): Jews - Women DER HEILIGE MANTEL VON AACHEN, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: A good stout tankard at a rhineland inn Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DESCANT, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: Beneath the sidewalk's iron gates, those ice-slicked portals Last Line: With pennies; I'll leave you for love for love for love Subject(s): Erotic Love; Women DESCENDENT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Tell her now I heard her tell her now Last Line: Sleep I heard he covered me don't ask for more Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients DESCENT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: We met two men Last Line: To their wives Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DESERT, by DEL MARIE ROGERS Poem Source First Line: In winter my mother goes away Last Line: On the horizon she lifts her hand to warn me Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women DESERT BRIDE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Moses was a hero Last Line: A mismatch with a driven man who had %such mountainous matters on his mind! Subject(s): Women - Bible DESERTER, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, - don't mind his name Last Line: O well for her she does not know %he lies in a deserter's grave Subject(s): Women; World War I DESIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Desire, %a gentle Last Line: In the skin Subject(s): Women's Rights DESIRE, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Desire %comes like the sea wind Last Line: The same scent rises %from both lovers lying %curled on our sides like harbors Subject(s): Jews - Women DESIRE, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The surface of the milk Last Line: It is cut off Subject(s): Women DESIRE, by DINAH LIVINGSTONE Poem Source First Line: Night after night Subject(s): Women DESIRE, by MARJORIE MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: I would be one with the morning Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DESIRE TO DESIRE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I kiss %other women's children Last Line: Love can't recognize Subject(s): Women's Rights DESPAIR, by OLIVE E. LINDSAY Poem Source First Line: Half of me died at bapaume Last Line: And then will return to the other half %and show it how to live Subject(s): Women; World War I DESPITE GARBLED WORDS., by TOM TICO Poem Source Last Line: With their usual warmth Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DESTINY, by ANGELA FIGUERA AYMERICH Poem Source First Line: You made me a cup, inscrutable potter Subject(s): Women's Rights DESTINY, by AMALIA GUGLIELMINETTI Poem Source First Line: The woman, her face betwen her hands Subject(s): Women's Rights DETECTIVE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I was in plainclothes, driving a car marked only Last Line: Shape of his hand, the kiss he'd always wished %to awaken, although fatal Subject(s): Rape; Women DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What a dinghy I am! Oarless Last Line: The ouch! Was mine and not the tree's Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVILKIN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: My dolls lock themselves in their house Last Line: His clumsy hands curled about his head Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DEVOTION, by MINNETTE SLAYBACK CARPER Poem Text First Line: She stole a moment from each day of toil Last Line: The grass is clipped, and flowers are planted there. Subject(s): Family Life; Women; Man-woman Relationships DIAGNOSES, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lange's voice drifts Last Line: I try to stop it %but nothing lasts Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DIAGNOSIS, by JOAN HALPERIN Poem Source First Line: On the third of may Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women DIALOGUE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: My friend george herbert has been chiding me Last Line: Who at sleep's edge %enjoy such privilege Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DIALOGUE, by MARIE DE VENTADOUR Poem Source First Line: V. - gui d'ussel, it disturbs me Subject(s): Women's Rights DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARY AND GABRIEL, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, in a dream of love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DIALOGUE OF WATCHING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me celebrate you. I Last Line: One more beautiful than you Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Women DIANA THE GOOD., by KATHY FREEPERSON Poem Source Last Line: By the fall had been lesson enough %to avoid star wars Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women DIASPORA, by S. V. ATALLA Poem Source First Line: After so long %to stand at your dresser %hairpins %in the dusty cup Last Line: And every day your smooth hair %holding them all together Subject(s): Arabs - Women DICTIONARY IS AN HISTORIAN; A FOUND POLILTICAL POEM, by JUDITH MCCOMBS Poem Source First Line: Woman, women %1. An adult female person Last Line: Bringer or woe; by whimsical etymological derivation from woe + man. Obs Subject(s): Women DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DIET, by MAUREEN BURGE Poem Source First Line: Sat in the pub Subject(s): Dieting; Women DIFFERENCE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jellyfish / float in the bay shallows Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBMISSION AND GIVING UP: DRESSING ISAAC, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So then - just the three - a very happy family Last Line: A mother can only do so much Subject(s): Women DIFFERENCE IN EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE DEPENDING ON GEOGRAPHICAL..., by DENNICE SCANLON Poem Source First Line: I had a mind to begin by scraping april Last Line: Weather wilts ridges between with love Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women DIFFERENT MORNING ALTOGETHER, by DIMA HILAL Poem Source First Line: The rain thunders on the roof %the balcony railing %and umbrellas of kids Last Line: But I only hear the rush of rain Subject(s): Arabs - Women DIFFERENT THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY G.S. NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the truest reading of thy look? Last Line: On which I swear forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Paintings And Painters; Women DIGGERS AT LANGLEY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He's in black - pants, shirt, tight as a gunfighter's Subject(s): Rape; Women DILLUSION, by MAUREEN BURGE Poem Source First Line: Look at him, over there Subject(s): Women DINA'S HAPPY ENDING, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: And so I married Last Line: I think I laughed half the night %god, it felt good Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights DINING WITH LIONS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Have you ever watched lions dine? Last Line: Feeling quite at home Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DIPLOMATIC IMPERATIVE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Whatever the opposite of elegy Last Line: Paradox betrays us by solving itself Subject(s): Women's Rights DIPTYCH, by VELMA WEST SYKES Poem Source First Line: You say the king commands that I appear Last Line: Even a queen must not defy a king Subject(s): Women's Rights DIRGE OF RACHEL, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And rachel lies in ephrath's land Last Line: To break the slumber that hath bound her. Subject(s): Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism DIRT AND DESIRE: TOUCHES, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face Last Line: Closed category where one does not belong Subject(s): Women; Relationships; Touch (sense) DISAPPEARED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I am the disappeared woman Last Line: Name myself. %call my name Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Terror; Women DISAPPEARING GIRL, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What noise in her throat %another trick must be trapped there Last Line: The clapping's stopped, he's had %enough, he wants her now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL EXPLAINS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not so dark back here: voices Last Line: Clutching my pretty bird Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL RETURNS HOME, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: There's the tree I dared to drop me Last Line: Practicing my graceful exit? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S HOMEMADE MAGIC SHOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Mirror, mirror, am I silk Last Line: Begging as I go: silence, please Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING GIRL'S MOTHER REMEMBERS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: All knees and elbows, silly bird Last Line: My girl, thrown and twirling? Variant Title(s): Her Mother Remember Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISAPPEARING WOMAN, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Mission padres, only the sailors saw me rise Last Line: For the sake of decency, you said. %I had a language Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Native Americans; Women - Captives DISAPPOINTMENT, OR THE MOTHER IN FASHION: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How comes it, gentlemen, that now-a-days Last Line: They make it bawdier than a conventicle Subject(s): Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Women DISCONTENTED WOMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dirindina the discontented Subject(s): Women's Rights DISCOURSE, SELS., by LAURA TERRACINA Subject(s): Women's Rights DISH, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Mother cooked meat in the pot Last Line: Your body's %senses Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights DISHES, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source First Line: Fleeing bracelets %encircle wrists of Last Line: The dishes break %happily Subject(s): Women - Writers DISPLAY CASE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I am small but not precious Last Line: Asked the glass, is this in or out? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives DISQUIETING MUSES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, mother, what illbred aunt Last Line: Mother, mother. But no frown of mine %will betray the company I keep Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women DISSIDENT WOMAN, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: I saw a man at my feet Last Line: A corny voice %that refuses to think %to beleive %to know %that this is the way %we'll always be Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Women; Women's Rights DISTANCES, by KATHERINE GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: I see my mother waving - her unfussed, smiling Last Line: And I have lived some of them Subject(s): Women DISTANTIATION, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: At supper my son says, 'there Last Line: Of love's suffering %breaks open Subject(s): Women DIVIDING THE DOLLS, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Now our mothers let us take turns choosing Last Line: The reckless way we would %have loved her dolls once Subject(s): Women DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 33, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O virgin mother, daughter of thy son! Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Prayer To Our Lad Subject(s): Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible DIVINE IS HERE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: When I search the star-filled heavens Last Line: And in her loving eyes Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DIVINE LOVE, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's something disturbing me Last Line: Whatever may be my lot, %from love I'll not retreat Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion DIVING, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: The woman sleeps in a pearl-white bathtub Last Line: She must let go before resurfacing Subject(s): Women DIVORCE, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from the dark is calling me Last Line: Let me out to the night, let me go, let me go! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Divorce; Women DIXIT INSIPIENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first, it was only a trickle Last Line: If only disbelief was more like faith. Subject(s): Atheism; Religion; Science; Spirituality; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Scientists; Feminism DO NOT, DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights DO YOU FANCY ME?, by DINAH BUTLER Poem Source Subject(s): Women DOE, MY YOUNGER DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DOES IT EAT TOO?, by ZONA GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Annes' first night out Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women DOG AS ARTIST, THE ARTIST AS HERO, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Now that I'm an old dog Last Line: The fantasy of trees planted in furrows of waves Subject(s): Women's Rights DOG ROAD WOMAN, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: They called you Last Line: We fashioned stars Subject(s): Butchers; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment DOGMATIC THEOLOGY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Athaliah Last Line: Down to the last %drop of blood Subject(s): Women - Bible DOING LAUNDRY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Please, lord, no! Last Line: When son #2 was away in college! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina DOING THE DISHES, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Wide blue aviaries sleep Last Line: The missing in action %are everywhere Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women DOLL, by MARGARETE BEUTLER Poem Source First Line: Dear doll Subject(s): Women's Rights DOLLY IN THE RAIN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When dolly tiptoed in the rain Last Line: The shameless sun peeped out to see. Subject(s): Charm; Rain; Watchmen; Women DOLORES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold eyelids that hide like a jewel Last Line: Our lady of pain. Subject(s): Cruelty; Kisses; Pain; Women; Suffering; Misery DOMESTIC, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when studying road atlases Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Family Life; Travel; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Relatives; Journeys; Trips DOMESTIC BLISS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Our cupboard echoes with laughter Last Line: Until the only home I know %is your smile Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DOMESTIC ECONOMY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will have few cooking-pots Last Line: And right to counsel beggars at my door Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Women DOMESTIC LIFE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The woman washing herself watched the team in harness Last Line: Whose grating cry %is lost in the light Subject(s): Household Employees; Life; Memory; Past; Women DOMESTIC SCENES FROM LADY TENNYSON'S JOURNAL, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: When the days are warm and our island Last Line: And you read to me %about the london poor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All week she's cleaned Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All week she's cleaned Last Line: A wish for something better Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DOMESTICS, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: Damit blackman %what are you going to Last Line: From the kitchen of %the jew? Subject(s): African Americans - Women DON JUAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me Last Line: Isn't that right, elvira? Subject(s): Women's Rights DON'T ACT SPOILED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DON'T BURDEN ME (NAOMI TO HER DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Seeing to myself Last Line: Within %my wilderness Subject(s): Women - Bible DON'T READ THOSE STORIES, by CHARLOTTE NEKOLA Poem Source First Line: My mother said don't read those stories Last Line: I will write a story %where women can walk Subject(s): Story-telling; Women; Women's Rights DONATELLO'S MAGDALENE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old woman / enrobed in nothing Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Donatello (1386-1466) DONNA JULIA'S FIRST LETTER AFTER JUAN'S DEPARTURE FOR CADIZ, by KATHARINE COLES Poem Source First Line: Isabella, more and more I remember childhood Last Line: To whatever wind he pleases. Bella, no tears Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights DOOR OF ROSES, by MUNIA SAMARA Poem Source First Line: Doomsday of wind %talk of the garden %ambush of rubies Last Line: Everything in it %reveals hateful desire Subject(s): Arabs - Women DOOR OF THE CITIES, by MUNIA SAMARA Poem Source First Line: The scandal of this universe %and its joke Last Line: And on its borders bark %the enemies' rifles Subject(s): Arabs - Women DORA VERSUS ROSE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the tragic-est novels at mudie's Last Line: Is easily guessed. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Trials; Women DOROTHY'S DOWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest dorothy,' said john Last Line: "went for cigars and brandy!" Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism DORYPHA, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On holidays / when the cowboys and indians get drunk Last Line: With a flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Guitars; Holidays; Women DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at bar 6 Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOUBLE DECKER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Good enough to eat, %the woman of too many days says Last Line: A double decker on a sugar cone Subject(s): Homeless; Women DOUBLE EDGE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: You like your razors disposable Last Line: Pick up a new one if the old one cuts you Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DOUBLE GOER, by DILYS BENNETT LAING Poem Source First Line: The woman took a train Last Line: You look sick. Welcome home Subject(s): Women DOUBLE LIFE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a fundamentalist minister. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Conduct Of Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DOUBLE TAKE AT RELAIS DE L'ESPADON, by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: On the ile de goree, m. Diop elegant Last Line: Is he the father I might have had %is he the son who shackled my father and me Subject(s): African Americans - Women DOUBTING THOMAS, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: Mopping up his ordinary puke Last Line: When deft those dragon words %pluck our secret lyre Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DOWN THAT MOUNTAIN, MIKE AND I HIKE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Where another country waits, %the one I came to discover Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women DOWN THE MIDDLE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Just when you thought you couldn't stand Last Line: Yes certainly the sun, the osiers, and the cuckoo will remain Subject(s): Women's Rights DOWN TO THE NINES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh owner of wind %keeper of river mists Last Line: We are down to the nines Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Slavery; Women DRACULA, by SALWA AL- NEIMI Poem Source First Line: Revolting against the lips %the long pointed fang was facing me Last Line: Myopic, I pretended to watch the passersby Subject(s): Arabs - Women DRACULA ORCHID, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Only a woman with black toenails Last Line: Some new pain opens Subject(s): Death; Grief; Murder; Pain; Women DRAFTS, by NORA BOMFORD Poem Source First Line: Waking to darkness; early silence broken Last Line: Everything is part %of one supreme intent, the deathless heart Subject(s): Women; World War I DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She made the trip daily, though Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She made the trip daily, though Last Line: On one white man's face, his hand %deep in knowledge Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping DRAWING LESSON/NEGATIVE SPACE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: The yard is down %when she scratches Last Line: As the space she draws %around it takes shape Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women DREAM, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: I am back in that apartment where I lived Last Line: Nothing they tell helps me Subject(s): Women DREAM KISS, by KAROLINE VON GUNDERODE Poem Source First Line: A kiss once breathed life into me Subject(s): Women's Rights DREAM OF A LARGE LADY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The large lady laboriously climbs Last Line: Painted by the sun against the sky. Subject(s): Guns; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism DREAM OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN MAISEL Poem Source First Line: I had %a dream of women, dark Last Line: The empty shacks %home Subject(s): Women DREAM RECALLING A TEMPTATION, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI Poem Source First Line: ...And when he was awakened by the cold, she was washing her hair Last Line: All in all on the verge of transfiguration Subject(s): Arabs - Women DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds again Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) DREAM, JULY 10, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: In the dream, I'm choosing Last Line: Absences in his life Subject(s): Women's Rights DREAMING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Dreamt gay last night Last Line: I will again %tonight Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DREAMSOUNDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The sounds of autumn Last Line: In autumn Subject(s): Women's Rights DRESSES: FOUR OF MINE FOR NAIMA BALAHI, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So narrow they seem sewn Last Line: Unable to wear them, unable to part with them Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women's Rights DRIFTING, by KATHLEEN SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: To live in %myself Last Line: Live on, live on. %we bent to the paddles Subject(s): Women DRINKING SONG, by LOUISE-GENEVIEVE DE SAINCTONGE Poem Source First Line: Friend, it's your fate to follow love Subject(s): Women's Rights DRINKING SONG, FR. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Last Line: I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for a glass. Variant Title(s): Let The Toast Pass;drinking Song By Sir Harry Bumper;song And Chorus Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Wine DRIVE ALL NIGHT, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Away from panic we drive Last Line: Its notes that will not, will not play for me %sound this way Subject(s): Women's Rights DRIVING INTO A STORM, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Last night we burned feed sacks Last Line: The dark %rolling clouds Variant Title(s): First Poem For Georg Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DRIVING STORY; MYTH STORY AND LIFE, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The darkened bedroom, the double bed Last Line: History is them; it is also theirs to make Subject(s): African Americans - Women DROUGHT, 1970, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: The girls wait on pine benches Last Line: In this steam, in this particular eternity, %like an eternity Subject(s): Women's Rights DROWNED AT THE BOTTOM OF A BORING DREAM, by JOYCE MANSOUR Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights DROWNED WOMAN, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shall be my jailer Last Line: In the weeds of my hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Women DRUNK & DISORDERLY, BIG HAIR, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Handmaid to cybele, Subject(s): Women; Aging DRUNKEN LADIES, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: There was one drunken lady in dublin Last Line: There was one drunken lady in spain Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dublin, Ireland; Travel; Women DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women are at home in this california town Subject(s): Women; California; Family Life DRY ROCK NUMBER, by TINA REID Poem Source First Line: He's lean Subject(s): Women DUENDE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember her name Subject(s): Memory; Women DULCE ET DECORUM?, by ELINOR JENKINS Poem Source First Line: We buried of our dead the dearest one Last Line: Give us our fathers' heathen hearts again, %valour to dare, and fortitude to die Subject(s): Women; World War I DUMB ANIMALS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Ewes that bear full-sized well-formed lambs Last Line: Take a deep breath. Start over Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers DUPLICITY OF WOMEN, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This worlde is full of variaunce Last Line: Sitte on your breste, your self t'assure, %a myghty shelde of doublenesse Variant Title(s): Beware Of Doublenes Subject(s): Duplicity; Women DUSK, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Like you %letting down your purple-shadowed hair Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women DUSK, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars through my purpling pane Last Line: And the dusk. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dusk DYLAN, WE WERE LIKE THOSE FLIMSY MOONS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Two moons there are, one laked, one skied Last Line: Which imperfections yours, which neither's Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Women's Rights E IS IN HEAVEN, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source Last Line: To relinquish, if there were %any way on earth Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women EACH DAY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Each day Last Line: A fugitive deer %to the heathen oak Subject(s): Women's Rights EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only Last Line: Dead center of her life Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EARLY LOSSES: A REQUIEM. PART 1, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nyanu was appointed %as my lord. The husband chosen Last Line: The sound itself is all Subject(s): African Americans - Women EARLY LOSSES: A REQUIEM. PART 2. THE CHILD, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound like a small wind Last Line: The sound itself is all Subject(s): African Americans - Women EARLY LOSSES: A REQUIEM. PART 2. THE CHILD, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound like a small wind Last Line: Her only treasure %and never spent Subject(s): African Americans - Women EARRINGS, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: A bialik tradition back home was Last Line: The empty holes %grown shut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women EARTH MOTHER, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old/ bells. Bells. Bells Last Line: I can see you coming Subject(s): Women EARTH WOMAN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: She sits weaving %her dreams Last Line: Like soft sand on an %open grave Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EASTER MONDAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last letter that I had from france Last Line: There are three letters you will not get Variant Title(s): Second Love: 4 Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I EASTER SUNDAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Outside: rivulets, runnels, ice-fingers Last Line: To be transmogrified, our bodies, floating continents Subject(s): Women's Rights EAT, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is holding my infant son Last Line: And with a bamboo rice stick paddle, %she slaps another help helping onto my plate Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women EATING CLAY, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face damp on a lover's thigh and scratchy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 2: 25. THE VIRGIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother! Whose virgin bosom was uncrost Last Line: Of high with low, celestial with terrene! Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Virgin Subject(s): Catholics; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary ECCLESIASTICUS: JESUS, SON OF SIRACH, by APOCRYPHA BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I am the mother of fair love Last Line: My memory is unto everlasting generations Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ECHO, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I asked of echo, t' other day Last Line: "quoth echo (sotto voce), -- ""take her!" Variant Title(s): Ego Et Echo; A Fantasy Subject(s): Echoes; Women ECHO AND THE LOVER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "echo! Mysterious nymph, declare" Last Line: "who is as fair as phoebe? Answer! / ann, sir" Subject(s): Women ECHO OF A SCREAM, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I understand the rules against touching children wrong Last Line: It is you, squatting down, skinned %among the ruins Subject(s): Women's Rights ECHOES: 7, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill a glass with golden wine Last Line: Sighed or singing, nearer death. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Women ECHOING., by FRANCINE PORAD Poem Source Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ECLOGUE 4, SELS., by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ECSTASY, by VIRGINIA A. HOUSTON Poem Source First Line: Even here, dwelling in the chaos Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EDEN, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: Ever since I discovered %lilith, things Last Line: Adam %notices but says nothing %this knowledge of our power %sticks in his throat Subject(s): Jews - Women EDEN, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Awake in adam's arms Last Line: The world's time before that first taste Subject(s): Women EDEN INCUNABULUM, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So his luciferous kiss, ecliptic : me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Death; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Dead, The EDITH; A TALE OF THE WOODS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woods -oh! Solemn are the boundless woods Last Line: That lovely sleep had melted into death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods EDUCATION', by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: The rain is slipping, dripping down the street Last Line: While you sew %row after row Subject(s): Women; World War I EDWARD LEAR, by LEE UPTON Poem Source First Line: Never can one choose to be %a laureate of restlessness Last Line: No weeping without purchases Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Last Line: Everyone silent, moving - take my hand. Speak to me Subject(s): Jews - Women EGO, by ANNIE VIVANTI Poem Source First Line: O world, you old customs officer Subject(s): Women's Rights EGOMANIA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She-she-who is this she but my creation Last Line: With hands stretched out—and feet that stray and falter. Subject(s): Desire; Egoism & Egotism; Hope; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Optimism; Male-female Relations EGYPTIAN BRIDE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, joseph, I am of so little use to you Last Line: Your self, your god, and pharaoh - and your job - %take precedence and priority over me Subject(s): Women - Bible EIGHT FROG DREAMS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: A more innocent creature than the tree-frog Last Line: By outdreaming them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged EIGHT RABBITS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: Eight rabbits hang skinned in pale spring sun. Old Last Line: Questioning everything, even my rabbits, cold in the sunshine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar Last Line: And swears -- thy world, columbus, shall be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Liberty; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men EL BESO, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight - and you Last Line: And again, quiet -- the stars, %twilight -- and you Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EL GRECO'S BARMAID, by JACK STEWART Poem Source First Line: In small town life, lovers are grist Last Line: Only after she pins her hair and dresses Subject(s): Women EL PROFESOR JUAN BAUTISA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And snips with a pair of scissors seven times two kids free! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ELAINE, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the photogrpahs %you're tan and slim Last Line: That far from %your control Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ELEANOR, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Eleanor was Last Line: And said 'yes sir' and 'good afternoon' Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment ELEANOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cherry-red her mouth was Last Line: Joyfully borne along. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Women ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism ELEGIAC SONNET: 57. TO DEPENDENCE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dependence! Heavy, heavy are thy chains Last Line: Still to the mountain nymph may offer mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism ELEGY, by F. M. BANCROFT Poem Source First Line: Severed %your breast Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women ELEGY, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: June, %and you are gone at ninety-one Last Line: That sabbath candle at no one's table. Grandma, %who will say the evening blessing? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ELEGY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: A gun shoved to my head Last Line: Flying from the roof of a tenement Subject(s): Identity; Women ELEGY, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: We were bridesmaids in the same wedding Last Line: Through a new ritual you went on %marrying - marrying Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY FOR A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, by NAZIK AL- MALAIKA Poem Source First Line: When she died no face turned pale, no lips trembled Last Line: Playing in deep forgetfulness %playing alone Subject(s): Women ELEGY FOR CATHERINE KAROLYI AND GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Withered olives on your grounds, your elegant house Last Line: The fault of earth and sky Subject(s): Women's Rights ELEGY FOR JORGE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Night nudges closer Last Line: Even its heart %is full of broken wings Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: And now - is the pain gone? Last Line: That I am beginning to open the book Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY FOR THE ARTIST, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Chicken feathers fly %at windshields Last Line: For color rooting in his heart Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women ELEGY OF A KNIGHT: 1. SEPTEMBER, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: Death's carnival was at its height, amman Last Line: Give us your catch, o sea, for this day is a feast, %oh what a feast! Subject(s): Arabs - Women ELEGY OF A KNIGHT: 2. THE REDEEMER, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: In the paroxysm of blood and fire, and the flood of insanity Last Line: From the ashes of death he shall come, %his death is birth, he shall surely come Subject(s): Arabs - Women ELEGY: 4.2. A ROMAN MATRON TO HER HUSBAND, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O paulus! Vex my grave with tears no more Last Line: Heaven waits the pure in heart: be mine the prize %to soar triumphant to the realms of day Subject(s): Graves; Women ELEGY: THE POET INVOKES THE SPIRITS OF THE ELEMENTS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sylphs, who banquet on my delia's blush Last Line: And burst my feeble body's frail control. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Love; Obsessions; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women ELEMENTS, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: During those afternoons %you climbed upstairs and into me Last Line: Unable to endure burning Subject(s): Women's Rights ELEPHANT GOES MAD IN DULUTH, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I read in the papers the other day Last Line: The circus would never be the same Subject(s): Homeless; Women ELEUTHERIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was named eleutheria Subject(s): Child Molesting; Fathers & Sons; Freedom; Marriage; Relationships; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Child Abuse; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Male-female Relations; Feminism ELEVENS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: James a. Wright, my difficult older brother Last Line: You are the fog of language on manhattan %where it's descending Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980) ELIZABETH, by LORENE ERICKSON Poem Source First Line: Most of all, he said Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women ELIZABETH KECKLEY: 30 YEARS A SLAVE AND 4 YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall man lincoln looking out the windows Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Serfs ELM TREES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elm trees, I think -- I know, are feminine Last Line: Perhaps enchanted ladies live in them! Subject(s): Elm Trees; Women EMACIATED TEETH, by FATMA KANDIL Poem Source First Line: Where do these trees come form %like a volcano pressing on the window Last Line: The scrolls were lifted off %the spearheads of boughs Subject(s): Arabs - Women EMANCIPATION, by MRS. C. B. F. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "I work or play, as I think best" Last Line: I would not climb life's hill again --/glory be! I'm sixty! Alternate Author Name(s): Mrs. C. B. F. Subject(s): Old Age;women EMBERS, by LLOYD VAN BRUNT Poem Source First Line: An old woman %with eyes like wasps' nests Last Line: With low embers in the sky Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EMBROIDERED MEMORY, by LORENE ZAROU-ZOUZOUNIS Poem Source First Line: Arabic tapestry embroidered %into my soul %is my memory %of home Last Line: Growing with design %to touch, wear, display %a memory %of home Subject(s): Arabs - Women EMERGENCY, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: If that siren were coming for me Last Line: I'd blindfold my theories and let them feel %their way home Subject(s): Women's Rights EMIGRATION, by LISA DOMINGUEZ ABRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Last week I scrubbed yellow shadows Subject(s): United States - Foreign Population; Women EMIGRE JEWESS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Farther than the west wind I am going Subject(s): Jews - Women; Women's Rights EMMA REMEMBERS SOMETHING OF THE WORLD SERIES, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: She remembers the schoolboys' envy Last Line: Say bob gibson. Say father. Say daughter Subject(s): Women EMMA'S EVENSONG, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: Cleaving, I call, -- no longer bright-souled Last Line: Bury our dark decembers Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights EMPRESS BRAND TRIM: RUBY REMINISCENCES, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: He was still uncle Last Line: And they always did Subject(s): African Americans - Women EMPTY WINTER STREET., by ALEXIS ROTELLA Poem Source Last Line: Fighting the wind Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ENCOUNTER, by IRENE CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Younger than we, she climbed the muddy hill Last Line: And pitying watched us down the sodden road. Subject(s): Poverty; Women END OF A MARRIAGE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Three years after the death Last Line: How to divorce a man %who has been dead three years? Subject(s): Absence; Child Molesting; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women ENDINGS, by LYNN KOZMA Poem Source First Line: Frail as procelain Last Line: Impossible to travel %that far Subject(s): Women ENDURANCE, by FRAN PORTLEY Poem Source First Line: We women who have lived Last Line: Lift bright blossoms to empty air Subject(s): Women ENEMY IS THE DARK., by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Last Line: He gave me cool water in a yahrzeit glass Subject(s): Jews - Women ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women ENGRAVING TWENTY-NINE, by FADHILA CHABBI Poem Source First Line: I left nothing behind me Last Line: The sea snake slithers from one culture to another Subject(s): Arabs - Women ENHEDUANNA AND GOETHE, by AMAL AL- JUBURI Poem Source First Line: We are both different: %you thought and spoke your verses Last Line: But all of that from behind a veil Subject(s): Arabs - Women ENLIGHTENMENT, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Who can believe in labels, periods Last Line: Between forefinger and thumb Subject(s): Women's Rights ENOUGH, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: William carlos williams, I'm sick of your poem Last Line: So much depends on a wheelbarrow, dumping her into an early grave Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ENOUGH, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Holding nothing, your stomach Last Line: Sequin, you grow exquisite Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ENOUGH SAID, by CLARK MCADAMS Poem Text First Line: Votes for women Last Line: Tells the tale. Subject(s): Disasters; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Women's Rights; Feminism ENRICA, 1865, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came among us from the south Last Line: Deep at our deepest, strong and free. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women ENTER INVISIBLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If possible, if nurses Last Line: By a winding scarf, rising to a crown Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients ENTERING SMOOT, WYOMING POP. 239, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: We'd come here maybe twice a year Last Line: At the old church-house lane %and we went over it twice Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women ENVOI, by ROSARIO FERRE Poem Source First Line: To my mother, and to my mother's monument Subject(s): Women's Rights ENVOI TO POEM TO THE VIRGIN, by LAURA TERRACINA Poem Source First Line: Whoever may be chance or of necessity Subject(s): Women's Rights EPHEMERA, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a woman who makes my eye Last Line: A blur of dust down the street again. Subject(s): Women EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear cupid, (I cried) do consult with your mother" Last Line: And my chloe at length fell in love with another Subject(s): Love - Loss Of;women EPIGRAM, by ROBERT NUGENT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart still hovering round about you Last Line: 18th century epigram. Alternate Author Name(s): Nugent, Earl Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Transience; Women; Impermanence EPIGRAM ON OUR LADY OF BLACHERNAE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: If thou seekest the dread throne of god on earth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIGRAM ON THE ANNUNCIATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, blissfulest maiden Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIGRAM: 1, 62, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You ask what kinds of girl I like and don't like Last Line: But not one who hangs on my neck Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Women EPIGRAM: LADY BIOGRAPHER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She devotes her life to the lives of others, Subject(s): Biography; Women - Writers; Biographers EPIGRAM: TO THE MOST HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Queen %thou holdest in thine arms Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPILOGUE, by FRANCES TALBOT Poem Text First Line: And must I then -- the fatal knot once tied Last Line: To crown our triumph as the curtain falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Morley, Countess Of Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism EPILOGUE TO 'THE PRINCESS OF CLEVES', by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A qualm of conscience brings me back agen Last Line: But damn'd confessing is flat popery. Subject(s): Love; Women EPILOGUE TO PHAEDRA AND HIPPOLITUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, to-night your pity I implore Last Line: And spare poor phaedra for ismena's sake. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Soul; Women EPIPHANY, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: Those who live in country places Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EPIPSYCHIDION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! Sister of that orphan one Last Line: And come and be my guest -- for I am love's. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Sea; Viviani, Teresa Emilia; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Ocean EPISTLE TO CLEMENA. OCCASIONED BY AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE AUTHOR, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Though you my resolution still accuse / and for misanthropy condemn the muse Last Line: But harder yet an honest man to choose. Subject(s): Fidelity; Marriage; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPISTLE TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON (1810), by CONSTANCE-MARIE DE SALM-DYCK Poem Source First Line: You who are great both in peace and war Subject(s): Women's Rights EPISTLE TO THE GOD OF LOVE, SELS., by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: Adam, david samson, solomon Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Women's Rights EPISTLE TO THE LADY ANNE CLIFFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the tender youth of those fair eyes Last Line: Than th' ancestors' fair glory gone before. Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Eyes; Praise; Silence; Women; Youth EPISTLE TO THE LADY LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though virtue be the same when low she stands Last Line: By which, when all consumes, your fame shall live. Subject(s): Bedford, Lucy, Countess Of (1581-1627); Fame; Nature; Virtue; Women; Russell, Lucy, Countess Of Bedford; Reputation EPISTLES ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF WOMEN: 1, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, o my friend, my anna, nor disdain Last Line: Be hushed, my plaintive lyre! My listening friend, adieu! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism EPISTLES ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF WOMEN: 2, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more my muse uplifts her drooping eye Last Line: Proves every mode of female servitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism EPISTLES ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF WOMEN: 3, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye heaven-taught bards, who first for human woe Last Line: Thou, my calm friend, thou moralize the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Martyrs; Rome, Italy; Women's Rights; Feminism EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beneath this stone, a lump of clay, / lies arabella young" Last Line: Began to hold her tongue Subject(s): Epitaphs;women EPITAPH, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: She never shook the stars from their appointed courses Last Line: And she rode good horses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EPITAPH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing one for the giantess Subject(s): Women; Death; Dead, The EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism EPITAPH AS BIDEFORD, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies the body of mary sexton Last Line: Who pleased many a man, but never vexed one, %not like the woman who lies under the next stone Subject(s): Women EPITAPH FOR A COWARD, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: He loved her by surprise Last Line: Of his truth Subject(s): Women's Rights EPITAPH FOR A DARLING LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her hours were yellow sands, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women; Beauty EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, these dear remains contain'd a mind Last Line: His debt to worth, to excellence, and you! Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; God; Religion; Women; Dead, The; Theology EPITAPH TO MRS. FRELAND, IN EDWELTON CHURCHYARD, NOTTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She drank good ale, strong punch, and wine Last Line: And lived to the age of ninety-nine Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I; Cadavers; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Headless, lacking foot and hand Last Line: I beseech all women's sons %know I was a mother once Subject(s): Corpses; Women; World War I EPITHALAMION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You left me gasping on the shore Last Line: A milky flank, a drowned, reviving face. Subject(s): Marriage; Mermaids & Mermen; Sea; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ocean; Feminism EPITOME, by RUTH G. DIXON Poem Source First Line: Emerges now a hero new Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EQUALITY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most favored lady in the land Last Line: "I love you,"" I have known it all!" Subject(s): Women; Equality; Love – Nature Of EQUALITY, by ARMANDA GUIDUCCI Poem Source First Line: And now you tell me (it's your voice) Subject(s): Women's Rights EQUALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful dancing-women wove their maze Last Line: "shall be as all the saints are, in the dust." Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Lust; Seduction; Theater & Theaters; Women's Rights; Stage Life; Feminism EQUESTRIAN, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The desire to sleep and sleep Last Line: The gentlest bit, but steel Subject(s): Women ERASURES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: I'm beginning to forget names, faces Last Line: As I listen to my breath - %the oldest sound I know Subject(s): Jews - Women ERATO ERRATUM, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: You say I am your prism and your muse Last Line: When I'm alone, I put you in quatrains Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ERMINE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: All night the colors Subject(s): Rape; Women ESCAPE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows, shadows Last Line: Profound. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows ESCAPE, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the old woman trapped there %would call Last Line: Pushing her hungers into the world's dark corners %everyone denies her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ESKIMO OCCASION, by JUDITH GREEN RODRIGUEZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am in my eskimo-hunting-song mood Last Line: Mummy is singing at breakfast and dancing! / so big! Subject(s): Women; Eskimos ESKIMO OCCASION, by JUDITH GREEN RODRIGUEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am in my eskimo-hunting-song mood Last Line: Mummy is singing at breakfast and dancing! %so big! Subject(s): Women ESSENTIAL MEDICINE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In temples, palaces, museums Last Line: And bird melodies on a cool spring morning Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ESTEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your name, esther, in your mother's shy campesino voice Last Line: Beyond my reach, deep in the mute heart Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ESTHER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Let's face it %(I told my mirror) Last Line: But I didn't have to do it %always remember that Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights ESTHER, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Sweet jewish maid, crown'd with a monarch's / love Last Line: We bring to thee. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History ETYMOLOGY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I understand her well because I too practice love Last Line: That is a larger that. Subject(s): Faith; Language; Love; Mythology - Classical; Violence; Women's Rights; Belief; Creed; Words; Vocabulary; Feminism EULOGY FOR A FALLEN FRIEND, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I don't know where I was when president kennedy died Last Line: By the ordinary affection of one who asks only affection in %return Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children Last Line: "henceforth shall bear." Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids EURYDICE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I walk out - %walk out on my wedding day Last Line: Mad hags will someday tear him limb from limb %from limb %from limb Subject(s): Women EURYDICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Negress serene though underground Last Line: Tugged northward into night Subject(s): African Americans - Women EURYDICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Negress serene though underground Last Line: You gone, negress serene, %tugged northward into night Subject(s): African Americans - Women EURYDICE REVEALS HER STRENGTH, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Dying is the easy part Last Line: Singing to myself, not looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights EURYNOME, by ELENI FOURTOUNI Poem Source First Line: I feared your wrath eurynome Last Line: Give to no man %your time of life Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ol / d / er / to make a spectable Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Witchcraft & Witches; Women; Spiritualists EVANGELLE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ol %d %er %to make a spectable Last Line: O yes she did she did Subject(s): Mediums; Poetry And Poets; Witchcraft And Witches; Women EVE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As you dream Last Line: Remorselessly Subject(s): Women's Rights EVE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep over me you bent your head Last Line: You bent your head deep over me Subject(s): Bible; Jews - Women EVE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway Last Line: Hoarding this apple %in my hand Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women EVE MEETS MEDUSA, by MICHELENE WANDOR Poem Source First Line: Medusa. Sit down Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women EVE OH EVE, by TASLIMA NASRIN Poem Source First Line: Why won't eve eat of the fruit? Last Line: Eve, if you get hold of the fruit %don't ever refrain from eating Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Women's Rights; Eve; Feminism EVE TO HER DAUGHTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was not I who began it Last Line: He has turned himself into god %who is faultless, and doesn 't exist Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Women's Rights EVEN IN DREAMA, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: We understand neither the whirlwind nor the whirlwind Last Line: We learn the locked way not to go Subject(s): Women's Rights EVEN IN PARADISE, by CAROL MICKETT Poem Source First Line: Women are as they are. Perle drapes eighty years in pink silk Last Line: And perle, wrapped in white silk, tips the man who gives us shade Subject(s): Heaven; Women EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Saxophones; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs EVEN MUSIC, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drive toward the juan de fuca strait Last Line: Even the saxophone, its blind, %unearthly moan Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Saxophones; Singing And Singers; Women EVENING CHANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew before our lady's picture Last Line: We will trust and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Mary And Martha (bible); Peace; Portraits; Roses; Women In The Bible EVENING GRACE, by LINDA-RUTH BERGER Poem Source First Line: She comes washed for sleep Last Line: Her gold chain has no clasp Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVENING OF THE VISITATION, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go, roads, to the four quarters of our quiet distance Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Last Line: Of how it calls and calls to us without words Subject(s): Memory; Women EVENING, EAST OF WHEELING, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: Malatcha took an hour to reconcile Last Line: She just weeds, having let the weeds %grow big, her anger just so wild Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVENING, FOUR MILE, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: Incredible, the softness of this air Last Line: Through all the lovely evening and the dark Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers EVENLY MATCHED, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Your word against mine Last Line: Exposed to high levels %of jealousy Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 1, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Are the omina favorable? %scribes know the king's spittle Last Line: Urge him to tend his kingdom %of impertinence Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 2, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When the naked lady stooped to bathe %in the gushings of a spring Last Line: Then the apple-flesh as usual %after the bite turned brown Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 3, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In the kitchen, the gregarious, hovering flies Last Line: Does purity of lust last one night only? %in the breakfasting kitchen, the peacock screams Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 4, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The wind blows and the page turns over Last Line: And oh their teeth like milk were white %and their mouths like wine were red Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 5, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Should there be merriment at a funeral? Last Line: From the ardent flowers %not wishing to outstay their visit Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: 6, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The wind blows and the page turns over %to bathsheba a babe was born Last Line: And in their shared and naked suffering %the wise child, love, was conceived Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVENTS LEADING TO THE CONCEPTION OF SOLOMON, THE WISE CHILD: CODA, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Over the rocky dorsals of the hills %the pilgrim buses of april arrive Last Line: Below the hills and on to the hills %that surrounded jerusalem Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible EVER NOTICE HOW IT IS WITH WOMEN?, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: The guy asked me Subject(s): Women EVERY DAY, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: War is no longer declared Subject(s): Women's Rights EVERY DAY THAT I LOVE YOU, by TERESITA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Each day's morning tastes of thinking of you Subject(s): Women EVERY HUNGRY SPARROW, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: There was a woman lovely and unkind Last Line: And every hungry sparrow to be her friend Subject(s): Birds; Women EVERY TIME AND EVERY WHERE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: For you are fair, my love. Yes, you are fair Last Line: For you are fair, my love. Yes, you are fair. %my love for you is every time and every where Subject(s): Women - Bible EVERY WOMAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every woman is a wild, free thing Last Line: Far and wide! Subject(s): Women EVERYBODY BUT ME, by MARGARET GOSS BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: You say you believe in democracy for everybody Last Line: It will mean me Subject(s): African Americans - Women EVERYTHING IS VERY SIMPLE, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: Everything is very simple much Subject(s): Women's Rights EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the urination of astronauts Subject(s): Women EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 3, by DAINIS HAZNERS Poem Source First Line: A squatting woman grins, or Last Line: Bones brushing, wings enfold me Subject(s): Angels; Birth; Women EVERYWOMAN HER OWN THEOLOGY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nailing them up to the cathedral door Last Line: My paper will tell this being where to find me Subject(s): Religion; Women; Theology EVERYWOMAN HER OWN THEOLOGY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nailing them up to the cathedral door Last Line: In a kitchen, and bump its chest against mine, %my paper will tell this being where to find me Subject(s): Religion; Women EVIE, by ELLIN E. CARTER Poem Source First Line: She lived a little, for a long time Last Line: In the snapshot, left without a word %evading scrutiny Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVILDOER, by GABRIELLE WOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Someone is upset Subject(s): Women's Rights EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EX MARIA VIRGINE, by NORBERT ENGELS Poem Source First Line: And mary said, 'before the void was filled' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible EXAMINATION II, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The door opens Last Line: A long way to the stabat mater and to death Subject(s): Girls; Women EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Last Line: And I, having exchanged with her, will swim %away, in the cool water, out of reach Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming; Women EXCHANGE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I gave you my white neck Last Line: You gave me your life Subject(s): Rape; Women EXCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul selects her own society Last Line: Like stone. Subject(s): Solitude; Soul; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Loneliness EXCULPATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou dare to blame the woman Last Line: Woman wavers but to seek him -- is not then the fault in thee? Subject(s): Selfishness; Women EXILE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we fled the country, papi Last Line: Eager, afraid, not yet sure of the outcome Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women EXILE, by SANIYYAH SALEH Poem Source First Line: For grief %he wore those colorful bells Last Line: The borders of my grave Subject(s): Arabs - Women EXITS AND ENTRANCES, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through random doors we wandered Last Line: But armed with the invincible sword and shield %of our own names and faces Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Identity EXODUS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are coming down the pike Last Line: As you come down the pike? Subject(s): Hiking; Walking; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism EXODUS, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: Rank fennel and broom Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling Last Line: Carrying her, slightly swaying home Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping EXPOSITION OF THE CONTENTS OF A CAB, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victoria clementina, negress Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Taxis EXPOSITION OF THE CONTENTS OF A CAB, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Victoria clementina, negress Last Line: Except linen, embroidered %by elderly women? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Taxis EXULTATION, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: O day! %with sun glowing Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women EYES, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: Seen from the balcony, looking down Last Line: Aglitter through the smoke. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Night Clubs; Striptease Dancers; Women EYES ON THE PRIZE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Shrouded in this circle of flames Last Line: Do you hear me? %you are free Subject(s): Identity; Women FABLES FOR THE LADIES: LOVE AND VANITY, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breezy morning breath'd perfume Last Line: And centres every fond desire. Subject(s): Fables; Love; Vanity; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE FEMALE SEDUCERS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said of widow, maid, and wife Last Line: Sister, come, and turn no more.' Subject(s): Fables; Seduction; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hate the face, however fair Last Line: You only her defects reveal. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE PANTHER, HORSE, AND OTHER BEASTS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who seeks to win the fair Last Line: Spurn'd at the crowd, and sought the plain. Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Horses; Panthers; Women; Allegories FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE POET AND HIS PATRON, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, caelia, is your spreading waist Last Line: The arts that taught them first to rise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Women FACES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: There are two pictures hanging on my wall Last Line: And mary maiden gray the mother of me! Subject(s): Creative Ability; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Inspiration; Creativity; Virgin Mary; Theology FACING AN HOUR-GLASS, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: I see your outline Last Line: Your feet in the dust. Subject(s): Girls; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women; Sex Organs; Genitalia FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the encyclopedia %are facts on which you can't improve Last Line: The female hyena, it is %very large' Subject(s): Encyclopedia; Mammals; Reproductive System; Women FACTORY, ONE GOES THERE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Sit on a crate. %tensions, forgetting Subject(s): Women - Writers FACTORY, THE FACTORY UNIVERSE, THE ONE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: One is inside, in the great factory universe, the one %breathing for you Subject(s): Women - Writers FACTS, by SUE DORO Poem Source First Line: Somewhere between days when we can't find anything good to say Last Line: And you get very very very tired %and that's a fact Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women FADED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah face, young face, sweet with unpassionate joy Last Line: Filling my stillness here. She sings it well. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Women FAILURE, by LINA TIBI Poem Source First Line: I can't talk to you now Last Line: I will stretch my loneliness %a bed, %for you to sleep Subject(s): Arabs - Women FAIR MAIDEN, WHO IS THIS BAIRN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faith of years is broken Last Line: Once bound my soul to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Women; Belief; Creed; Destiny FAIR SEX AVENGED BY THE FAIR SEX ... SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thalia, you will remember that recently I made Subject(s): Women's Rights FAIRS, WITH FIREWORKS. A MIX OF PEOPLE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Nothing is possible in a state of euphoria Subject(s): Women - Writers FAIRY FAVORS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou wear the gift of immortal bloom? Last Line: Bid the bright, calm close of our lives be one! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women FAITH, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Longlegged boys leapt from rooftop to rooftop Last Line: Full splits on a floor of dark air, each time a happy ending. %isn't that enough? Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FAITH, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Hard to believe the earth Last Line: Is more beautiful for its shadow %of flowering judas Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FAITH AND WORKS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rehab's faith and works combine and conspire Last Line: To the reign of god beyond our present seeing %but not beyond the reach of our believing Subject(s): Women - Bible FAITH IN WORDS, by JO CARSON Poem Source First Line: Remember: words are all pretenders Last Line: Words have the same light as the moon Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FALLEN, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Source First Line: He was wounded and he fell in the midst of hoarse shouting Last Line: He felt her near him, and the weight dropped off - %suddenly Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN, by DIANA GURNEY Poem Source First Line: Shall we not lay our holly wreath Last Line: Silent christmas they are keeping; %ours the sorrow, ours the loss Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLEN ONES, by ANNA CATES Poem Source First Line: The end- %the street of streets Last Line: Realizing they've been eating it! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Poetry And Poets; Women FALLING LEAVES; NOVEMBER 1915, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: Today, as I rode by Last Line: But in their beauty strewed %like snowflakes falling on the flemish clay Subject(s): Women; World War I FALLING THROUGH SNOW, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Together, trekking across the mountain towards Last Line: The blizzard, panic-stricken, resolute Subject(s): Women FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart will break - I'm sure it will Last Line: And now he's as he ought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Women; Sorrow; Sadness FALSE...FALSE, by THURAYYA MALHAS Poem Source First Line: False...False %everything is false %under the sun %above the sun Last Line: Under the sun %above the sun %and around Subject(s): Arabs - Women FAMILIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We burn in the memory Last Line: Single body? Subject(s): Women's Rights FAMILY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin - she %must have been in that Last Line: The greenness gone someplace else Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY DYNAMICS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Their five year old city grandson Last Line: And come to you in summer.' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina FAMILY JEWELS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I live in a town Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE DARK ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We used to play without the cousins in the dark room. Remember Last Line: Even darker %room Subject(s): Women's Rights FAMILY PICNIC, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: All yellow and pink, child Last Line: Holding you, she recrosses continents Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY PORTRAIT, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: Our lady is my fear Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the picture man comes Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the picture man comes Last Line: As-years later-I'd itch for what's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women; Relatives FAMILY STORIES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a boyfriend who told me stories about his family Last Line: Deep in the icing, a few still burning Subject(s): Family Life; Story-telling; Women FAMOUS LOWELL GIRLS, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: That's that for those famous lowell girls Last Line: Bruce o'hanlon is in the low light of market citizenship %after two years the govering of a factory Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Women FANCIES, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid parted clouds, all silver-edged Last Line: And life's strange tale is told. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Women FANTASY, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sailed in my dreams to the land of night Last Line: And whistled a song to the dark-haired queen Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My knees recall the pockets Last Line: And certainly attended. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 2. SOMEONE INSIDE ME REMEMBERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That my knees must be hidden away Last Line: Than myself Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Prayer; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 3. AGAIN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the year of war Last Line: Of another life. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; War FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who did I fail, who Last Line: Of rescue, rescue. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage FAR MEMORY: 5. SINNERMAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizontal one evening Last Line: And my own whispered / hosanna? Subject(s): Convents; Memory; Nuns; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 6. KARMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The habit is heavy Last Line: No whole abiding / sister Subject(s): Habits; Sisters; Women & Religion FAR MEMORY: 7. GLORIA MUNDI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So knowing, / what is known? Last Line: In one life. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Women & Religion FAREWELL, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: No more %the fell of your hand Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women FAREWELL EARTH, by PENINNAH BRAUDE Poem Source First Line: How I love to breathe the air of you Last Line: One tear. %one Subject(s): Jews - Women FAREWELLS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I went around saying Last Line: Departed or not to arrive Subject(s): Women's Rights FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER Poem Text First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home. Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FARM WIFE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is the clean apron, good for fire Last Line: Where men may come, sons and lovers, %daring the cold seas of her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of self service Last Line: Is come close and touch me. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FAST SPEAKING WOMAN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I don't have spit Last Line: Coincidence of the same for all wandering spirits. Subject(s): Women FASTING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A light-%headed dizzy Last Line: Gorged on %god's will Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FAT, by TONI MERGENTIME LEVI Poem Source First Line: Sensing behind her back %that I had slimmed Last Line: Slipping out the door at seventeen %dressed only in my nerve and bones Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAT BLUES, by CHARMAINE CROWELL Poem Source First Line: So you're twenty-five, three kids, on welfare and getting fat Subject(s): Women FAT IN AMERICA, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: This is no joke. She is fat and happy in the u.S.A. The kind of woman Last Line: These are the platforms of faith -- holy and round and strong Subject(s): Faith; Native Americans; Women FATE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: He rises before dawn Last Line: Long days recycle themselves Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina FATHER, by JEAN LIPKIN Poem Source First Line: Lately his haunch has grown stiff Subject(s): Old Age; Women FATHER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: In the dining room painting of my childhood Subject(s): Rape; Women FATHER'S ADVICE, by LORI HORVITZ Poem Source First Line: You're too lonely, that's why you can't sleep at Last Line: Get married and get it over with Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FATHERS, by CECILE L. MARTINDALE Poem Source First Line: My father would sing to me Last Line: Or turn a leaf and guide small fingers %to the braille of the underside Subject(s): Jews - Women FATHERS WITH DAUGHTERS, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Watching this one now in her painless sleep Last Line: For men without sons there is always this Subject(s): Women FATIMA, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: God exists. Instead %we are a group of teenage girls, drunk Last Line: Off a truck %and smashing into the street Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FAUCET THE BENEFACTOR, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: And knows not if the light %shall hold all around Subject(s): Women - Writers FAUST: MYSTICAL CHORUS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All that is past of us Last Line: Eternal womanhood %leads on high Subject(s): Women FAUSTINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lean back, and get some minutes' peace Last Line: Or what, faustine? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FEAR, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Subject(s): Fear; Women FEAR, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were afraid of everything: earthquakes Last Line: Waiting to be saved, the endless, wind-driven waves Subject(s): Fear; Women FEAR, by EVA PICKOVA Poem Source First Line: Today the ghetto knows a different fear Last Line: We want to work-we must not die! Subject(s): Women FEAR, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: Scared %is running as fast as you can Last Line: Or the terror %of waiting %for the verdict Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FEAR-RIDDEN, by MARGARET R. RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth feels safer dressed in gray Last Line: Who fears to live, when others fear to die. Subject(s): Fear; Women - Middle Aged FEARFUL WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arms and the girl I sing -- o rare Last Line: It's not from you we learned to be magnanimous. Subject(s): History; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Feminism FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY IN THE TEMPLE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The priests stood waiting in the holy place Last Line: Of faith, and hope, and everlasting rest. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FEBRUARY LETTER, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Dear mother, %my mother-in-law Last Line: To show against the last %swatches of snow Subject(s): Women FEELINGS AS OBJECTS, OBJECTS AS FEELING, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I see the black boulder hanging in the sky Last Line: You've used up your days %in the anteroom of hell Subject(s): Women's Rights FEMALE AUTHOR, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world: Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Writers FEMALE EDUCATION FOR GREECE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why break'st thou thus the tomb of ancient night Last Line: "give them the book of god?"" immortal shades! -- we will." Subject(s): Education; Greece; Women; Greeks FEMALE EDUCATION; ADDRESSED TO A SOUTH AMERICAN POET, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of the living lyre Last Line: That mocks the blight of time. Subject(s): De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Freedom; Nature; Wisdom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism FEMALE GLORY, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mongst the world's wonders, there doth yet remain Last Line: Mistress o' th' world and me, and laura is her name. Subject(s): Women FEMALE MASCULINITY, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two guys sucking each other in the steam room Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FEMALE NUDE OF A WOMAN I'VE NEVER SEEN NAKED, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: We've missed the point perhaps in making something beautiful Last Line: Now, imagine someone loving you for all that Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Women FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, by GAURI DESHPANDE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes you want to talk Last Line: You know both that you've spoken %of love and despair and ungrateful children Subject(s): Women FEMALES, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The female fox she is a fox Last Line: As truly as the male. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism FEMININE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She might have known it in the earlier spring Last Line: "my neck and cried, ""love, we have lost a year!" Variant Title(s): A Woman's Way Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Time; Women FEMININE ARITHMETIC, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On me he shall ne'er put a ring Last Line: Will not he be a hundred and twenty? Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Women FEMININE IF, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: If you can wait on those who'll keep you waiting Last Line: Don't wonder what it's like to be a nun Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FEMININE TALK, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you share the present dread Last Line: Within the usual tavern. Subject(s): Women FEMINISM, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over the world, little bees, star scouts Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FEMINISM, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All over the world, little bees, star scouts Last Line: Each missing face on the missing child poster %like the fairest of all looking into her mirror Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FEMINISM, THE BODY, AND THE MACHINE', by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Scrap of paper, little pencil Last Line: (do you understand now?) %this plunder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FEMINIST POEM NUMBER ONE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I have dreams where I am rescued by men Last Line: All of it, all of it, under one roof Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism FEMINIST POEM NUMBER ONE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I have dreams where I am rescued by men Last Line: All of it, all of it, under one roof Subject(s): Women's Rights FEMINIST'S INCORRECT WEDDING SONG, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: We talk of growth Last Line: Don't tell the women Subject(s): Marriage; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Women's Rights FEMME FATALE ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Little noose, little loop Last Line: Rabbit hole waiting to happen? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FERTILE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a typical american woman Subject(s): Fertility; Americans; Women; Human Bheavior FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate in / unpeeled flesh Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Striptease FICTIONS OF THE FEMININE: QUASI-CARNAL CREATURES, by ALICE FULTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before work, I practice bo-peep put-offs under veils Last Line: Of glowing bones: the ultimate %in unpeeled flesh Subject(s): Burlesque; Waiters And Waitresses; Women FIELD AMBULANCE IN RETREAT; VIA DOLOROSA, VIA SACRA, by MAY SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A straight flagged road, laid on the rough earth Last Line: On the sacred, dolorous way. Subject(s): Travel; Women; World War I; Journeys; Trips; First World War FIELD ANTHROPOLOGIST GIVES BIRTH, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: I hate the mundugumor Last Line: Her dawn head, bloodfeathered. My child, %your serious face Subject(s): Jews - Women FIELDS OF FLANDERS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last year the fields were all glad and gray Last Line: Lest all we owe them we should repay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism; Spring; Women; World War I FIFTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS A CHOICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O sack of cash! O prayer! Last Line: Insatiable, I rant: my portion's too small: suffering hand to mouth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIFTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what a fifty-year-old Last Line: Quitting time, do you still answer never? Subject(s): Aging; Women FIFTY, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is what a fifty-year-old Last Line: Quitting time, do you still answer never Subject(s): Aging; Women FIGHT TO THE FINISH', by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Fight the year out!' the war-lords said Last Line: On!' echoed hate where the fiends kept tryst: %asked the church, even, what said christ? Subject(s): Women; World War I FIGS, by JOSEPH RANALLO Poem Source First Line: D.H. Lawrence has said Last Line: Who nurture, tend and feed them Subject(s): Italy; Poetry And Poets; Women FIGURES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he walks by an old drunk or a stumbling vet Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Poverty; Women; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse FIGURES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he walks by an old drunk or a stumbling vet Last Line: Can't be more than what he owes Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Poverty; Women FILLMO'E STREET WOMAN, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: She is a dark woman Last Line: Was black and fierce %like her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Politics FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FINAL DRAFT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Warm breath of summerkissed wind Last Line: My poem %is for %her Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism FINAL SOLUTION, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Last night in your arms Last Line: There will be a final solution Subject(s): Identity; Women FINALLY, by DORI APPEL Poem Source First Line: She's free now, no more Last Line: Plan a trip, buy marmalade %for her solitary toast Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women FINDING, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Love, my love, you are not gone from me Last Line: I just see you in the face of all the land Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FIRE AND ICE, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: At the cemetery mom can't keep her mind Last Line: That handsome devil all her own %again, sleeping next door Subject(s): Women FIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a weave enmeshed Last Line: Into its ashes Subject(s): Women's Rights FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRESTARTER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since this morning he's gone through Last Line: And I can't take my eyes from the light Subject(s): Fire; Firefighters; Oregon; Smoke; Women FIRST DEPARTURE: MARRYING ABRAM, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I knew before I married him Last Line: Abram's holy one says, 'get thee out!' %and so we go Subject(s): Women FIRST JOB, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: Minnie chopped off their heads Last Line: That had no hope of ever coming loose Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FIRST KISS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I don't know how I imagined it might be Last Line: But your woman's kiss was full and warm and silky wet Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FIRST LESSONS, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I got up; a red shiner bloomed Last Line: That the god shall never rise from their knees is my river-to-cross Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIRST LIGHT, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: Between dreams and day an immense distance Last Line: Rinse the brine from my name Subject(s): Arabs - Women FIRST LOVE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd Last Line: To another as I did to you! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women FIRST LOVE LETTER, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest- %addressed by your hand the envelope seems Last Line: Your common-sounding, no less cherished name- %joe Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women FIRST MUSICIAN'S SONG, FR. LAODICE AND DANAE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing of the women who have borne rule Last Line: She has shewn men the power of their source again. Subject(s): Women FIRST NIGHT, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: It's the first night, I suppose Last Line: Never wake up in a million years Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Women FIRST ODE, by MADELEINE DES ROCHES Poem Source First Line: If my works are not visibly engraved Subject(s): Women's Rights FIRST REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AN OMEN, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: The gray, the blank Last Line: Them. I do not know their names Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST SNOW, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: In this car years ago. In this Last Line: Not one star in that sky Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIRST THING, by MOHJA KAHF Poem Source First Line: I am hajar the immigrant Last Line: Each step is blood, is risk: %is prayer Subject(s): Arabs - Women FIRST THOUGHTS: ON LIBERATION DAY FROM A CONCENTRATION CAMP, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: I will leave my prison Last Line: I who have dared to live to this day %now dare to leave the darkness of this place Subject(s): Jews - Women FIRST TIME, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old wives' tales didn't help Last Line: We sunk to our knees, every time I let you in Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIRST TIME I ALMOST MADE LOVE, by KATHRYN DUNN Poem Source First Line: Was with you in a motel Last Line: And wrecked the apartment, not even %when the boxes never came Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIRST TIME WE MADE SHABBOS TOGETHER., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: And indeed we have bloomed through the years Subject(s): Jews - Women FIRST TV IN A MENNONITE FAMILY: 1968, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lid of the chevy trunk couldn't close Last Line: Under his hotel window, and I knew whatever it was, %that vague, distant war had finally come Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIRST WOMAN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sarah was the first Last Line: To the stupendous %program god proposed Subject(s): Women - Bible FIRST, GRIEF, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Death is a hole. %we throw things in it. The body Last Line: Into the dark that's always there, %stung with stars Subject(s): Appalachia; Women FIRST, SECOND, AND LAST SCENE OF MORTALITY, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Silk stitch leads to silk stitch Last Line: A stem, a leaf, another leaf Subject(s): Women FIRSTBORN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The ewe with the partial prolapse of uterus and rectum Last Line: To the roots of blue violets Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FISH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She said her cunt smelled like fish Last Line: On a hot summer's night Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Reproductive System; Women FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FITNESS CLUB: RIDING THE LIFECYCLE, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: The control panel counts time, calories, miles Last Line: Daily and now has important places to go Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FIVE CAROLS FOR CHRISTMASTIDE, SELS., by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FIVE FRIVOLOUS SONGS: 2. LIP-STICK LIZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lip-stick liz was in the biz Last Line: Oh lip-stick liz! Subject(s): Murder; Prostitution; Women - Abused FIVE HYMNS TO PAIN, by NAZIK AL- MALAIKA Poem Source First Line: It gives our nights sorrow and pain; %it fills our eyes with sleeplessness Last Line: We have hidden you in our dreams, %in every note of our sad songs Subject(s): Arabs - Women FIVE KIDS SLEPT IN THE CAR ON THE LONG HIGHWAY TO L.A. THEIR MOTHER,, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source Last Line: From the snack bar. It's hotter than shit today Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Women - Abused FIVE WOMEN BATHING IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night believes itself alone Last Line: The soft compulsions of their dance Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Women FIVE WOMEN BATHING IN MOONLIGHT, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When night believes itself alone Last Line: The soft compulsions of their dance Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Women FIVE WOMEN IN SAMSON'S LIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: All of the women Last Line: A decent relationship. %what a man! Subject(s): Women - Bible FIXTURE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women, women, %women, women Last Line: She is the best dressed Subject(s): Department Stores; Women FLAMING JUNE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: All this talk about drapery and things languishing Last Line: But the dismantled locution of desire Subject(s): Women's Rights FLANDERS FIELDS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Here the scented daisy glows Last Line: Poppies bright and rustling wheat %are a desert to love's feet Subject(s): Women; World War I FLASH, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: Your face is the unexplored earth... %a night's sea and parades Last Line: The wind takes over, hides it and laughs... %amid the pigeons' wings Subject(s): Arabs - Women FLASHBACK, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: This happens in dreams all the time Last Line: There is the smell of grass as my teeth sink in Subject(s): Rape; Women FLEMISH MADONNA, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is no golden-crowned, celestial queen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FLESH, by DEBORAH LEVY Poem Source First Line: If they massacre me Subject(s): Women FLEXIBLE FLYER, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: The blizzard is over Last Line: When march stumbles over her shadow Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FLICKER OF LIGHT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The moon perched high in the black vermont sky Last Line: And all amanda could do was drive on Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, / it is I who am absent Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology FLICKERING MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, not you, %it is I who am absent Last Line: The sapphire I know is there? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLIRT, by MICHAEL KREBS Poem Source First Line: It ain't been spoke her drawing Last Line: She will teach you dreaming Subject(s): Flirtation; Teaching And Teachers; Women FLIRTATION, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The wordless voice Last Line: Are worth %the wait Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FLOATING POEM: MANHATTAN, MIDDAY, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Dressed in patent leather pumps and a wool dress coat Last Line: A wrist to take the pulse? Subject(s): Ambulances; Death; New York City; Poetry And Poets; Women FLOOD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Water asleep %all across china Last Line: Downstream in their sleep Subject(s): Environment; Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head Last Line: I stood there watching that fish flip-flop, %switch sides with every jump Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping FLOURINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little flourine, with golden hair Last Line: Darling flourine! Subject(s): Beauty; Women FLOWER AND THE LEAF, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And as I sat, the briddes herkning thus Last Line: Or who most womanly as in al thing Subject(s): Women FLOWER-PRESS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: We bend over my old flower-press Subject(s): Women FLOWERING ALMOND, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: You feed the turtles cat food Last Line: Laid lightly down along the split rail fence %each spring for years Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FLOWERING WHORE, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: When the first violets blossomed on her skin it caused a Last Line: Her young, promiscuous body Subject(s): Erotic Love; Prostitution; Women FLOWERS, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: This is a love poem to our family Last Line: Out of their centers like stars Subject(s): Women's Rights FLOWERS OF SATURDAY NIGHT, by EILEEN MALONE Poem Source First Line: One gets used to it, serving rum drinks Last Line: Oh yes, beat, one gets used to it Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women FLOWING LIGHT OF THE GODHEAD: GOD ASKS THE SOUL WHAT IT BRINGS, by MECHTHILD VON MAGDEBURG Poem Source First Line: Thou huntest sore for thy love Last Line: There will I remain %and circle evermore Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion FLUTE, by RIVKA MIRIAM Poem Source First Line: I am a woman made of fragments Last Line: Who come at night and at dawn disappear Subject(s): Flutes; Women FLYING WEST, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: When I left home a child Last Line: A country he doesn't own Subject(s): Women FOLDING THE SHEETS, by ROSEMARY DOBSON Poem Source First Line: You and I will fold the sheets Last Line: And the faint but perceptible scent of sweet clear water Subject(s): Women FOLK SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old age has come, my head is shaking Subject(s): Women FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOLLOW ME, by NADA EL- HAGE Poem Source First Line: Sir, how much do you need %of laughter and tears Last Line: Than to write you %in the size of my love! Subject(s): Arabs - Women FOOD OF LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going to murder you with love Last Line: And you'll begin to die again. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Gluttony; Love; Men; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 1. MRS. VERNON CASTLE, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fair and utter grace of you Last Line: But—lady, must you sing? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Castle, Irene Foote (1893-1969); Hearts; Likes & Dislikes; Love; Women FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 1. CYCLAMEN, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the tresses, blown Last Line: A picture -- a flower! Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Persephone; Women; Proserpine; Proserpina FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR A CHILD BORN DEAD, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: What ceremony can we fit Last Line: That grief can be as pure as this Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women FOR A GODCHILD, REGINA, ON THE OCCASION OF HER FIRST LOVE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood sister / our fingers join beneath the veins Last Line: & walk under the cool trees Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR A GODCHILD, REGINA, ON THE OCCASION OF HER FIRST LOVE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood sister %our fingers join beneath the veins Last Line: We will climb as on a swing %& walk under the cool trees Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women; Harlots; Whores; Brothels FOR A MASSEUSE AND PROSTITUTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows what love is anymore Last Line: Every hour there is less of that touch in the world Subject(s): Prostitution; Touch (sense); Women FOR A NUN, by LEO T. FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Mary - o mother of sorrow and queen of heaven! Last Line: Fold her, with tenderest love, to thy waiting heart. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary FOR A POSTCARD OF MY MOTHER AT THE BEACH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oyster weeps the pearls of denouement Subject(s): Seashore; Women - Old Age; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR A SURVIVOR OF THE MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: War's wasted era is a desert shore Last Line: Has wrecked for them for ever earth's small ways Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR A VIRGIN AND CHILD, BY HANS MEMMELINCK, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery: god, man's life, born into man Last Line: Harsh nether darkness, and make painful moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonntes For Pictures: 1. A Virgin And Child, By Hans Memmeling Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans FOR ALL, by LOUISE OTTO-PETERS Poem Source First Line: For all! We hear the words resound Subject(s): Women's Rights FOR ALL MARY MAGDALENES, by DESANKA MAKSIMOVIC Poem Source First Line: I seek mercy Subject(s): Women FOR AN AMOROUS LADY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive gnu, the staid aardvark, Subject(s): Women; Animals; Love FOR AN ANNIVERSARY, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Love, if I leave our life before you Last Line: Here, come here. Taste this Subject(s): Women FOR AN OLD WOMAN AT THE GATE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your permission slip has been stationed, decoded, stamped Subject(s): Security Checks; Women - Old Age FOR ANNE, WHO DOESN'T KNOW, by GAIL FOX Poem Source First Line: Tonight you broke into my dreams Last Line: There will never be %enough crying between us Subject(s): Women FOR BILLIE HOLIDAY, by KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lady day, lady day Alternate Author Name(s): Kgositsile, Keropatse Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers FOR COLORED GIRLS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark phases of womanhood Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans – Women FOR D.S., by CHRISTINE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: Once the stone god turned its Subject(s): Women FOR DAVID, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: Then we feed the cattle with Last Line: From words and the emptiness I feel %is forever Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR FEAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear of prowling beasts at night Last Line: Garden and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Fear; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism FOR GRAMPA, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: So, now it's come down to this: Last Line: With a grampa for a hero, I guess Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers FOR GWEN, 1969, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slender, shy, and sensitive young girl Last Line: In their footsteps pulsate daily %all her black words of fire and blood Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women FOR HATFIELD, THE RADIOLOGIST, by TERRY KENNEDY Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women FOR HER BIRTHDAY, by SUSAN WALLBANK Poem Source Subject(s): Women FOR HOMER'S MOSQUITO, by ANN LOUISE HAYES Poem Source First Line: I read the song of llion Last Line: The llion we know Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FOR IRVING, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen women were strange & forbidden phenomenons Subject(s): Aging; Women FOR JAN AS THE END DRAWS NEAR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never believed in safety Last Line: The present is this poem, o my dear. Subject(s): Aging; California; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JAN, IN BAR MARIA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though it's true we were young girls when we met Last Line: They call us janna and carolina, those two mad straniere. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Friendship; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FOR JANE KENYON, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: So tempting to imagine the unindustrious %perfection of her future Last Line: Your poems are the monstrance. We try Subject(s): Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Poetry And Poets; Women FOR JULIA IN NEBRASKA, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midwest of willa cather Last Line: A grandmother's strong hands plaited %straight down a grand-daughter's back Subject(s): Cather, Willa (1873-1947); Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women FOR M.W., by JEAN TOOMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no transcience of twilight in Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Beauty FOR MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great amazon of god behold your bread Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Bethune, Mary Mcleod (1875-1955); Teaching And Teachers FOR MARY, ON THE SNAKE, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: Two years ago, you on the east bluff Last Line: The placid surface where we're going, %even now Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women FOR MRS. NA; AGED 67, CU CHI VIETNAM, 28 DECEMBER 1985, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I always told myself %if I ever got the chance to go back Last Line: Trying to think of something else to say %besides 'I'm sorry' Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: Don't be in a hurry, miranda Subject(s): Daughters; Women FOR MY DAUGHTER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was lingering summer Last Line: I thank your star, and you. Subject(s): Birth; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Feminism FOR MY GRANDMA WHO IS DEAD, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source First Line: What if the dead are not immortal, but simply dead? Last Line: Something I cannot misremember %something you no longer need Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, RUTH LEVIN, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two gnarled tree trunks from russia Last Line: But I'll never give you a great-grandchild %only a love poem I hope you understand Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR MY MOTHER, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: I sharpen more and more to your %likeness every year Last Line: In the darkness %to leave home Subject(s): Mothers; Women FOR MY SISTER, BRENDA: TO BE READ WHILE RIDING IN THE PICKUP TO NC, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: This is the beginning of many nights Last Line: I would not lie to you unless I needed to Subject(s): Women FOR NORMA JEAN, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Fractured scales fall %sadly into the milky way Last Line: To weave a beautiful nest of tears Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women FOR OUR LADY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yeh. / billie. If someone Subject(s): Women FOR OUR LADY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yeh. %billie. If someone Last Line: Wud have led us Subject(s): Women FOR PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, by LINDA CARTER BROWN Poem Source First Line: Some of us still wear the mask Last Line: Only while we wear the mask Subject(s): Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR ROBERT BRIDGES, by ANITA WINTZ Poem Source First Line: All women born are so diverse Last Line: No man should miss their charms assessing Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights FOR ROBERT FROST, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Easy as breath, without a trace of toil Last Line: To make our songs no longer quite the same Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you sang eloquently Last Line: For this moment only Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism FOR STRONG WOMEN, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listen %sometimes, when you have innocently & mistakenly overlooked your needs Last Line: As though none of it could ever happen %ever Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights FOR STRONG WOMEN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strong woman is a woman who is straining. Subject(s): Women FOR SUCH A TIME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Esther was not seduced Last Line: She contrived to crush %the adversary of her people Subject(s): Women - Bible FOR SUSTENANCE, by COE BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: The momentum of arms and legs Last Line: Teaches its young to sing. Subject(s): Women FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was blue, so blue that day Subject(s): African Americans - Women FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky was blue, so blue that day Last Line: I have in a book for the candle light %a daisy dead and dry Subject(s): African Americans - Women FOR THE CHRISTIAN READER, by ANNA OWENA HOYERS Poem Source First Line: This book, by a woman writ Subject(s): Women's Rights FOR THE COURTESAN CH'ING LIN, by WU TSAO Poem Text First Line: On your slender body Last Line: And carry you away. Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Past; Women FOR THE GODDESS TOO WELL KNOWN, by ELSA GIDLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have robbed the garrulous streets Last Line: I ask no man pardon.) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary FOR THE MAGDALENE, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These eyes, dear lord, once brandons of desire Last Line: Thus sighed to jesus the bethanian fair, %his tear-wet feet still drying with her hair Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: Our rabbi tells us not to live in the past Last Line: Familiar road turn black with soldiers Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor & Laborers; Violence; Estrangement; Outcasts; Work; Workers FOR THE RECORD; IN MEMORY OF ELEANOR BUMPURS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out the colored girls Last Line: Planning their return %and they weren't even %sisters Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Bumpurs, Eleanor; Exiles; Labor And Laborers; Violence FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand / technologies of ecstasy Last Line: In all but szigeti’s hands Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FOR THE WOMAN WANTS NOTHING, by III HOKE S. GLOVER Poem Source First Line: Her feet on the altar Last Line: When you tocuh her %is still hers Subject(s): Women FOR THESE CONDITIONS THERE IS NO ABORTION, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say the tongue is only praxis Last Line: Not hangers and quinine and soda. Subject(s): Abortion; Slavery; Social Problems; Women - Abused; Serfs; Wife Beating FOR TWICE TEN YEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For twice ten years my father provided for me Last Line: By girls of my age on the cedar doors Subject(s): Women FOR VALOUR', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Jest bronze - you wouldn't ever know Last Line: Jest bronze - gawd! What a price to pay! Subject(s): Women; World War I FOR VIRGINIA CHAVEZ, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was never in the planning Last Line: To palm them back to living Subject(s): Friendship; Women FOR VIRGINIA CHAVEZ, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was never in the planning Last Line: That always lit your bookless room Subject(s): Friendship; Women FOR WHERE IS SHE SO FAIR?, by BERTHA DEAN FOSS Poem Text First Line: O noble poet, I have loved thee well Last Line: She had caught fire, and proven thy intent. Subject(s): Women FOR WOMEN, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: You judge severely moral values, fehme Subject(s): Women's Rights FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FORCE OF ONE VOICE, by NEIDY MESSER Poem Source First Line: In small towns you become acquainted Last Line: The long archaeology of mourning Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women FOREDOOM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight Last Line: Her soul, a bud,—that never bloomed Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FORGETTING, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Lidia rosa: today is tuesday and it is cold. In your house Subject(s): Women's Rights FORGETTING LOVE, by NATHALIE HANDAL Poem Source First Line: I am not afraid of loving, I am afraid of forgetting I loved Last Line: So that they could remember for me Subject(s): Arabs - Women FORGIVE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is easy to forgive a lot of trees Last Line: Call them a forest. Let rain fall on them Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women FORGIVENESS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each time I order her to go Last Line: Forgive myself %then as now Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women FORGOTTEN DEAD, I SALUTE YOU, by MURIEL STUART Poem Source First Line: Dawn has flashed up the startled skies Last Line: For whom he died, remember him Subject(s): Women; World War I FORGOTTEN SEX, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tore down the old movie palaces Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FORMAL POEM, by AMAL MOUSSA Poem Source First Line: In the old house %where my grandfather composed his formal poems Last Line: In the old house %love wears us like a cape %and the courtyard becomes %twice its size Subject(s): Arabs - Women FORTUNATE ONES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The fortunate ones bear scars Last Line: That look like childhood accidents Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights FOUND MONEY, by PATTI TANA Poem Source First Line: Almost every day I find Last Line: And if it's down %I call it money Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women FOUR JEWISH SYRIAN DAUGHTERS, by ADA AHARONI Poem Source First Line: My four sisters %the blood that flowed from you Last Line: Their daughters' tongues %have been grafted onto mine Subject(s): Jews - Women FOUR ON A FOLD, by PAULA SERGI Poem Source First Line: Some summer nights in the early sixties Last Line: Before we realized %how little air we'd had Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women FOUR QUARTETS: THE DRY SALVAGES: 4, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FOUR SONGS BY WAY OF CHORUS TO A PLAY: 2. FEMININE HONOURS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In what esteem did the gods hold Last Line: Than her false echo in the ear. Subject(s): Women FOUR WALLS, by BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Four great walls have hemmed me in Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women FOURTEENTH ODE, by SEKEENA SHABEN Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure of my age; descending pale %robes distant fluttering Last Line: Garbage trucks roll outside my open window %it must be 4 am Subject(s): Arabs - Women FOURTH REMOVE: IN WHICH WHAT HOLDS GIVES WAY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm a good prisoner Last Line: To redeem or fetch me now Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives FOURTH STATION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: Mothers who have seen him die - your first child, your only one Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FOURTH STATION, by RUTH SCHAUMANN Poem Source First Line: They say this is his mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible FRACAS OF LIGHT FALLING ON APPLES, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Spot of its reddishness among the green %in the ditch Subject(s): Women - Writers FRAGMENT, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of life imbued those few dim days Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women FRAGMENT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the woman with the black black skin Last Line: I am the laughing woman who's afraid to sleep. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fear FRANCES WARD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: For months and months her wagon train Last Line: And went on walking...Walking Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes FRANK ALBERT & VIOLA BENZENA OWENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She waited on the 7th floor Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women FRANK ALBERT & VIOLA BENZENA OWENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She waited on the 7th floor Last Line: The carpenter tendin to his own %movin north Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women FRANKENSTEIN OF THE PLAINS, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: She's wearing tight wranglers Last Line: Like a frankenstein of the plains Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; San Francisco; Women FRATERNITY, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, I saw an unknown woman stand Last Line: You think me pity ... Justice is my name. Subject(s): Angels; Justice; Mankind; Women & Religion; Worship; Human Race FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Women; Work; Workers FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies Last Line: And their snuff-laden breath blowing %lightly over me in my first sleep Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women FREE DRY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days says she got the free dry yesterday Last Line: There's nothin like it in this town Subject(s): Homeless; Women FREE WOMAN. AT LAST FREE!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In my own shade from a broad tree. %I am at ease Subject(s): Women FREEDOM FIGHTER, by ANTIGONE KEFALA Poem Source First Line: A freedom fighter, she said Last Line: On its elephant legs %come again Subject(s): Women FREEDOM SONG, by MARJORIE OLUDHE MACGOYE Poem Source First Line: Atieno washes dishes Last Line: Atieno's gone to glory, %atieno yo Subject(s): Death; Women FREEDOM SONG FOR THE BLACK WOMAN, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY Poem Source First Line: For the woman %african in ancestry Last Line: We are the strong women Subject(s): African Americans - Women FRENCH YOUNG LADY DOLL CA. 1845, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Dressed in white lace robe decolletee Last Line: My bisque face %will not bake one shade past bone Subject(s): Women FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strange and charming tale still haunts my mind Last Line: If my unlucky reason were upset. Subject(s): Women FRIAR BACON: A COUNTRY'S BEAUTY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee Last Line: ^1^ tint. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love; Women FRIENDS, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: Like the water's outflow, the dream continues to bleed Last Line: And no message but pigeons' moans will come Subject(s): Arabs - Women FRIENDSHIP, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we were charming backfisch Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FRIENDSHIP'S MYSTERY, TO MY DEAREST LUCASIA, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, my lucasia, since we see Last Line: Grows deathless by the sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FROM A TRENCH, by MAUD ANNA BELL Poem Text First Line: Out here the dogs of war run loose Last Line: Because we're here in hell. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War FROM AN ARTIST'S HOUSE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bundle of twigs Last Line: On twenty sheets of paper. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Houses; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FROM DARTS OF LOVE THAT DO SUCH DOLE, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Women's Rights FROM FIVE LOVESICK POEMS, by GILLIAN E. HANSCOMBE Poem Source First Line: From her grave Subject(s): Women FROM JEZEBEL HER PROGRESS, by GILLIAN E. HANSCOMBE Poem Source First Line: Men made myths Subject(s): Women FROM OOLONG TO OOMPAH, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: A thin, lightweight, translucent %person opens Last Line: Utters or exclaims ooooh %aware of true nature Subject(s): Sex; Women FROM OUTSIDE COMES THE ADEQUATE CAUSE, by GIULIA NICCOLAI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights FROM POEM TO HER DAUGHTER, by MWANA KUPONA MSHAM Poem Source First Line: Daughter, take this amulet Subject(s): Daughters; Women FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural order is being restored Last Line: Exploding like the seeds of a natural disorder Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural order is being restored Last Line: Exploding like the seeds of a ntaural disorder Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights FROM THE ANTIQUE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weary life, it is, she said Last Line: Would make and weary and fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lament; Life; Women FROM THE ART MUSEUM'S ORIENTAL WING, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Any mirror would say you're a verneer Last Line: I fear, into the blinding %point of her eye pencil Subject(s): Women FROM THE BOOK OF EXTENUATIONS, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Poor boaz thinks that he arranged that parley Last Line: One passion lasts -- the deathless lust of song. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women; Nakedness FROM THE PERSIAN (2), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are like the moon except Last Line: Most splendid naked, at night Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Love; Nature; Nudity; Women FROM THE THIRD STOREY, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt jane scribbles in the living-room Last Line: Why was I brought here %and what I have to do Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Gaskell, Elizabeth (1810-1865); Novels And Novelists; Rhys, Jean (1894-1979); Women - Writers FROM THE WINDOW, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: You know the poet who says Last Line: Vi desde...: from pablo neruda, 'caballos' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FRUIT OF THE TREE, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: In the dark ocean which rolls a molten world Last Line: God wept, for heaven seemed hollow ... Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; Women FRUSTRATION, by HAZEL L. KOPPENHOEFER Poem Text First Line: He follows women with his eyes afire Last Line: His mother bids him put his rubbers on! Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women FUGA INFERNI: PSYCHE'S OPUS CONTRA NATURAM: 1. GETTING THE GOODS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Persephone vowed how she always did admire Last Line: Good for aphrodite would be the death of psyche? Subject(s): Women FUGA INFERNI: PSYCHE'S OPUS CONTRA NATURAM: 2. EXTREME UNCTION, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Her shadow, behind her like a pushy mother Last Line: Wound of rape addressed celestial, in hell too...Late Subject(s): Women FUGA INFERNI: PSYCHE'S OPUS CONTRA NATURAM: 3. FORMAL CHEMISTRY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Without her nerve, where would psyche be? Without Last Line: Aside, and nothing less than... %you decide Subject(s): Women FUGITIVE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The supple virtue of her mind Subject(s): Women FUJI-YAMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: As an old noble-lady Last Line: A fiery heart leaps. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Old Age; Women; Japanese In The United States FULFILLMENT, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To climb a hill that hungers for the sky Last Line: And to die bleeding -- consummate with life. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks FULL FACE, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I lie in wait %for the death I will be Last Line: Then suddenly I turn and resume %my stretch of life Subject(s): Arabs - Women FULL WOMAN, CARNAL APPLE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full woman, carnal apple, hot moon Last Line: Until it is and is not more than lightning in the darkness Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Carnations; Hearts; Togetherness; Women FUNG AND EASILY FREUDENED': SABINA SPEIELREIN'S ANALYSIS: 1, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Cramped and barren...No. This diary should not start so Last Line: The shadow spread beneath me from spilled light Subject(s): Women FUNG AND EASILY FREUDENED': SABINA SPEIELREIN'S ANALYSIS: 2, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: To feel, curled under her subtle gut-music Last Line: My own: matters of choice, birth Subject(s): Women FUNG AND EASILY FREUDENED': SABINA SPEIELREIN'S ANALYSIS: 3, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: We touched; I touched your fertile need. Had our 'poetry' then Last Line: To rocket up from bethlehem Subject(s): Women FUNKY FOOTBALL, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: The 'kat' can play ball, man Last Line: They can't win Subject(s): African Americans - Women FURNITURE OF A WOMAN'S MIND, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A set of phrases learned by rote Last Line: So halloo boys! God save the king Subject(s): Women FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember this Last Line: For this woman's sake. Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating FUTURE GENERATIONS, by MARGARETE BEUTLER Poem Source First Line: Under a layer of soot and sand - a playground Subject(s): Women's Rights GAELIC CHRISTMAS, by LIAM P. CLANCY Poem Source First Line: Their hearts are filled with pity's mead Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GAELIC LITANY TO OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O great mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GALLERY OF PIGEONS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Dame fancy has a gallery Last Line: "and rhyme sweet fantasy -- ""good morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Fear; Pigeons; Soul; Women GARDEN OF THE WOMEN ONCE FALLEN: ... PUMPKINS, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: In this garden, water walks Last Line: Time of late-blooming pumpkins Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Pumpkins; Women GARDEN OF THE WOMEN ONCE FALLEN: OF BITTERNESS HERB, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: You knotted the spite blooms into a bouquet-garni Last Line: From wooden spoons of must-suck-salt Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Herbs; Women GARDEN OF THE WOMEN ONCE FALLEN: THYME, by LORNA GOODISON Poem Source First Line: Woman alone, living Last Line: You never make them know %your want Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Thyme; Women GARDENER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes to tend the garden Last Line: Into the shadow he casts on the soil? Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Women GARLAND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE, by B. I. Poem Source First Line: Here are five letters in this blessed name Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GATHERING, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Black birds rise like smoke from the hills Last Line: Grip fast to what %we must let go Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through tall grass heavy / from rain, my aunt and I wade Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through tall grass heavy %from rain, my aunt and I wade Last Line: Handpicked days in memory, %our minds' dark pantry Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GATHERING MINT, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: He woke quiet, ate potatoes and eggs Last Line: From the beaver slough Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GEECHIE WOMAN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: In shade of ancient magnolias Last Line: Into my life's meaning Subject(s): Freedom; Women GENEALOGY OF WOMEN, by SIMONIDES OF AMORGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God in his wisdom from the start Last Line: Is there no other path to tread %than that of the achaean dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Semonides Of Amorgos Subject(s): Women GENERATION GAP, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: I takes up for my colored man Last Line: Bent low to pay your dues Subject(s): African Americans - Women GENERATIONS, by DOROTHY BECK Poem Source First Line: Blue ice melts %in the jaws of spring Last Line: Your dreams now Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GENEVA, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: She was famous for kindness, geneva Last Line: And her dress all feathers and blood Subject(s): Geneva, Switzerland; Kindness; Teaching And Teachers; Women GENOA WOMAN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: You brought me a little seaweed Last Line: And how light it is in your hands Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Women GENTLEMAN OF THE PRAIRIE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: He is mulch about rosebushes Last Line: Like loam beneath a plow Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GENTLEMAN WHO SNEAKED IN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Women! Persons! Please! Allow me to speak Last Line: You're very kind - thank you. I wish you well Subject(s): Speech; Women's Rights GENTLEST LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a serious child Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GEOFFREY KEATING, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woman full of wiliness! Last Line: Of woman full of wiliness! Subject(s): Women GEOMETRY OF THE SOUL, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID Poem Source First Line: You trick your thorny rope with little joys Last Line: As if the only thing we had in common %was the shroud Subject(s): Arabs - Women GERARDA, by ELOISE BIBB THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: The day is o'er and twilight's shade Last Line: For all my life, I'll share with thee Subject(s): African Americans - Women GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GERSUIND, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some amorous demon wrought your limbs Last Line: And pray until the doom of dawn. Subject(s): Graves; Kisses; Love; Voices; Women; Tombs; Tombstones GERTRUDE STEIN, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curie Last Line: A radium of the word. Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946); Women GERTRUDE TO HAMLET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside, the turned liver Last Line: You wander my throne like measles Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights GERTRUDE; OR, FIDELITY TILL DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hands were clasped, her dark eyes raised Last Line: Strength to forsake it not! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fidelity; Wart, Gertrude Von Der; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy GERVAIS (KILLED AT THE DARDANELLES), by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Bees hummed and rooks called hoarsely outside Last Line: That frowns with dying wonder up to hissarlik's sky! Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the foreground, two women / their squinting faces Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Process Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the foreground, two women %their squinting faces Last Line: The white blur of her apron %still in motion Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Proces Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GET IT, BRING IT, AND PUT IT RIGHT HERE, SELS, by ELIZABETH SMITH Poem Source First Line: I've had a man for fifteen years Last Line: Or else he's gonna keep it out there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights GETTING ALONG, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We trudge on together, my good man and I Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Life; Walking; Women GETTING AND SPENDING, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights; Property; Feminism; Possessions GETTING HAPPY, by FORREST HAMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the men got happy in church Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GETTING OUT OF WHERE WE CAME FROM, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: I was born in brooklyn Last Line: They didn't know the house was built on a swamp Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women GEY KLAP DEM KOP IN VANT, by MILDRED BRENNER POLLNER Poem Source First Line: Go bang you head against the wall! Last Line: Her pronouncements %music to my ears! Subject(s): Jews - Women GHAFLAH-THE SIN OF FORGETFULNESS, by DIMA HILAL Poem Source First Line: Born by the mediterranean %our mothers bathe us in orange-blossom water Last Line: And tell each other %how much we miss our home Subject(s): Arabs - Women GHAZAL 2, by JOHN FALK Poem Source First Line: A beautiful woman, a sore on her neck Last Line: But we talked and talked till dawn Subject(s): Beauty; Dawn; Women GHAZALS: 50, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boot called botte sauvage renders rattlers harmless but they Last Line: Edges are jagged; when cold, the skin peels off the tongue at touch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Animals; Snakes; Women; Serpents; Vipers GHAZEL, by QURRAT AL-'AYN Poem Source First Line: The thralls of yearning love constrain in the bands of pain and calamity Last Line: Since fearing not this step to take, thou shalt gain the highest felicity Subject(s): Islam; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHAZEL, by SIDQI Poem Source First Line: He who union with the lord gains, more delight desireth not! Last Line: Thou atr soul enow, and sidqi other plight desireth not Subject(s): Public Worship; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GHOST STORIES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: They won't believe you anyway.' Last Line: Reminding: 'they'll say you were only dreaming.' Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights GHOSTS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Strange. So many gone Last Line: The galloping statues of generals Subject(s): Women's Rights GHOSTS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ghosts are women Subject(s): Women GHOULS, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: You strange old ghouls Last Line: Those dreadful lists, %of young men dead Subject(s): Women; World War I GHURBA, SELS, by RAWIA MORRA Poem Source First Line: Powerless %what we are guarding %has been violated %again and again Last Line: I have not found my home %but I have learned %to live %in my voice Subject(s): Arabs - Women GIANT RED WOMAN, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a delicious problem Subject(s): Beauty; Women GIFT FOR WAR: THE THRIFT OF LOVE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: What kind of wife would be eager for her husband to go to war? Last Line: Abram did not fall into a slime pit Subject(s): Women GIFT FROM KENYA, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I've come back many times today Last Line: However wound in death Subject(s): African Americans - Women GIFT OF THE PLAYWRIGHT, by JENNIFER COMPTON Poem Source First Line: I saw her (& her beautiful naked shoulders) Last Line: I will touch her the next time %that girl on the street Subject(s): Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Poetry And Poets; Women GIFTS, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: She sat amidst %the clutter of her life Last Line: It always makes %wonderful soup Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GIFTS AND GRATITUDE; SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT GENEROSITY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Talk about sacrifices! I do my best to believe Last Line: I am begging you Subject(s): Women GIFTS RETURNED, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must give back,' her mother said Last Line: And all the kisses, to the last. Subject(s): Courtship; Gifts & Giving; Women GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She struck all of us city brides Last Line: Our lips and practiced the dare to be taken Subject(s): Brides; Women GIORGIONE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bellini %giorgione Last Line: That I have slain you with will god forgive Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Venice, Italy; Women GIRL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lived in sinful happiness Last Line: To laugh in sunshine %and dance in rain Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - Women GIRL ON THE CREW, by KATE BRAID Poem Source First Line: The boys flap heavy leather aprons at me Last Line: I am too busy dancing to notice Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women GIRL AT THE MIRROR, by LINDA RAMEY Poem Source First Line: Leaning over my scraped, blue-black knees Last Line: At the mirror pulling long points %from her empty sweater Subject(s): Breasts; Daughters; Mothers; Women GIRL FRIEND, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I first saw her a few summers ago I felt Last Line: A nursery for new stars. %and then. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Photography And Photographers; Women GIRL FRIEND POEM: 10, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She woke up in a hotel in the green mountains Last Line: In the brash blast of cascading light Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Memory; Women GIRL FRIEND POEM: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake ye and come to our house Last Line: Everybody has somebody %for whom to cry Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women GIRL TO SOLDIER ON LEAVE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you, titan lover Last Line: I let you -- I repine. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women & War; World War I; First World War GIRL WARRIOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One fine day an old man Subject(s): Women's Rights GIRL'S SONG, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meuse and marne have little waves Last Line: I heap the stones to make his cairn %where many sleep as sound as he Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I GIRL-ATHLETES, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around their legs girl-athletes twist Last Line: Their giant forms emerge. Subject(s): Women - Athletics GIRLFRIENDS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: In our twenties Last Line: That's why we call it %our indulgence Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women GIRLS IN YUGOSLAVIA, by MARY KOLADA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: The girls in yugoslavia Last Line: How could I possibly compete? Subject(s): Girls; Women; Yugoslavia GIRLS OF TODAY, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Girls of today! Give ear! Last Line: Is the strongest thing in life! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism GIRLS ON THE BRIDGE, by DEREK MAHON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Audible trout, %notional midges. Beds Last Line: A mile from where you chatter, %somebody screams Subject(s): Bridges; Munch, Edvard (1863-1944); Women GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED., by MARIE ODLUM Poem Source Last Line: But, oh! For the wise, loving home girls %there's constant and steady demand Subject(s): Jews - Women GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here once a month to dig Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come here once a month to dig Last Line: Waist of your panties, even %the corners of your mouth Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping GIVE ME A GIRL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Give me a girl who understands the game Last Line: "give me a girl—who understands the game!" Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity GIVE US THE RIGHT TO VOTE, by EMMA DOLTZ Poem Source First Line: For some time now we have been drawn Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights GIVING A DAUGHTER AWAY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Charlie mcvay could finish the times sunday Last Line: Presented him with a puzzle, and he was going to find every %answer Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights GIVING A MANICURE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman across from me looks so familiar, Subject(s): Nailshops; Women; Korea GLADYS SINGING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gladys sang as she worked Last Line: Rooms sparkling like jewels %in a mummy's lonely tomb Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GLANCE, by DHABYA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: You walk on air... %enraptured inside, %your heart flying in all directions Last Line: With the secret beauty...In the faces of other human beings Subject(s): Arabs - Women GLISTENING, by DEEMA K. SHEHABI Poem Source First Line: There are mountains on this earth %that savor the sun at the end of the day Last Line: Enemy of melancholy, ally of life, %glistening darkly %in silence Subject(s): Arabs - Women GLORY OF WOMEN, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You love us when we're heroes, home on leave Last Line: His face is trodden deeper in the mud. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women; World War I; First World War GN IS HAPPY, by GIULIA NICCOLAI Poem Source First Line: He swims and I swim and not only the lakes in our Subject(s): Women's Rights GOBLIN MARKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening / maids heard the goblins cry Last Line: "to strengthen whilst one stands." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fairies; Gays & Lesbians; Sisters; Elves; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GOD IS KIND, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women GOD OF SEEING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: When sarah's strategy Last Line: Who claim monopoly %of god's good graces Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD ONLY KNOWS, by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a woried mother Last Line: If anything will ever %come of it Subject(s): Jews - Women GOD WAS NOT SHOCKED (GENEALOGICAL OBSERVATION), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: We wonder Last Line: And lineage %of david Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S HANDMAIDEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: My mother was god's handmaiden Last Line: The psalmist has nothing on me. %I too am the child of god's handmaid Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S MOTHER, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A garden bower in bower Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible GOD'S PARABLES, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: We must all die. Last Line: The twist %of our estrangements Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S PURPOSE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am obsessed to write and tell their story Last Line: To read the original and recognize again %how women are among the best of 'men.' Subject(s): Women - Bible GOD'S SERVANTWOMAN, by FERENC RAKOCZY Poem Source First Line: She likes to recall how she threw coins Last Line: Be enough of it left for a bit of a chat at evening fall Subject(s): God; Household Employees; Women GOD, OUR LADY, SELS., by CONCHA MICHEL Poem Source First Line: Woman, mother of man Subject(s): Women's Rights GODDESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She in whose lipservice %I passed my time Last Line: Speaks in its own tongue, but returns %lie for lie! Subject(s): Women GODMOTHER'S WILL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: At the family reunion, the academic Last Line: As he did, and he was sad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients GODOT'S COUNTRY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I claim vladimir and estragon Last Line: Under its tented robe Subject(s): Women's Rights GOING BACK TO SLEEP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After making love, I hear you in the bathroom Last Line: All night we go back and forth, back and forth, %towards what we think we want Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GOING DOWN ON AMERICA: THE REGIONAL POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Turned on to the transcendent, he holds her Last Line: Into a land lost %to reality Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights GOING FORTH, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: You come from the ages' origin Last Line: Death held in reserve %and song! Subject(s): Arabs - Women GOING HOME, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Everyday you were dying Last Line: Be, flying straight right out of here Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Courage; Survival GOING THROUGH THE HOUSE, by CLAIRE BRAZ-VALENTINE Poem Source First Line: I don't care Last Line: I don't care %really I don't Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women GOING TO THE HEALER, by MARILYN J. BOE Poem Source First Line: Grandma hanson walked me, no-nonsense style, into a bungalow crowded with men Last Line: In 1936, the winter of my 9th birthday, the winter %grandma died Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GOLDA MABOVITCH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Her family left the town of pinsk Last Line: For every child to own a book Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes GOLDEN RULE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I have a daughter whose mind is cruel Last Line: She is wearing my favorite dress Subject(s): Women's Rights GOLDILOCKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beware of the snare of goldilocks! Last Line: By goldilocks since the world began. Subject(s): Charm; Man-woman Relationships; Seduction; Women; Male-female Relations GONE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody loved chick lorimer in our town Last Line: Nobody knows where she's gone. Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation GONE INTO LONG FROCKS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's a woman! / the gracious girl's I longer dresses Last Line: Gives me her eyes and voice for heritage. Subject(s): Women GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Since god's spokesmen have so few words Last Line: For oatmeal cookies Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights GOOD OLD BODY, by CHRISTINE DONALD Poem Source First Line: Alla those years Subject(s): Women GOOD TEACHERS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You run round the back to be in it again Last Line: And gloucester, today. The day you'll be sorry one day Subject(s): Women GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genial poets, pink-faced Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Women; Poetry & Poets GOODWIFE PLAYING THE VIRGINALS; AFTER A PAINTING BY DE WITTE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's hands are hungry birds Last Line: The man is trapped by the open door. Subject(s): Housewives; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GORAN'S WHISPERS, by NATHALIE HANDAL Poem Source First Line: Travel through evenings without memories with memories Last Line: Afraid that they will be killed over and over again Subject(s): Arabs - Women GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I / can step inside Last Line: Heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion GOSPEL, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swing low so I %can step inside Last Line: Through god's net and swims %heavenward, warbling Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion GOT SO GRANDMA., by PAUL WEINMAN Poem Source Last Line: Cept when we did a little sinning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GOTHIC ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I expect everything bottomless Last Line: Let the shutters bang Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GRACE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A soft rap at the door Last Line: And the storm again begins Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women GRACE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: You must come and hold me again Last Line: Earth of your back Subject(s): Grace; Women GRACE DARLING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the dwellers in the silent fields Last Line: Yea, to celestial choirs, grace darling's name! Subject(s): Women GRACE OF SERVING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The women ministered - we are not told Last Line: How can the god of all receive our gifts %when we exclude one giver as ungraced? Subject(s): Women - Bible GRACES, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Chilled when the dark wells Last Line: Whatever was no entrance before Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Old Age; Women GRADUATION DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June, o thou magical, whimsical june Last Line: Fair, even fair as these lilies to-night. Subject(s): Commencement; Women; Graduation GRAFFITI, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Over dinner the married man Last Line: Across his back, on the bed, lying Subject(s): Women GRAINING THE MARE, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Out back of lillie's barn, the sparse Last Line: On the skins of baked potatoes Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GRAMMAR OF SILK, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On saturdays in the morning Last Line: A pleasure of notes in perfectly measured time Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women GRAMOPHONE TUNES, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Through the long ward the gramophone Last Line: Man that is master of his flesh, %and has the laugh of death and pain Subject(s): Women; World War I GRANDE JETEE, by MARY MACKEY Poem Source First Line: Some rhythms must remain unbroken Subject(s): Women GRANDMA, by JESSE KULBERG Poem Source First Line: As I grow older Last Line: And how I miss her how I miss her how %I miss her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA SARAH, by DEBORAH ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: When I was young I would ask you to show me Last Line: I watch its dormant jewish waves %spring soundlessly to life Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA SITS DOWN, by RICK KEMPA Poem Source First Line: Her knees lean against the front of the battered rocker Last Line: The earth is beginning %to thaw. I am anxious to plant some seeds Subject(s): Women GRANDMA WHISPERING., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: You're my favorite Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMA'S OBITUARY, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: At eighty, %she drove once a week to the montefiore rest home Last Line: But what would my friends say!' she gasped, and died at the thought Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOM MOM, by GENEVIEVE CARMINATI Poem Source First Line: Round round grandmom mom Last Line: Tell me again, grandmom mom %round round Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER, by SUSAN GITLIN-EMMER Poem Source First Line: The past forgets itself Last Line: The dance of women who will not to die, %the ghost dance Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER, by LISA GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I imagine three men %standing on the shore Last Line: Quivers as you sleep, %grandmother Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother, marmita %was given the name minnie Last Line: And trace her love %forever on me Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by KAREN SEXTON-STEIN Poem Source First Line: We planted seeds Last Line: I, her shadow %and she, my world Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER SOPHIE, by SUSAN SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The silence tells me it's sabbath Last Line: And sophie on the fire escape %winks a slavic eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE: THE BABA YAGA, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Yellow claws start from the pot Last Line: All night she is brushing her hair, brushing mine %winding the hanks on narrow spools Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER'S QUILT., by EVELYN BRADLEY Poem Source Last Line: Long after sunset Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother shlepped these %candlesticks all the way Last Line: Later she said the candlesticks %were a gift from the czar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, SPARROW, GLASS; FOR LUCIEN STRYK, by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: Grandmother never was a bird Last Line: Her songs sung into the glass %and no further Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHERS, by MARYLYN CROMAN Poem Source First Line: My father's mother %wore silky dresses Last Line: You end by choosing your own Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOTHERS: 1. MARY GRAVELY JONES, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had no petnames, no diminutives for you Last Line: Reciting your unwritten novels to the children Subject(s): Grandparents; Mothers And Daughters; Women GRAPES: STILL LIFE, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snugly you rest, sweet globes Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women GRASS FINGERS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Touch me, touch me Last Line: With your tiny, timorous toes. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Grass; Negroes; American Blacks GRASSLANDER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When I die %bury me on a south slope Last Line: Slumber until the ghosts call me %south Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers GRAY HAIRS, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: Gray hairs %crowd out the black Last Line: Wrinkles %provide no armor. %I still quiver %to anyone's dart Subject(s): Jews - Women GREAT FEAR, by PIERA OPPEZZO Poem Source First Line: The history of my self Subject(s): Women's Rights GREAT FOUNTAINS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Better not go to these deep woods Last Line: My old patience %keep intact %eternal solitude water solitude Subject(s): Women - Abused GREAT LADIES, by CORINNE ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Fly away ladies, fly away Last Line: Rejoicing and until finally your children %fly away ladies, fly away Subject(s): Women GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Last Line: I need a man who'll protect me %while smoking her cigarette down to the very end Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women GREAT WOMEN COMPOSERS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sybil sibelius! Yes, belinda brahms! Last Line: Have all been invited to tea %by the indomitable beatrice k.Beethoven! Subject(s): Composers; Women GREATER FRIENDSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Mothers %cranking the machine Last Line: Another scoop of ice cream %our smiles receive Subject(s): African Americans - Women GREEK POETESSES, by ANTIPATER OF THESSALONICA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These the maids of heavenly tongue Last Line: And nine to mortals earth has given. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Thessalonika Subject(s): Women GREEN APPLES, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What can you do with a woman under thirty? Last Line: It's only just that young women get what they deserve. %a young man Subject(s): Women; Youth GREEN FOLD OF A SKIRT GREEN WHERE, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: The leg of a crowd %of young folds) Subject(s): Women - Writers GREENHAM WOMAN, by WENDY POUSSARD Poem Source First Line: Rugged up for winter snow Subject(s): Women GREET ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women GRETEL: A CASE STUDY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I'm all right in a small place %as long as I can turn around Last Line: No, not that %listen harder Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives GREY KNITTING, by AMELIA BEERS WARNOCK GARVIN Poem Text First Line: Something sings gently through the din of battle Last Line: As they fall fast asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Katherine Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War GREY MATTER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They leave us nothing Last Line: Begins the ancient mystery anew. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women; Male-female Relations GRIEF COMES IN SMALLEST WAYS, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: For the first time in months Last Line: Moves brilliant through your hair. %I like the way things smell Subject(s): Women GRINDING VIBRATO, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blues woman Last Line: Is it too late for the mother tongue in your womanself to %insurrect Subject(s): African Americans - Women GRISELDA OF THE SEAS, by AMY REDPATH RODDICK Poem Text First Line: Pale arrowy lights were in her eyes Last Line: Was I like her divine? Subject(s): Sea; Women; Ocean GRISELDA: CHAPTER 1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An idle story with an idle moral! Last Line: Was slow of speech, or that he slept too well! Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Marital; Novels & Novelists; Women; Youth; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love GRISELDA: CHAPTER 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus then it was. Griselda's childhood ends Last Line: "to speak the unspoken ""yes"" of yesterday." Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Prophecy & Prophets; Women GRISELDA: CHAPTER 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not seen the falls of tivoli Last Line: From love to life. Her first strong grief was o'er. Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Women; Writing & Writers GRISELDA: CHAPTER 4, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I take up this vain parable Last Line: How art thou fallen, and to what an ass! Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Women GRISELDA: CHAPTER 5, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Griselda's madness lasted forty days Last Line: Hall-marked in england, and of massive gold. Subject(s): Novels & Novelists; Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 1. A HAPPINESS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Your heart sounds fine,' susanne, the midwife said Last Line: Than ever I've felt, over anything witful I've done Subject(s): Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 2. HAPPENSTANCE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Some cramps, some staining, can happen, around the day Last Line: Its knot. I lay forehead to knee %and this thing was done Subject(s): Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 3. HEARTS AND FLOWERS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Friday, the thirteenth: it happens tomorrow is Last Line: Too, once; apropos, we see so much - still - to bless us Subject(s): Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 4. WHAT REMAINS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I'd always wondered how a person could believe Last Line: Of hope, not hope itself, but no less of joy Subject(s): Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 5. QUIS SEPARABIT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I don't know what to do with this sadness, this Last Line: With another, and nothing should need to be...Undone Subject(s): Women GROSS PRELUDE: SAID AND DONE: 6. MUSEUM PIECE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I'm not asking for time to heal this wound Last Line: Yet net a gain - and much in the way of knowledge... %in fact, all Subject(s): Women GROWING INTO MY NAME, by HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: Worn like a hand-me-down Last Line: By the side of the road Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Names; Women GROWING UP, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I packed all those important pieces Last Line: Through all these years of growing %and fallng back Subject(s): Jews - Women GROWING UP, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wasn't good Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Women GROWNUP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this stood on her and was the world Last Line: In thee, thou once a child, in thee Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Women GUARDIAN ANGEL, by SABINE C. A. V. TASTU Poem Source First Line: How beautiful this immortal spirit Alternate Author Name(s): Tastu, Amable Subject(s): Women's Rights GULF, by DHABYA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: The sea stares at my dream %(I cannot come to the sea's aid) Last Line: And of humans (ablaze with the heat %of my sun) Subject(s): Arabs - Women GUN IN THE HAND IS WORTH . . ., by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: It was a cliche Last Line: Well play like I'm %sweet sixteen and %hit me! Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ebb like the ocean Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry & Poets; Translating & Interpreting; Women's Rights; Gaelic; Feminism HAG OF BEARE (CAILLECH BERRI), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ebb like the ocean Last Line: That's all you get to blunt your knife Subject(s): Irish Language; Poetry And Poets; Translating And Interpreting; Women's Rights HAGAR, THE SECOND MORNING: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Where are we? My ishmael sings Subject(s): Jews - Women HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE, MOTHER IN VIRGINITY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The holy ghost is to thee sent Variant Title(s): Mary Bore Both God And Ma Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HAIL, MOTHER OF THE SAVIOUR, by ADAM OF SAINT VICTOR Poem Source First Line: Hail to thee, our mother's saviour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HAJ, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Toward evening, the sun has fired Last Line: Across the field, the water pipes are singing Subject(s): Jews - Women HALATION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, you moved so rapidly through my life Last Line: Scored by the years, focused last, and free. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Paintings & Painters; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HALF TIME, OGLALA HIGH, 1970, by DEBRA NYSTROM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting in green-and-white pleats Last Line: It off, then was gone before the scream? Variant Title(s): Half-time, Pine Ridge High, 197 Subject(s): Sports; Women HALF-CASTE GIRL, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little josie buried under the bright moon Last Line: With a wallaby skin, and left her alone in the night? Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Women HALLO, HALLO, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Hallo, reverend mother? Hallo! Last Line: My mirele, so long till then Subject(s): Jews - Women HALVES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You preferred to make Last Line: Half %a city Subject(s): Women's Rights HANDFULS OF WIND, by LAILA HALABY Poem Source First Line: This summer I caught handfuls of wind Last Line: You gave me at birth %to ward off evil Subject(s): Arabs - Women HANDMADE BOOK, by ELIZABETH COX GILLILAND Poem Source First Line: If colors of day are shaped by sun Last Line: Deckle pages close %and are tied with straw Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women HANDS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The artist has a hand inside the mind Last Line: Making the sign of blessing, calming the anxious outside pair Subject(s): Women's Rights HANDS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The poor hands, overworked and dry Last Line: Assert themselves through the skin Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Hands; Women HANNAH'S MORNING PRAYERS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am not drunk,' she said. Last Line: Convinced that he would never hear %of her again Subject(s): Women - Bible HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: One afternoon while I was oever in the office Last Line: He had found over by gavilan Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HAPPY WOMEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Impatient women, as you wait Last Line: Pray for all lonesome souls to-night! Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism HARBINGER, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: In the march winds my mother comes to me Last Line: Into my fingers, piercing my heart Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women HARD LOVE, by ANDREA O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: In the not quiet moon glow Last Line: And for all the hard love we hold inside %for the other woman Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Death; Love; Sisters; Women HARDEST WORK OF ALL, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: And one week later Last Line: The beat of both hearts - saying %not yet - not yet Subject(s): Jews - Women HARK, THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED KNOCKETH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2) Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HARLEM MARY, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sing of blue-eyed mary Last Line: Tis planted in her heart. Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); New York City - 19th Century; Women HARLEM SHADOWS, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the halting footsteps of a lass Last Line: In harlem wandering from street to street. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City); Poverty; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels HARLEM SWEETIES, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have yhou dug the spill Last Line: Delicious, fine sugar hill Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Harlem (new York City) HARP OF DUBHROS, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: Harper, hot your fingers still Last Line: Knowing that the tuning's fine Subject(s): Nature; Women HARRIET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet / if I be you Last Line: Love my children and / wait Subject(s): African Americans - Women HARRIET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet %if I be you Last Line: Love my children and %wait Subject(s): African Americans - Women HARRIET, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet there was always somebody calling us crazy Last Line: "waht name shall we call our selves / now Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Sisters; Death – Mothers HARRIET, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet there was always somebody calling us crazy Last Line: What name shall we call our selves now %our mother is gone? Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women HARRIET HANSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: At five a.M. Her work began Last Line: Of fellow workers follow her! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes HARRIET TUBMAN, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark is the face of harriet Last Line: Come along ten million strong Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Tubman, Harriet (1820-1913) HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the twilight field Last Line: The harvest-moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim Last Line: Light, everlasting.) Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten, clasp maiden life round her / white waist Last Line: The bony and the lipless kiss of death! Subject(s): Death; Virginity; Women; Dead, The; Vestals HAT OF MISS MAGEE, by JOANIE MACKOWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw miss magee walking down the road Last Line: Trembling close about her wild eyebrows Subject(s): Walking; Women HAVASUPAI WOMAN, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Decision isn't in her Last Line: Or see %and dream Subject(s): Women's Rights HAVING GONE ALONE TO HER HOTEL ROOM AFTER THE CONFERENCE,AN AGING..., by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Lord, forgive me my common Last Line: Them. I promise to pray again. Ah-men. %amen Subject(s): Women HAVING HAD YOU, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Having had you once Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women HAZARD, KENTUCKY, 1942, by JO NEACE KRAUSE Poem Source First Line: In 1942 in hazard, kentucky Last Line: Strolling out to mail their letters Subject(s): Kentucky; Soldiers; Women HE AND SHE, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead you'll find it hard Last Line: Like you? Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Death; Desire; Women; Dead, The HE CUT MY GARDEN DOWN, by LOU V. CRABTREE Poem Source First Line: Making it so %this winter was hard Last Line: They did not have to cut my garden down Subject(s): Appalachia; Women HE DE BUCKRAS HI!, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Vexation of mind Subject(s): Women HE MAY BE A PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF, by TINA REID Poem Source First Line: He is beautiful and still Subject(s): Women HE TAKES ME TO SEE HIS MOTHER, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Others remain, on the balconies Subject(s): Women - Writers HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs Last Line: Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women; Valleys HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE WHOSE LOCKS ARE BLACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HEADS IN THE WOMEN'S WARD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pillow after pillow lies Subject(s): Old Age; Women HEADS IN THE WOMEN'S WARD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pillow after pillow lies Last Line: Smiles are for youth. For old age come %death's terror and delirium Subject(s): Old Age; Women HEALER, by ROCHELLE SHAPIRO NATT Poem Source First Line: Mama tells me %how grandmother raised her ten children Last Line: As if it doesn't hurt at all Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women HEALING, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source First Line: Cancer surprised me as it does everyone else. When it came Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women HEALING DANCE, by PATRICIA JAMES Poem Source First Line: Before me you lie healing Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heart shifts shape of its own accord-from bird to ax Last Line: Cop-on-the-beat heart with its black billy club, %banging on the lid Subject(s): Hearts; Homeless; Kindness; Poverty; Women HEART FOR ALL HER CHILDREN, by JR. ALBERT J. HERBERT Poem Source First Line: I have seen our lady in ireland, being carried in procession in Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HEART OF A BONSAI: PORTRAIT OF A JAPANESE WOMAN, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: In the white light from %opaque glass windows, her hand Last Line: But helpless, they float in pute, empty air Subject(s): Bonsai; Japan; Women HEART'S LIMBO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thrust my heart, in danger of decay Last Line: Give me your heart to hold. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HEARTBEAT, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: All that long time Last Line: Now it's you Subject(s): Jews - Women HEAVENS, SELS., by CATERINA BON BRENZONI Poem Source First Line: [...] the heart has powerful wings; - take me by the hand Subject(s): Women's Rights HELEN, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I think now of helen, the bride Last Line: Just to get some rest Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HELEN'S FACE A BOOK, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Helen's face is like a book Last Line: Underneath her lashes? Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett Subject(s): Books; Faces; Women; Reading HELENA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw helena. She whose praise Last Line: And know thou art not worth her faintest sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Women HELIODORA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He and I sought together Last Line: "is a lily kissed." Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HELOISE, by BIANCAMARIA FRABOTTA Poem Source First Line: The entirety dwells here and you, distantly Subject(s): Women's Rights HELPED BY THE HELPLESS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: She didn't need Last Line: And sets us back %upon our forward journey Subject(s): Women - Bible HELPFUL HINTS FOR AN ASPIRING MARTYR, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Find someone unable to assist themselves Last Line: Build a wall of resentment around you %repeat pattern Subject(s): Identity; Women HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980), by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him bleeding but I thought all blood was a dream Subject(s): Women's Rights; Love - Complaints; Relationships; Feminism HER 'ALLOWANCE', by LILLIAN GARD Poem Source First Line: Er looked at me bunnet (I knows 'e aint noo!) Last Line: Be needin' a part - may my bill - who can say? - %of my 'llowance! Subject(s): Women; World War I HER BODY [THE SIGNATURE], by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They are small enough to find and care for a tiny stone Subject(s): Human Body; Women HER DELIRIUM, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The old lady %(a child of seven) Last Line: And why are they beating %an old lady of eighty-nine? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HER EARRINGS, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Daughters of sarah Last Line: While the lords of our universe run things %and we try to get them to look Subject(s): Jews - Women HER EYES TELL ME, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Pigeons see me as a five foot five Last Line: Her eyes tell me a mother must nest %on any rock Subject(s): Jews - Women HER FACE, HER FORM, I CAN'T RECALL', by RICHARD WILLIAM PEARCE Poem Source Last Line: Pray tell, of whom did I just write Subject(s): Women HER HEART IS A ROSE PETAL AND HER SKIN IS GRANITE, by LORENE ZAROU-ZOUZOUNIS Poem Source First Line: A woman refugee arms herself with pride and faith Last Line: Through a granite skin that stretches %but never breaks Subject(s): Arabs - Women HER HUSBAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Once I thought I knew all about live oaks Last Line: Her body is taking the color Subject(s): Rape; Women HER HUSBAND, TO HIMSELF, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Cyanide and sulfuric acid: the smoke curls up Last Line: Behind the eyeslits it is always me Subject(s): Rape; Women HER KIND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out, a possessed witch Subject(s): Women HER KIND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out, a possessed witch Last Line: A woman like that is not ashamed to die. %I have been her kind Subject(s): God; Religion; Women HER KISS, REDEEMED, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: I'm the woman who was the girl you boys beat against Last Line: How in my hands your dreams came true Subject(s): Women HER LISTENING: AUTUMN ON 10TH STREET, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: With her walker %she moves to the bathroom Last Line: She recalls hearing %since morning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HER NAME IS AS A WORD OF OLD ROMANCE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her name is like a word of old romance Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women; Admiration HER POEM, by EVA JONES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: She looked to find a poem Last Line: "your poem -- 'tis your home." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers HER POEMS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From behind the blank door of the room Last Line: Breathing: the page speaks back to her Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women HER POWER IS TO OPEN WHAT IS SHUT, SHUT WHAT IS OPEN, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her power is to fall like razors Last Line: Curled on the greenwood fires Subject(s): Women HER SISTER, by NESTA HIGGINSON SKRINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brigid is a caution, sure', - what's that ye say? Last Line: Tis a square pity o' brigid macilray Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Moira Subject(s): Women HER SISTERS AGREE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: We called her kite, a bird of prey Last Line: We longed to believe %were protests Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HER STORY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They gave me the wrong name, in the first place Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks HER STORY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They gave me the wrong name, in the first place Last Line: Next time I'll try a gun Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women HER TOES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I wanted to love her toes Last Line: But time ran out on us Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights HER VALENTINE, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, send her a valentine? Never! Last Line: She'll let me have mine in the end! Subject(s): Desire; Independence; Progress; Women HER VOICE HAD A DEEP RESONANCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That must have made her pubic hair %buzz Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Voices; Women HER VOICE WHEN SHE IS FEELING WEAK, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice when she is feeling weak creates Last Line: And hear her say she's fine and won't be late Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Voices; Women HER WORST ACCUSERS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Poor maimed soul, what refuge hast thou here Last Line: The uncompromising scorn of thine own sex! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Women HERA, HUNG FROM THE SKY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hang by my heels from the sky Last Line: I dangle, drowned in fire. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Women's Rights; Convicts; Feminism HERACLITUS, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, heraclitus, they told me you were dead Last Line: For death he taketh all away, but these he can not take. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Friendship; Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HERE ARE TOLD THE MISFORTUNES OF WOMEN, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: Because a destiny most Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Women's Rights HERE LIES A LADY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree Last Line: After six little spaces of chill, and six of burning. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The HERE WE ARE, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: Here we are mothers in darkness Subject(s): Women's Rights HERE, TAKE MY WORDS, by KAREN BRODINE Poem Source First Line: I prefer to believe that the last time we saw each other, she rushed Last Line: She is slowly shedding her clothes like soft, wilting leaves Subject(s): Women HERITAGE, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to see the slim palm-trees Last Line: Hidden by a minstrel-smile. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks HERITAGE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: It is a blessed heritage Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women HERITAGE, by SELMA DERRY Poem Text First Line: Through the lengths of many winds Last Line: I, daughter of gaunt women. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Heritage; Heredity HERITAGE, by BLANCHE SHOEMAKER WAGSTAFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lover can never still in me Last Line: The ancient fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Carr, Mrs. Donald Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Lesbos (island), Greece; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women HERSELF, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath it in her keeping, the house quietly sleeping Last Line: Herself is lady of the house, its mother and queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary HERSHEY'S, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: My mother carried a hershey bar with almonds Last Line: The sweet thin flicker of memory like a promise %wrapped and waiting Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women HESTER'S SONG, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode you piggy back Last Line: Ever to come of alchemy Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism HESTER'S SONG, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode you piggy back Last Line: You are the one gold %ever to come of alchemy Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights HEW SWEETIE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things we call women! Housewife, honey Subject(s): Women; Names HIDING OUR LOVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never believe I leave you Last Line: Hiding our aromatic, vulnerable love. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love; Secrets; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Feminism HIGH AND LOW, by HOLLY HILDEBRAND Poem Source First Line: She never complained of the indignity Last Line: Still one size too large for their owner Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women HIGH CALLING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Everlastingly Last Line: And loving and caring servant %to a child-like world Subject(s): Women - Bible HILL-WOMAN, by VERNONA CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Glad that I was born to this Last Line: Drinking wisdom, learned, wise. Subject(s): Women HILLTOP HOUSE INN, by LISA HURWITZ Poem Source First Line: The cackles of women chosen by god Last Line: Wives without men, and women chosen %by god to keep me awake Subject(s): Hotels; Religion; Women HINTS OF HOLOCAUST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The partitioning of the levite's concubine Last Line: For tolerating liquidation or incineration %of any of god's persecuted children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women - Bible HIS ANSWER, by CLARA ANN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: He prayed for patientce; care and sorrow came Last Line: His heart had learned, through weariness and care %the patience, that he deemed he'd sought in vain Subject(s): African Americans - Women HIS BAG OF TRICKS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the playing cards' Last Line: He's almost got now %his white rabbit Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives HIS COY MISTRESS REPLIES, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Andrew marvell, you haven't read Last Line: Our mutual purpose is: our pleasure Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never be large enough Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will never be large enough Last Line: Whatever his hands will give Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HIS MOTHER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I wrapped the baby in a rag and ran away Last Line: I said. My firstborn, only boy, son of charlie red, %I took him last Subject(s): Rape; Women HIS MOTHER IN HER HOOD OF BLUE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When jesus was a little thing Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HIS MOTHER'S SERVICE TO OUR LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of heaven and earth, and therewithal Last Line: And in this faith I choose to live and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary HIS ONLY CHILD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: She was his only child' and yet his vow Last Line: And think we pay them by that gloriying. %can we retract our vows before it is too late? Subject(s): Women - Bible HIS SISTER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: At nineteen he was still signing his name %with an x Last Line: Again and again we traced his loops and hooks Subject(s): Rape; Women HISTORY HASN'T TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT REVOLUTIONARIES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: Is what she felt Subject(s): Identity; Women HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am four in this photograph standing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am four in this photograph standing Last Line: Of a cotton meal-sack dress Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HISTORY OF A PORTRAIT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Somewhere she has lost her glass Last Line: And who is coming next %in her direction Subject(s): Portraits; Women HOBBLER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler wears a bandana around his head Last Line: He throws cigarette butts at the pigeons, %and they peck at his toes Subject(s): Homeless; Women HOCKNEY: BLUE POOL, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Los angeles, / california: / a summer afternoon Subject(s): Cities; Hockney, David (b. 1937); Gays & Lesbians; Lakes; Los Angeles; Urban Life; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Pools; Ponds HOLDFAST, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: In the blue light of the box Subject(s): Women's Rights HOLDING MY BEADS, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Unforgiving as the course of justice Last Line: Holding my beads in my hand Subject(s): Women HOLE IN THE SKY, by RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE Poem Source First Line: I hunger for a hunk of hot cornbread Last Line: My hole in the sky let you drop through Subject(s): Appalachia; Women HOLY FAMILY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of beauty rare Last Line: He look'd upon the twain, like joseph standing by. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HOLY GRANDMOTHERS IN JERUSALEM, by ESTHER RAAB Poem Source First Line: Holy grandmothers in jerusalem, %may your virtue protect me Last Line: The aroma of sabbath candles and naphthaline Variant Title(s): Holy Grandmothers In Jerusalem Subject(s): Jews - Women HOLY LAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over beds wearing thick homespun cotton Last Line: Of their shoes. Subject(s): Israel; Language; Palestine; Women; Words; Vocabulary HOLY LAND OF WALSINGHAM, by BENJAMIN FRANCIS MUSSER Poem Source First Line: Lay willows under walsingham Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HOLY SONNET: ANNUNCIATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Salvation to all that will is nigh Last Line: Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe. Variant Title(s): La Corona: 2. Annunciation Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology HOMAGE TO MY HAIR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I feel her jump up and dance Last Line: The blacker she do be! Subject(s): African Americans - Women HOMAGE TO MY HAIR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I feel her jump up and dance Last Line: The grayer she do get, good god, %the blacker she do be! Subject(s): African Americans - Women HOMAGE TO MY HIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: These hips are big hips Subject(s): Hips; Women HOMAGE TO MY HIPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These hips are big hips Last Line: To put a spell on a man and %spin him like a top! Subject(s): Hips; Women HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS (2), by PALLADAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman? Oh, woman is a consummate rage Last Line: Take her. She has two excellent seasons Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Women HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Negroes; American Blacks; Songs HOMAGE TO THE EMPRESS OF THE BLUES, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there was a man somewhere in a candystripe silk shirt Last Line: And shone that smile on us and sang Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) HOME, by PAULINE KALDAS Poem Source First Line: The world map %colored yellow and green Last Line: I fly across %and land- %hands pressing into rooted earth Subject(s): Arabs - Women HOME ALONE-SATURDAY NIGHT, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Baby moons ride low Last Line: Into the new moon's black disc Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women HOME CARE, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The woman from home care is late. She apologizes, but she had a hel Last Line: So that's a lot of lookin' Subject(s): Women - Abused HOME FIRES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our last full day together we pass a house Last Line: As if we could combine our lives and blow %this ending out Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating HOMES, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamplight's shaded rose Last Line: That were a home last night. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Home; Women And War; World War I; First World War HOMESTEAD IN HELL CREEK CANYON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Quiet %plenty to do %but %I write ma again Last Line: Split hoof %tiny blue petals %in the same track Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HOMESTEADERS, POOR AND DRY, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: The world was bone dry Last Line: And he promised me %no fear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HOMMES A FEMME, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: If a small, homely woman Subject(s): Women's Rights HOMO WILL NOT INHERIT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downtown anywhere and between the roil Last Line: Gorgeous, and on fire. I have my kingdom Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Gays & Lesbians; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMOSEXUALITY, by HENRI COLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I saw the round bill, like a bud Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HOMOSEXUALITY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we are taking off our masks, are we, and keeping Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men HONEY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Near ninety, wanting to die Last Line: A smothering and final goodness, %over an entire life Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Women HONEYSUCKLE WAS THE SADDEST ODOR OF ALL, I THINK', by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I wanted to be a nature poet Last Line: Remnants of %my poetic eye Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Nature HONOURABLE DISCHARGE, by ELAINE BANDER Poem Source First Line: Most of all I missed the uniform Last Line: To meet the train that brought my husband home Subject(s): Love - Marital; Military; Soldiers; Women And War; World War Ii HOODOO MOMA, by LUISAH TEISH Poem Source First Line: Wooden stairs scrubbed with red brick Last Line: There's prophesy in the %bark of a dog Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights HOOKED, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A day between autumn color Last Line: In the same %net Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights HOOKS AND EYES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Irish lace and linen Last Line: Again, and sewed me in. Subject(s): Seamstresses; Sewing; Women HOP A TRAIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The other day the hobbler %was telling the woman of too many days Last Line: You can't hop trains anymore. %they're faster now Subject(s): Homeless; Women HOPE, by ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Some men would tell us hope was only given Last Line: Of hope alone necessitates a god Subject(s): Hope; Women's Rights HOPE'S SONG, by L. ORMISTON CHANT Poem Source First Line: We are standing on the threshold, sisters Last Line: Heaven in earth, the kingdom come Subject(s): Hope; Women's Rights HORACE: SONG AT THE END OF ACT 3, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: Beauty that it self can kill Last Line: Who are the conquer'd, with the conqueror. Subject(s): Love; Women HORSEBACK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never afraid of those huge creatures Last Line: I just wanted to tell you about it, ray. Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Horseback Riding; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism HORSES AT HANAGITA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Down the sunlit shaft of the cessna's wing Subject(s): Rape; Women HOSPITAL VISITOR, by ALYS FANE TROTTER Poem Source First Line: When yesterday I went to see my friends Last Line: Who never brag of blows for england struck, %but only yearn to 'get about a bit' Subject(s): Women; World War I HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair Last Line: Her face made strangely beautiful %as only suffering can do Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOTEL FLORA, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: I want to go to mexico city and be mysterious and sad Last Line: To a room that is not mine Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible HOTSHOT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A five-foot-eight-inch fifth grader is probably going Last Line: To sink my teeth into gram's oatmeal cookies while they're still %warm Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights HOTTENTOTTE VENUS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Above the brains whose salient folds were thought Last Line: His scalpel prized this rare pliant piece of booty instead Subject(s): Women HOUSE AS METAPHOR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: This ardor of spring cleaning has less to do Last Line: Move to a place I haven't failed in yet Subject(s): Women's Rights HOUSE HOLDER, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: To live within these bounds Last Line: I want to stand in that kitchen with the blue tile %and feel my mouth water Subject(s): Appalachia; Death; Family Life; Friendship; Love; Women HOUSE OF DESIRE, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: This is really the story of a %sista who was very too-ga-tha Last Line: Then - would he leave me so much on my own %to cry and get scared? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women HOUSE THROUGH LEAVES, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: They raised the house through leaves Last Line: Yhey raised the house through leaves Subject(s): Women HOUSE WITH THE AQUA-COLORED BARS, by CAROL POTTER Poem Source First Line: Walking up the steep-cobbled hill today Last Line: Fat-pink blossoms against my windows Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women HOUSEGUEST, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Death lives in our house Last Line: We must %turn down the sheet Subject(s): Jews - Women HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs Last Line: For the mail, some news from a distant place Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping HOUSES LIKE ANGELS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where san juan and chacabuco intersect Last Line: And the present joy will grow quiet in that passed Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Houses; Women HOUSEWIFE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: What can be wrong Last Line: Do others feel like this? Where do they go? Subject(s): Housewives; Jews - Women HOUSEWIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some women marry houses Last Line: A woman is her mother. %that's the main thing Subject(s): God; Housewives; Religion; Women HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I used to have fine buckles Subject(s): Women's Rights HOUSING SHORTAGE, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: I tried to live small Last Line: And a landscape, unbounded %and vast in abandon. %you too dreaming the same Subject(s): Jews - Women HOW AUNT MAUD TOOK TO BEING A WOMAN, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life HOW EASILY A LOVE ABORTS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Let me be orpah if I cannot be Last Line: And knows how easily a love aborts %when driven to deeds beyond the feasible Subject(s): Women - Bible HOW I WANT IT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: You light your cigarette Last Line: It is easy %to decline Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights HOW IN HER PIROGUE SHE GLIDES, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like boats, themselves, upon the running tide Subject(s): Women HOW IT PASSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I'll begin to cook like mother Last Line: It won't go away. Subject(s): Aging; Creative Ability; Parents; Women; Women's Rights; Inspiration; Creativity; Parenthood; Feminism HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Last Line: He's not coming back, and it will be the first time you believe it Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women HOW MANY TEMPTATIONS I PASS THROUGH, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights HOW MARY GREW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wisdom far beyond her years Last Line: Is just to grow -- as mary grew! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Women; Anti-slavery; Serfs HOW PADDY GOT 'UNDER GOVERNMENT', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A place under government Last Line: "he married soon a scolding wife, / and thus his wish was granted" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives HOW STRANGE AND FINE TO GET SO NEAR TO IT, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: We sit on the back stoop eating noodles and broth Last Line: Begin to blue like jewels Subject(s): Women's Rights HOW THE WOMAN LOST HER POWER: 1. KITE, by VASSO KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: With tremendous power Last Line: Her signs intoxicate them. %ah mitis Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Women HOW THIS WOMAN TOLD MARGARET MEADE ABOUT COTTAGE CHEESE, by SUE ANN ALDERSON Poem Source First Line: This woman worked, wore sensible shoes Last Line: Around this poem is a whisper of bright green sequins a shout Subject(s): Memory; Women HOW TO BE A MILITANT WOMAN, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Read the newspaper often Last Line: Stand up and be counted Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights HOW WE GROW, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: At first what rises is simple Last Line: You stand next to yourself %in the risen wind Subject(s): Women HOW WILL YOU CALL ME, BROTHER, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Have you armed your children? Subject(s): African Americans - Women HOWL; FOR CARL SOLOMON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Imagination; Vision; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Fancy HSUEH T'AO (768-831): SPRING-GAZING SONG, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms crowd the branches, too beautiful to endure Last Line: One morning soon, my tears will mist the mirror. %I see the future, and I will not see Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): SPRING-GAZING SONG, 2, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot glow as one when petals open Last Line: A secret time of opening and closing: %blossoms that separately bloom and die as one Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS, 2, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hearts: two blades of grass I braid together Last Line: My fingers plait the same grasses, over and over Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Love – Absebce Of; Feminism HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS, 2, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hearts: two blades of grass I braid together Last Line: But spring hums everywhere: the nesting birds %are stammering out their sympathy for me Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights HSUEH T'AO (768-831): WEAVING LOVE-KNOTS,1, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daily the wind-flowers age, and so do I Last Line: My fingers plait the same grasses, over and over Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Aging; Feminism HULA HOOP SUMMER, by JUDY BELSKY Poem Source First Line: Everyone has one the summer I am eleven Last Line: On a central axis %how hips defy gravity Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 1, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: As one day I gazed on so many skeletons Last Line: Silken thread that unites us with the portal of the heavens Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 3, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Are faces of the saints in heaven sad? Last Line: That I may now learn why %your unadulterated tear o holy mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 4, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Behind the mirror death Last Line: And your love is %the only salvation Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 5, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: We are dazzled by the shield of your beauty Last Line: When love expands as far as the skylark's song Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 6, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: You are the sunray of a stream Last Line: Sun - beautiful madonna all our own %our consolation and our sheltering home Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 7, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: You visit us always o magificent lady Last Line: And all speak of your eyes %resplendent wounds on the banks of the sky Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 8, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Even the light has need of your presence Last Line: And we entrust all our dreams %into your open hands Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLE LAUDATION TO THE VIRGIN MARY: 9, by TAKIS VARVITSIOTIS Poem Source First Line: Our nights are without stars our days are without suns Last Line: That the first foliage may come like the daybreak of the %resurrection Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HUMBLY, HE SPEAKS TO HIS TOOLS, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA Poem Source First Line: Bone driller of every abscess %clay in lieu of womb Last Line: No key to open these stones %and cry on his house's shoulder Subject(s): Arabs - Women HUNGER, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: He asks where I have stored %my hunger. I tell him Last Line: Before the cup is set %before our meal is over Subject(s): Women HUNGER, by KATHLEEN TANKERSLEY YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Your body is a dark wine Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women HUNGER MOON, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I'm not concerned with first and last things Last Line: Ourselves guests in the landscape Subject(s): Women's Rights HUNT, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: High country, man's country in october, hunter's acres Last Line: Prophecies of all things lost -- lost and never found again Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers HURLER OF ACCUSATIONS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Like job Last Line: Or supersede %your verdict? Subject(s): Women - Bible HURRICANE, by EDNA J. GUTTAG Poem Source First Line: Winifred, eighty years young Last Line: But the sea now is all quiet and calm Subject(s): Women HUSBAND, by LOU V. CRABTREE Poem Source First Line: I never saw my husband naked Last Line: Gloriously in naked good health Subject(s): Appalachia; Women HUSBAND AND HEATHEN, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the men of ethiopia she would pour her cornucopia Last Line: For the terra del fuegian and the turcoman and turk. Subject(s): Africa; Charity; Heresy; Women; Philanthropy; Heretics HUSBAND, HUSBAND, CEASE YOUR STRIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights HUSH, HONEY, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: Hush! Yo' mouth %it is time to be quiet Last Line: All praises are due to allah for the lamb Subject(s): African Americans - Women HYMEN AND DEATH, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sixteen, d'ye say? Nay then 'tis time Last Line: Secure that death will set them loose.' Subject(s): Bodies; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Reproductive System; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations; Sex Organs; Genitalia HYMN FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have strewn the burning hearths of man with / darkness and with mire Last Line: When mothers of men are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Elections; Human Rights; Justice; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism HYMN FOR LANIE POO, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O / these wild trees Last Line: For that mayyer, by god Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HYMN FOR LANIE POO, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O %these wild trees Last Line: Benevolent step %mother america Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Sisters HYMN FOR LAUDES; FEAST OF OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Clap hands with festal joy, o holy people Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR LAUDES; FEAST OF OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We call you mother of our lord and saviour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR SECOND VESPERS; FEAST OF THE APPARITION OF OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Untouched by adam's curse - our mary's soul! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN FOR THE FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Subsiding form those heavenly wings the air Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE GODDESS ISHTAR OF BABYLONIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I pray unto thee, lady of ladies, goddess of goddesses! Last Line: O exalted ishtar, that givest light unto the (four) quarters of the world! Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Spiritual Life; Women And Religion HYMN IN THE ASSUMPTION (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come Last Line: Our weak desires have done their best; %sweet angels come, and sing the rest Variant Title(s): On The Assumptio Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN IN THE ASSUMPTION (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come Last Line: Sweet angels come, and sing the rest. Variant Title(s): In The Assumption;on The Assumption Of The Virgin Mary;on The Glorious Assumption Of Our Blessed Lady [or Virgin] Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN TO MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of on pat so fayr and brigt Last Line: Dat hauet pe foule put inferni %explicit cantus iste Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou flower of flowers! I'll follow thee Last Line: I see no other, come do thou %waft my weak bark along! Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Praise; Women - Bible HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, o virgin of the virgins Last Line: Crowned, thou art reigning. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by CONAR O'RIORDAN Poem Source First Line: Queen of all queens, oh! Wonder of the loveliness of women Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN TO THE WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Oh, this subdued, subtle beauty of middle-class Subject(s): Women's Rights HYMN: INNOCENTS' DAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep not o'er thy children's tomb! Last Line: The flower in heaven shall blow! Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Childhood HYMN: O GLORIOSA DOMINA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail, most high, most humble one Last Line: The same to thee, sweet spirit be done; %as ever shall be, was, and is. %amen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYMN: QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of mercy and of might Last Line: Jesus, hear and save! Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMN: THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin-born! We bow before thee! Last Line: Blessed was she in her child! Subject(s): Lent; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary HYMNUS SANCTAE MARIAE, SELS., by ENNODIUS Poem Source First Line: How of the virgin mother shall I sing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: The parquet shines; outside the snow falls deep Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism HYPOCRITE SWIFT, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite swift now takes an eldest daughter Last Line: Hypocrite swift sent stella a green apron %and dead desire Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights HYPOCRITE WOMEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women HYPOCRITE WOMEN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak Last Line: With what frivolity we have pared them %like toenails, clipped them like ends of %split hair Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women I ALWAYS CHECK OTHER, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Other can be a place Last Line: Like a needle to not exactly true...North Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women I AM, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: I am the sharp sensory smell of woodsmoke Last Line: I am alyce Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina I AM A BLACK WOMAN, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Look %on me and be %renewed Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alphabet Verse I AM CONSECRATED TO THE COMING ONE, by WAFAA' LAMRANI Poem Source First Line: Dawn comes out of its vast silence %crowned by the whispers of the valley Last Line: Everything falls down %except air %...It never becomes lighter! Subject(s): Arabs - Women I AM GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: With teeth of flowers, headdress of dew Subject(s): Women's Rights I AM NO LONGER AFRAID, by DEENA POSY METZGER Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women I AM NOT A BUG, by GABRIELLE WOHMANN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I AM NOT OUTRAGEOUS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source Last Line: I am not outrageous %enough Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights I AM PROUD OF YOU., by CHANA SAFRAN Poem Source Last Line: You are climbing higher, higher %and your torch lights up the night Subject(s): Jews - Women I AM SO GOOD, by RINA FACCIO Poem Source First Line: I am so good all day long Subject(s): Women's Rights I AM THE DAUGHTER OF LOT, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source Last Line: I am the daughter of lot %and you are smitten with blindness Variant Title(s): I Am The Daughter Of Lo Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights I AM THIRSTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I AM WOMAN, by LAURA LOURENE LEGEAR Poem Source First Line: I am woman loving you: with woman - breast Last Line: Little need to cry it aloud Alternate Author Name(s): Humphreys, James Kevil, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Women I ASK MYSELF IF THIS IS THE START OF A PROSE POEM, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: I ask myself if I will write a letter to michael ryan Last Line: Ask myself what the hell could I say to him after all if I don't even %know if this is a prose poem Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ryan, Michael (b. 1945); Women's Rights I CAN NO LONGER CARE FOR THE DYING, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY Poem Source First Line: My muse was imprisoned once %six months encased in stone %outside of hebron Last Line: When they know, %finally and for certain, %they are mortal, after all Subject(s): Arabs - Women I CAN NO LONGER LAUGH WITH REAL JOY, by ANNA MALFAIERA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I CANNOT SWIM., by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It was almost dark Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women I DIDN'T LIKE HIM, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps you may a-noticed I been shot o' solemn lately Last Line: I didn't like him. Subject(s): Loss; Solitude; Women; Loneliness I DO NOT RELATE, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: I do not relate to disaster Subject(s): Women's Rights I DO NOT WANT AN OLD MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I DON'T KNOW, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I don't know where I'm from Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights I DONE GO SO THIRSTY THAT MY MOUTH WATERS, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source Last Line: On the sidewalk like flooded houses %wasted of time and touch Subject(s): African Americans - Women I DREAMED HIM HOMEWARD, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: He came to say good-bye Last Line: No entry papers needed %anymore Subject(s): Jews - Women I DROVE UP IN MAMI'S MERCEDES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Waving the guard adios, I headed down the mountain Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in possibility Last Line: The spreading wide my narrow hands %to gather paradise Variant Title(s): Poem: 466; Poem: 65 Subject(s): Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion I FEEL SAD FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I FOLLOWED A PATH, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source Last Line: For one moment, %I chased the lines away Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Homosexuality I FOUND ONE WORD, by THERESE AWWAD Poem Source First Line: Secluded myself %by my own hand froze. %I hung it Last Line: Over my skin %the echoes of famine %persist Subject(s): Arabs - Women I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "remember by these heartfelt strains, / I give my soldier boy the blade!" Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;patriotism;u.s. - History;women; Confederacy I HADN'T FIT INTO ANY OF THE STORIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Chiquita, I was on my way back to where I cam from! Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I HATE POETRY, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source Subject(s): Women I HAVE BEEN IN GREAT DISTRESS, by BEATRITZ DE DIA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Beatriz De Dia; Beatritz De Die; Dia, Countess Of Subject(s): Betrayal; Women's Rights I HAVE LOST THE ADDRESS OF MY COUNTRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have lost the address of my country Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Islam I HAVE NO SEED TO SCATTER THROUGH THE WORLD, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights I HAVE NO SEED TO SPREAD OVER THE WORLD, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women I HAVE TALKED TO YOU, TALKED, by MIRABAI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Through life after life, %a virginal harvest for you to reap Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira Subject(s): Krishna (god); Spiritual Life; Transcendentalism; Women And Religion I HAVEN'T TOLD YOU, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source Last Line: And the world built an arc %of our tears Subject(s): Identity; Women I HEAR PAPITO CALLING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To the shore I've made up on the other side Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I HEAR YOU, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The promises of mother Last Line: And I'm punished %anyhow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I HEARED DE ANGELS SINGIN': HARRIET TUBMAN, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Yes ma'am, de almighty he make me Last Line: But we be somewheres in creation %on our way.' Subject(s): Women I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I KNEW A WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a woman, lovely in her bones Last Line: These old bones live to learn her wanton ways %(I measure time by how a body sways) Subject(s): Desire; Love; Men; Women I KNOW ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SITS AND WAITS., by JUDITH ROSE Poem Source Last Line: Who hopes for her daughter %not %to sit and wait Subject(s): Jews - Women I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S BODY, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men I KNOW NOT YOUR WAYS., by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source Last Line: I am afraid of the dark Subject(s): Jews - Women I KNOW THE MIRRORS, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE Poem Source Last Line: Knowing no that woman %ever looked better with a beard Subject(s): Women I KNOW WHAT I KNOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I am not an old woman Last Line: Ashamed they are %I'm crying Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women I LIVE IN CUBA, by LOURDES CASAL Poem Source Subject(s): Cuba; Women I LIVE WITH A BULLET, by MARGARITA IOSIFOVNA ALIGER Poem Source First Line: I live %with a bullet in my heart Last Line: I walked, regardless of obstacles, toward that day Subject(s): Women I LOVE IN WHITE INK, by SIHAM DA'OUD Poem Source First Line: I love in white ink %at evening, who knows what day or time Last Line: And I love my storm birthing %and the pomegranate bursting Subject(s): Arabs - Women I LOVE MY MASTER, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source Subject(s): Women I MAKE POEMS, GENTLEMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers I MUST EXPLAIN, by JOAN HALPERIN Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women I NEVER THINK OF MYSELF AS WAITING FOR YOU., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: Why you've left me here %alone Subject(s): Jews - Women I OFTEN PAINT WHITE HORSES BLACK, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I often paint white horses black Last Line: And don't forget to put some horses round the edges Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged I OFTEN WISH THAT I COULD BE, by AFTON BLOXHAM Poem Source First Line: I often wish that I could be Last Line: Worth just the joy of having me Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I ONLY WALK HIS DOG, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: He wears this plague so bravely Last Line: By his groping key Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights I PRAY TO VENUS, by ELIZABETH OF YORK Poem Text First Line: My heart is set upon a lusty pin Last Line: This joy and I, I trust, shall never twin. Subject(s): Contentment; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women I PRESENT MYSELF TO THE WORLD, by AMINA SAID Poem Source First Line: To my jumbled shadows %a cry alone can greet this earth Last Line: Two turtledoves of sand %suddenly take flight Subject(s): Arabs - Women I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States I PUT EM DOWN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The next time I see her, %the woman of too many days has no bags Last Line: She is appearing at proctor's, she informs me. %tonight. A solo performance Subject(s): Homeless; Women I RECONSTRUCT HER AS I TOUCH, I DISAPPEAR AS SHE ALIGHTS, by JOHN BRANDI Poem Source First Line: Over the years she's appeared a sparvati Last Line: She motions me to her doorway, folds the world %into a paper wing Subject(s): Saints; Women I REMEMBER BEING BEAUTIFUL, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: My lovely, lineless face Last Line: Hello, good lookin'.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers I SAID TO POETRY, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said to poetry: I'm finished Subject(s): Women I SAID TO POETRY, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said to poetry: I'm finished Last Line: Bullshit,' said poetry. %'bullshit,' said I Subject(s): Women I SAW A MAIDEN SIT AND SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible I SCREAM IN AMERICA, by DIANE ENGLE Poem Source First Line: It's as if ink has taken on Last Line: In ribbons of language Subject(s): Ashbery, John (b. 1927); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights I SEE CLEOPATRA, by NURUNNESSA CHOUDHURY Poem Source First Line: The working girl: child-carrying, sensual Subject(s): Women I SEND OUR LADY, by MARY THERESE Poem Source First Line: I may not venture to your doctor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN TO SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN WITH THE NAME OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SING THIS SONG FOR OUR MOTHERS: RUISE, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A ship %a chain Last Line: Never lowered gra'ma's head Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I SIT AND SEW, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew? Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America I SIT AND WAIT FOR BEAUTY; TO JOHN LOVELL, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Long have I yearned and sought for beauty Last Line: She will ever hide her face %and elude my grasping hand Subject(s): African Americans - Women I STARTED SUBSCRIBING, by TRISH REEVES Poem Text First Line: To the christian science monitor Subject(s): Buses; Capital Punishment; Gays & Lesbians; Photography & Photographers; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty I STOP WRITING THE POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To fold the clothes. No matter who lives Last Line: Watching to see how it's done Subject(s): Housewives; Poetry & Poets; Women I STOP WRITING THE POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fold the clothes. No matter who lives Last Line: Standing next to her mother %watching to see how it's done Subject(s): Housewives; Poetry And Poets; Women I TAUGHT MYSELF TO LIVE SIMPLY AND WISELY, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I may not even hear Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Women I THANK MY LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I THINK ABOUT THE DEAD WOMAN IN A POEM, by MARIE-FRANCOISE PRAGER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I UNDRESSED MYSELF, by THERESE AWWAD Poem Source First Line: Of my crust %and wore you %a nightgown of love Last Line: Split a crevice %to the light %a road into your flesh Subject(s): Arabs - Women I USED TO HAVE A FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I USED TO THINK, by CHIRLANE MCCRAY Poem Source Subject(s): Women I USED TO THINK / I CAN'T BE A POET, by CHIRLANE MCCRAY Poem Source Last Line: That pretty is the woman in darkness %who flowers with loving Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights I VOW!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I WAIT FOR HIM BY THE SUBWAY EXIT, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Around, people, their doubts Subject(s): Women - Writers I WANT TO BE YOUR DAUGHTER NOW, SELS., by KATIE MCBAIN Poem Source First Line: I wonder why I can't remember Last Line: Even if the hours of it are blurred Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WANT TO BE, MOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I WANT YOU WOMEN UP NORTH TO KNOW, by TILLIE LERNER OLSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: I swear it won't Subject(s): Social Protest; Women I WAS BORN IN A HOTEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A woman jar Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Birth I WAS BORN WITH TWELVE FINGERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My dead mother my live daughter and me %through our terrible shadowy hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters I WAS FOUR IN DOTTED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swiss summer pajamas %my face a blotch of Last Line: Me as so few ever %have since as if %not to lose more Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women I WAS LUCKY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: My friend assures me Last Line: Without speaking %or sleeping Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights I WEEP, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women I WENT DOWN TO THE CREEK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I WILL BRING YOU TWIN GRAYS, by MARLA BIG BOY Poem Source First Line: When the osages captured you at the stream Last Line: Then I'll come to bring you home. %my sister Subject(s): Native Americans - Wars; Native Americans - Women; Prisons And Prisoners I WILL FEED SEA GULLS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Tossing my head with witty allusion to blake Last Line: I will feed sea gulls when I am old Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights I WILL LEAVE YOU IN POSSESSION OF THE FIELD', by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: I will leave him in possession Last Line: Made in possession of the field Subject(s): Women I WILL LIVE AND SURVIVE, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source First Line: I will live and survive and be asked Last Line: And perhaps is only needed once Subject(s): Women I WISH I COULD TELL YOU, by KATHRYN DUNN Poem Source First Line: There was a war; there wasn't. People died Last Line: We watched them, considered our fates Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women I WOULD BE A FOOL TO WANT MORE CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source Last Line: Approach me without fear Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women I WRITE ONLY TO RELIEVE MY INNER GRIEF, by VITTORIA COLONNA Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Pescara, Matchesa De; Colonna, Vittoria Di Subject(s): Women's Rights I WRITE THE LIFE OF A WOMAN, SELS., by LOURDES ESPINOLA Poem Source First Line: Upwind from destiny Last Line: And a camellia %of fire between your legs Subject(s): Fate; Women I'D LIKE TO JUDGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, by SHAO YANXIANG Poem Source First Line: Thirty-three tribunals of public censure Last Line: Let's cast a contemptuous look %on those who stratagems all l came to naught Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Human Rights; Women - Abused I'M A DREAMER, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: I dream of serenity Last Line: One who sleeps %away reality Subject(s): African Americans - Women I'M DOING FINE, by MARGOT SCHROEDER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I'M STANDING IN LINE., by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source Last Line: Making people feel like dirt Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women I'M THINKING OF YOU, by MARGOT SCHROEDER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I'M UGLY. IS IT MY FAULT?, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I didn't want anyone to think Last Line: I want to see you crying %while I die Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women I'VE MET EVERYONE IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A happy ending to close at least one version of my story Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women I, WOMAN, by IRMA MCCLAURIN Poem Source First Line: And I, woman, cloaked in blues Last Line: I swear I hear those sisters still humming Subject(s): African Americans - Women ICE CABBAGES, by LAURA STEARNS Poem Source First Line: Seventeen when she fled estonia Last Line: I want our mothers to drink this %until their stomachs are full Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ICE EAGLE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was with resolution that she gave up the Last Line: The ice eagle can do nothing %but melt Subject(s): Reality; Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983); Women ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women ICELAND, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl's bathroom is titled in pink Last Line: The withered scraps, like petals, into the sink Subject(s): Berkeley, California; Girls; Women IDA LEWIS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: From the lighthouse %ida saw Last Line: To the lighthouse %ida rowed Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes IDEA OF HUMAN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Every idea has its perfect shape Last Line: Oh, here is vermilion, here cobalt blue, here lemon yellow Subject(s): Women's Rights IDEAL, by WILLIAM FOSTER ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: I saw three women. One was white and tall Last Line: In darkness where the others smiled and slept. Subject(s): Women IDEAL WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prudence does o'er her wit preside Last Line: "serenes her brow, and calms her breast" Subject(s): Love;reason;women; Intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals IDEAL WOMAN, by CECILIA VICUNA Poem Source First Line: Every year for the last fifty Subject(s): Women's Rights IDEOLOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS IN WASHING A DISH, by KYRA GALVAN Poem Source First Line: Ideological contradictions in washing a dish. Oh, no Subject(s): Women's Rights IDYL: SUNRISE, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the dell Last Line: He cometh, so I wait Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women IDYL: SUNSET, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In western skies %rare radiance lies Last Line: Does it not seem %that love can all control? Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women IDYLL 14, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman's strength is in her beauty Last Line: Man's—to bear and dare for duty. Subject(s): Men; Women IDYLL 15. THE SYRACUSAN WOMEN, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is praxinoe at home? Last Line: See, she is precluding with her airs and graces Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Festivals; Women IF, by ROSE GUTMAN-JASNY Poem Source First Line: If another flood should come Last Line: You'll conduct the sabbath for desert winds %and smite the sea with thunder for its sins Subject(s): Jews - Women IF ALL YOUR BEAUTIES ONE BY ONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: I had been dead of drinking Subject(s): Temperance;women; Prohibition IF DEATH IS A WOMAN, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: She's not conent with half-measures, takes what she wants Last Line: Dancing on all the open, hidden graves Subject(s): Death; Women IF I LEFT, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: He'd sit at the bar Last Line: She drove him to it' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IF I MUST KNOW, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: If I must know sorrow Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women IF I STAND IN MY WINDOW, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Praying in tongues Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity; Nudity IF IT BE TRUE, by ESTHER JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: If it be true, celestial powers Last Line: Bestow upon my mind Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Women's Rights IF MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Good girl %clean up your room Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IF ONLY, by LINA TIBI Poem Source First Line: If only god were a violet Last Line: If only god were a rose that withers every evening %so that we change it Subject(s): Arabs - Women IF THE PENTAGON HAD A PRICE CLUB, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Shopping for melons Last Line: How many will it kill? Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights IF THEY MEANT ALL THEY SAID, by ALICE DUER MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Charm is a woman's strongest arm Last Line: To feel your cook's afraid of mice. Subject(s): Charm; Tears; Women IF THIS IS SEX, IT MUST BE TUESDAY, by JAN BEATTY Poem Source First Line: So it was every week on a tuesday Last Line: Part of your heart, you couldn't %wish it right Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women IF YOU COME, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS Poem Source First Line: If you come, I will meet your lips at the door Subject(s): Women's Rights IF YOU MUST, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If you must choose, she said, between praise and blame Last Line: Praisewords keep soul and body young %in amazing ways. Subject(s): Flattery; Women; Youth IF YOU SAW A NEGRO LADY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Happy birthday Subject(s): African American - Women IF YOU SAW A NEGRO LADY, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into surprise observing %happy birthday Subject(s): African Americans - Women IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ME, by NOEMIA DE SOUSA Poem Source Subject(s): Women IF YOU'RE BLACK GET BACK, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Vashti %with her one brown Subject(s): Women IF YOU'RE UNHAPPY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Close the sea like a bed Subject(s): Women - Abused IL ETAIT UNE FOIS, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Who owned anything Last Line: A country no one's ever heard of Subject(s): Women's Rights IL MORGANTE MAGGIORE, SELS., by LUIGI PULCI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): History; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ILLUSION, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Foggy patches drift %and disappear Last Line: Like silk raveling along the railroad tracks Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women IMAGES: 1, by VALERY LARBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, in kharkov, in a crowded slum Last Line: Level with the lips of the child who had kneeled to drink it. Subject(s): Kindness; Russia; Thirst; Water; Women; Soviet Union; Russians IMAGINARY ANCESTORS: THE GIRAFFE WOMAN OF BURMA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their voices reach us as if from the shaft Last Line: Lies close to you as air. Help me to hold up my head. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): The Giraffe Women Of Burma Subject(s): Burma; Women - Abused; Wife Beating IMAGINE BEING MORE AFRAID OF FREEDOM THAN SLAVERY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: The saddest thing in the world Last Line: And ultimately go where I want Subject(s): Identity; Women IMELDA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the myrtle's breath around us here Last Line: Love with true heart had striven -- but death had won. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women IMITATIONS OF HORACE: ODE IV, 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again? New tumults in my breast? Last Line: And now, on rolling waters snatch'd away. Variant Title(s): To Venus Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Middle Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IMMACULATE PALM, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, beautiful mother, give Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IMMIGRANT, by LINDA WATSKIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands Last Line: My head between her breasts %and listen Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IMMIGRANT WOMAN, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Thin, patient face, with scars of pain and care Last Line: Tossed by the tide upon an alien shore. Subject(s): Fear; Immigrants; Women; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration IMMORTAL APHRODITE, ON YOUR PATTERNED THORNE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women IMMUNE TO LOVE, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG Poem Text First Line: When love came tapping at my heart Last Line: I wonder: am I -- queer? Subject(s): Love; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers IMPOSSIBLE TO TRUST WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Whan netilles in winter bere roses rede Last Line: Whan shrewd wyffes to ther husbondes do non offens - %than put in a woman your trust and confidence Subject(s): Women IMPROBABLE, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: August lingers, the improbable %scent of a lover thought Last Line: Kindly regrets %that it cannot %embrace %my name Subject(s): Summer; Women's Rights IMPROMPTU FROM A BLACKBURN NEWSPAPER, 1811, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis strange that twenty blackburn belles Last Line: So beaux, where female charms abound, %must fly, or risk a scorching death Subject(s): Women IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHILSEA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you boast, poetic names of yore Last Line: But shines himself till they are seen no more. Subject(s): Finch, Anne. Countess Of Winchilsea; Women IN 1864, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: While the younger daughter slept, she dreamt of mountains Last Line: Against dark velvet and black, black hair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers IN A BOAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! Lady! Last Line: A ship of pure gold Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary IN A BOAT, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! Lady! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN A NORMAN CHURCH, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As over incense-laden air Last Line: Who bore the son of god. Subject(s): Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Theology IN A RAILWAY STATION, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How strangely memory serves us! Here tonight Last Line: "will have gone twenty miles tonight for naught." Subject(s): Memory; Pity; Railroad Stations; Women - Middle Aged IN A RESTAURANT, 1917, by ELEANOUR TREHANE NORTON Poem Source First Line: Encircled by the traffic's roar Last Line: Now in our hearts an empty place %and far in france an unmarked grave Subject(s): Women; World War I IN A SLEEPER, 10 A.M., by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Lazy lady, languid loiterer Last Line: Half the queen I fancy you! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Idleness; Sleep; Women; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence IN A SMALL TAVERN OFF HIGHWAY 395 SHE GIVES THIS GUY HER BEST EAR, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Often in the season of apples Last Line: And what, dear god, would he do then? Subject(s): Women IN A TOWN TOO COLD FOR BASEBALL, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: In emma's bad dream she's always old Last Line: Like an angel. Go back to sleep. %emma, you're safe Subject(s): Women IN A V.A.D. PANTRY, by ALBERTA VICKRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Pots in piles of blue and white Last Line: Shed a nimbus strange and pale %round about this humble grail Subject(s): Women; World War I IN ALL COLOURS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: All day the beautiful painter he loves Last Line: See Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged IN ALL WAYS A WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady Subject(s): Women IN AN IRIDESCENT TIME, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, when young, scrubbed laundry in a tub Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women IN AN IRIDESCENT TIME, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, when young, scrubbed laundry in a tub Last Line: Between the lilac bushes and the yew: %brown gingham, pink, and skirts of alice blue Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Women IN ANSWER TO MR. POPE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disarmed with so genteel an air Last Line: By admonitions taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Subject(s): Women; Body, Human; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery IN CELEBRATION OF MY UTERUS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone in me is a bird Last Line: Let me sing %for the supper, %for the kissing, %for the correct %yes Subject(s): God; Religion; Women IN CUENCA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I kiss %your eyelids Last Line: Light to keep Subject(s): Women's Rights IN DISGUISE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Leah had lovely Last Line: Loved leah %better than he let on Subject(s): Women - Bible IN EXCELSIS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You - you / your shadow is sunlit on a plate of silver Last Line: Are rubies mortised in a gate of stone. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN FISHERROW, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hard north-easter fifty winters long Last Line: Reproachful, with a strange and doleful cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Old Age; Women IN FRONT OF THE LIBRARY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is sitting on the sculpture in front of the library Last Line: But that only happens to a few Subject(s): Homeless; Women IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yo, dan, just give a look at this repulsive creature Last Line: And, man, when it unloads, it's outta there, like gone. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Translating & Interpreting; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Vergil; Feminism IN HIS OWN IMAGE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not myself, myself Last Line: I'm a new woman Subject(s): Women – Abused; Violence IN HIS OWN IMAGE, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was not myself, myself Last Line: I am a new woman Subject(s): Women IN LEVITTOWN, BEFORE HER MOTHER'S VANITY, by LIZ ABRAMS-MORELY Poem Source First Line: Wearing mama's hat, white crepe Last Line: A new life can be pulled from a hat Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women IN LIEU OF LETTERS, by SHARON CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Two days a week I teach. I try Last Line: Or startle at the shadows that lengthen by my side Subject(s): Jews - Women IN MEMORIAM, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Since poems aren't always organized Last Line: You, me, soledad gonzalez Subject(s): Exiles; Memory; Women - Secluding IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 13, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears of the widower, when he sees Last Line: And not the burthen that they bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 130, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is on the rolling air Last Line: I shall not lose thee tho' I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): All Is Well Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 27, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I envy not in any moods Last Line: Than never to have loved at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 9, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ship, that from the italian shore Last Line: More than my brothers are to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Dead, In A Foreign Land Subject(s): Death; Gays & Lesbians; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORY, 1978, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: I want to lament the princess who was killed Subject(s): Assassination; Women IN MEXICO THE BIG, LOVELY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Becoming a normal woman %only more so Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mexico; Nature; Women IN MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's in my mind a woman Subject(s): Women IN MIND, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's in my mind a woman Last Line: And torn taffeta, %who knows strange songs- %but she is not kind Subject(s): Women IN MY MANE, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Heavy with child Subject(s): Women IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN ORDER TO SAY IT, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: What sons of so and so Subject(s): Women's Rights IN PHILISTIA, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the places on the map Last Line: They wear the gowns of gibson. Subject(s): Love; Women IN PRAISE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Hoffman, young blonde wife %of the dentist-mayor, who taught Last Line: I want to praise them all, all of them, %these lovely women. Teachers Subject(s): Praise; Teaching And Teachers; Women IN PRAISE OF THE MALE SEX, AS SEEN BY CERTAIN FEMALES, by CHRISTIANA MARIANA VON ZIEGLER Poem Source First Line: You males, praised the whole world through Subject(s): Women's Rights IN PRAISE OF WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am light as any roe Last Line: "thereto she put all her might, / and yet she hath both care and woe" Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism IN PRAISE OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now of wemen this I say for me Last Line: All wemen of us should haif honoring, %service and luve, abo if all othir thing Subject(s): Women IN PRAISE OF WOMEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jupiter, sho'd I speake ill Last Line: Of creatures, woman is the best. Subject(s): Women IN PRAISE OF WOMEN IN GENERAL, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a parricide to his mother's name Last Line: The fairest is the valiant amazon. Subject(s): Women IN RETURN CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE ONLY, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: That's life %groping along Subject(s): Women - Writers IN SEASON, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: My father knew the weight of words %in balance, stones in a weathered wall Last Line: Hang heavy as memory, %orange flash from dusty leaves, %their season still ripening Subject(s): Arabs - Women IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH, by RICHARD TAYSON Poem Full Text First Line: For a week you lie beneath one sheet Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Love; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness IN THE CAFETERIA, by ISABELLE BRUDER Poem Source First Line: Julia %carefully considers Last Line: No sugar - %bad for the teeth Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women IN THE CASBAH, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI Poem Source First Line: I thought that war was %here we died, mai and I, %flattened by armored wheels Last Line: When our nation became %war's killing ground? Subject(s): Arabs - Women IN THE CHIROPRACTOR'S OFFICE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: A woman is talking about her late husband, is talking about Last Line: Pair of new black shoes for his funeral, 'new black shoes for %elwood to walk to jesus' Subject(s): Chiropractors; Love - Marital; Poverty; Women IN THE DARK, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: From the balcony the half-moon's Last Line: What was there? Subject(s): Women IN THE EVENING, by EVELINE CATTERMOLE-MANCINI Poem Source First Line: And here I am alone, still listening Subject(s): Women's Rights IN THE FIRST STANZA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I tell you who I am Last Line: I tell you who I am. Subject(s): Identity; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism IN THE FORESTS OF SLEEP, by HABIBA MUHAMMADI Poem Source First Line: The lion of waking roars %and takes revenge %on a part of my dreams Last Line: With tenderness %I am ravished by words Subject(s): Arabs - Women IN THE FRUIT BOWL, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: As if by the smoke of an earlier %fire Subject(s): Women - Writers IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE HELLGATE WIND, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January ice drifts downriver Last Line: As the river I cross over. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Change; West (u.s.); Winter; Women; Southwest; Pacific States IN THE HOME OF THE SCHOLAR WU SU-CHIANG ..., by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Half of our borders, rivers and mountains were gone Last Line: Dragons dancing in the depths %and the moss on the shore burning red Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women IN THE HOSPITAL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they came at me with sharp knives Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women IN THE LEBANESE MOUNTAINS, by NADIA TUENI Poem Source First Line: Remember-the noise of moonlight %when the summer night collides with a peak Last Line: In those dead birds in the bottom of their cages, %in the mountains of lebanon Subject(s): Arabs - Women IN THE LOCKER ROOM, by PAULA GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: Undressing I look down, see my belly and hate myself. Don't other Last Line: Over her sparse pubic hair or was that my mother? Where am I in this %picture? Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Bodies; Pictures; Women IN THE MEN'S ROOM(S), by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young I believed in intellectual conversation: Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism IN THE MORNING, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disguised in my mouth as a swampland Subject(s): African Americans - Women IN THE NAME OF GOD I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NAME OF THE PROPHET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are spirit presences Last Line: And sense the mist rising. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism IN THE PARK, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Children; Women; Childhood IN THE PARK, by GWEN HARWOOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in the park. Her clothes are out of date Last Line: To the wind she says, 'they have eaten me alive' Alternate Author Name(s): Foster, Gwendoline Subject(s): Children; Women IN THE PERSON OF WOMANKIND (IN DEFENSE OF THEIR INCONSTANCY), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men, if you love us, play no more Last Line: To make a new, and hang that by. Subject(s): Women IN THE SEASON WHEN THE WORLD'S IN LEAF AND FLOWER, by COMPIUTA DONZELLA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights IN THE SMALL WORLD, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Walk through the black curtain and it is night Last Line: Blind to anything but the dazzling display Subject(s): Women IN THE SMOKING CAR, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: That hatless chewed woman sending me messages Last Line: Her certain knowledge, older than cats %that I am pretending, pretending, pretending Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women IN THE STEALTH OF STILLNESS, by THURAYYA AL- URAYYID Poem Source First Line: Do we see in what we see %anything but what we wish to be? %maybe Last Line: Victims, %my soul whispers %in the stealth of stillness Subject(s): Arabs - Women IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 1. THE IRREPARABLE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, I was there where unheard Last Line: Massed above the towers, rushing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 2. IN MY DESK, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two cigarette butts - / left by you Last Line: Now the envelope is in my desk Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 3. TWO MEN, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who does not know himself, who Last Line: You, through the waters (you are cruel) fleeing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THIS GALAXY FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Are we jews sentenced to stay Last Line: Under the hechsher %of home-grown hachamim Subject(s): Jews - Women IN TIME OF WAR, by LESBIA THANET Poem Source First Line: I dreamed (god pity babes at play) Last Line: Only god bring you back - god bring you back Subject(s): Women; World War I IN WINTER SOMETHING INSIDE ME RETURNS AS TO A DARK GOD, by KATE GLEASON Poem Source First Line: I love his scent of must Last Line: My mother warned me about %only more Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women IN WITNESS OF WOMEN POETS, by SUSANNA ELIZABETH ZEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Rhapsodius does not imagine women write Last Line: We will be more like equals Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights IN YORK MINSTER, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Hadn't greer garson, playing mrs. Miniver Last Line: I was a casual tourist admiring the grisaille glass Subject(s): Women's Rights IN YOUR DOUGH KITCHEN, by KAREN NEUBERG Poem Source First Line: They say you hid in the trunk of a tree Last Line: I knew you were dying. %I knew that I would never know Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women INCANTATION, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: To light the dark Last Line: To learn to say %no more to you Variant Title(s): Litan Subject(s): Literary Form; Women INCENSE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with Last Line: Only by their singular frequency Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women; Possessions INCENSE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her boudoir is ornamented with Last Line: Only by their singular frequency Subject(s): Property; Rooms; Women INCEST, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: My father wants to f... Me Last Line: When truth is too hard %to face Subject(s): Identity; Women INCIDENT, by MARY H. J. HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: He was just a boy, as I could see Last Line: Wounded to death for the mother land Subject(s): Women; World War I INCIDENT IN KEY BANK, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I hear the woman of too many days %got put away Last Line: But I hear that was her alright, %right in the middle of things Subject(s): Homeless; Women INDEX, A MOUNTAIN; PART OF THE CASCADE RANGE, WASHINGTON STATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early one day a mountain uprose, all cased in silver Last Line: Serve as god's tombstone. Have no green mercy on us. Subject(s): Cascade Range; Fingers; Lumber & Lumbering; Travel; Washington (state); Women; Women's Rights; Woodsmen; Journeys; Trips; Feminism INDIAN WALKS IN ME, by MARILOU AWIAKTA Poem Source Last Line: That seeks the whole %in strength and peace Subject(s): Appalachia; Women INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down a broad river of the western wilds Last Line: "one moment, and that realm is ours. On, on, dark rolling stream!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Drowning; Native Americans; Women; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIAN WOMEN, by SHIV K. KUMAR Poem Source First Line: In this triple-baked continent Last Line: And are gone %beyond the hills Subject(s): India; Women INEFFABLE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: I die a strange death ... Life does not kill me Subject(s): Women's Rights INFANTA MARINA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Her terrace was the sand Subject(s): Women; Sea; Ocean INFANTICIDE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man says, all the girl babies Last Line: They know too many ways to die Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Marriage; Women INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Last Line: After the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes Subject(s): Jews - Women INGATHERING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets are going home now Last Line: The patient earth that is waiting to receive you. Subject(s): Homecoming; Poetry & Poets; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); War; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism INJUNCTIONS, by JOAN HALPERIN Poem Source First Line: My mouth opens and closes around the word cancer Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women INJUSTICE, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS Poem Source First Line: All the while we give our body and our soul Subject(s): Prostitution; Women's Rights INK AND GREEN WASH: IN THE ONCOLOGIST'S WAITING ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Leather banquettes in Last Line: For me, wait for me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INNOCENCE, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She tripped and fell against a star Last Line: Twas a star-lance in her side! Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Innocence INNOCENT DAUGHTER OF KINGS I DESIRE, by HAZMAG (SA'ID) Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women INQUIETUDE, by PAULI MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Blue is this night of stars Last Line: I sink and let the silver tide %engulf me Subject(s): African Americans - Women INSATIATE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: If my love were meat and bread Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION ON AN ANCIENT BELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The rose when shaken fragrance shed around Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible INSIDE LOOKS BETTER FROM THE OUTSIDE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I ask the woman of too many days %how she stands it in the winter Last Line: So she saves it for special occasions Subject(s): Homeless; Women INSIDE THE DARK ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We came to cries and screams Last Line: Dark, dark light yes full of light Subject(s): Women's Rights INSTITUTIONAL BLUE, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: In the welfare waiting room Last Line: Voice: we won't end up like them. That sticks Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Relationships; Women INSULTED, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mamma is a mean old sing Last Line: I'm doeing way, an' hide. Subject(s): African Americans - Women INTERIM, by CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was made for rest and sleep Last Line: And not afraid to dare. Subject(s): African Americans - Women INTERIOR WITH METAL INSTRUMENTS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Music - after the walls were washed with irritants Last Line: Wounds. We always soil each other Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients INTERLACED LINES FOR THE SAME MOMENT, by GHADA SHAFA'I Poem Source First Line: Has it ever happened- %you forgetting: your hands hung on smoky trees Last Line: Rolling it like a ball in the bottomless pit %of oblivion? Subject(s): Arabs - Women INTERLUDE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: I like this quiet place Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Sanctuaries INTERLUDE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have baked white cakes Last Line: Outside. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men INTERPRETATION OF A POEM BY FROST, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young black girl stopped by the woods Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets INTERPRETATION OF A POEM BY FROST, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young black girl stopped by the woods Last Line: Before she sleeps with jim Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry And Poets INTERVIEW, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I questioned job: Last Line: I have some sensibility %for what is fair.' Subject(s): Women - Bible INTERVIEW, by SUSANNA RICH Poem Source First Line: First, you are outnumbered: three to ten of them Last Line: Eat your heart out Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women INTERVIEW, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought once I'd like to be a kleptomaniac, Subject(s): Divorce; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men INTERVIEW WITH ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: How did you fall? Last Line: Do you have any advice for the other girls? %I suppose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF, by MASCHA KALEKO Poem Source First Line: I was born not too long ago Subject(s): Women's Rights INTIMATIONS OF ANXIETY, by LAILA SA'IH Poem Source First Line: You do not know how hard it is, %transfiguring blood into ink Last Line: A single syllable to this existence- %this arduous impossible task Subject(s): Arabs - Women INTO CAPTIVITY, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair maiden, with the meek blue eyes Last Line: The longer that it doth endure. Subject(s): Women - Captives INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half-waif, half-woman, at fourteen norma Last Line: And the planter of wandering jew was a japanese microphone Subject(s): Life; Meditation; Women INTRODUCTION, by KAMALA DAS Poem Source First Line: I don't know politics but I know the names Last Line: Aches which are not yours. I too call myself I Subject(s): India; Women INVENTORY, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: In a hiding place Last Line: On a table without legs %our own gnawed face - %we threw it right out Subject(s): Women - Abused INVESTMENT OF WORTH, by TERRI L. JEWELL Poem Source First Line: You value the earthen vase Last Line: Whose death as costly %as a polished oak bed Subject(s): Women INVITATION, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: If my fat Subject(s): Women INVITATION AU FESTIN, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Oh come and live with me, my love Last Line: And now good-night - your dreams eb bright! %(perhaps they will - who knows?) Subject(s): Women; World War I INVITATION TO A DANCE, by SUSAN WALLBANK Poem Source First Line: Thirty years ago we stood in rows Subject(s): Women INVITATION TO OBEDIENCE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Eve Last Line: And who still %wishes us well Subject(s): Women - Bible INVOATION TO KALI: 2. THE KINGDOM OF KALI, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Anguish is always there, lurking at night Last Line: There will be no child, no flower, and no wine Subject(s): Mythology; Women INVOCATION, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be buried in the rain Last Line: Grow high above my head. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks INVOCATION TO KALI: 1, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There are times when Last Line: How live with the terrible god Subject(s): Mythology; Women INVOCATION TO KALI: 3. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Have we managed to fade them out like god? Last Line: Walked the pavane of death in our new shoes, %sweated with anguish and remembered god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mythology; Women INVOCATION TO KALI: 4. THE TIME OF BURNING, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: For a long time, we shall have only to listen Last Line: The murderers we are, brought here to kneel Subject(s): Mythology; Women INVOCATION TO KALI: 5, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: It is time for the invocation Last Line: You, the dark one, kali %awesome power Subject(s): Mythology; Women INVOCATION; WRITTEN AFTER THE DEATH OF A SISTER-IN-LAW, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Answer me, burning stars of night! / where is the spirit gone Last Line: "thine is, to trust in heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women IRENE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: The pale sweetpea of her bonnet moves Last Line: After children - she grows flowers Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women IRISH PATRIARCH, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He bathes his soul in women's wrath Last Line: Not shrews and vixens, cross and curst! Subject(s): Women IS AND WAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was whiter than the ermine Last Line: Doing all from self-respect. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Once Subject(s): Love; Past; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect ISABEL, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now o'er the landscape crowd the deepening shades Last Line: And cut clubs, cards, champagne, balls, billiard-rooms, and beer. Subject(s): Women ISAIAH, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Therefore the lord himself Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ISHTAR, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHTAR, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliberate as the shell of a body you offer Last Line: To wrap them round Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHTAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I first saw a woman after childbirth Last Line: Why is it that I begin to worship you with tears? Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women ISHWARKE EVE (EVE SPEAKS TO GOD), by KABITA SINHA Poem Source First Line: I was first Last Line: I was first %to know Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States ISLAND MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the all been done and I Last Line: What star still choosing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ISLAND MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the all been done and I Last Line: What song around her ear? %what star still choosing? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ISLAND OF WOMEN, by JUNE MCGLASHAN Poem Source First Line: In the mid-1880's Last Line: Species left of the %great sea-dwellers Subject(s): Aleutian Islands; Women ISLAND QUEEN: BOOK 1, SELS., by SARAH (STICKNEY) ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Work? There are millions working at the loom Last Line: And least remembered in our country's boast Subject(s): Tahiti; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women ISN'T IT FUNNY?, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't want to hear you beg Last Line: " hair is cut close too, like mine Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise IT COULD BE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: It could be that all that imbues my verse Subject(s): Women's Rights IT IS NOT A NEW AGE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: When a gay man is beaten to death Last Line: It is not a new age Subject(s): Identity; Women IT WAS A SEASON TATTOOED ON THE FOREHEAD OF THE EARTH, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA Poem Source First Line: The flight of migrating birds froze in full sky Last Line: Only the houses kept going Subject(s): Arabs - Women IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our way of life Last Line: Coming home Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our way of life Last Line: Just my frosty neighbor %coming home Subject(s): Women IT'S ALL THE SAME, by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My grandmamma %don't believe they walked in space Last Line: Tell the gospel truth, rev Subject(s): African Americans - Women IT'S EVENING, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Supple like a part of the body Subject(s): Women - Writers IT'S INDIAN SUMMER, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: It's indian summer, more beautiful than I can remember Last Line: And black mounds of coal turned to dust in the cellar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IT'S TWILIGHT TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ITA, by YOLANDA ULLOA Poem Source First Line: Tania died Subject(s): Women IVA'S PANTOUM, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pace each other for a long time. Subject(s): Women; Relationships IVAN THE CZAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in silence on the ground Last Line: Humbly the conqueror died. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ivan Iii, Czar Of Russia (1440-1505); Novgorod, Russia; Russia; Women; Ivan The Great; Soviet Union; Russians IVY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman Last Line: I am a woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Women IXION'S APOLOGIA FROM THE WHEEL, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI Poem Source First Line: She welcomed me, those ox-eyes clear Last Line: I'll still shout for the world to hear: %she welcomed me! Subject(s): Wheels; Women Ï„Î?θνάκην δ€™ ολίγω €™Ï€Î¹Î´Î?Ï?ης φαίνομ€™ αλαία, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red cheeked boyfriends tenderly kiss me sweet mouthed Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men JABOTINSKY STREET; FOR ROBERT FRIEND, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: For the man who nurses %twelve cats, one without claws Last Line: Plant them in a pot outside his window and pray %things will not stop blooming Subject(s): Jews - Women JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JACK PATTON, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: Jack patton, commander of rakers in the hay field Last Line: All my life remembering, 'if you do it, do it right.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JACOB, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt among 'apartments let' Last Line: The difference to me! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Male-female Relations; Feminism JAEL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jael Last Line: Demolition %experts Subject(s): Women - Bible JAEL'S POEM, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Yes %I did it beat Last Line: And sleeps %with one eye open Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JAKE IS THE BEST DAMN CAP'N IN THE WORLD, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JANE, by T. ALAN BROUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Last summer she was whippet skinny Last Line: In invisible currents sanely %drifting around the bend Subject(s): Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Sickness; Women JANE HOOPER, by MABEL RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: Jane hooper lived and died on hollow street Last Line: Still gently shone the love that shared her crust. Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women - Heroes JANIS, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sand evy'where over Last Line: She' glad Subject(s): African Americans - Women JANIS JOPLIN, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: There is a song like a light Last Line: Because it must not end, %because it never lasts Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women JANUARY 20TH, 1993, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: What does it mean, I wonder, to wake up coming Last Line: In a world ravaged by war and tourism Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs JANUARY AFTERNOON, WITH BILLIE HOLIDAY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice shifts as if it were light Last Line: Tomorrow is something she remembers Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers JAPONICA BUSH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Tranced in utter dreams she stands Last Line: This is iseult of the white hands. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Women JAZZ CHICK, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music from her breast, vibrating Last Line: Her music... / jazz Subject(s): Women; Jazz JEALOUSY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Nothing prepared me Last Line: You are a woman I loved %a long time ago Subject(s): Identity; Women JEANNE MANON PHILIPON-ROLAND, by KATHINKA ZITZ-HALEIN Poem Source First Line: The sacred love for one's native land Subject(s): Women's Rights JENNIE LUBELL IS IN A NURSING HOME IN PROVINCETOWN, SELS., by ADELINE NAIMAN Poem Source First Line: My mother has died, but I visit her weekly Last Line: For my own dark journey Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Nursing Homes; Women JENNY MARIE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: This morning I am thinking of jenny marie, of being nine Last Line: Larkish body skyward %and off Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Women JENNY TO L. H., by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Leigh hunt kiss'd me when we met Last Line: Could have kiss'd me Subject(s): Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JENNY'S CHAIR, by BETH A. SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Everybody else calls their mother's mom grandma Last Line: And in her language that means happiness Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: There is a lonely mountain-top Last Line: The voice of her they rue! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Jephthah (bible); Jews; Women; Judaism JERRY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machine Subject(s): Women - Abused; Marriage; Murder; Prisons & Prisoners; Wife Beating; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Convicts JERUSALEM AND SAN'A, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem on high Last Line: From the temple Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights JERUSALEM SONG, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: Your walls fold gently, %a wingspan %embracing the dreaming city Last Line: Jerusalem, we are fledglings %crying for a nest! Subject(s): Arabs - Women JESUS THEY MADE FOR US, by KATHLEEN NORRIS (1947-) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a boy who drank his mother's milk Last Line: He swallowed the sea like a hungry whale Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED OR: IT MUST BE DEEP (AN EPIC POEM), by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sick Last Line: Catch yuh later on jesus, I mean motha! %it must be %deeeeep Subject(s): African Americans - Women JEWESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dark-browed daughter of the sun Last Line: Tis god's, not russia's, here to say. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Jews - Women; Right To Asylum; Judaism JEWISH GIRLS, by BERTA LASK Poem Source First Line: With her face to the wall Subject(s): Women's Rights JEWISH LULLABY, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harp is on the willow-tree Last Line: Judea's fainting soul! Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Singing & Singers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Songs JEZEBEL AND ATHALIAH (LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: They believed in conversion - Last Line: By the blood - %of other people Subject(s): Women - Bible JILL'S TOES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born / on each pink foot Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism JILL'S TOES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born %on each pink foot Last Line: So much for uniformity %that cannot be imposed Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights JIMMY POHOSKI'S A WOMAN NOW, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: The tank arsenal was only a few blocks away Last Line: To become anything other than men Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women JINGO-WOMAN, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Jingo-woman %(how I dislike you) Last Line: To flout and goad men into doing, %what is not asked of you? Subject(s): Women; World War I JOAN OF ARC IN RHEIMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a joyous day in rheims of old Last Line: The crown of glory unto woman's brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Rheims, France; Women JOB'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Job's wife is often caricatured Last Line: Job did not cry which doesn't mean she didn't. %it's hard to have a hero for a husband Subject(s): Women - Bible JOCASTA, by RUTH F. EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: When she learned the king's power Last Line: She stepped into the air Subject(s): Oedipus; Women JOHN CLARE, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John clare, I cried last night Last Line: Sometimes for sheer delight %john clare, I cried last night Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights JOINING THE COLOURS (WEST KENTS, DUBLIN, AUGUST 1914), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There they go marching all in step so gay! Last Line: Out of the mist they stepped - into the mist %singing they pass Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I JONADAB REGARDING TAMAR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: My name is jonadab. I have Last Line: Than any man has a good right %to be Subject(s): Women - Bible JONAH'S WIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jonah's wife worried Last Line: Mongrels, aliens - %even his own children Subject(s): Women - Bible JONESIE, by ZONA GALE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I'm fine now Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women JONESTOWN, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: She spoke like she was apologizing Last Line: To agree %on a dual %suicide Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know! Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary JOSEPH AND MARY, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, art thou the little maid Last Line: Nor see his shining eyes. Subject(s): Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT, by WILFRID MEYNELL Poem Source First Line: Because you left her name unnamed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible JOSEPHINE HALL, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: She got a good turn-out as funerals go Last Line: Crying come back, %come back Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers JOSEPHINE'S HAT, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: What a gay array of hats! Last Line: Such a flower! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Desire; Hats; Women JOSIE, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: Ain't it funny?' she said Last Line: No, I don't care that my johnny never came back - not any %more - no, not really Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women JOSIE MORRIS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the petroglyph, / a child's greasy handprint on rock Last Line: In the sun. Subject(s): Graves; Imagination; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy JOURNAL: PART 4. 3-17-70, by GAYL JONES Poem Source First Line: She said the jehovah witness man Last Line: They're all crooked Subject(s): African Americans - Women JOURNEY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: If the shortest path %is a straight line Last Line: I will be late Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights JOURNEY, by MERRILL ANN GONZALES Poem Source First Line: You will see a shape Last Line: I know when I enter her threshold %there will be no leaving Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women JOURNEY, by MARGARET RECKORD Poem Source First Line: Moon-soaked Subject(s): Women JOURNEY OF THE SHADOW, by NADA EL- HAGE Poem Source First Line: By the light of the night %in the midst of life Last Line: With them, I will cross the secret Subject(s): Arabs - Women JOURNEY: FOR JANET AT THIRTEEN, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papers in order; your face Last Line: And wave you off as the bridge goes under Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women JOY, by CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail Last Line: Bewildered. Subject(s): African Americans - Women JOY AND SORROW MIX'D TOGETHER, by RICHARD CLIMSALL Poem Text First Line: Hang sorrow! Let's cast away care Last Line: That I shall be married to-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Climsell, Richard; Crimsell, Richard Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOY'S PEAK, by ROBERT FARREN Poem Source First Line: Was it at nazareth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible JOY'S SONG, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I listen to this Last Line: Evening of a cloudless sky Subject(s): Memory; Singing And Singers; Women JUANA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night wind shook the tapestry around an ancient palace room Last Line: But a woman's broken heart was left in its lone despair behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506); Women; Bereavement JUDGES: SONG OF DEBORAH; FRAGMENTS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Then sang deborah Last Line: His deeds will the people of israel praise. Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible; Valor; Bravery JUDGES: WAR SONG OF KISHON, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then sang deborah and barak the son of abinboam on that day, saying Subject(s): Courage; Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible JUDITH, by ADAH ISAACS MENKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ashkelon is not cut off with the remnant of a valley Last Line: And I know where sleeps holofernes. Alternate Author Name(s): Theodore, Philomene Croi; Mccord, Ada Subject(s): Judith (bible); Philistines; Women In The Bible JUDITH AT THE TENT OF HOLOFERNES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night was down among the mountains Last Line: Wither at jehovah's frown! Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Praise the god-in broad forearms Last Line: With measured strength %and fully relished method Subject(s): Women JUDITH: JUDITH'S PRAYER, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Lord, god of my father simeon Last Line: And that the race of israel %has you for sole protector Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the prison's tramped-hard alabama clay Last Line: Then race, hand in hand, for shelter, laughing Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Convicts JULIET, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: If I drew a neon blue light across the black Last Line: By glances the season and passion of staying awake Subject(s): Night; Women JULY 1ST, 1916, by AIMEE BYNG SCOTT Poem Source First Line: A soft grey mist %poppies flamed brilliant where the woodlands bent Last Line: Has passed; nature lies prostrate there %stunned by his tread Subject(s): Women; World War I JULY, MAINE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: As shirtail point this morning Last Line: Make us cherish ourselves Subject(s): Women's Rights JUNE SONG, SELS., by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we crown her bright young head? Last Line: Shall ne'er be seen %than our lovely, laughing june Subject(s): African Americans - Women JUNE, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who thinks of june's first rose to-day? Last Line: Of the small eager hand, the shining eyes, the rough bright head? Subject(s): Women; World War I JURY DUTY, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: In the indisputable courtroom judge pickholz Last Line: Guitly.' we left the courtroom: that's the truth Subject(s): Women JUSTICE IN MEXICO CITY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: No outsize, abstract figure, only this delinquent girl Last Line: Empty scales on the pavement for any passing dog to piss in Subject(s): Women's Rights JUSTICE OF MEN! I LOOK FOR YOU, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights KAISER HOSPITAL TRILOGY: THREE WOMEN AT THE MERCY ... GODS, by SUSAN EFROS Poem Source First Line: A woman is slicing meat Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women KATE SHELLEY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Lightning ripped apart the sky. Thunder pounded loud Last Line: Dry and safe and warm Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held between wars Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held between wars Last Line: Hand over the mouth forever %hand over one eye now %the other great eye %closed Subject(s): Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); War; Women KEENING OF MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O peter, o apostle, has thou seen my bright love?' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible KEEPING MY NAME, by LINDA MIZEJEWSKI Poem Source First Line: Love shouldn't make it vanish Last Line: Of the plucked-out ribs Subject(s): Identity; Names; Women KEEPSAKE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Remember this quilt, my darling? Last Line: Embracing each other %and sleep Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina KENSINGTON GARDENS (1915), by VIVIANE VERNE Poem Source First Line: Dappling shadows on the summer grass Last Line: While men war in false endurement %deeming this life's great achievement Subject(s): Women; World War I KEPT AND CHERISHED, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: In his old age Last Line: Elsewhere. But keturah %he kept and cherished Subject(s): Women - Bible KHOBAYZA, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA Poem Source First Line: Our kisses are mountain mallow Last Line: We long for. %and our longing is Subject(s): Arabs - Women KIDDUSH LEVANA, by RUTH FINER MINTZ Poem Source First Line: A thousand lamps for you in the curve of the shore Last Line: Our children eat, grow beautiful on the mountain Subject(s): Jews - Women KILN GEOMETRY: 1. WOMB, by NOELLE SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: A woman's pails wait by the creek Last Line: She lets nature have it, under a great dome sky, %ruddy walls and vistas widespread Subject(s): Creation; Women KIM'S STORY, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: One hundred and sixteen blew up %above the andaman sea. The bomb Last Line: With a pearl, touching up my mouth, %inventing my perfections Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Danger; Prisons And Prisoners; Terrorism; Women - Captives KIND OF BLUE, by LYNN POWELL Poem Source First Line: Not delft or %delphinium, not wedgewood Last Line: What else in the world to do but weep Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Gardens And Gardening; Religion; Women In The Bible KIND OF LIKE CAMPING: A LOVE STORY, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: In room 203 of the motel 6 Last Line: He feeds her an apple slice with the knife Subject(s): Women KING CHARLEMAGNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas strange that he loved her, for youth was gone by Last Line: Of the spell that possess'd charlemagne. Subject(s): Beauty; Charlemagne (742-814); Curses; Festivals; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Fairs; Pageants; Male-female Relations KING SOLOMON SINGS OF WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been lord and spouse to many women Last Line: Instead comes night -- and pharaoh's daughter. Selah. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Marriage; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KINGDOM OF CHILDREN, by ANN CAMPANELLA Poem Source First Line: I lead mother to a seat in the gazebo Last Line: Her nonsense makes them whinny, buck and smile Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Women KINGDOM OF TINY SHOES, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: We are all dead, lucy, cush, kilroy and me Last Line: Shrugging at such foolishness Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged KINK FELL OUT OF MY HAIR, by PATRICIA A. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: They killed g.P. And the kink fell out of my hair Last Line: They said, 'another nigger dead; white folks don't care' Subject(s): Appalachia; Women KINSHIP, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I have always Last Line: As we face the evils %eye to eye Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights KISS REQUESTED, by EDA LOU WALTON Poem Source First Line: Kiss me good night Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women KISSIE LEE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toughest gal I ever did see Last Line: And she died with her boots on switching blades %on talladega mountain in the likker raids Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Revenge KITTY OF COLERAINE, by EDWARD LYSAGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Last Line: The devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine. Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Women KIVKARJUK'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm only a small woman Last Line: They feel silky like the wolf's chin Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women KLEZMER MUSIC, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: When the blonde gypsy %with the mary kay cadillac Last Line: Her and the dizzy moon Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women KNITTING, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's needles Last Line: I take words and knit them back in poems %something could be made of this Subject(s): Aging; Knitting; Old Age; Women KNITTING, CROCHETING, SEWING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small striped sleeve in her lap, navy and white Subject(s): Women KNOTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I learned about patience Last Line: About the knots %you'd never have known Subject(s): Students, Foreign; Universities & Colleges; Women KNOWING, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: We furthest away from our african mother Last Line: Our differences are our blessings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Culture Conflict; Ethnic Identity; Women KNOWING MY NAME, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: She may pretend %she has never heard Last Line: On her love for me, %lusting for something red Subject(s): Women KNOWING WHO I AM, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: To nuzzle between warm breasts Last Line: Is to celebrate the woman I am Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America KODIAK WIDOW, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: The curtains speak to me Last Line: The curtains hold the news %the gossip of flying geese and tears Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women KOHAIN'S WIFE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: In the month of av Last Line: A ritually prescribed proscribed %four amot away %from death Subject(s): Jews - Women KOHL, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was a time before I called myself Last Line: Their prophet calls up himself. Is it peace? Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur KOMOROVA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The last time I saw all night on the horizon Last Line: Mother when the fisherman folds %his net and I sleep na berega morya %beside the gulf of finland, %c Subject(s): Rape; Women KOPIS'TAYA (A GATHERING OF SPIRITS), by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we live in the browning season Last Line: The dance of feathers, the dance of birds. Subject(s): Nature; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion KORNER AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest Last Line: Lyre, sword, and flower, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Grave Of Korner Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Sisters; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness KRI'AH, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Shall I put on this kri'ah? Last Line: May you be comforted Subject(s): Jews - Women KRINIO, by RITA BOUMI PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Aim straight at my heart Last Line: Not even in a dream Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Women KWANNON , by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her hypervigilance such that Last Line: In her terrible estuary of lamentations? Subject(s): Women; Activity LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI OFFERS HER VERSION, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: So what! Bewailing last night's charms Last Line: This will bring your colour back %an aspirin Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LA BELLE JUIVE, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it because your sable hair Last Line: My heart through all these dreams endures, %how soon shall I be stretched at yours! Subject(s): Bible; Women LA CONDUCTORA DEL DESEO/CONDUIT, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman, la conductora, at number 51, corner Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Women; Latinos LA DONNA, by MARY BARNARD Poem Source First Line: The moon is a woman, because it controls Last Line: Marking the times of her ascendancy Subject(s): Moon; Women LA DULCE CULPA, SELS., by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: What kind of lover have you made me, mother Last Line: With what is left %unrequited Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women LA GITANA NARANJA, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: She carries soil inside her belly Last Line: She invites you %into her eyes Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LA PRIERE DE NOSTRE DAME, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almighty and all merciable queen %to whom that all this world fleeth for succou Last Line: Bring us to that palace that is built %for penitents that be to mercy able Variant Title(s): The Well Of Pit Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LA SOMBRA OF WHO I AM, by MICHELA RAEN Poem Source First Line: Who was my grandmother? %what died with her %and is buried in the Last Line: That once caressed her face, %now ancient, %holds mine to the stars Subject(s): Arabs - Women LABOR IS PRAYER, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Laborare est orare Last Line: And the whole earth rings with prayers. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers LABOUR PAINS, by YOSANO AKIKO Poem Source First Line: I am sick today Subject(s): Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum / a ton / a rung Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LACRIMARE, LACRIMATUS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strum %a ton %a rung Last Line: I wonder what dido understood Subject(s): Crying; Latin Language; Poetry And Poets; Tears; Tongues; War; Women LADIES DON'T GO THIEVING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh don't we live in curious times Last Line: And don't go out a - thieving Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;duplicity;honesty;women; Deceit LADIES FAIR, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies fair, oh, what are we Last Line: Made more lovely by men's eyes I Subject(s): Women LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the heroines complete with red lip and hairless leg Subject(s): Women; Sexual Allure LADIES OF LLANBADARN, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Plague take the women here Last Line: I'm finished, I'm too late, %wry-necked, without a mate! Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Women LADIES TO MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDERY: ODE, by ANNE DE LA VIGNE Poem Source First Line: The triumph is at hand Subject(s): Women's Rights LADIES, WE GREET THEE, by MAUDE SLINKARD HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: Ladies, o ladies, we greet thee in song Last Line: Singing the hours away. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Women; Songs LADS OF THE VILLAGE, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lads of the village, we read in the lay Last Line: Or upon any field of experience where pain makes patterns %the poet slanders Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LADY CARENZA, WITH THE LOVELY, CHARMING BODY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Iselda: lady carenza, with the lovely, charming body Subject(s): Women's Rights LADY DAY IN HARVEST, by SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, sweetly sleep Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY DEATH CAME ..., by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Lady death came Last Line: Like %you Subject(s): Women's Rights LADY FAIR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady fair, have we not met? Last Line: Have we not met, lady fair? Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women LADY GODIVA'S HORSE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: She rides me tamely through the town Last Line: Pulling us toward the sea Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; Women LADY ISABELLA (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring Last Line: And these had lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Seasons; Women LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away Last Line: We too may pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women; Shoah; Judaism LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Last Line: I rise with my red hair %and I eat men like air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women LADY MACBETH ON THE PSYCH WARD, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor, I'm lost in these mazy halls that lead nowhere Last Line: And I am lost in it. Doctor, I breathe blood, not air Subject(s): Dramatists; Man-woman Relationships; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women's Rights LADY MARJORY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady marjory lay on her bed Last Line: Were as cold as ever her feet had been! Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Dreams; Love – Loss Of LADY OF LETTERS, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF LIDICE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: From god's lofty city Subject(s): Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF MIRACLES, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since you walked out on me Last Line: My head like a bright rotting halo Subject(s): Abandonment; Women LADY OF O, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: By the seven stars of her halo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY OF PEACE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: I left a lei, lady Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LADY SENATOR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The men about her are barking and biting Last Line: She goes down shouting Subject(s): Politics; Women - Employment LADY SLOE, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah god, how lovely lady sloe looked walking through the square Last Line: Though mortally her beaming eyes shot missiles everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Women LADY THAT'S KNOWN AS LOU GIVES R. W. SERVICE A PIECE OF HER MIND, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: Our boys were whooping it up just fine till you swung through Last Line: Me quicker than those poor stiffs. But before any amour, I gotta mop this bloodyfloor Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Service, Robert (1874-1958); Women's Rights LADY WITH A CAREER, by NORMA JEAN BUNTING Poem Text First Line: Camille, the cool, the crisp, the competent Last Line: Camille, in ermine and a sequin gown! Subject(s): Women LADY'S DAYS, by LARRY NEAL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More song. Birds follow the sun Last Line: Reason for towns, faces, moans ... Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers LADY, LADY, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, lady, I saw your face Last Line: Where the good god sits to spangle through. Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans - Women LAIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let her who walks in paphos Last Line: Wishing to see that face and finding this. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Plato (428-348 B.c.); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LAKE BOTTOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Surely someone pouts there Last Line: The grasses that rush the shore Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LAMENT, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dying was a difficult enterprise Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness LAMENT, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: Spring %and a delicate depression Last Line: Who is last, hardest to open Subject(s): Appalachia; Women LAMENT FOR A TURKISH SUICIDE AGE 22, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What she wanted was more Last Line: And left the facric / of her brief life Subject(s): Turkey; Women's Rights; Suicide LAMENT FOR OUR LADY'S SHRINE AT WALSINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the wrecks [or, wracks] of walsingham Last Line: Happy the heart that thinks of no removes! %of no removes! Variant Title(s): A Lament For The Priory Of Walsingham; Fine Knacks For Ladies; The Ruins Of Walsingha Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAMENT OF 'THE OTHER WOMAN', by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Your wife don't understand you Last Line: Your lies ain't worth %a can of snuff! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina LAMENT OF THE DEMOBILISED, by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four years,' some say consolingly. 'oh well' Last Line: And we're beginning to agree with them Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I LAMENTATION OF THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all women that ever were born Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAMENTS, by DOLORES VEINTIMILLA DE GALINDO Poem Source First Line: Oh I could love him! My dreaming soul Subject(s): Women's Rights LAMIA TO LYCIUS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you here me, lycius? Do you hear these dreams Last Line: Till every human word you say is clear Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LAMP MAN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: I won't say he was our guiding light Last Line: Enough light. For you I would vanquish all darkness Subject(s): Women LAMPLIGHT, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We planned to shake the world together Last Line: There's a scarlet cross on my breast, my dear, %and a torn cross with your name Subject(s): Women; World War I LAND OF MIRRORS, by AMIRA EL- ZEIN Poem Source First Line: When your water reaches me, %the cup trembles Last Line: In the grave of my memory, %o land of mirrors! Subject(s): Arabs - Women LAND STRETCHING UP TO THE SKY, by NADA EL- HAGE Poem Source First Line: The time of loving and fluttering has not yet come Last Line: Drink my ethereal being %and just leave Subject(s): Arabs - Women LANDED AND DISPOSSESSED: GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Shechem, moreh, bethel, ai, hebron, moriah, on and on... Our Last Line: He does not look back. 'she is my sister,' he says, 'and if your pharaoh %should want her...' Subject(s): Women LANDSCAPE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: Happed in my rage Subject(s): Women - Abused LANDSCAPES, by PAULINE KALDAS Poem Source First Line: Caught catepillar %in spot of grass Last Line: Till we tumble into ourselves turned in Subject(s): Arabs - Women LANDSCAPES FROM OUT OF THE MIST, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Autumn, autumnal, defenseless witness, soaking in the moss Last Line: Strangled thing Subject(s): Women's Rights LANE IS THE PRETTY ONE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her veins run mogen david Last Line: Love %dear sister Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sisters LANGUAGE OF BOTTLES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A dayful of %work worries Last Line: To grant my wis Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Last Line: And I am putting my proud american boast %right here with the others Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights LANGUAGES I'VE NEVER LEARNED, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: She collected women like trophies Last Line: And I started speaking in %languages I've never learned Subject(s): Identity; Women LAP OF WISDOM, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A man who finds his way Last Line: And dream of unmapped untamed reaches Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights LARK ABOVE THE TRENCHES, by MURIEL ELSIE GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: All day the guns had worked their hellish will Last Line: That wounded hope arose %to greet that song Subject(s): Women; World War I LARK AND WASHINGTON, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: At this time of day %not even the pigeon people Last Line: That puts its hands all over them, %can't come out here Subject(s): Homeless; Women LARRIE O'DEE, by WILLIAM W. FINK Poem Text First Line: Now the widow mcgee Last Line: And that was the courtship of larrie o'dee. Subject(s): Courtship; Women LAS LECHUZAS, by JACKLYN W. POTTER Poem Source First Line: Your hands move among the brightnesses Last Line: As I move down safeway rows %closing Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated / arm torn out Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs LAST AFFAIR: BESSIE'S BLUES SONG, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disarticulated %arm torn out Last Line: I'm not the same as I used to be %this is my last affair Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) LAST ANTIPHON: TO MARY, by JAMES J. DONOHUE Poem Source First Line: Dear mother of the savior, yet remaining Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAST BORGES, by MILLICENT C. BORGES Poem Source First Line: Like god and his eve %you never passed on Last Line: Son of a bitch. Son of a bitch Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women LAST BULLET, by NIDAA KHOURY Poem Source First Line: In my chest a cave %a gun and a man of storm %I am safe Last Line: If I burst and fall slain %I'll gather my body anew %I'll fire my last shot Subject(s): Arabs - Women LAST EARTHWORDS FOR AWHILE, by LOUISE STEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Answer this question: if a train is moving at forty kilomete Last Line: Listen,' she says, 'everything is believeable, but what can we do?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LAST FLOWERING, by MARY WOLFERS TRESSLER Poem Source First Line: She grew a riot of roses Last Line: I see the final garden %bloom - on two thin arms Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LAST LAUGH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: What's funny in leviticus? Not much Last Line: But equally we match inequity. %who's laughing then or now? Who hasthe right? Subject(s): Women - Bible LAST LEAVE (1918), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: Let us forget tomorrow! For tonight Last Line: When this dear night, with all it means to me, %is but a memory! Subject(s): Women; World War I LAST LOVE STORY, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After you tell me %your last love story Last Line: In spite of yourself %again becoming Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women LAST NIGHT, by ETHEL M. CAUTION Poem Source First Line: Last night I danced on the rim of the moon Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LAST NIGHT, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: Last night I ate steak Last Line: I did not know left from right Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Restaurants; Women LAST NIGHT I BECAME, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: To have so many %bombs Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Saudi Arabia; Women LAST NOTE TO MY GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girls / my girls Last Line: My girls my more than me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls LAST NOTE TO MY GIRLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girls %my girls Last Line: My girls %my more than me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls LAST OF MAY, TO THE CHILDREN OF MARY OF CATHEDRAL OF MOBILE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mystical dim of the temple Last Line: For the last lovely evening of may. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary LAST PERSON OUT OF THE COUNTRY, PLEASE TURN OFF LIGHTS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The women, (hair wrapped in colorful scarves) Last Line: Devouring what is already lost Subject(s): Jews - Women LAST POEM FROM SQUAW VALLEY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: I am coming home to you from a wilder country Subject(s): Women LAST VISIT TO GRANDMOTHER, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I enter through a forest Last Line: Like bugle beads %at the collar and cuffs Subject(s): Women LAST WOMAN IN AMERICA TO WASH DIAPERS., by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source Last Line: Nothing else is so simple, so white, so clean Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Women LAST WORDS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His voice, toward the end, was a soft coal breaking Last Line: Mouths open. Last words flown up into the trees Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Poetry And Poets; Women LATE APRIL, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: In late april when the love-mad hummingbirds Last Line: The willing tender grass Subject(s): Women's Rights LATE AUTUMN WOODS, by RINA FERRARELLI Poem Source First Line: The press of green over %the ritual of leaves Last Line: As if a fog had lifted at last %a heavy curtain Subject(s): Women LATE HARVEST, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Seeds bought with paper route money Last Line: To be thankful for Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights LATE JUNE, by ROSANN KOZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sad is the woman who wears pearls Last Line: Desire to cup the woman's chin and kiss the sadness %from her neck Subject(s): June; Sun; Women LATE WORDS FOR MY SISTER, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You did not want to remember Last Line: The way his daughters broke from his plan Subject(s): Memory; Women LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 15, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let woman fear to teach and bear to learn Last Line: His frailer self, and saves without her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women LATIN HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, thou hast known Last Line: Ave mary! Take my chil! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LAUDS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I was happy today, without knowing why Last Line: Falling like words in the snow Subject(s): Women's Rights LAUGHTER OF WOMEN, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When men go out for laughs, they give their all Last Line: The heads of women lean together, laughing Subject(s): Laughter; Women LAUREL, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Before it even happened Last Line: Left holding a handful of leaves Subject(s): Women LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pallid with too much longing Last Line: Daughter of foam and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Venus Of Burne-jones Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women LAVENDER, by ELEANORE SANDERS LANE Poem Text First Line: She sat upon the porch Last Line: "and little dirty hands." Subject(s): Old Age; Women LAVENDER WOMAN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crooked, like bough the march wind bends wallward Last Line: Of hester in the lavender and out among the bees, %clipping the long stalks one by one under the dor Subject(s): Women LAVENDER'S FOR LADIES, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Lavender's for ladies, an' they grows it in the garden Last Line: For when she calls lavender summer must die! Subject(s): Flowers; Lavender; Women LAWD, DESE COLORED CHILLUM, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source First Line: I get my degree Last Line: Lawd, dese chillum won't let you be %white for nothing Subject(s): African Americans - Women LAWN ORNAMENTS, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Poem Source First Line: The first time I stood in the charged air Last Line: Of poppy pink and jam him upside down %in a bed of plastic roses Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens Last Line: As they crouched over themselves Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women LE HOQUETON, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ne me confondez pas avec ce fripon Last Line: Molles et elles parlent apres le fait Subject(s): Women LEAD MARE, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: That woman there %she can be a lead mare Last Line: Just like they do %at the ranch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: If I squint I can see him in the field, that jacob Last Line: And here I sit in my tent %exercising power Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAH TELLS RACHEL SHE WANTS TO LEARN NOT TO LET JACOB MATTER, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Remember the hill where we played Last Line: That might have room %for us both Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAPING FIRE; I.M. BRIGID MONTAGUE (1876-1966), by JOHN MONTAGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady, I now celebrate Last Line: A hollow note Subject(s): Ireland; Women LEAR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Fond, foolish father Last Line: Call them home Subject(s): Women's Rights LEARNED RESPONSE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As the nurse shifts nana in her coma Last Line: And that tuft od gray hair %holding on Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LEARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Love sniffs and claws like a young rat Last Line: And the instructive mud. Subject(s): Bodies; Explorers; Love; Women LEARNING BONES, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: I'm learning bones to please my father's ghost Last Line: Pious at last, I pray his sleep is sound %we make amends in any way we can Subject(s): Jews - Women LEARNING OUR NAMES, by LAUREL MILLS Poem Source First Line: The sun anchors us to this spot, knows Last Line: Flesh soft, sweet as pollen %in the throat of a lily Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women LEAVE IN 1917, by LILIAN M. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Moonlight and death were on the narrow seas Last Line: And sweet, sweet, sweet %the finches singing in the orchard dusk! Subject(s): Women; World War I LEAVING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: You were hanging diapers Last Line: That can remove all the stains Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEAVING EDEN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The date palm and the cypress Last Line: Before we tasted murder, mortality Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women's Rights LEAVING HOME, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: As a child I watched my mother's face Last Line: For threads of blood set loose Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women LEAVING LOGANSPORT, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: She walks along the tracks toward bloomington, an idea in mind, mostly Last Line: Inside her. I can't see her face for the hat Subject(s): Travel; Women LEAVING TRAUB, MY GRANDMA'S STORY, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: I'm ready, all %I can carry packed Last Line: I will read the lost words %directly from my heart Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEDA, by CHANDA J. GLASS Poem Source First Line: Exactly %fourteen years and Last Line: Fistfuls of %bloody white feathers Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) LEFT HAND CANYON, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air %which moves the grass Last Line: From their secret houses %of air Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers LEGACIES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The branches of our tribal tree Last Line: And renewed by love Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Last Line: Said what they meant %and I guess nobody ever does Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEGACY, by JACK T. LEDBETTER Poem Source First Line: Mother... %we rode along the river in silence Last Line: Not calling you %anymore Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LEGACY, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two came from russia Last Line: And finally surrendering %to the night Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEGEND IN A SMALL TOWN, by NEIDY MESSER Poem Source First Line: One day she ran off, left Last Line: Comes before or after, leaving's the only thing %people remember Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women LEGEND OF LIBUSE, by LORRAINE JEAN DUGGIN Poem Source First Line: When dad blacked out Last Line: More certain of her place Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night." Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed Last Line: But wind as one through time forever. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Whiling the summer hours away Last Line: But strength is given as we need. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENDING LIBRARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene LENT, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary magdalene, that easy woman Last Line: I bring back the petticoat and the bottle of scent Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Erotic Love; Love; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible LESAGE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I had my boat but where was the river Last Line: Was nothing beyond his powers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LESBIAN BODY, SELS., by MONIQUE WITTIG Poem Source First Line: I start to tremble without being able to stop Last Line: I baptize you for centuries of centuries, so be it Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women LESBOS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viciousness in the kitchen! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LESS AND LESS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Daylight hours when the house returns to me Last Line: My love, I promise. It will take less and less to console us Subject(s): Women's Rights LESSON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In her genteel way Last Line: Momma didn't know about %black %lace! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina LESSON FROM THE COTTON MILLS OF LOWELL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Don't cry, florilla, you know you aren't the first Last Line: Where the million windows glitter and speak to me Subject(s): Women LESSON ON THE FACTS OF LIFE, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: At times in the course of history Subject(s): Women's Rights LESSONS FROM A MIRROR, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow white was nude at her wedding, she's so white Last Line: Know that more than white is missing Subject(s): African Americans - Women LESSONS FROM A MIRROR, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow white was nude at her wedding, she's so white Last Line: When you look at me, %know that more than white is missing Subject(s): African Americans - Women LESSONS IN THE INVISIBLE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Not flame but %red in the trees and burning Last Line: My once round mouth an echo, hardened Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LET GO, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN Poem Source First Line: Unfasten your belt. Let your stomach out Last Line: Throw the bones in the air %and cut off your hair Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women LET IT RIDE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LET ME BE JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LET ME TALK ABOUT MY WOMEN, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: This whole land knows their names by heart Last Line: Speaks their names, while it plays the pine groves as if %strumming a deep dark guitar Subject(s): Women LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let no charitable hope Last Line: And none has quite escaped my smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Self; Women; Work; Workers LET THEM ASK THEIR HUSBANDS, by DILYS BENNETT LAING Poem Source First Line: In human need Last Line: And I have %my pauline pride Subject(s): Women's Rights LET US BE MIDWIVES!, by KURIHARA SADAKO Poem Source First Line: Night in the basement of a concrete structure now in ruins Last Line: Even if we lay down our own lives to do so Subject(s): Women LETTER, by DHABYA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: What is it that love said when it spoke? Last Line: And it is the unadulterated secret of the universe Subject(s): Arabs - Women LETTER FROM BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What do they tell me? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Beauty; Letters; Nature; Women LETTER FROM EALING BROADWAY STATION, by AELFRIDA TILLYARD Poem Source First Line: Night fog. Tall through the murky gloom Last Line: Sister, good-night; the dawn is here Subject(s): Women; World War I LETTER FROM ELVIRA, by BETTIE MIXON SELLERS Poem Source First Line: I saw your picture in the local news Last Line: I remain, yours very sincerely, elvira wade Subject(s): Women LETTER FROM LESBIA,, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds…. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism LETTER FROM LESBIA, SELS., by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: ...So, praise the gods, catullus is away! Last Line: The stupid fool! I've always hated birds Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LETTER FROM MONTPELLIER, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: The impression of your words Last Line: Sure as the touch of fingertips %words like try, idea. Like love Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER I WANTED TO WRITE, THE LETTER I WROTE, FOR OSNAT, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: In the medinah, in marrakesh Last Line: And dream of rivers %cleansing orange against wheat Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER IN THE PRESENT AND PRESENT PERFECT, by DARIA MENICANTI Poem Source First Line: You know how I am at certain times Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER THAT HOLDS HER UP, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days holds a letter in both hands Last Line: Not right, %but good enough to move on Subject(s): Homeless; Women LETTER TO A FRIEND: WHO IS NANCY DAUM?, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All things are real Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LETTER TO MADAME LA MARQUISE DE C***, by LOUISE-GENEVIEVE DE SAINCTONGE Poem Source First Line: Gracious and gentle widow Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER TO MADAME LA MARQUISE DE S[IMAINE],, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've not forgotten you chose me Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER TO MARIANA ZIEGLER, by ANNA HELENA VOLCKMANN Poem Source First Line: When men-folk scoff at us, I have to draw my sword Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER TO MEDEA, by HELGA NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Medea, you beautiful person, don't turn around Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTER TO MY SISTER, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods Last Line: The gods their god-like fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks LETTER TO THE FRONT: 10, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely it is time for the true grace of women Subject(s): Women & War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War LETTER TO THE SONS OF ABRAHAM, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Millennia have swept across the sands Last Line: And down to deeper roots to be reborn Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER TO WOMEN, by CONSTANCE-MARIE DE SALM-DYCK Poem Source First Line: O women, for you I tune my lyre Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A long - ago surprise, a few dead fireflies Last Line: Of ink %now sailed Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTERS FROM HOME, by ELMAZ ABINADER Poem Source First Line: Every time you weep, I feel the surface of a river Last Line: I hope I can learn the languages %you have come to know Subject(s): Arabs - Women LETTERS FROM THE COAST, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: In this sea-riddled town of fogs and salt Last Line: And she walks to the hen house Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LETTERS IN THE FIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You burned my letters with a certain pleasure Last Line: The truth Subject(s): Women's Rights LETTERS TO MEEMA, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source First Line: There is a kitchen Last Line: And you %are out there Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LI LOENGE NOSTRE DAME, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LIBER QUARTUS, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor will ingenious women, free from pride Last Line: That parents nature is most prevalent. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Family Life; Pride; Women; Relatives; Self-esteem; Self-respect LIBERATION, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART Poem Text First Line: At midnight came a cool wind from the west, after days Last Line: The shadow of death has passed; now I can plant new seed in a living womb. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers LIBERTY, by CHIARA MATRAINI Poem Source First Line: Naught but liberty was ever Subject(s): Women's Rights LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Freedom comes. The prescient muse foretold Last Line: And heavenly freedom spread her golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Liberty LIEDER, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source First Line: O woman! Why, being so pure, are the clear rays emanating from Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights LIEGEWOMAN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may not wear immortal leaves Last Line: "the passion of him, soul and thew." Subject(s): Epitaphs; Women LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women; Urban Life; Greeks LIES AND LONGING, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half the women are asleep on the floor Last Line: It's thirtieth street and hot and no sun Subject(s): Cities; Greece; Women LIFE IN THE CASTLE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: It is a castle of forbears Subject(s): Women - Abused LIFE IS A DANCE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Life is a dance, says the woman of too many days Last Line: I can tell a dancer Subject(s): Homeless; Women LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, / if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And remote, and useful, %if only to itself. Take the fly, angel Last Line: Such abundance. We are gorged, engorging, and gorgeous Subject(s): Contentment; Life; Women LIFE'S RAINBOW, by SHEILA BANANI Poem Source First Line: Beginnings are lacquer red Last Line: Before we step %on the other shore Subject(s): Women LIFE'S SONGS, by ELETHA MAE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In her youth she wrote of pain Last Line: Few know her heart is sad. Subject(s): Grief; Women - Writers; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE-BINDING, by LENORE BAELI WANG Poem Source First Line: The bombing pressed a building pancake-stacked Last Line: But finding nothing sweet, transferred no spores Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights LIFE-HOOK, by JUANA DE IBARBOUROU Poem Source First Line: If I die, don't take me to the cemetery Subject(s): Women LIFETIME'S YIZKOR, by MIRIAM BAT OR Poem Source First Line: Too long have I mourned the passing of many springs Last Line: When I see my beloved, after long and weary waiting %for the glory of the heaven beyond the stars Subject(s): Jews - Women LIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Mine already is %an afrikan name Subject(s): African Americans - Women; U.s. - Race Relations; Virginia (state) LIGHT, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: At the big house new year's eve karaoke Last Line: And the rush begins once again. %belfast, winter 1994 Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Holidays; Light; New Year; Women LIGHT LOVER, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you go back to the sea, my dear? Last Line: Oh, I think you had better go back to the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Feminism LIGHT RIVER, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: The other women watching Last Line: Has been to shine %me home Subject(s): Jews - Women LIGHTNING, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The whole world caught fire Subject(s): Women - Abused LIGHTY BOUND, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You beastly child, I wish you had miscarried Last Line: Do you suppose I shall say when I can go so easily? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Despair; Women LIKE A FRUITFUL VINE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The god-fearing man Last Line: She has good reason %to thank god for him Subject(s): Women - Bible LIKE AN ORCHARD IN DEEP MUDDY WATER, by NILENE O. A. FOXWORTH Poem Source First Line: When I first set foot Subject(s): Women LIKE CLEAR MUSIC, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long-buried women, ye arise for me Last Line: And do but freshen with the fall of years. Subject(s): Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; Women LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER, by SUSAN S. JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: When are you coming? Last Line: Who is older than I %have ever felt myself to be Subject(s): Women LIKE QUEEN CHRISTINA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orange and blue and then grey Subject(s): Love; Women LIKE QUEEN CHRISTINA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orange and blue and then grey Last Line: Laughing like a splendid jewel Subject(s): Love; Women LIKE RACHEL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Like rachel, god cares for the children Last Line: Her grief is god's grief %god's grief becomes god's grace Subject(s): Women - Bible LIKE REAL DOVES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days says she read in the paper Last Line: They wear the city's suit Subject(s): Homeless; Women LIKE UNTO SHARON'S ROSES, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: My darling, your grace Last Line: And raise me from doubting and failing. Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): Flowers; Jews; Jews - Women; Roses; Judaism LIKELY STORY, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Atalanta, all her life Last Line: To find a fellow who will cheat Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights LILIAN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Airy, fairy lilian Last Line: Fairy lilian. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Women LILITH, by CATHERINE MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Some say adam reared me from the beasts Last Line: Will fear as their wet dreams Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LILITH RE-TELLS ESTHER'S STORY, by MICHELENE WANDOR Poem Source First Line: The world rustles for esther Subject(s): Women LILLIAN, QUEEN OF THE KELLS, by CASSANDRA SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Now that nana is dead Last Line: And open %all of the letters Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LILYA, SELS., by EYSTEINN ASGRIMSSON Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I've listened to the industry Last Line: Tireless, making the green hearts flutter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There once was a maiden of siam Last Line: But god knows you ate stronger than I am Subject(s): Women LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young lady of firle Last Line: That expansive young lady of firle Subject(s): Beauticians; Women LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a young lady whose nose Last Line: Oh! Farewell to the end of my nose!' Subject(s): Noses; Women LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a young lady of greenwich Last Line: But a large spotty calf bit her shawl quite in half, %which alarmed that young lady of greenwich Subject(s): Women LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Last Line: The new world. As if the future were theirs Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors & Ancestry; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Heritage; Heredity LINEAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmothers were strong Last Line: My grandmothers were strong. %why am I not as they? Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Alphabet Verse; Ancestors And Ancestry; Women LINES, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture the lady's stocking Last Line: Displaying her toes et cet. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Advertising; Women LINES, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Source First Line: From fair jamaica's fertile plains Last Line: Might lean to earth to hear Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): African Americans - Women LINES FOR A DRAWING OF OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, could I paint my inward sight Last Line: Forget to weep, forget to weep! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary LINES FOR A FEAST OF OUR LADY, by MARIS STELLA Poem Source First Line: What shall be added to your praises? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LINES FOR THOSE TO WHOM TRAGEDY IS DENIED, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These women have no language and so they chatter Last Line: As certain birds bred for color and song and beyond %their youth's charm Subject(s): Women LINES ON A FLYLEAF, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not ask thee, for my sake Last Line: And all earth's languages his own. Subject(s): Women LINES SUGGESTED BY THE FOURTEENTH OF FEBRUARY (1), by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the morn the east has crimsoned Last Line: "they'll be told, ""miss clara j-----s." Subject(s): Women LINES TO A LADY, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: If greater art should meet his gaze Last Line: More sweet than his can ever be. Subject(s): Admiration; Women LINES TO A NASTURTIUM (A LOVER MUSES), by ANNE SPENCER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flame-flower, day-torch, mauna loa Last Line: Beating, beating. Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks LINES TO A SOPHISTICATE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Never would I seek Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LINES TO ACCOMPANY FLOWERS FOR EVE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea Last Line: Though once we lay and waited for a death. Subject(s): Cities; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Flowers; Hospitals; Women; Women's Rights; Urban Life; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Feminism LINES TO MISS F., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "forbear, sweet girl; your scheme forego" Last Line: But keep their sister angel there Subject(s): Air Travel;angels;balloons;beauty;faces;women LINES TOO LONG FOR A POSTCARD, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: One way to fort smith Last Line: Sometimes I think they're enough, and I'm glad Subject(s): Women LINES WRITTEN FOR A BLANK PAGE OF 'THE KEEPSAKE', by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, there's fragrance in your sighs, / and sunlight in your glances Last Line: And dance with me next season. Subject(s): Flirtation; Women LINES WRITTEN IN A COMMONPLACE BOOK, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet and gentle maiden Last Line: An earnest of the skies! Subject(s): Books; Women; Youth; Reading LINES, ETC., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman should not rule this realm' Last Line: And guard our coeur de lion still, %in every sacred right! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Women's Rights LINES, SUGGESTED ON READING 'AN APPEAL' BY A.E. GRIMKE, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Source First Line: My spirit leaps in joyousness tow'rd thine Last Line: Accursed thing, this achan in our camp, %may be removed Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): African Americans - Women LINEUP, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Each prisoner is so sad in the glare Last Line: Having to accuse and accuse Subject(s): Rape; Women LINKED VERSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read a thousand books! Last Line: "who will need us when we die?" Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak? Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women LISTEN TO ME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I have listened to you,' Last Line: My gift of hospitality %and hope Subject(s): Women - Bible LISTEN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LISTEN, O PRETTY ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LISTENER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I asked the woman of too many days Last Line: Just the things it falls upon Subject(s): Homeless; Women LISTENING ROOM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Snap and gleam, buck teeth Last Line: Its dark legs, its fierce and eager grin Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives LITANY FOR A NEIGHBOR, by ELLIN E. CARTER Poem Source First Line: Because you wear a sunbonnet in your garden Last Line: Where they rise up %and worship you Subject(s): Women LITANY OF HATE, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Source First Line: Hatred, more powerful than love, unites us Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Women's Rights LITANY TO OUR LADY, by CARYLL HOUSELANDER Poem Source First Line: Lady, giver of bread Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LITTLE APRIL, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Last Line: Water broke on the woven backs of summer chairs Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 1. AFTER THE OPENING, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There was a last, too-brief interlude in Last Line: Painting, nora? How has it been? Subject(s): Art And Artists; Museums; Nudity; Paintings And Painters; Pornography; Portraits; Sin; Women LITTLE DISSERTATION OF THE SUBJECT/OBJECT: 4. THE FIRE, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Also destroyed her diaries. Although I think that even there Last Line: Springtime, when the whole world dies through its petals Subject(s): Diaries; Self; Women LITTLE GIRL'S DREAM WORLD, by DELLA BURT Poem Source First Line: I remember the time Last Line: Could it be that %it never %was? Subject(s): African Americans - Women LITTLE GREY DREAMS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LITTLE HOUSE IS CLOSED UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fists posed to knock-we freeze. Are we ready for happiness? Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women LITTLE JENNY, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Shards of a wine goblet Last Line: Before the sky spit %bullets and axes Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: 1. SETTING THE SCENE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Things were cool before prometheus Last Line: Than the whole shebang?' such was zeus' original forgiveness Subject(s): Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: 2. THE MAIN CHARACTER, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: A word about the box - you know I didn't get it Last Line: There's something in almost all those getting out Subject(s): Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: 3. THE SUPPORTING CAST, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: But wait - there's something else to be said for me Last Line: Along - please, let me oblige you - c.O.D. Subject(s): Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: 4. THE FINAL FREE PLAY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I had even less choice than you, promo pet Last Line: And hell - what a mother is she Subject(s): Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: 5. THE ACTS TO FOLLOW, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So. I'm all abroad now, and every mouth Last Line: All that the whole show is after all over Subject(s): Women LITTLE PLAY FOR ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: PREFACE: HER RIDDLE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I represent a law, but not the first Last Line: Out as order after. Who am I? Subject(s): Women LITTLE SISTER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: I was the youngest of nine children. The morning they found me, the Last Line: Fell and fell %afterwards Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Sisters LITTLE SONG, by ROBERT GROSSETETE Poem Source First Line: Mary, maiden, mild and free Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LITTLE STITCHES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, thoughts that go in with the stitches" Last Line: To seams in a holy monk's hood Subject(s): Mothers;women LITTLE TALES, by ZAKIYYA MALALLAH Poem Source First Line: Flap your wings on my bare trees, %teach me %the little tales Last Line: And she would have napped between my ribs, %like a rebellious cat, my rebellious cat Subject(s): Arabs - Women LITTLE TIN FINGERS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days Last Line: And it never brought her solace Subject(s): Homeless; Women LITTLE TOWNS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: I shall give you some little towns Last Line: I give you some strange, sad little towns, %for your dream Subject(s): Women - Abused LITURGICAL SONG. ANTIPHON 16: LOVE OVERFLOWS, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love overflows into all things Last Line: Because she has given to the highest king %the kiss of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion LIVES, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bessie’s face lingers before me Last Line: And as if speaking for me Subject(s): Women; Music & Musicians; Fathers & Daughters; Perseverance LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Last Line: She woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming %like a relentless milkman up the stairs Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LIVVY CALDWELL, by BARBARA NECTOR DAVIS Poem Source Last Line: Plow terrified of memories %forgetting to eat Subject(s): Women LO! WHERE SHE STANDS FIXED IN A SAINT-LIKE TRANCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For health, and time in obvious duty spent Subject(s): Women LOAN OF A STALL, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Source First Line: At the inn there was no room Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LOBA: 1, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If her did not come apart in her hands, he fell Last Line: W/ her wolf's eyes out of your head? Subject(s): Women LOBA: 1, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If her did not come apart in her hands, he fell Last Line: W/her wolf's eyes out of your head? Subject(s): Women LOCAL NEWS, by LORETTA MERENDA Poem Source First Line: What do you want me to say Subject(s): Women's Rights LOCKED INSIDE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She beats upon her bolted door Last Line: "is locked inside!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism LOCUST TREES, by MARGARET L. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: No locust grows alone Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LONDON IN WAR, by HELEN DIRCKS Poem Source First Line: White faces, %like helpless petals on the stream Last Line: Are wounded birds %that fall %for ever Subject(s): Women; World War I LONELINESS, by DHABYA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: The sun pours over me %inside is a pool of silver embroidered with feelings Last Line: Alone...Lonely %but not when I'm with you Subject(s): Arabs - Women LONELINESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who had all else heaven and earth Last Line: For loneliness, for loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Solitude; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Loneliness LONELY, EMPTY, PRAIRIE SKY, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: In the midst of everywhere I know this place Last Line: I am at home beneath the lonely, empty, prairie sky Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers LONG AGO: 27, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon rose full: the women stood Last Line: And leave, moon-bathed, the virgin quire Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women LONG DISTANCE, by LAILA HALABY Poem Source First Line: I folded myself and sent me to you %in place of the usual crinkled letters Last Line: But all I see inside your eyes is sad %stories of a king without his kingdom Subject(s): Arabs - Women LONG WALKS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And tremendous orgasms Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged LONG-GONE SUN: 1, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Chignon undone %the fine black silky waves of hair Last Line: Inherited by her elder daughter and her children %lost by the younger and all of hers Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Hair; Women LONGINGS, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: To dance - Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Longing LOOK AT ME, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Come, look at me again and try to dream Last Line: Or artist's sketch - the essentials of my self - %the woman alive in this portfolio Subject(s): Women - Bible LOOK TO SARAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Abraham was not Last Line: Sarah! %sarah! Subject(s): Women - Bible LOOK, MEDUSA!, by SUNITI NAMJOSHI Poem Source First Line: Medusa living on a remote shore Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women LOOKING AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILTS IN ELI'S BASEMENT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: He maps an entirely new way to the stars Last Line: Close to the earth in oakland, %so many vivid sisters Subject(s): Rape; Women LOOKING BACK, by JOANNA KADI Poem Source First Line: You drifted lazily from the sky, %touched down Last Line: The heart is a lonely organ Subject(s): Arabs - Women LOOKING FOR A COUNTRY UNDER ITS ORIGINAL NAME, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: Gold will not buy this voyage Last Line: Their mysteries so perfect even their undoings %seem as planned as way signs on a map Subject(s): African Americans - Women LOOKING FOR GOD, by LONNIE HULL Poem Source First Line: As a little girl, I marveled Last Line: I was born again and again Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women LORD GUY, by GEORGE F. WARREN Poem Text First Line: When swallows northward flew Last Line: And lanturlu. Subject(s): Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Women LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees Last Line: Stay ye the branches. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary LOSING A MEMORY, by JON PINEDA Poem Source First Line: After watching a woman's fingers Last Line: Aloud from a book she has written, poem after poem, %about love Subject(s): Memory; Poetry And Poets; Women LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LOSING PATIENCE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: There's little left to say for patience Last Line: I rarely come up empty handed Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights LOSS ITSELF, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Children freeze in yellow-flowered alpine meadows Last Line: When the stars that fall in her mouth are metallic and hard Subject(s): Women's Rights LOSS OF HABITAT, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days Last Line: If I was an owl, they'd think twice about this, she says Subject(s): Homeless; Women LOST, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women of dark houses Last Line: Dim fiery pain Subject(s): Women; Houses; Grief LOST ARMY, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Singing and shouting they swept to the treacherous forest Last Line: Darkness and silence and night is the end of their story Subject(s): Women; World War I LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Last Line: My life will keep silent %listening to %my body breaking Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children LOST IN THE LORE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Leah gets lost Last Line: Whose line has gone out %through all the earth Subject(s): Women - Bible LOST PEARL, by SUSAN KAN Poem Source First Line: Click and caught, %framed and fit in glass Last Line: You hummed as you combed your hair %to a clip at the back of your head Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LOST UNDERWEAR OF CENTRAL PARK, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Pushing aside stiff %panties with his stick Last Line: Scattered loose by tattooed hands %that couldn't wait Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women LOST, ONE SOUL, by SANDY MCINTOSH Poem Source First Line: I lost my soul in a fit of temper Subject(s): Women LOT'S WIFE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the just man followed god's ambassador here Last Line: For a single look, she gave up her life Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LOT'S WIFE LOOKED BACK, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Lot's wife looked back at her home city, lit Last Line: Toward the horizon out of fallout range %of the doomed city of disobedience Subject(s): Women - Bible LOUDER, PLEASE, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: My psychiatrist, having turned eighty Last Line: I pray louder too %having heard that %god is dead Subject(s): Jews - Women LOVE, by NILENE O. A. FOXWORTH Poem Source First Line: Will you love me when I'm old Subject(s): Women LOVE AND REASON, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman grown, with sparkling eyes Last Line: "one tale, and love another." Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Love; Reason; Women; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals LOVE AND TOBACCO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artist feeling for his type Last Line: My pipe and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Smoking; Women; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes LOVE AT FIFTY, by MARCIA WOODRUFF Poem Source First Line: We come together as shy virgins Last Line: Our bodies turning into gifts %at the touch of our hands Subject(s): Women LOVE IN A COTTAGE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may talk of love in a cottage Last Line: And shot from a silver string. Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE IN HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child is rocked on mary's knees Last Line: "who lost thee yesterday but finds to-morrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary LOVE IN THE CITY, by MASCHA KALEKO Poem Source First Line: Somewhere you meet each other - fleeting Last Line: It's over!' written down in shorthand Subject(s): Women's Rights LOVE IS LIKE A DIZZINESS, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, love, love, love! Last Line: Gang about his biziness! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE IS THE FATHER OF ALL BEGINNINGS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to a woman Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE IS THE FATHER OF ALL BEGINNINGS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to a woman Last Line: In the shape of an hourglass Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE LETTER, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Dear samson %I put your hair Last Line: Love - delilah Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Delilah (bible); Samson; Women; Women In The Bible LOVE LETTER FROM MY SON, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: I wanted to be a missionary Last Line: And of me, the woman who feeds him Subject(s): Women LOVE ME, by AMAL MOUSSA Poem Source First Line: I carry me on my fingertips Last Line: The earth does not know Subject(s): Arabs - Women LOVE OF WOMAN, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, when thou dost come into my heart Last Line: Through which we pass and long to sin no more. Subject(s): Love; Women LOVE POEM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak earth and bless me with what is richest Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LOVE POEM ON A THEME BY WHITMAN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LOVE SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "beautiful is she, this woman" Last Line: Behind which it blooms Subject(s): Beauty;love - Complaints;women LOVE SONG; FOR RUTHVEN TODD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to fall easily, easily, easily in love Last Line: And easily, love, easily to rest. Subject(s): Love; Promiscuity; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LOVE SPELL, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: If he should eat, keep him from eating Last Line: Join him to me. Now. Always Subject(s): Women LOVE, 1916, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One said to me, 'seek love, for he is joy' Last Line: And answer came, 'love now %is christened sacrifice' Subject(s): Women; World War I LOVE: 1., by AHARON SHABTAI Poem Source First Line: I'm a man Last Line: Of thinking - %bound to your name Subject(s): Love; Mankind; Women LOVELY DAMES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Few are my books, but my small few have told Last Line: Substance to those fine ghosts, and make them live. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Women LOVELY DAVIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how shall I, unskilfu,' try Last Line: The charms o' lovely davies. Subject(s): Beauty; Women LOVELY LADIES, by MARY CASS CANFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where do the lovely ladies go Last Line: Seeking the comfort of a nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass Subject(s): Women LOVELY RETINUE, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: The names of lovely women drift tonight Last Line: Who croons within a humble cattle stall. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Women LOVEMUSIC, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, freighted heart, within this port Last Line: Will fructify a bleaker time. Subject(s): Love; Seduction; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism LOVER BOYS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the movie where indiana jones Last Line: We couldn't even share the la-z-boy without fighting Subject(s): Courtship; Fathers And Sons; Love Affairs; Women LOVER OF BLUE WRITING ABOVE THE SEA!, by GHADA AL- SAMMAN Poem Source First Line: It is not true that the shortest path between two points is the %straight line! Last Line: On the darkness of the abyss...And the whiteness of the page! Subject(s): Arabs - Women LOVER OF RAIN IN AN INKWELL, by GHADA AL- SAMMAN Poem Source First Line: When I die %these letters will still carry me to you Last Line: The sun will rise above my tomb in beirut! Subject(s): Arabs - Women LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUCASTA REMAINS UNCONVINCED, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Honour,' you say, and think I'm unaware Last Line: Of what you plan on chasing over there? Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LUCASTA REPLIES TO RICHARD LOVELACE, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Tell me not, dick, I should be glad Last Line: I to having fun! Subject(s): Lovelace, Richard (1618-1657); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights LUCIA THERESA: NICARAGUA, 1985, by PAT SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: Lucia theresa is raped by eight solders Last Line: Because I do not know what else to do: %lucia theresa Subject(s): Healing; Nicaragua; Women LUCIE, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eighty gallant years were not enough Last Line: This brevity of eighty vivid years. Subject(s): Old Age; Women LUCK, by MARY ANN WATERS Poem Source First Line: Now there is no house, mother Last Line: Yourself, knowing luck always waits %for that forgiveness Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women LUCKY BRIDEGROOM, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women LUCRETIUS, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of fair albion, tender, brave, sincere Last Line: "and be, my sister, be at length my friend." Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism LUCY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor carves the stone, till he beholds Last Line: Her utter truth and sweetness all the while! Subject(s): Women LUCY ONE-EYE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The darling girl Subject(s): Women; Human Behavior LUCY ONE-EYE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And her wrinkled ways, %the darling girl Subject(s): African Americans - Women LUGGAGE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Self; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUKE, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible LULLABY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay your sleeping head, my love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "song 11;""let Your Sleeping Head, My Love""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mortality; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LULLABY, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: Close your sleepy eyes, or the pale moonlight will steal you Last Line: In place of mammy's bibini, asleep on his wee bed Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Slumber, jesu, lightly dreaming Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LULLABY OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, child - thy mother's first-born" Last Line: A thousand songs of praise Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary LULLING, OR CRADLE SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sweet was the song the virgin sang Last Line: And sweetly rocked him on her knee Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible LUMP, THE SWELLING, THE POSSIBILITY OF CANCER, by JANA HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Sittint %she watches Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women LYCIDAS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: If lycidas could somehow rise again Last Line: Over an ordinary accident Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights LYCIUS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lycius! The female race is all the same Last Line: Removed from cares and from the female kind! Subject(s): Lycius (mythology); Women LYING DOWN, WITH HISTORY, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: The sunstroked crowd moves toward the banks Last Line: We all lie down in the hush, in general exhaustion %like being owned Subject(s): Women's Rights LYNCHING, by DOROTHEA MATHEWS Poem Source First Line: He saw the rope, the moving mob Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women LYRIC 14, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You take this earth we live on Last Line: What have you learned to say to each other? Subject(s): Lust; Slavery; Women; Serfs LYSISTRATA: HOW THE WOMEN WILL STOP WAR, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, I presume, could adroitly and gingerly Last Line: Then. Subject(s): War; Women LYSISTRATA: THE HOME FRONT, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Women protesting! We've seen it all before Last Line: First its sensuality, then it's cnd Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Women MA, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: Ma, you should have fixed it Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MA BELLE CREOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could tongue define / in warbling line Last Line: To sleep beneath thy velvet wing! Subject(s): Beauty; Women MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing & Singers; Women; Songs MA RAINEY, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ma rainey comes to town Last Line: She jes' gits hold of us dataway Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Rainey, Ma (1886-1939); Singing And Singers; Women MAABAROTH, by RIKUDAH POTASH Poem Source First Line: Good evening, lord god Last Line: Shield them from the wind and rain %give them comfort in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women MAD RIVER, by JAN BEATTY Poem Source First Line: Two dollars and sixty-five cents Last Line: I prayed for morning Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MAD WOMAN, by SU'AS AL-MUBARAK AL- SABAR Poem Source First Line: I am quite mad and you are wholly sane Last Line: Within your breast my only native land Subject(s): Arabs - Women MADAME CAILLIER, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Driving into light %you close your eyes Last Line: She is with you %white madonna of the clouds Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MADAME D'ALBERT'S [OR D'ALBRET'S] LAUGH, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! That fair neck, too beautiful by half Last Line: But only that sweet laugh wherewith she slays me. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women MADAME DE STAEL, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: There was no beauty on thy brow Last Line: Must mourn their own high doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Prophecy & Prophets; Women MADAME SANS SOUCI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'bon jour, madame sans souci'" Subject(s): Women MADELINE; A DOMESTIC TALE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My child, my child, thou leavest me! Last Line: "peace shall be ours beneath our vines once more." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mothers; Women MADONNA, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made her on his loom of time Last Line: The echoes of a ceaseless song. Subject(s): Cavalry; Wales; Women; Welshmen; Welshwomen MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MADONNA MIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under green apple boughs Last Line: Being strong as love. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; God; Love; Women MADONNA OF THE DONS, by ARTHUR MACGILLIVRAY Poem Source First Line: Before the stirring of the notes at the lecture Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA OF THE EMPTY ARMS, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The child was gone: the mother stood alone Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA OF THE EVENING FLOWERS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day long I have been working Last Line: Canterbury bells. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MADONNA OF THE EXILES, by JAMES EDWARD TOBIN Poem Source First Line: We stumble down the pocked and cratered road Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA REMEMBERS, by MARY EDWARDINE Poem Source First Line: Madonna loves Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA'S LULLABY, by SAINT ADOLPHUS DE LIGOURI Poem Source First Line: When our lady sings the heavens Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADONNA: 1936, by JOHN LOUIS BONN Poem Source First Line: Yes, there are Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MADRIGAL, by PAULINE DE SIMIANE Poem Source First Line: You kiss me like a sister Subject(s): Women's Rights MAGALU, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Summer comes / the ziczac hovers Last Line: For a creed that will not let you dance? Variant Title(s): Magula Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Missionaries & Missions MAGDALEN, by GEORGE KENYON ASHENDON Poem Text First Line: Though he had vowed she was divinely fair Last Line: Of having been a magdalen arraigned. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by AUGUSTINE BOWE Poem Source First Line: She loved everyone she saw Last Line: Her avowels might be soft, easy to tear, %but her soft heart did not know how to hurt you Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by MILES MENANDER DAWSON Poem Source First Line: I am the sacrificial lamb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the day that the world shall end my dear Last Line: And forfeited heaven for him. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sacrifices; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by ANNA KIRBY Poem Source First Line: I have eaten Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: You are rosetta stone Last Line: Translates morning into women who see angels, %into one woman who, weeping, %wakens you Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MAGDALEN, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hebrew girl, with flaming brow Last Line: From out a broken heart! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any woman of us all Last Line: Could we but also claim that deed! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN (AFTER SWINBURNE), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hath done what she could' Last Line: "she hath done what she could." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALEN TO HER POET, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take back thy song; or let me hear what thou Last Line: The pity at whose touch dies every sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALENA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Magdalena's robes are trailing through the highway's soiling Last Line: Faithful to the hand that saved her and his love-light in her eyes Subject(s): Love;mary Magdalen;women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGDALENE, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Each night brings back my demon Last Line: And, swooning, I prepare your body %for other oils than these Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Scottish Translations; Women - Bible MAGDALENE, by FRANCES VEJTASA Poem Text First Line: Your face tradition wrongs Last Line: Placed blight -- not heaven. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Last Line: Who became other by saving themselves Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAGIC, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Practice makes perfect, the old folks said Last Line: She would make it to paris one day Subject(s): African Americans - Women MAGIC, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Practice makes perfect, the old folks said Last Line: She would make it to paris one day Subject(s): African Americans - Women MAGIC HANDS SALON, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: For the first time in weeks Last Line: On of hands-all she's ever desired Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women MAGICIAN AS A BOY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Good with his hands and fond Last Line: Would want him now tender Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAGICIAN EXPLAINS HOW, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Think of corsages saved Last Line: Remember her lovely neck %and where you put her Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MAGNIFICAT (LUKE 1:45-56), by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: My soul magnifies the lord Last Line: As he told our fathers, %abraham and his seed, forever Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAID OF PERSIA, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Maid of persia, myrtle named Last Line: Be thy spirit ever near. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Women; Judaism MAID'S FORTUNE, by SIDONIE HEDWIG ZAUNEMANN Poem Source First Line: Let no one speak to me of love and matrimony, please Subject(s): Women's Rights MAID, OUT OF THY UNQUARRIED MOUNTAIN LAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAIDEN NAME, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: In seventy six or seven Last Line: Hung you back around %my daddy's neck Subject(s): Movement; Names; Women's Rights MAIDEN OF MAMA IN KATSUSHIKA, by TAKAHASHI MUSHIMARO Poem Source First Line: In the land of azuma Last Line: And I think of that maid %who drew water here Subject(s): Wells; Women MAIDEN QUEEN: EPILOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What think you, sirs, was't not all well enough? Last Line: Each would be rather a poor actress here %than to be made a mamamouchi there Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women MAIDEN QUEEN: PROLOGUE, WHEN ACTED BY THE WOMEN ONLY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women like us passing for me, you'll cry Last Line: And when your eyes and ears are feasted here, %rise up, and make out the short meal elsewhere Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women MAIDEN RING-ADORNED, by CYNEWULF Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Young was the woman Alternate Author Name(s): Cynwulf Subject(s): Incarnation; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MAIDEN'S LAMENT, by PERNETTE DE GUILLET Poem Source First Line: I fear to be gainsaid Subject(s): Women's Rights MAIDENHEAD: WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF A FRIEND, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At your intreaty, I at last have writ Last Line: Court the vain blessing from a woman's pen. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Women - Writers MAJOLICA PLATE, by RUTH MASON RICE Poem Text First Line: Yellow and green, with garlands gay Last Line: Majolica chronicles have this plight. Subject(s): Mallorca; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Majorca; Virgin Mary MAKE-OFF, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: From another world I appear to myself Subject(s): Women's Rights MAKE/N MY MUSIC, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: My colored childhood was mostly music Last Line: I found billie %holiday - an learned %how %to cry Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians MAKEOVER, by JOAN MAIERS Poem Source First Line: Photographer's model %turns up her collar Last Line: City meets jungle edge %glides past day's %revolving doors Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women MAKEUP ON EMPTY SPACE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am putting makeup on empty space Last Line: Singing & moaning in empty space Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MAKING UP THE PAST, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This never happened and yet I want the memory Last Line: I will keep coming back to all my imagined life Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MALE GROWNUPS, by HODA HUSSEIN Poem Source First Line: I know %that I do not understand what %male grownups mean by Last Line: Savoring knowledge should appear delightful %in the eyes of others Subject(s): Arabs - Women MALE RAGE POEM, by PIER GIORGIO DI CICCO Poem Source First Line: Feminism, baby, feminism. %this is an anti-feminist poem Last Line: Take it like a man Subject(s): Anger; Men; Women's Rights MALEST CORNIFICI TUO CATULLO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm happy, kerouac, your madman's allen Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MALLY'S MEEK, MALLY'S SWEET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking up the street Last Line: Mally's meek, &c. Variant Title(s): O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet Subject(s): Beauty; Women MAMA LESSONS, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: I first helped pull a calf...With my mother,' mama said Last Line: Like my mama treat them gently, and when it's time...To worklike hell Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers MAMI AND GAUGUIN, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gauguin's barebreasted girls %hung above the sideboard Last Line: Signing my name with the flourish %of an artist on her canvas Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MAMILLIA: VERSES AGAINST THE GENTLEWOMEN OF SICILIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since lady mild, too base in array, hath liv'd as Last Line: Fum'd with sweets, as sweet as chaste, no want but abundance. Subject(s): Sicily; Women MAMMOGRAM, by TERRY KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: You stretch on a table Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MAMMOGRAM, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Strip to the waist and put this on, leave it Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MAMMOGRAM, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Women are not the only ones Last Line: When we were cast for our parts Subject(s): Women Patients MAMZELLE, by MARY WILSON Poem Source First Line: The summer term had just begun Subject(s): Women MAN, by ARMANDA GUIDUCCI Poem Source First Line: Different from me entirely: male, foreign Subject(s): Women's Rights MAN IS AN ANIMAL THAT LAUGHS, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights MAN IS DEAD, by CLAIRE GEBEYLI Poem Source First Line: Sunburnt eyes %carved in figure Last Line: Sweet to watch %close to singing children Subject(s): Arabs - Women MAN SO BEAUTIFUL, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I loved a man so beautiful I had to leave him Last Line: I'd bring him somethin fine Subject(s): Homeless; Women MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women MANGOS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is eating a mango Last Line: Like the smoke %when your man leaves the room Subject(s): Homeless; Women MANGOS Y LIMONES (1), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The story is about swellings and slick slidings Last Line: Her mouth full of her own stories Subject(s): Hispanic Americans' Mothers Daughters; Women MANHOOD, by ADELA ZAMUDIO Poem Source First Line: When, parched by the thirst of his soul Subject(s): Women's Rights MANIFEST DESTINY, by SUHEIR HAMMAD Poem Source First Line: We four %sitting nursing %plates of rice and beans in a cuban diner Last Line: We were where we needed to be %we are who we have to be Subject(s): Arabs - Women MANIFEST DESTINY (2), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lifts the bullet out of the blazing case Last Line: Could not see %could not hold Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Rome, Italy; Women MANNEQUINS, by MASCHA KALEKO Poem Source First Line: Just smiling and flattering the whole day through Subject(s): Women's Rights MANOAH'S WIFE AND THE DEVINE VISITOR, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: To see Last Line: Was not a threat %but a reward Subject(s): Women - Bible MANTEL PHOTOGRAPHS., by RICHARD STRAW Poem Source Last Line: Under dish towels Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MANTLE OF MARY, by PATRICK O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Fair is the hue of your mantle, mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MANY DIE HERE, by GAYL JONES Poem Source Last Line: You, who have let my people die without a name Subject(s): African Americans - Women MANY THANKS TO YOU, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MANY TIMES NOVEMBER HAS COME BACK, by MARGHERITA GUIDACCI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights MAP BURNT THROUGH, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Of our chosen place Last Line: And we are flying for the ruined sky Subject(s): Women's Rights MAPS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I've never read Last Line: Of your %hands Subject(s): Women's Rights MARBLE, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA Poem Source First Line: Marble on the milk of this night Last Line: What buries %our aches %alive? Subject(s): Arabs - Women MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman, dead at eighty-seven, who's left Last Line: Down at the bottom, called social studies Subject(s): World War Ii – Casualties; Women; Love – Loss Of; Conduct Of Life MARGINAL, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is where I live Last Line: Undertow or breaker, and I can %poise myself and hold %for along time, profoundly %neither one place Subject(s): Appalachia; Women MARGUERITE, by KATE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: With curling lash and softly curling hair Last Line: Buzz! Buzz! I'm coming, marguerite! Subject(s): Women MARIA BRIGHT, OUR PRECIOUS LADY GOOD, by WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARIA DE LAS ROSAS, by BECKY BIRTHA Poem Source First Line: I go to visit where she stays Last Line: Put the rose ub my hair %it smells like her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights MARIA ENCHAINED, by JUANA CASTRO Poem Source First Line: Cry, little one Subject(s): Women's Rights MARIA IMMACULATA, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How may I sing, unworthy I Last Line: Who found thee without spot and full of grace! Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARIA MITCHELL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Our female eyes are unsurpassed. Earth turns Last Line: For milk. I wonder... You, you tell me about it Subject(s): Women MARIA MITCHELL, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: With her father, each clear night Last Line: Because of her, back safe to shore Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MARIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She can be as wise as we Last Line: And give the peace of eden. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Love; Women MARIAN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clothes and a girl I sing, the first who Last Line: Get their campaigns and characters dissected Subject(s): Harvard University; Women MARIE AND ELLA (2), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Marie coffin, my mother's neighbor on the south Last Line: Who've seen the world, from both top and bottom Subject(s): Geese; Neighbors; Old Age; Women MARIE TAGLIONI, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She wondered how she could leave the world behind Last Line: In the mornings, of course, the ice is gone Subject(s): History; Rape; Relationships; Snow; Women MARILINE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the wheel plied mariline Last Line: To the brow of mariline. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Nature; Women; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MARILYN MCCUSKER: COAL MINER, by SAVINA A. ROXAS Poem Source First Line: Newspapers told of how Last Line: Newspapers told of how %she lost her life, underground, like a man %earning nine-fifty an hour Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women MARILYN MONROE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Marilyn monroe Last Line: Coming into %light Subject(s): Women's Rights MARK STRAND, by NAOMI RACHEL Poem Source First Line: The first time %it is safer Last Line: Over %the rails Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Strand, Mark (b. 1934); Women's Rights MARKET WOMEN, by ANGELA FIGUERA AYMERICH Poem Source First Line: They're of lime and brine. Old since the beginning of time Subject(s): Women's Rights MARKING TIME, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: You've gone away Last Line: Has slowed 'till your return %hurry! Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MARKINGS, by GLORI SIMMONS Poem Source First Line: Each birth notches a woman's pelvis like a belt Last Line: Still, his fingers found the trigger %and aimed for the scar Subject(s): Birth; Scars; Surgery; Women MARRIAGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A man may live thrice nestor's life Last Line: To keep me free from either ill Variant Title(s): Against Women Either Good Or Bad Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives MARRIAGE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more alone sleeping, no more alone waking Last Line: All for her sake must the maiden die! Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MARRIAGE, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Is there ever a new beginning when every Last Line: Being together it hurts to %think of dying as we lie close Subject(s): Women MARRIAGE, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What a great battle you and I have fought! Last Line: Good friend, shake hands Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women MARRIAGE SONG; WITH COMMENTARY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We begin with the osprey who cries, 'clang, clang!' Last Line: "snow-breasted, and transfixed in abstract love." Subject(s): Birds; China; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MARRIAGE-A-LA-MODE: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus have my spouse and I informed the nation Last Line: I humbly cast myself upon the city. Subject(s): Marriage; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dramatists; Stage Life MARRYING THE STRANGER, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Marrying the stranger %is like getting lost Last Line: To give yourself away Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MARUSKA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: When maruska gets ready to write, she dances Last Line: Behind me are the chosen and those who have come to ashes Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Women MARY, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: Miriam, mary, maria, marie Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss / as soft as cotton Last Line: I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kiss %as soft as cotton Last Line: Between my legs %I see a tree Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Women - Bible MARY, by NELLE COLLOW Poem Text First Line: O little town of nazareth Last Line: "my soul doth magnify the lord." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by ROBERT FARREN Poem Source First Line: Thou art god's sky Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, by AMANDA BENJAMIN HALL Poem Text First Line: Twice martha called remindingly, then torn Last Line: ". . . ""mary,"" . . . She called again. . . ." Alternate Author Name(s): Brownell, John A., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON Poem Text First Line: When that my son was born in a little town Last Line: To keep a christian peace. Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict MARY, by ROBERT NORWOOD Poem Text First Line: Fairest of women must have been that maid Last Line: When all the morning stars hosannaed earth! Subject(s): Christmas; Gabriel; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maid-mother of humanity divine Last Line: Of grace the sole immaculate design! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MARY AND CHILD, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How lovingly she looked on him Last Line: Of cross against the sky? Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Paradise; Virgin Mary MARY AND GABRIEL, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young mary, loitering once her garden way Last Line: The air was colder, and grey. She stood alone. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MARY AND MARTHA, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Martha with joy received her blessed lord Last Line: Sure, both loved well; but mary was the debtor, %and therefore should, in reason, love the better Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women MARY AT NAZARETH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I know, lord, thou hast sent him Last Line: Out of my heart the tares %are torn by awe! Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY AT THE CROSS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: And mary stood beside the cross! Her soul Last Line: And grant their dead shall not have died in vain! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary MARY AT THE FEET OF CHRIST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Blest beyond all daughters of the earth! Last Line: Some one bright solemn star all its lone mirror fills. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY JANE MCLEOD, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: She went with mama to her work Last Line: She learned to read! Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes MARY LUDWIG IN OLD AGE (WHOM HISTORY KNOWS AS MOLLY PITCHER), by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Once a year, like returning leaves, they come Last Line: Round a cup of tea in the kitchen was tawny, and kind Subject(s): Old Age; Women MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Text First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one, and broken hearted! Last Line: For ever, towards the skies. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALEN, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O eyes that strip the souls of men Last Line: "for love of him, for love of him." Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALEN, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: His mouth was like the heart of a pomegranate, and the shadows Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Poor mary magdalen Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALEN SPEAKS TO THE MADONNA FROM ANOTHER GOSPEL, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Mary of marble, %pieta Last Line: Blessed are the women %who have danced and loved Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn she sought the saviour slain Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wash your ankles %with my tears. Unhem Last Line: By wrecking their bodies on other men Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Native Americans; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE, by AUGUSTE GOMEZ Poem Text First Line: O, lonely heart of a thousand dreams Last Line: Good and evil—and magdalene! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When blessed marie wip'd her saviours feet Last Line: And yet, in washing one, she washed both. Variant Title(s): Marie Magdalene Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE, by KASSIA Poem Source First Line: Lord, this woman who fell into many sins Last Line: Do not overlook me, your slave, %in your measureless mercy Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion MARY MAGDALENE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came in deep repentance Last Line: Loved much, and was forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE AND I, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seven unclean spirits of mary magdalene' Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest Last Line: Our master lies asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE AND THE SUN, by DAVID CONSTANTINE Poem Source First Line: Hugging her breasts, waiting in a hard garden Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible MARY MAGDALENE AT THE SEPULCHRE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeper! To thee how bright a morn was given Last Line: Awed by the mighty gift thy tears and love had won! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE BEARING TIDINGS OF THE RESURRECTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then was a task of glory all thine own Last Line: Whose undespairing love still owned the spirit's worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MARY ASTONISHED BY GOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We pray for you sister woman shook by the %awe full affection of the saints Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY OF BETHLEHEM, by MARY (WHITE) KING Poem Source First Line: When mary came to bethlehem Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY ON AUGUST THE FIRST, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of mary in the cool of evening Last Line: "and thrice forgetful of the chariot of progress." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY ON HER WAY TO THE TEMPLE, by RUTH SCHAUMANN Poem Source First Line: Scarce lay the blossoms of her golden hair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY PASSES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary went through the thorn-wood wild Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY SHEPHERDESS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the heron's in the high wood and the last long furrow's Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY WAS WATCHING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary was watching tenderly Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY WEEPS FOR HER CHILD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A, my dere, a, my dere son ...' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S ASSUMPTION, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Source First Line: There was silence in heaven, as if for half an hour Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S BIRTHDAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is at rest Last Line: Her anthem they shall swell, her joy they too shall know. Subject(s): Birthdays; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winged women was saying Last Line: I joined them, whispering / yes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winged women was saying Last Line: I joined them, whispering %yes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is that blessed mary, pre-elect Last Line: Because the fulness of the time was come. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Mary's Childhood Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 2, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the symbols. On that cloth of red Last Line: Shall soon vouchsafe his son to be her son. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MARY'S PRESENT, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: I'm not believing for a minute shelley's heart Last Line: Next to the plums? Stunning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights MARY'S VISION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Are you asleep, mother?' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MARY, MARTHA, MARY, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: Oh mary, martha, not so bound in roles Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Women In The Bible MARY, THE SINNER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary - 'tis a tender plea Last Line: Lo! He pardons thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MASICA, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: When you call her Last Line: And old woman comes out of your thigh Subject(s): Women MASK, by IRMA MCCLAURIN Poem Source First Line: Hanging on the wall, an iron face watches me Last Line: The mask contains a deeper blues than those I know %carving out my heart with yesterday's pain Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MASKS, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: Like surly magicians, %girls waiting for the late bus Last Line: With the blue-gold dust %of glitter-laced powder Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Masks; Women MASKS OF WOMAN, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is my daily mask Last Line: My mask is escape %from my %self Subject(s): Women MASQUERADE, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think you %need me Last Line: Ultimately realize the specific beauty or ugly %innards of %our %selves Subject(s): African Americans - Women MASTECTOMY, by ALICE J. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: No cushion Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MASTECTOMY, by KATRINA L. MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Sterile gloved fingers sliced Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MASTECTOMY, by KAY SCHODEK Poem Source First Line: Ptolemy Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MASTER: 11, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now can I bear even god Last Line: This thought of the man-pulse has tricked them, %has weakened them, %shall see woman, %perfect Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MASTER: 12, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they did Last Line: You are near beauty the sun, %you are that lord become woman Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MASTER: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a woman Last Line: Is that dart and pulse of the male, %hands, feet, thighs, %herself perfect Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Women's Rights MATE (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the countless teeming throng Last Line: A haunting memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love; Memory; Women MATER AMABILIS, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roman host descended form the height Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She looked to east, she looked to west Last Line: Since god himself played by her gown. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MATER DOLOROSA, by JOHN FITZPATRICK Poem Source First Line: She stands, within the shadow, at the foot Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DOLOROSA, by J. GRIMSTONE Poem Source First Line: Why have ye no ruth of my dear child? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER DOLOROSA, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O clinging hands, and eyes where sleep has set Last Line: For kingly death will wait until you come. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness MATER INCOGNITA, by MARY BENVENUTA Poem Source First Line: She came to me in hidden guise Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATER TRIUMPHALIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of man's time-travelling generations Last Line: Yes, though thou slay us, arise and let us die Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Death; Nations; Women MATERNAL LADY WITH THE VIRGIN GRACE, by MARY LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MATHEMATICS FOR THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT:, by SIGRID WIEGEL Poem Source First Line: If a woman Subject(s): Women's Rights MATRIARCH, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Evening's putting on her earrings Last Line: Enough food left to say her appetite %was wasning, eough gone to say %she'd not give it up yet Subject(s): Women MATRIARCHLY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave this part away from me Last Line: To bring it on again Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Mothers; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MATTER OF FIDELITY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: To be faithful to the first Last Line: And the word image %metaphorically appropriate Subject(s): Women - Bible MATTINATA, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: When I think of the hosts little ones Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MAUDIE PURTLEBAUGH'S HOUSE, by LISA VICE Poem Source Last Line: While she shows me which stamps %to save for my book Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MAURINE: PART 1, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat and sewed, and sang some tender tune Last Line: To hide the glorious sun, ere it should rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; June; Love; Women; Joy; Delight MAURINE: PART 2, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To little birds that never tire of humming Last Line: "a grander man I never yet have seen." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love; Singing & Singers; Women MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds MAURINE: PART 4, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maurine, maurine! 'tis ten o'clock! Arise Last Line: Ere I could speak, or change my attitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature; Picnics; Women; Barbecues MAURINE: PART 6, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a week of bustle and of hurry Last Line: Should yield me golden fruit for all my toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Soul; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares MAURINE: PART 7, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught Last Line: Gazing upon us from the mystic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Summer; Tears; Women; Optimism MAY, 1915, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us remember spring will come again Last Line: At one with love, at one with grief: blind to the scattered things and changing skies. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MAYBE AT EIGHTY?, by S. MINANEL Poem Source First Line: They say wisdom comes as you age Last Line: Look what a fool I am! Subject(s): Women MAYBE LOVE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe love will come Last Line: To wet the silken dust Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MAZEL TOV!, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: Once %I was at a wedding Last Line: And screw the caterer Subject(s): Jews - Women MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man talks Subject(s): Women MEASURES, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Let us forsake footnotes %and the compilation of bibliographies Last Line: What we know and what we are: %dust, rain, wind, flame Subject(s): Women's Rights MEASURES, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The formless needs to be concealed. Last Line: The light years we wait to see the light. Subject(s): Women's Rights MEDEA THE SORCERESS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is in the home for unwed mothers Subject(s): Women MEDEA THE SORCERESS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is in the home for unwed mothers Last Line: The lady of light Subject(s): Women MEDEA'S SOLILOQUY, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I just carry off Last Line: The better thought came one day later Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEDEA, HOMESICK, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: How many gifted witches, young and fair Last Line: He discovered it himself, and is past harm Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEDIATRIX OF GRACE, by FRANCIS BURKE Poem Source First Line: The mother of christ and priest and of his Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the nurses, interns, doctors came running full tilt down the hall Last Line: But that was his job: to just stand there and watch her die. Subject(s): Duty; Euthanasia; Hospitals; Physicians; Women; Women's Rights; Doctors; Feminism MEDICINE WOMAN, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: Medicine woman they call me Last Line: We come from the stars Subject(s): Politics; Women MEDITATION AT KEW, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! For all the pretty women who marry dull men Last Line: But frankly, gayly shall we get the gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism MEDITATION AT THE THRESHOLD, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: No, the solution is not Subject(s): Women's Rights MEDITATION BY THE XEROX MACHINE, by DORIS SAFIE Poem Source First Line: Such a gloomy day %rain rain rain %sound of soldiers %in rain this gray Last Line: Who see, as I copy and copy and copy Subject(s): Arabs - Women MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation MEDITATION ON ALEPH, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Why do you say my sound is 'ah?' Last Line: Mine is the sound of listening, yearning, reaching %for my companion vowel Subject(s): Jews - Women MEDITATION ON HANDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Time and time again we've tried just holding Last Line: Your own Subject(s): Women's Rights MEDITATIONS OF AN OLD WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On love's worst ugly day Subject(s): Old Age; Women MEDITATIONS OF AN OLD WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On love's worst ugly day Last Line: In such times, lacking a god %I am still happy Subject(s): Old Age; Women MEETING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MEETING AT DIFFERENT CONVENTIONS IN THE SAME CITY, by SUSAN KINSOLVING Poem Source First Line: To arrive there took decades, luck, thousands Last Line: Second, born of our separate itineraries, I stood %apart his daughter and a part, his own identity Subject(s): Women's Rights MELODRAMA BEFORE LUNCH, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How I love mexican women with mascara Last Line: The exhaust of self-pity ever again Subject(s): Eyes; Mexico; Women MEMO: ANOTHER REASON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: And I laughed because there I was Last Line: Men coming to their conclusions alone Subject(s): Women MEMORIAL I, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you come as softly Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Women MEMORIAL I, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you come as softly Last Line: Shall drink our tears Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Women MEMORIAL: 1. THE SUPREMES-CIZ THEY DEAD, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The supremes done gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Supremes, The (singing Group) MEMORIAL: 1. THE SUPREMES-CIZ THEY DEAD, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The supremes done gone Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Supremes, The (singing Group) MEMORIAL: 2. BOBBY HUTTON, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't know bobby Subject(s): African Americans - Women MEMORIAL: 3. REV PIMPS, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters %git yr-blk-asses Last Line: To any revolutionary %u dig? Subject(s): African Americans - Women MEMORY, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: I have seen the robins Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MEMORY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no sound at all, no crying in the village Last Line: Who shall deliver us from the memory of these dead? Subject(s): Women; World War I MEN PO MEN WITH GLASSES, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source Subject(s): Surrealism; Women's Rights MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' DESCRIPTION OF HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tune on, my pipe, the praises of my love Last Line: A sky-born form so beautiful as she. Subject(s): Beauty; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: SAMELA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to diana in her summer weed Last Line: Yield to samela. Variant Title(s): Doron's Description Of Samela Subject(s): Beauty; Women MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MENUS BEHIND WINDOWS WITH FLOWERS, by GERHARD FALKNER Poem Source First Line: Too many women and all of them too near Last Line: Must reckon each dark shade a returning soldier Subject(s): Aging; Women MERCEDES, HER ALONENESS, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Her stiffening captor lies in wait Last Line: In the singular print of her palm, %anointing aloneness Subject(s): Women MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism MERCY SEAT, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: The cafe society was a cottonless plantation Last Line: Of a woman they would pick her gardenia to pieces, %petal by petal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers MERMAID AS SHE REALLY IS, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source Last Line: She hails it blowing a derisive raspberry %on a shell-pink conch Subject(s): Mermaids And Mermen; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sea; Women MERMAID'S SONG, by VERNA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: I'm one of the mermaids in prufrock's song Last Line: To be courted by prufrocks %who cannot, will not, swim Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MESMERIST, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Enough to watch one gloved hand, white Last Line: Which veins are roads and how far back? Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MESSAGE TO NETWORK USERS, by JEAN PRIESTLEY FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: We are going to wire you Last Line: Batch when you can %and purge every day %without fail Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women MESSAGES, by NAANA BANYIWA HORNE Poem Source First Line: Anyemiyoo %do you remember oshimashi? Last Line: Rokpokpos of the world can %hiss Subject(s): Women's Rights METAMORPHOSIS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: There is a decided Last Line: To her beloved son %prince solomon Subject(s): Women - Bible METAPHYSICS OF MORNING, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Always, the hour before daybreak Last Line: What we cannot imagine Subject(s): Women METEOR SHOWERS, YOSEMITE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: If, when a blind moth Last Line: Be ready for %with all your eyes Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women METHOD, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I use a little brush Last Line: At last, this plumage Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MEWL, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA Poem Source First Line: When we were by ourselves %harassed by capricious cats Last Line: And after it, there remained nothing Subject(s): Arabs - Women MEZZA RAGNA, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Stuck somewhere in the middle Last Line: Between two possibilities %mezza donna, mezza dea Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MEZZO FORTE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take that, damn you; and that Last Line: It's not my fault if you will be a cat. Subject(s): Women – Abused MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opinion is not worth a rush Last Line: She. They say such different things at school. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Body, Human; Beauty; Women MICHAL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Though years divide, we're sisters yet Last Line: Who also love whom I despise Subject(s): Jews - Women MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle Last Line: Up close could lose its luster Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MID-HEAVEN, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Four-square poplars on the old weed plat whisper Last Line: Meaning no harm, no harm ever Subject(s): Women's Rights MIDDLE EAST, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER Poem Source First Line: No, it is not only the date clusters %in the palm trees Last Line: While the verse on their holiday letter %reads: %'peace on earth!' Subject(s): Arabs - Women MIDDLE-AGED LOVE SONG, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Apre-midi, flushed with sun and wine Last Line: Lemon honey we brought back home today Subject(s): Women's Rights MIDDLE-AGED LOVE SONG II, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Arms flailing, you explain Last Line: Cracking the fragile shell of the day Subject(s): Women's Rights MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AT A POND, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first of june, grasses already tall Last Line: Is a response. I swim across the ring of it Subject(s): Lakes; Women; Pools; Ponds MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN AT A POND, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first of june, grasses already tall Last Line: Is a response. I swim across the ring of it Subject(s): Lakes; Women MIDNIGHT, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: Marjorie, it is midnight Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MIDRASH ON LEAH, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Nowadays your father couldn't play his trick Last Line: Even today, he'll have her too Subject(s): Jews - Women MIDWAY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I've come this far to freedom and I won't turn back Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Social Protest; Negroes; American Blacks MIDWAY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've come this far to freedom and I won't turn back Last Line: Mighty mountains loom before me and I won't stop now Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Social Protest MIGRATION, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poet's Biography First Line: The winter birds / are flying from the north Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birds; Migration MIGRATION, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The winter birds %are flying from the north Last Line: Land, and time a revolving %flame Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birds; Migration MIKE AND I HAVE OUR BEST TALKS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down main the desperate strains of 'satisfaction' approaching Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MIKE AND I PRETEND WE'RE MARRIED, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Mike and I look at each other, his gaze is the first to falter Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MIKE AND I TOUR BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Men and women who died by the truths that they believed in Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MILENA WILETT; I YR. OLD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Thy mother strives in patient trust Last Line: Her baby's sleeping now Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Mothers And Daughters; Women MILLSTONE CONNECTION: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Abimelech's blood career Last Line: Behavior. %the millstone grounded him! Subject(s): Women - Bible MILTON, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, poet gifted with the sight divine! Last Line: For thy not sightless eyes the veil was riv'n %redemption's problem unto thee well solved Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women MILTON'S WOMEN WITH MEMORIES MORE THAN 300 YEARS OLD, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Milton had 3 wives, 3 daughters, blindness and poetry Last Line: Fumblings? Irrational, yes; but cunning, too %and infinitely vengeful Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights MINE WAS NOT A BUBBE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: But an oma Last Line: Then she died Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MINGUILLO'S KISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "since for kissing thee, minguillo" Subject(s): Kisses;women MINIATURE VOYAGE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In a woods, we passed through night, alone, all alone Last Line: Voyage from your mouth to mine Subject(s): Women's Rights MINIATURES IV. MUTE THE HAND MOVES FROM THE HEART, by LYNN STRONGIN Poem Source First Line: Mute %the hand moves from the heart Last Line: Giving psalm %and ease Subject(s): Women MINOR SURGERY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: During the procedure %I thought of sex Last Line: When I am better Subject(s): Jews - Women MINORITY: 1917, by MAY O'ROURKE Poem Source First Line: She curls her darkened lashes; manicures Last Line: Forgetting quite the thousand, thousand boys %who gave you their pierced hearts! Subject(s): Women; World War I MIRACLE, by MAUREEN HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: Before you were conceived Subject(s): Women MIRACLE OF EARTH, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: His name is nicky and hers is charmaine Last Line: She has planted asparagus, and he loves her name Subject(s): Women MIRIAM, by E. DUDLEY JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Oh, for that day, that day of bliss entrancing Last Line: "forever and ever." Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jews; Women In The Bible; Judaism MIRIAM, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: She who could see the light of days to come Last Line: Unlamenated in the widerness of zin Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MIRIAM, by PENINA MOISE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the flexile reeds of nile a lovely infant slept Last Line: Farewell, inspired miriam, thou lost star of the sea Subject(s): Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MIRIAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, miriam! Pearl of the morning, gazelle of the palm-land, soul of my spirit Last Line: Thy bitterness, oh, miriam, is sweeter than all their sweetness! Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Miriam (bible); Moses; Women In The Bible MIRIAM (IN FIFTY WORDS OR LESS), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Supportive sister Last Line: And toughness this miriam %poet and prophet Subject(s): Women - Bible MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS: PROLOGUE, by MARGUERITE PORETE Poem Source First Line: Theologians and other clerks Last Line: And then you'll understand this book, %which by love makes the soul live Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion MIRRORS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I am told that beauty is a reflection Last Line: I am looking at a mirror and a reflection. Subject(s): Beauty; Mirrors; Old Age; Women; Youth MIRRORS OF MAIN STREET, by JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK Poem Text First Line: In our town, as everywhere Last Line: "main street's a ""one-way"" thoroughfare." Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MIS' SMITH, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she hurried to get through Last Line: "I reckon." Subject(s): Desire; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MISCARRIAGE, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: I go down to the rough-hewn Last Line: The brush and bring me your fine head Subject(s): Women's Rights MISCONCEPTION, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: There is an unkind Last Line: She could conceive %easily and often Subject(s): Women - Bible MISERABLE SINNER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I am a child of chance with a window brush Last Line: I draw power. I walk barefoot Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Death - Children; Murder; Pregnancy; Rape; Sin MISOGYNY, by DANIEL GORDON Poem Text First Line: A woman is a wondrous being Last Line: God curse them all! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations MISS AMERICA COMES ACROSS HER DAUGHTER: LESSONS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: It sounds so easy. Mother may I? Step-hop-jump? Last Line: Only she - no me, no you Subject(s): Women MISS AMERICA COMES ACROSS HER DAUGHTER: PLANS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: There you are at the three-way mirror, the same Last Line: But not too serious Subject(s): Women MISS AMERICA COMES ACROSS HER DAUGHTER: PROMISES, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Now, how glad you must be I made you slave Last Line: Behind you, shining white pebbles to show you home Subject(s): Women MISS GEETA, by MARGARET RECKORD Poem Source First Line: She made her crossing Subject(s): Women MISS LILLIE LOVE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Miss lillie knew the difference Last Line: No bigger than a hat pin %for a doll's hat Subject(s): Nature; Women MISS ROSIE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I watch you / wrapped like garbage Subject(s): African Americans - Women MISS ROSIE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I watch you %wrapped like garbage Last Line: Through your destruction %I stand up Subject(s): African Americans - Women MISS SALLY'S WISDOM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Chiniman say yu put purse pon ground Last Line: Up against yu chest. But remember, %wanty wanty no getty getty Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States MISSING, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Last Line: Lord, how can he be dead? Subject(s): Women And War; World War I - Casualties MISSING MISSIVES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In fellini's amarcord, the idiot Last Line: Your heart, your lips, your loins %to me-or so you say Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MISSION OF THE FLOWERS, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a lovely garden, filled with fair and blooming flowers Last Line: And lay her fairest buds and flowers upon the altars of love and truth Subject(s): African Americans - Women MISSIONARIES IN THE JUNGLE, by LINDA PIPER Poem Source First Line: In the clearing sands Last Line: Administering to garrulous black ghetto residents Subject(s): African Americans - Women MISTAKEN LIGHTS: A PORTRAIT OF ATTA, by GARY SCHROEDER Poem Source First Line: With the children raised and gone Last Line: Reaching out to measure %the distances to nothing Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MISTRESS FATE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flout her power, young man! Last Line: You gaze them down, old man? Subject(s): Women MISTRESS GLENARE, BY 'MARIAN', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: A virtuous woman is mistress glenare Last Line: That poor sinful woman is—mistress glenare. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Evil; Sin; Women - Secluding MM, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I barely learn my part. As to the whole Last Line: Be taken in, exposed... %you get the picture Subject(s): Women MOBILE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: The sky - or is it air? Last Line: Holding for the dial tone Subject(s): Women MOCKINGBIRD PIE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Measure the slick of their voices Last Line: And think they're you Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives MODERN MIDDLESEX, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: Thank god, nearing ruislip gardens Last Line: Now my mobile phone is ringing -- please excuse me. Hello? Spain? Subject(s): Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MODERN WOMAN, by MARIE JANITSCHEK Poem Source First Line: A man had wronged a woman. It was Subject(s): Women's Rights MODERN WOMAN, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: Margit grunbaum reti - %you are a modern woman Last Line: Never stop learning, %live Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MOLL, by PAUL LAKE Poem Source First Line: Despite your author's quaint intention Last Line: Purchase herslef a fresh estate Subject(s): Life; Women MOLLY MEANS, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Old molly means was a hag and a witch Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women MOLLY MEANS, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old molly means was a hag and a witch Last Line: O molly, molly, molly means %lean is the ghost of molly means Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): African Americans - Women MOMENT OF MOURNING, by DONIA EL-AMAL ISMAIL Poem Source First Line: Gaza, creeps %with cold hands and feet %like my life in this hot-city %of sins Last Line: While an old olive tree insists on the change %and gambles on its fact Subject(s): Arabs - Women MOMENT OF TAKE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Only in the moment of take Last Line: To no listening ear Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights MOMENT'S NOTICE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: To it as to a reprieve I come Last Line: No one aboard would later describe Subject(s): Women's Rights MOMMA REMEMBERS, by ELAINE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In zerdover %I couldn't go %to school. I was a girl Last Line: I wake up Subject(s): Jews - Women MOMMA SAYINGS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Momma had words for us Subject(s): Women MOMMA SAYINGS, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Momma had words for us Last Line: So we'd shine like dimes Subject(s): Women MONARCH BIRTHMARK, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Eyelash kisses: 'moth goodnight.' her lashes tickle Last Line: A secret song Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MONK, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: Because of women Last Line: In her life's indiscernible secret Subject(s): Love; Women MONKEY BUSINESS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You send me to read the latest Last Line: The monkey business of the human heart Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to me, who wait and watch for you Last Line: When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing Last Line: Loss and decay and death, and all is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many in aftertimes will say of you Last Line: My love of you was life and not a breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be any one can take my place Last Line: And you companion'd I am not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Abnegation Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could trust mine own self with your fate Last Line: Whose love your love's capacity can fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Women - Heroes; Theology MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth gone, and beauty gone if ever there Last Line: Silence of love that cannot sing again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could remember that first day Last Line: First touch of hand in hand -- did one but know! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The First Meeting;the First Day Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of you, to wake: would that I might Last Line: Though there be nothing new beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you first: but afterwards your love Last Line: Both of us, of the love which makes us one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart's heart and you who are to me Last Line: Since woman is the helpmeet made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke Last Line: I cannot love him if I love not you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, for I love you -- and answer me Last Line: And death be strong, yet love is strong as death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, if I perish, perish' -- esther spake Last Line: And for love's sake by love be granted it! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of you, and all that was, and all Last Line: Ready to spend and be spent for your sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONODY ON A LADY FAMED FOR HER CAPRICE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How cold is that bosom which folly once fired Last Line: Which spurning contempt shall redeem from his ire. Subject(s): Women MONOLOGUE OF TWO MOONS, NUDES WITH CRESTS: 1938, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, lily and I fell from a ladder Last Line: Twigs, leaves, and an infinite black string. Subject(s): Accidents; Adolescence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Teen Agers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MONOLOGUE TO GOD, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Every time I gain some ground Last Line: In having her suffer Subject(s): Identity; Women MONSTRA TE ESSE MATREM, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mary mother, pray for one Last Line: Kneeling before the mercy gate. Subject(s): Catholics; Cavalry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Prayer; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary MOOD, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Floating like a dust moat Last Line: But little laments in a row. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MOON, THE STARS., by GARY ASPENBERG Poem Source Last Line: An empty cup Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MOONFLOWER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I do not want to be like the moonflower worshipped Last Line: That kind of closure after a night-long bloom Subject(s): Moon; Night; Women; Worship MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORDECAI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'now say, my queen,' the monarch cries" Last Line: While thou hast bread to spare! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;israel;jews;jews - Women; Judaism MORE, by NELSON ADRIAN BLISH Poem Source First Line: There's more to Last Line: Medicine and gynecology... %oh, well Subject(s): Physics; Women MORE AND MORE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Content to sit facing this meadow Last Line: Led between hills and beyond Subject(s): Women's Rights MORE AND MORE NARROW, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The woman at her window Last Line: To damn her veins that freeze each time he breathes %his slow, cold and immobile breath Subject(s): Women - Abused MORE MOONS THAN ONE, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Nearly forty, and I have come to this Last Line: I, too, have been with boys, and loved them Subject(s): Women MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give them my regards when you go to the school renuion Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism MORE OF A CORPSE THAN A WOMAN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give them my regards when you go to the school renuion Last Line: When your women are ready and rich in their wish for the world, %destroy the leaden heart, %we've a Subject(s): Women's Rights MORE SEXY NOW THAN EVER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was up for a hot little piece of hispanic tail Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MORNING, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: It is eight o'clock in Last Line: And when I look for my grandmother %where shall I go to find her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MORNING, by PAULINE KALDAS Poem Source First Line: As if words could shed their skin Last Line: Not even a mouthful of sounds %stopping me long enough Subject(s): Arabs - Women MORNING AFTER - LOVE, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: Clouds fill the sky Last Line: On the morning after - love %I walk Subject(s): African Americans - Women MORNING ATHLETES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most mornings we go running side by side Subject(s): Sports; Women MORNING ATHLETES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most mornings we go running side by side Last Line: And we talk and pant, pant and talk %in the morning early and busy together Subject(s): Sports; Women MORNING LIGHT (THE DEW-DRIER), by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Full Text First Line: Brother to the firefly Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks MORNING LIGHT (THE DEW-DRIER), by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: Brother to the firefly Last Line: Shall shape the earth for that fresh dawning %after the dews of blood? Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women MORNING OF EVERY SIN, by MAYSOUN SAQR AL- QASIMI Poem Source First Line: I'm not sleeping now %leave me like that Last Line: It's fair, that we feel satisfied %by kisses Subject(s): Arabs - Women MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MORNING SONG, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love set you going like a fat gold watch Last Line: The clear vowels rise like balloons Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Morning; Mothers; Time; Women MORNING STAR, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: I loathe the very thought of her Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MORNING, NIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Meet a red-haired woman in the morning Last Line: Red-haired woman moving on the floor, %dancing time will never ask for more. Subject(s): Hair; Love; Red (color); Women MORTAL SINS, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: Aldo palmieri straddles %the back seat of the schoolbus Last Line: She tells me again & again %until one day, I am Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MOSAIC, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Wiping drool from his lapel Last Line: Memories of the sunset %through broken windows Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL THE STARS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You bring the child back to her mother Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Venus (planet); Women And Religion MOST THOROUGH STUDY OF WOMEN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS, by SUZAN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: 500 women in italy Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women MOTET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am merry Subject(s): Women's Rights MOTET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O god! I have no husband Subject(s): Women's Rights MOTHER, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Mother, out of fear Last Line: And it goes by many names Subject(s): Women's Rights MOTHER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: If I thought I needed her - but some things happen Last Line: Soundless, moonlight, sewn Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: My mother had no patio garden Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTHER, by NAGASE KIOKO Poem Source First Line: I am always aware of my mother Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTHER AND CHILD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Solomon grinned Last Line: Love doesn't do things %by halves Subject(s): Women - Bible MOTHER AND CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O come, little mary, the woods are in tune Last Line: The kingdom of heaven, and the light of his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER AND CHILD, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: My heart sharpened to a point Subject(s): Women MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS), by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: We made room for you, remembering Last Line: Of golden love, and innocence, and tears. Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; World War Ii; Childhood; Virgin Mary; Second World War MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 11. LOVE'S MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis men who say that through all hurt and pain Last Line: And faith to love--faith to our dead at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Love; Mothers & Daughters; Women MOTHER AND MATE, by GILBERT FRANKAU Poem Text First Line: Lightly she slept, that splendid mother mine Last Line: "that, leaving you, I left you not alone." Subject(s): Mothers; Women & War; World War I; First World War MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER IN AIRPORT PARKING LOT, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This motherhood business fades, is almost over Last Line: I am one small woman in a great space, %temporarily free andclear. %I am by myself, climbing into my Subject(s): Air Travel; Mothers; Women MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER MEMORY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Was there anger in the storm, so long ago Last Line: Spotlighting memory of mother love Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MOTHER MOON, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother moon surfs the sky Last Line: We too / we change Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Teaching & Teachers MOTHER MOST POWERFUL, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: That thou so often held him in thine arms Last Line: Shows thou wert mortal,—mother,—yea, and more! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHER OF ANDROMEDA, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: It's been years since we left ethiopia Last Line: Turning through infinity above your sleeping heads Subject(s): Women's Rights MOTHER OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lady mary, blissful dame Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MOTHER OF ICHABOD, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God's glory does not vanish Last Line: Because she thought that god was dead %at least for her - perhaps for israel Subject(s): Women - Bible MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA, by SAVINA A. ROXAS Poem Source First Line: Wins a gold medal Last Line: Agnes gonxha bojaxhiu %five feet tall, yugoslav %candles foreyes, from %southwest of sarajevo &where Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women MOTHER TO CHILD, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How best can I serve thee, my child! My child! Last Line: Even so, and so only! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers; Women's Rights; Feminism MOTHER TONGUE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Mama, %it is with a thief's luck Last Line: Prepare to birth myself Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers; Women MOTHER TONGUES-III, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Just think, all those tongues Last Line: People of africa, were %standing upright Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Ethnic Identity; Poetry And Poets; Rwanda; U.s. - Race Relations MOTHER WAITS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: And mother waits %as only mother can Last Line: And speaks and listens %and tries to understand Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Relationships; Women MOTHER'S HABITS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have all %my mother's habits Last Line: No longer caring %either Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women MOTHER'S TISHA B'AV, JULY 1984, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Bitter is the word Last Line: My missed-child %missing Subject(s): Jews - Women MOTHER, SELS., by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO Poem Source First Line: My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write Last Line: This is a poem that cannot end Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MOTHER, TELL MY FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MOTHERHOOD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't knock on my door, little child Last Line: I cannot give you birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Variant Title(s): Black Woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Despair; Mothers; Pregnancy MOTHERHOOD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text First Line: Mother of christ long slain, forth glided she Last Line: "I am the mother of iscariot." Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MOTHERHOOD: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The angels sang above the bed Last Line: There mary wept most bitterly. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Theology MOTHERS, by ANGELA FIGUERA AYMERICH Poem Source First Line: Mothers of men, prolific wombs Subject(s): Women's Rights MOTHERS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The mothers of the world, they stand behind mist like the Last Line: Lopped off finally and betrayed, taken into the dark like a %memory, a heavy log in the wall, impres Subject(s): Mothers; Women MOTIF FOR MARY'S DOLORS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: Seven notes of grief Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MOULTON TRANSFORMATIONS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: If it's tuesday Last Line: Of course dependent on the relative velocity of the observer Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women MOUNTAIN GIRL, by RAFAELA CHACON NARDI Poem Source First Line: There is so much blossom and naked dawn Subject(s): Women MOUNTAIN LAUREL, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: The women were the room and the room was full Last Line: Assigned, these several women from the south and elderly Subject(s): Women MOUNTAINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She washed his face Last Line: Of %chile Subject(s): Women's Rights MOUNTAINS: 1. THE JOURNEY: TO A FRIEND CLIMBING KILIMANJARO, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: This is the first day of your journey Last Line: Within us, a streak of light Subject(s): Women MOUNTAINS: 2. WAKING IN THE VALLEY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: A scent of disorder wakes me Last Line: A mirror, a light, a way out Subject(s): Women MOUNTAINS: 3. SEASONS, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Thirty years ago it was the indigo Last Line: Gnarled roots, her eyes startlinlgly new Subject(s): Women MOUNTAINS: 4. THREE WOMEN AND A MOUNTAIN, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The slow games of the body are playing Last Line: To a part of the journey Subject(s): Women MOUNTAINS: 5. A RETURN, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: A woman comes back at dawn Last Line: Who returned and lived Subject(s): Women MOURNING, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that decipher out the fate Last Line: It is to be suppos'd they grieve. Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness MOURNING WOMEN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight Last Line: But souls ye have none fit for paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Mourning; Women; Bereavement MOUTH-PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Me? He says. 'I paint Last Line: You choose,' he mouths, licking his lips Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged MOUTHS OF HAIR, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She wasn't asking him Last Line: Celebrate his %hair Subject(s): Women's Rights MOUTHS OF LOVE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Everything turns into Last Line: Of %love Subject(s): Women's Rights MOUTHS OF WOMEN, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: It's saturday and he has nothing else to do Last Line: See how the fat glistens against the plate Subject(s): Women MOVIE QUEENS, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sisters cut them %from empty backdrops, propped them Last Line: From the sky in a rage of beauty Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MOVING DAY AT THE WIDOW CAIN'S, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: Lugging old milk cans, glass Last Line: Like a woman in a prairie of fire Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women MOVING HOUSE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Imagine existence, then, when they would take Last Line: Patiently waited for her divorce papers to arrive Subject(s): Women MOWING AT DUSK, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Grass pours from the mower's side Last Line: I rudder home in the salty dark Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women MOZART'S REQUIEM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A requiem! And for whom? Last Line: Into the notes that o'er my dust shall swell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Women; Burials MR. AND MRS. JACK SPRAT IN THE KITCHEN, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About half a box Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Marriage; Women's Rights; Cookery; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MRIRIDA, by MRIRIDA N'AIT ATTIK Poem Source First Line: They nicknamed me mririda Subject(s): Women MRS. JOHNSON OBJECTS, by CLARA ANN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Come right in this house, will johnson Last Line: An' jest let me ketch you chasin' %aft' them white trash anymo' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women MRS. NASSAU SENIOR, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: True woman, gentle and yet strong Last Line: We learn so slowly. Subject(s): Humanitarianism; Nassau Senior, Mrs. (1828-1877).; Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers MRS. SHAW'S CADILLAC, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cindy shaw told me Last Line: Sometimes as big as car fins Subject(s): Women; Middle Age; Childhood Memories MRS. SMALL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook Last Line: Of the world's business Subject(s): Women's Rights; African Americans – Women; Insurance & Insurance Agents MRS. SMALL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook Last Line: Of the world's business Subject(s): Women MRS. SMITH, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last year I trod these fields with di Last Line: She wears balmorals. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Quarrels; Women; Arguments; Disagreements MS, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: This desk is an antique: it's dainty Last Line: And the jacket, like another person, %in back of her Subject(s): Business; Women MS. LIZ, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Educated - nearly out of college Last Line: For a vegetarian student teacher Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina MUD SOUP, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Had the ham bone, had the lentils Last Line: Not like isle of innisfree. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Cookery; Feminism MULAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tsiek tsiek and again tsiek tsiek Last Line: How can I tell if I am he or she? Subject(s): Homecoming; Identity; Soldiers; Women MULIER, by SOLANGE STRONG Poem Text First Line: A woman's body is but magdalene's Last Line: The penny always lurks between her lips. Subject(s): Bodies; Women MULIER AMICTA SOLE, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: Woman supremely blest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MUNDUS MULIEBRIS, SELECTION, by MARY EVELYN Poem Text First Line: In pin-up ruffles now she flaunts Last Line: Does with her vanity confound. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Hands; Women MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women MUNITION WAGES, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: Earning high wages? Yus Last Line: I'll have repaid mi wages %in death - and pass by Subject(s): Women; World War I MUSE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Woman announcing her perfect self Last Line: As her harmonies house the entire cosmos Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights MUSE INTERRUPTS MY RANT AT CHARLES BUKOWSKI OVER HIS POPULARITY .., by SUSAN BLACKWELL RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Last Line: The muse is a fine old broad. She can forgive Subject(s): Bukowski, Charles (1920-1994); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MUSE SAYS SHE'S FINISHED, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Says she's turning off Last Line: Her flesh devoured %without a blessing? Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MUSIC, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music! Lilting, soft and languorous Last Line: Music! With you, soul on your parted lips! %music - is you! Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women MUSICK SPEECH DELIVERED TO THE UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, 1714, by ROGER LONG Poem Source First Line: The humble petition of the ladies, who are all ready to be eaten up with spleen Last Line: And isn't it now intolerable after all this pains and cost %to be coop'd up out of sight, and have a Subject(s): Women MUTES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These groans men use %passing a woman on the street Last Line: Without seemliness, %without love Subject(s): Lust; Sexual Harassment; Women MUY VIEJA MEXICANA, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Text First Line: I've seen her pass with eyes upon the road Last Line: Through eyes that open inward and look back. Variant Title(s): Una Anciana Mexicana Subject(s): Old Age; Women MY ANGEL, I KNEW WHAT ANGEL, by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights MY ANGELINE, by HARRY BACHE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She kept her secret well, oh, yes Last Line: My human snake, my angeline! Subject(s): Animals; Marriage; Secrets; Snakes; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serpents; Vipers MY ARKANSAS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is deep brooding Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Arkansas MY BABY HAS NO NAME YET, by KIM NAM JO Poem Source Subject(s): Women MY BABY HAS NO NAME YET, by KIM NAM CHO Poem Source Last Line: I have no name for this baby of ours Subject(s): Women MY BELOVED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY BELOVED, LET US GATHER WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY BOOK, by LOUISE VICTORINE ACKERMANN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In place of melodies, I offer you nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Choquet, Louise Victorine Subject(s): Women's Rights MY COUNTRY (FOR MANDELA), by ZINDZI (ZINDZISWA) MANDELA Poem Source First Line: I stand by the gate Last Line: He'll be back some day Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson (b. 1918); Women MY DARLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY DAUGHTER,' BY A GERMAN MOTHER, by CHRISTINE MCNEILL Poem Source First Line: She is a writer. Where it all started? Last Line: Could her vision now be affected? Subject(s): Women - Writers MY DREAM ABOUT BEING WHITE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Hey music and me / only white Last Line: Wake up / dancing Subject(s): African Americans - Women MY DREAM ABOUT BEING WHITE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey music and me %only white Last Line: So I take them off and %wake up dancing Subject(s): African Americans - Women MY FAIR LADY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fair lady's a dear, dear lady Last Line: Pray, john, pray Subject(s): Women MY FATHER SOLD ME TO PAY THE DEBTS, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I lacked beauty, the graces Last Line: I fell alive into the flames. %still struggling Subject(s): Household Employees; Pregnancy; Rape; Women - Abused MY FATHER'S CROSS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Gold-flecked, reclines against Last Line: Of stars I'd name 'my father's cross.' Subject(s): Women MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I have come back Last Line: Bring them to you Subject(s): Jews - Women MY FATHER'S GUN, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: My mother never guessed I was her witness Last Line: A wake of rings within rings within rings Subject(s): Women MY FATHER. HIS RABBITS, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: In my dreams they return as they should Last Line: I lift them into their pens, shut the doors, %making all as it was before. %my father. His rabbits Subject(s): Appalachia; Women MY FIRST WOMERN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my first womern Last Line: Was a year ago -- Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Spring; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY FRIEND MELISSA, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: My friend melissa, eighteen %smokes like a chimney Last Line: Who was the victor and who was the victim? %think Subject(s): Causley, Charles (1917-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY FRIENDS BAKED CAKE AND WE ORDERED LOX AND WHITEFISH, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: I stood there shoulder to shoulder with the men Last Line: What do you need with all those foreskins anyway? Subject(s): Jews - Women MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY GRANDMA HAD A LOVER, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source Last Line: And grandma with her young young hand %draws back her golden hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER'S BRAID, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: I lift her %thin braid Last Line: When the grown-ups %smile Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER'S HAIR, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She wanted to arrive in heaven with beautiful hair Subject(s): Rape; Women MY GRANDMOTHER, THE REVOLUTIONARY, by SANDRA GARDNER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %in the russian revolution Last Line: And left a note in yiddish %that no one could read Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 2. WOMAN WITH CROSSED HANDS, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not the usual rubens woman Last Line: Have sculpted to simple peace and simple welcome Subject(s): Hands; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Sculpture And Sculptors; Women MY HEART BEATS IN WILD RAPTURE FOR YOU: COME PREPARED TO STAY FOREVER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Like explorers following a trade route Last Line: What china blue eyes you have Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives MY HEART DESIRES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY HEART IS JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY HUSBAND IS THE SAME MAN, by SILA Poem Source Last Line: Which knewus happy. Which knew us %graceful %in endless evenings of making love Subject(s): Women MY HUSBAND TOOK A RIVAL WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY JEWISH LIFE LINE, by PENINNAH SCHRAM Poem Source First Line: My jewish life scribbled %across the page Last Line: But my life and line continue Subject(s): Jews - Women MY KATE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was not as pretty as women I know Last Line: My kate? Subject(s): Women MY LADY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As violets, modest, tender-eyed Last Line: Has pushed my hand from thine! Subject(s): Women; Love MY LADY AND THE CRYSTAL GLOBE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Deep in the depths of the crystal globe Last Line: Spurn not me, lady fair! Subject(s): Women MY LADY NATURE AND HER DAUGHTERS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, well I deem, delight Last Line: Ladies rule where hearts obey. Subject(s): Nature; Women MY LADY OF DAWN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady rises with the day Last Line: Because they 're hers I love them. Subject(s): Admiration; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Morning; Women MY LADY OF THE VIOLIN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady sits in idle pose Last Line: My lady, my sweet lady. Subject(s): Violins; Women MY LADY WITH THE DROOPING ROSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady's young, my lady's fair Last Line: My lady, oh my lady. Subject(s): Conformity; Women; Women - North Carolina; Women - Secluding MY LADY'S BATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sky hung dark and shaded Last Line: At the pearl-white glimpse of her.) Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Night; Women; Showers & Showering; Bedtime MY LADY'S GLEAMING GEMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady's decked with gleaming stones Last Line: To me, beside my lady's worth. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks MY LADY'S MORNING SONG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The morning breaks; the golden light disperses dimming Last Line: My tribute to her art. Subject(s): Admiration; Love; Women MY LADY'S WONDROUS HAIR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sometimes think I'm on the brink Last Line: "say ""hope,"" sweet lady mine!" Subject(s): Hair; Love; Women MY LANGUAGE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: I, I should sing as wretchedly Subject(s): Women's Rights MY LAST AFTERNOON IN BOCA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then ordering her home, he breaks my trance Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women MY LAST DUCHESS RESPONDS TO ROBERT BROWNING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Night after night he didn't satisfy Last Line: To paint my soul, to introduce foreplay Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights MY LAST HUSTLER, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When 'brad' is lying naked, or rather naked is lying Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY LITTLE DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm folding up my little dreams Last Line: Tonight, within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dreams; Nightmares MY LITTLE WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My little wife's a world too sweet Last Line: For such a man as I am! Subject(s): Courage;marriage;trojan War;women; Valor;bravery;weddings;husbands;wives MY LONELINESS, by THERESE AWWAD Poem Source First Line: I arrest it %between parentheses %bridle it %together with the tumult Last Line: I make love %to that hunger %deep within Subject(s): Arabs - Women MY MADONNA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hailed me a woman from the street Last Line: Where you and all may see. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Models; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary MY MAMA MOVED AMONG THE DAYS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then seemed like she turned around and ran %right back in %right back on in Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers; Women MY MISTRESS'S BOOTS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They nearly strike me dumb Last Line: Put them on. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Variant Title(s): To My Mistress's Boots Subject(s): Shoes; Women; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers MY MORNING JOG, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I am melting Last Line: In tomorrow's dawn Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights MY MOTHER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: O god, my mother Last Line: But never stopped loving, %o god, my mother Subject(s): Women - Bible MY MOTHER, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Talking to strange men on the subway Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER AND I HAD A DISCUSSION ONE DAY, by DENISE SWEET Poem Source First Line: And she said I was quite fortunate Last Line: Of many women and I wept %with my mother Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER IS DEAD, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source First Line: My mother is daed. That simple sentence (if it is a sentence, it Subject(s): Surrealism; Women's Rights MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sends me gold & silver earrings for valentine's Last Line: That I might love women too Subject(s): Mothers; Women; Familylife MY MOTHER LOVES WOMEN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY MOTHER MAKES ME A GEISHA GIRL, by DONNA MASINI Poem Source First Line: It is halloween. 1962. Brooklyn Last Line: White paint smearing steamy shadows rolling %down mixing red blue black green Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME HOW TO BE POOR, by CATHLEEN CALBERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the little things, like thrift-shopping Last Line: Not expecting much but wanting everything Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDITH HEMSCHEMEYER Poem Source First Line: It's still inside me Last Line: But who will help me Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER'S JEWELRY BOX, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I am looking for my mother's jewelry box - Last Line: Amethyst, chrysoprase, and diamonds glistening %and sapphires and rubies, and pearls which encase my Subject(s): Women - Bible MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing & Writers MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Last Line: Understand: I am my mother's %novel daughter: I %have my duty to perform Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing And Writers MY MOTHER'S STORY ABOUT THE DOG, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: My father, one morning as always Last Line: This, she says, is what comes of it, of love Subject(s): Women MY MOTHER, WHO CAME FROM CHINA, WHERE SHE NEVER SAW SNOW, by LAUREEN MAR Poem Source First Line: In the huge, retangular room, the ceiling Last Line: Dull thunder passes through their fingers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S NAME IS ROSE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: You grasp your cane with the hunger Last Line: Twirl your cane, stretch your arms, %let them tango Subject(s): Jews - Women MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: My old neighbor isn't in the apartment any more Last Line: Those who throw away old pictures %and those who pick them up Subject(s): Jews - Women MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism MY NIGHT WITH PHILIP LARKIN, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rendezvous with dweeby philip in the shower Last Line: The things that others do instead of this Subject(s): Larkin, Philip (1922-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY OLD WOMAN, by NORMA ALMQUIST Poem Source First Line: I'm shaping my old woman, I would say Last Line: Her eyes look out through mine, confront the stare; %we start to walk out past where we have been Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MY OTHER MOTHER, by EVA JOOR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: When did I know you first? I cannot say Last Line: "mah lil w'ite chilluns of mah earthly home?" Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Care; Mothers; Baby Sitters; Governesses MY PAST, by DENNIS COOPER Poet's Biography First Line: Is a short string of beautiful Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MY PENULTIMATE SPEECH AT A MEETING, by J. MONIKA WALTHER Poem Source First Line: I would like to have a quiet place Subject(s): Women's Rights MY PEOPLE, by MARGERY HIMEL Poem Source First Line: When I was a child Last Line: What unites us is not our past %but our future Subject(s): Women MY PEOPLE, by PATRICIA A. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Earth passes over my fingers Last Line: Dust and ground bone %my people Subject(s): Appalachia; Women MY RIGHTS, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, god has made me a woman Last Line: And god, who made man's body strong, made too the woman's soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism MY SCREAM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Did you know it went down inside Last Line: The sliver of my scream, %that piercer, that nail? Subject(s): Rape; Women MY SISTER'S HAIR, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Once I saw your hair was nearly Last Line: To frighten away what's bad out there, %a talisman for all our lives Subject(s): Women's Rights MY SISTER, THE EMPRESS, by ILEANA MALANCIOIU Poem Source Last Line: In that other kingdom there Subject(s): Women MY SISTERS, O MY SISTER, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Dorothy wordsworth, dying, did not want to read Last Line: Until we match men's greatness with our own Subject(s): Women - Writers; Women's Rights MY SKIN OVERTAKES ME, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: When I was young, %the woman of too many days says Last Line: Just like that girl over there Subject(s): Homeless; Women MY SONG FOR SOLOMON, by BARBARA BLOCK ADAMS Poem Source First Line: I have drunk the poisoned milk Last Line: The blood of a ghost among the living Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights MY STUDENT SAYS SHE IS NOT BEAUTIFUL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Who was it said %you are not beautiful Last Line: I know the roses are for me Subject(s): Women MY STUDY, by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU Poem Source First Line: I do not like this nation's women Subject(s): Women MY SUSANNA, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: Drew the heads of two old men Subject(s): Women - Writers MY THOUGHT WAS ON A MAID SO BRIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As I lay upon a night Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MY TWIN SONS TALK WITH ME ABOUT SURVIVAL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Robinson crusoe, one son says Last Line: With a cargo of oxygen and no message of hope Subject(s): Women MY VOICE, by AMALIA GUGLIELMINETTI Poem Source First Line: My voice had not the roar of the sea Subject(s): Women's Rights MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my father Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my father Last Line: I will turn out bad Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women MY WIFE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trusty, dusky, vivid, true Last Line: Gave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): To My Wife Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology MY YOUNG DAYS WERE OPPRESSED WITH CARES, by ANNA LOUISA KARSCH Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women MY YOUNG MOTHER, by JANE COOPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My young mother, her face narrow Last Line: Calling me from sleep after decades Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women MYRRH BEARERS, by E. D. MUND Poem Source First Line: The silver cord is loosed, the bow is broken Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible MYRRH-BEARERS, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three women crept at break of day Last Line: Their spices had been bruised for christ! Subject(s): Incense-trees; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology MYSELF AND I, by BARBARA E. KNITTEL Poem Text First Line: A small, mean someone Last Line: Happily. Subject(s): Self; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers MYSIE, AN AUL'-WARL', BUT OWER TRUE STORY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wrocht her wark an' never lintit Last Line: Fause loons, beware! Sae en's my sang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MYTHICS, by HELEN CHASIN Poem Source First Line: All the cautionary tales of strange girls Last Line: Now, rewarded, I submit to his transfiguration Subject(s): Beauty And The Beast; Cinderella; Fairy Tales; Ondine; Psyche (mythology); Rapunzel; Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Women MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived by the words / of gods, mythologies Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lived by the words %of gods, mythologies Last Line: Not like now. Not like now Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NAI, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Nai a shimmering silvered colored lake Last Line: She is the geechee %in me Subject(s): African Americans - Women NAKED AND ALONE AND UNWARY YOU CAUGHT ME, by VERONICA FRANCO Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights NAKED GIRL AND MIRROR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is not I. I had no body once Last Line: If their arrogance dares to think I am part of you Subject(s): Women NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Last Line: Be more than the man %who watches Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Parents; Women NAME, by TUA MARINA Poem Source First Line: We make that lovely sighing sound Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NAMELESS PAIN, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I should be happy with my lot Last Line: If any other lot were mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Pain; Women's Rights; Suffering; Misery; Feminism NAMELESS WOMAN, by NO CHUN-MYUNG Poem Source First Line: I wish to be a nameless woman Last Line: I shall be happier than a queen Subject(s): Identity; Women NAMES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Sunday nights at seven he's here Last Line: As we watch our uncle peeling back %the layers of our lives Subject(s): Jews - Women NAMES, by MARIA NEEF-UTHOFF Poem Source First Line: Lucifer %you called yourself Subject(s): Women's Rights NAMES OF CURTAINS, by NOLA GARRETT Poem Source First Line: All day by sheer fullness you strained Last Line: O festoon, jabot, swag, puff, tieback, crescent, priscilla Subject(s): Hall, Donald (b. 1928); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NAMING, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: Born at the end %of the second world war Last Line: By thinking only lovely %wonderful thoughts Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women NAMING OF SARA REBECCA, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: The book of your fathers teems with second chances Last Line: Sara she shall be: our one survivor, %our proof of power sprouting in the desert Subject(s): Women NANCY'S ALIYAH, by CYRILLE KANE Poem Source First Line: Mother's annoying everyone again Last Line: Will anyone notice when I disintegrate? Subject(s): Jews - Women NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made hair? The girls here Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 1943 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Made hair? The girls here Last Line: Light, slight, and polite. %not a one out of place Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 194 Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping NAOMI WATCHES AS RUTH SLEEPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She clings to me Last Line: I can grieve in peace. Subject(s): African Americans; Naomi (bible); Peace; Women In The Bible; Negroes; American Blacks NAPPY EDGES (A ACROSS COUNTRY SOJOURN), by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Louis - such a colored town - a whiskey Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women NAPPY EDGES (A ACROSS COUNTRY SOJOURN), by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Louis - such a colored town - a whiskey Last Line: This is my space %I am not movin Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women NATIVE SON, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Only asparagus!' Last Line: And he met it everywhere Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NATIVITY: FOR TWO SALVADORAN WOMEN, 1986-1987, by DEMETRIA MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Your eyes, large as canada, welcome %this stranger Last Line: Summoned to belen to be born Subject(s): Birth; Children; Women NATURAL HISTORY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Before we became fossils Last Line: From the mason's hand %to spring us without shatter Subject(s): Women's Rights NATURALLY, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since naturally black is naturally beautiful Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect NATURALLY, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since naturally black is naturally beautiful Last Line: Proud beautiful black women %could better make use %black bread Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Pride NATURE EXHIBIT, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: In the museum of drawers Last Line: Or want of such attention Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives NATURE IN WAR-TIME, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: The banished thrush, the homeless rook Last Line: Winds sweep it now; a battle-ground %between two gun-swept hills Subject(s): Women; World War I NATURE IS THERE, OUTSIDE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: One talks a lot, almost everybody does it. One finds %easy words Subject(s): Women - Writers NE ME QUITTE PAS, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: There are french %intellectuals Last Line: Kissing another unreliable lover adieu Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Poetry And Poets; Women NEAR DEATH, by STEF PIXNER Poem Source Subject(s): Women NEARING MENOPAUSE, I RUN INTO ELVIS AS SHOPRITE, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Near the peanut butter. He calls me ma'am, like the sweet Last Line: Of flesh and time Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women NEGRO GIRL, by IRENE COOPER ALLEN Poem Text First Line: Negro girl, - tall, dusky - skinned diana Last Line: Ignorant, are you happy? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cosmetics; Slavery; Serfs NEGRO LAUGHS BACK, by MARY JENNESS Poem Source First Line: You laugh, and I must hide the wound Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NEGRO LAUGHTER, by ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NEGRO MOTHER, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children, I come back today Last Line: For I will be with you till no white brother %dares to keep down the children of the negro mother Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers NEIGHBOR, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Suppose that old woman Last Line: And saw her there, %a tiny nest of roots Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEIGHBOR ON HER., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: Even just the so-so folks Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEIGHBORHOODS: BRIGHTON BEACH, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: This is the end of brooklyn, defiant and salty Last Line: To a doorway %cluttered with roses Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: INHERITANCE, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The tarot cards were a surpise Last Line: Will I grow used to her dissatisfaction %burnig like her green eyes in the corner, %constant as a mo Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: UNTENANTED, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Standing over %your uninhabited body Last Line: A brick wall %still holding in the sun Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: YAHRZEIT, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The yahrzeit flame %is beating its wings in a cup Last Line: With all its stray cats, its ecstatic %vegetable stands Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORS, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: The typist who lives above him Last Line: Her hair dries slowly as she eases into sleep Subject(s): Women NELL GWYN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, that no taint of the throne or the stage Last Line: That thy name was the last on the lips of king charles. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Praise; Women; English NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Subject(s): Animals; Art & Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NEON HORSES, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come upon one, driving toward your lover Last Line: Of dream, lit chimera distilled from liquid air Subject(s): Animals; Art And Artists; Hearts; Horses; Love; Women NERVOUS PROSTRATION, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I married a man of the croydon class Last Line: To force a man of croydon class %to live, or love, or to speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Boredom; Hate; Women NEVER LET US THINK, by MARTHA DOWNER ELLIS Poem Source First Line: Never let us think that waddingham or montoya Last Line: Never let us think that we shall be the last Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting and sighing in my secret muse Last Line: "wo worth the faults and follies of mine eye!" Subject(s): Beauty; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Women; Youth; Male-female Relations NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NEW DAY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She coaxes her fat in front of her Last Line: If she understands at all what I am saying Subject(s): African Americans - Women NEW DIRECTIONS, by SUSAN ARONS KATZ Poem Source First Line: Outside there is a thin %wind flirting with the trees Last Line: To the soil than ever %to the sky Subject(s): Women NEW FACE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned not to worry about love Subject(s): Women NEW FACE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned not to worry about love Last Line: Has ever %seen Subject(s): Women NEW HEARING AID., by ELIZABETH SEARLE LAMB Poem Source Last Line: Adjusting it, she tunes in %on crickets Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEW INSTRUCTIONS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Loving the healing therapy Last Line: So much to learn... %so little time Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE: EXIT 14, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: At dusk, from the hotel room Last Line: Watching the turboprop accelerate %imagining the takeoff Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women NEW MOON: OR I'VE LOST MY BOAT - YOU SHAN'T HAVE YOUR HOOP', by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: But the older sister insisted Last Line: No matter how hard I looked Subject(s): Women NEW NOTEBOOK, by MARIA BANUS Poem Source First Line: Full of superstition Subject(s): Women NEW PERSPECTIVE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Beside the highway, a modern brick house Last Line: I didn't know it was beautiful!' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina NEW PRAYER FOR DAUGHTERS, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: When I was a child there were no towers Last Line: With fire within, your vision is your own Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) NEW RANCH WIFE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: A bride %walks love-first Last Line: Burns the toast again, %and settles in Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers NEW ST. LOUIS BLUES: MARKET STREET WOMAN, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Market street woman is known fuh to have dark days Last Line: Let her git what she can git, 'fo dey lays on de coolin' board Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians NEW TESTAMENT: REVISED EDITION, by MARY CATHERINE+(2) Poem Source First Line: This is a wrong that needs not my bespeaking Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NEW WORLD, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tia ana and tia fofi worked at la factoria. Tia Last Line: Tia fofi rose as if they also agreed with what %had become of me Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women NEW WORLD, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Lifting my head to look across my world to yours Last Line: That gives birth to %a new world Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights NEW YEAR'S MORNING, by ELMAZ ABINADER Poem Source First Line: You don't have to be awake %to feel the night change Last Line: We listen while forgetting Subject(s): Arabs - Women NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I have eaten enough all evening for a month Last Line: Goes down so smoothly Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights NEW YEAR, 1916, by ADA MAY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Those that go down in silence Last Line: The very dust is clamorous with their praise Subject(s): Women; World War I NEW YORK, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: They came from suburbs Last Line: As if they could answer %why Subject(s): Identity; Women NEWARK, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lane %lives alone now Last Line: And sigh - like deer %in winter Subject(s): Jews - Women NEWS, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: So I took notes on the skin of the burned girl Last Line: Falling out of the sun. %a knife Subject(s): Women's Rights NEWS FROM AN OLD WOMAN, by IRENE BLAIR HONEYCUTT Poem Source First Line: In her seventies one night Last Line: Get up and set out tobacco %or scrub the kitchen floor Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEWS OF A BABY, by ELIZABETH RIDDELL Poem Source First Line: Welcome, baby, to the world of swords Last Line: We are your eager hosts Subject(s): Women NIGHT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All night long, the restless rain attacking, full of pain, like Last Line: To make our way across a waterscape Subject(s): Women's Rights NIGHT, by RUDOLFO HINOSTROZA Poem Source First Line: These days we're advised Last Line: And our beautiful bottles sunk in the sand Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Liquorice; Women And War NIGHT BEFORE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source Last Line: Next day %it was gone Subject(s): Women's Rights NIGHT COMES WALKING, by ESTHER POPEL Poem Source First Line: Night comes walking out our way Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NIGHT DUTY, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: The pain and laughter of the day are done Last Line: So near in body, yet in soul as far %as those bright worlds thick strewn on that vast depth of sky Subject(s): Women; World War I NIGHT FEEDING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death Last Line: Found in the leaves, in clouds and dark, in dream, %deep as this hour, ready again to sleep Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sleep; Women NIGHT FISHIN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: My sister and me learned night fishin Last Line: Long as she's gone, I know her that way Subject(s): Homeless; Women NIGHT FLYING, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: All the time the moon goes down Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHT GIVES OLD WOMAN THE WORD, by GAIL TREMBLAY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark whispers / behind the echo Subject(s): Women NIGHT GIVES OLD WOMAN THE WORD, by GAIL TREMBLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark whispers %behind the echo Last Line: Old woman hears dark %speak the ancient word Subject(s): Women NIGHT GLEAM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over thru the dull material world the call is made Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NIGHT IN AVIGNON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gherardo %listen. Another word, francesco Last Line: The green of the whole fair world!...O laura! %laura Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Soul; Women NIGHT IN PRISON, by RINA FACCIO Poem Source First Line: There was peace in the cell Subject(s): Women's Rights NIGHT IS DARK: JACOB'S PRAYER TO REBEKAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The night is dark Last Line: Build me a bridge %to father's god Subject(s): Women - Bible NIGHT IS LIKE AN AVALANCHE, by BESSIE MAYLE Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NIGHT OF YOUR FUNERAL, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: After three months' Last Line: And then all I had %of you %was me Subject(s): Women's Rights NIGHT ON THE SHORE (NORTHUMBERLAND. AUGUST 6, 1914), by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Source First Line: A dusky owl in velvet moth-like flight Last Line: Perforce within god's presence, too Subject(s): Women; World War I NIGHT SOUNDS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight on my bed keeps me awake Last Line: A child with the moon on his face, a dog's hollow cadence. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Love - Complaints; Night; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Bedtime; Loneliness; Feminism NIGHT SWIM IN A FARM POND, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Once the black sky %thickened with stars Last Line: Like the cool light %of stars on water Subject(s): Women NIGHT VISION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl fits her body in Last Line: To build something human with it Subject(s): Women; Sleep NIGHT WE SAY GOODBYE, by LIN FLORINDA COLAVIN Poem Source First Line: We crouch %behind a bulwark Last Line: How to celebrate %what we no longer hold Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women NIGHT'S PROTEGE, by MARJORIE MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Child of bewitching night Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NIGHTJAR, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Asleep in elephant grass Last Line: A tiger always under my eyelids now Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTJAR: 1., by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Asleep in elephant grass Last Line: I lay in my nest and never moved %from where I dreamed my life Variant Title(s): Nightja Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTJAR: 2., by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I kneel again the way he made me kneel Last Line: Breath-catcher, I keep %a tiger always under my eyelids now Subject(s): Rape; Women NIGHTWOOD, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speaking in squalor mean, elusive youth Subject(s): Women; Bad Behavior NIKKI-ROSA, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you're black Last Line: All the while I was quite happy Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Nikki-roasa Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Women NINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Convenient, my darling Last Line: To put your arms around me Subject(s): Jews - Women NINE DESIRES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The desire of the fairy women, dew Last Line: The desire of the soul, wisdom. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Fairies; Men; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; Elves NINE O'CLOCK, by LYDIA SHARPE Poem Text First Line: From the great clock on the landing Last Line: But enchantment. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Hearts; Time; Women NINE-PART INVENTION FOR THE MORNINGS OF CHARLES' NINTH YEAR, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: My child's stirring, waking - a world Last Line: Its blood lightly celebrate Subject(s): Women NINETY YEARS TODAY., by CAROL DAGENHARDT Poem Source Last Line: Resting on her bed Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NINETY-ONE TODAY., by DOROTHEA L. DUNNING Poem Source Last Line: Waving old glory Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NO CURTAIN, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: Where the landing strip will be Subject(s): Women - Writers NO END, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I did not intend to pray Last Line: And still each particle %riots Subject(s): Women's Rights NO FEAR OF BLOOD, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT Poem Source First Line: I have to be careful about suede or canvas shoes Last Line: I love the smell of labouring women, the amniotic fluid that soaks the bed, their earthy beauty Subject(s): Birth; Women NO IMAGES, by WARING CUNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She does not know / her beauty Subject(s): African Americans - Women NO IMAGES, by WARING CUNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She does not know %her beauty Last Line: And dish water gives back no images Subject(s): African Americans - Women NO JUSTICE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: This is not the heaven I hoped for Last Line: Too close %to the sun Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights NO MORE DESTRUCTIVE FLAME, by FRANCIS X. CONNOLLY Poem Source First Line: Once for our consolation it seemed, o lord Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NO MORE LOVE POEMS #1, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since I realized there waz someone callt / a colored girl an evil woman Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women NO MORE LOVE POEMS #1, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since I realized there waz someone callt %a colored girl an evil woman Last Line: I cdnt stand bein sorry & cololred at the same time %it's so redundant in the modern world Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women NO MORE SOFT TALK, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ask a geologist about rocks Last Line: I will not make it easy for you %anymore Subject(s): Women's Rights NO PASTEL PRINCESS, by TONI LA REE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: You expected maybe a %patel princess from oz? Last Line: And put your playthings down Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NO RING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that doth spoil the fair adorning Last Line: Lord, that her judges might receive their sight! Subject(s): Women; Sin NO SECOND TROY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I blame her that she filled my days Last Line: Was there another troy for her to burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Love; Love - Complaints; Mythology - Classical; Troy; Women NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bachelour I will Last Line: And kisse, but yet be chaste. Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People NO WAR, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: There'll be no war Subject(s): Women NOAH'A DAUGHTER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Good questions %I can answer them Last Line: I wanted the forty days to go on forever Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOBODY KNEW WHO SHE WAS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Nobody knew who she was Last Line: In the town - - and boredom Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Women NOCTURNAL SOUNDS, by KATTIE M. CUMBO Poem Source First Line: Trembling novemeber winds %steam whistling in tenement pipes Last Line: Sleep comes to close the ears of %the mind to night sounds of this world Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sound NOCTURNE, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This cool night is strange Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NOCTURNE, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Lights from the cambuci district on nights of crime Last Line: Get-a you roast-a yams! Subject(s): Brazil; Prostitution; Women NOCTURNE, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Listening for the sound %of my own %voice Last Line: And the color of blue %everywhere Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOCTURNE, by ROSSANA OMBRES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today now at this moment the world flies against me Subject(s): Women's Rights NOCTURNE, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: On the corner of paris street and rome avenue Last Line: Loaded with tenderness Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Drinks And Drinking; Prostitution; Women NOCTURNE, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Source First Line: I love the languor of your sensual lips Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Women's Rights NOCTURNES: JOSHUA TREE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each of us locked inside our rooms Last Line: Nailed down behind the bedroom door Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Trees; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men NOEL, by MARGARET MOORE MEUTTMAN Poem Text First Line: Bless all the little white things, holy mother Last Line: Bless all the little white things, holy mother. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary NOISE FROM THE SEA, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her skin was the shore Last Line: Father than she could hold Subject(s): Sea; Skin; Women NOMAD IN ME, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: The nomad in me Last Line: Reap boys from the grave Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights NOMEN (TO FEMI SODIPO AND MY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ANCESTORS), by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sunlight came pre-packaged Last Line: And having no need to let myself be robbed %a second time Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fathers And Daughters NON CARPE DIEM, by PATRICIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Enter gently this good day Last Line: Day will not be seized Subject(s): Herrick, Robert (1591-1674); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights NON-COMBATANT, by CICELY HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Before on drop of angry blood was shed Last Line: Let me endure it then - I give my pride %where others give a life Subject(s): Women; World War I NON-COMBATANTS, by EVELYN UNDERHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Never of us be said Last Line: We murmur not. Of us, this word shall not be said. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Stuart, Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War NOON HOUR, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits in the dust at the walls Last Line: Of great free ways beyond the walls. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers NORA'S VOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Hear what highland nora said Last Line: She's wedded to the earlie's son! Subject(s): Love;women NORDIC, by LILLIAN BYRNES Poem Source First Line: He takes his love much as he takes his wine Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NORTHBOUN', by LUCY ARIEL WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: O' de wurl' ain't flat Last Line: I'm upward boun'. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks NORTHERN LIGHTS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Once more it's the rainbow leaps Subject(s): Rape; Women NOSSIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to hear him speak Last Line: Nossis, he cried, a flame Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Man-woman Relationships; Meleager (100 B.c.); Women's Rights NOSTALGIA, by MARJORIE MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: I shall go forth from here Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women NOT A VOICE, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Clad in festive robes Last Line: Not a ram to redeem %a mere girl Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOT ALL WOMEN ARE THE SAME, by DOLORES ROSENBLUM Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source First Line: I work for a newspaper Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers NOT AS MUCH, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bracken and primrose Last Line: With her breasts Subject(s): Women; Clothing & Dress NOT FORTY YEARS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Not forty years across the wilderness Last Line: And this is all the ask when first they come %begging of the house of bread a widow's crumb Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT LIKE DELILAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Not like delilah ready to ensnare Last Line: When he awakes there suddenly occurs %the best solution to his need and hers Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Dramatists NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS', by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The praisers of women in their proud and beautiful poems Last Line: Look! It is there! Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women NOT NEVER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Never again, Last Line: Might love and be %better than seven sons Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT QUITE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The young man Last Line: Most happily ever after. %life isn't quite like that! Subject(s): Women - Bible NOT SUDDEN LIKE THE BEETLE, by GWYN MCVAY Poem Source First Line: The women in my family take a long time -- learning to call crows Last Line: Beetle's gilt legs, the ribs in her shell -- but forget that she can fly Subject(s): Insects; Women NOT THAT FAR: CANARY ISLANDS, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We touched land Last Line: A man of tenerife %gave me %his island Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: EGYPT, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Stone for stone Last Line: I wasn't going that far Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: GIBRALTAR, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Great rocks frighten Last Line: Little people Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: GREECE, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Marble cools Last Line: Turned to dry stone %dusk Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: ITALY, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In naples %it was beads Last Line: With his blessed toes %kissed off Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: MADEIRA, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go slowly Last Line: To sweeten the air of madeira Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: PORTUGAL, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Once above the sea Last Line: The ceiling fell down %on their heads Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: RHODES, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Something once bloomed Last Line: White knights slept here Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: SPAIN, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Granada %seville and cordoba Last Line: A matador buried his sword %in a bank of roses Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: THE HOLY LAND, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Along the way Last Line: Held out his lamb for me Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: THE TRIP BACK, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The whip will never tame Last Line: And I can't see Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: TUNISIA, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Dragon seas breathed white death Last Line: Now carthage grows daisies Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: TURKEY, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Remember %the fiery blue of planets Last Line: Do stab %the darkness Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT THAT FAR: YUGOSLAVIA, by MAY MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: From the tender Last Line: Time is turning in black hills Subject(s): African Americans - Women NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I gave birth to living metaphors Last Line: Springs from the very separateness of things. Subject(s): Children; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Loss; Metaphor; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Similes; Parenthood; Feminism NOT YET VISIBLE, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: My father balances on scaffolding Last Line: Straining to see something %not yet visible Subject(s): Jews - Women NOTE FROM THE IMAGINARY DAUGHTER, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Mother always swore your plunge was faked Last Line: Some nights I dream you dead. Some days, unborn Subject(s): Kees, Weldon (1914-1955); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights NOTE TO MY LIBERAL FEMINIST SISTER (1), by NAANA BANYIWA HORNE Poem Source First Line: The issue for me %sister Last Line: Invented to keep us down on the ground Subject(s): Women's Rights NOTES AND QUERIES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lady sat by me at verey's Last Line: With her went both notes and queer eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Seduction; Women NOTES OF A TRAVELLER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The maidens of scotland, so ruddy of hue Last Line: Are made out of strawberries, sugar and cream. Subject(s): Women NOTHING, by FANNY BIXBY SPENCER Poem Text First Line: There is nothing ahead on the scarlet path Last Line: For the boon of an age-long dearth. Subject(s): War; Women NOTHING TO COME BACK FOR, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is a traveler of vacant lots Last Line: Still fat from the child they ate, %right down to her shoes Subject(s): Homeless; Women NOTHING TO REPORT', by MAY HERSCHEL-CLARKE Poem Source First Line: One minute we was laughin', me an' ted Last Line: The next, he lay beside me grinnin' - dead. %'there's nothing to report,' the papers said Subject(s): Women; World War I NOTHING TO WEAR', by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss flora mcflimsey, of madison square Last Line: Wear! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; New York City; Women; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple NOTHING WASTED, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Minnie is bad about saving things Last Line: For which the holes are lost Subject(s): Women NOTION OF GRACE, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY Poem Source First Line: A sudden blow: a great bird lifts us Last Line: Feel the embrace of air in our descent Subject(s): Arabs - Women NOTRE DAME DES PETITS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the little children die Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NOW, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With god above - beneath - beside Last Line: The people we are meant to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism NOW BARE TO THE BEHOLDER'S EYE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forth leaps the laughing girl at last Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women NOW I HAVE LEARNED, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Now I have learned what women mean by love Last Line: But who at length will crush the head of woman? Subject(s): Betrayal; Disappointment; Learning; Women NOW IS THE TIME FOR MERCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women NOW ONLY ONE OF US REMAINS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the wave has come and gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women NOW OR NEVER, by UNKNOWN+14 Poem Source First Line: Seven years ago Subject(s): Middle Age; Women NOW THAT I'M YOUNG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights NOW, SOMEBODY HOLD THE WORLD TOGETHER, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Here, I'm giving you gravelled walks Subject(s): Women's Rights NOWHERE GIRL, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: If you had found %a neck of woods Last Line: Of the hands %with no clock Variant Title(s): The Chameleo Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women NUDITIES, by ANDRE SPIRE Poem Text First Line: You said: / I wish to be your comrade Last Line: Tear out your voice! Subject(s): Nudity; Women; Nakedness NUN TO MARY, VIRGIN, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Source First Line: I had gone fruitless and defenceless, lady Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NUNC GAUDET MARIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mary is a lady bright Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Convents; Nuns; Women NURSE, HELPER, FRIEND, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Almost invisible Last Line: In bethel %for her final sleeping Subject(s): Women - Bible NURSING HOME LOBBY., by EDWARD J. RIELLY Poem Source Last Line: How long it's been Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NURSING MOTHER, SELS., by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tranquilized, she speaks or does not speak Last Line: Against this fitful night Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women NURSING-HOME HALL., by CHARLES B. DICKSON Poem Source Last Line: Are you my son? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NUT'S BIRTHDAY, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: When gilbert's birthday came last spring Last Line: To celebrate his natal day %in hard-won flanders' ditches Subject(s): Women; World War I O DANCER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER, TELL ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DWELLER OF PARADISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O FIRE OF GOD, THE COMFORTER, by HILDEGARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fire of god, the comforter, o life of all that live Last Line: Who givest us the prize of light, who art thyself all praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): God; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion O GIRL IN A HIDDEN CORNER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GLORY OF VIRGINS, by VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMANTIANUS FORTUNATUS Poem Source First Line: Where troops of virgins follow the lamb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O GROOM, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GROOM, WHO GUIDED YOU?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HADA CIBERNETICA: 12, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Down with the money-exchange Last Line: Down with the silk-mart! Subject(s): Freedom; Women O HANDSOME ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O JESU PARVULE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I saw a sweet and silly sight Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O MARY PIERCED WITH SORROW, FR. SONG BEFORE ACTION, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O MIGHTY LADY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O MOTHER, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY BROTHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY MOTHER (1), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We who dwell on an orphan star Last Line: I still hear something new %in your increasing love Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O MY MOTHER (2), by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And borders everywhere of sea -- %you know Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women O MY PRETTY MAIDEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O STAR OF GALILEE, by GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is / not with us enough Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Theology O TASTE AND SEE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is %not with us enough Last Line: Hungry, and plucking %the fruit Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion O THREE, O FOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O WHY SHOULD A WOMAN NOT GET A DEGREE?, by CHARLES NEAVES Poem Source First Line: Ye fusty old fogies, professors by name Last Line: And an angel need covet no other degree Subject(s): Education; Women's Rights O WOULD BREAST TOUCH BREAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OATH, by GABRIELLA SICA Poem Source First Line: Let us exchange tonight Subject(s): Women's Rights OBJICTIVELY SPEAKING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Evil temptresses of the world Last Line: And love it. %amen Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights OBSCENE PHONE CALL, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: 911 %she dials the phone Last Line: She has heard it all before Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights OBSERVATION (3), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin-mother stood at distance (there) Last Line: And then to weep they both were licensed. Subject(s): Bible; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology OBSERVATION BY A FORMERLY ROSE-LIPT MAIDEN, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: At the lads who were lightfoot Last Line: Just isn't the brook Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights OBSERVER, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: On a white-hot july afternoon Last Line: Anticipating her energy return Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina OBSOLETE, by CATHY MAYO Poem Source First Line: Laser with ruffled edges Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women OCCUPATION, by BONNIE MICHAEL PRATT Poem Source First Line: Women who wait %in dentists' offices Last Line: And died of heart attacks Subject(s): Women OCEAN AIR, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Here silent dunes witness my farewell Last Line: More durable than blood Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights OCTOBER, by ISABEL NEILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now gypsy fires burn bright in every tree Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism OCTOBER: LA MADONNE DE LA FENESTRE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: October now, it must be Last Line: Where no path goes Subject(s): Women's Rights ODE IN BEHALF OF WIMMENS RIGHTS, by EMMA ZELIFF Poem Text First Line: The men are real obstropolus Last Line: That every kind of thing has riz. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism ODE TO A WOMAN GARDENING, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I knew that your hands were Last Line: My heart toils among the roots Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Love; Women ODE TO JOY, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ODE TO LANGUAGE, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To put on shoes and be sophisticated Last Line: In san francisco. Only you %are ever different Subject(s): Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Women ODE TO THE TEUTON WOMEN, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair teuton woman, sister with blond hair Last Line: Alone in the world, strive single-handed Subject(s): Women ODE TO THE VIRGIN, by PETRARCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair virgin Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ODE: SALUTE TO THE FRENCH NEGRO POETS, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From near the sea, like whitman my great predecessor, I call Subject(s): Cesaire, Aime (b. 1913); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 15. ON DOMESTIC MANNERS (UNFINISHED), by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Meek honour, female shame Last Line: (I watch'd her awful words and made them mine.) Subject(s): Women OF A CERTAINE MAN, by JOHN HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was (not certaine when) a certaine preacher Last Line: Man. Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John Subject(s): Women OF A WOMAN'S HEART, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O faithless world, and thy most faithless Last Line: To know that love lodged in a woman's breast %is but a guest Variant Title(s): An Elegy; A Poem Written By Sir Henry Wotton In His Yout Subject(s): Love; Women OF ALL WHO DIED IN SIELNCE FAR AWAY, by IRIS TREE Poem Source Last Line: The passion-red roses clustering his brow Subject(s): Women; World War I OF DUST AND THE NIGHT, by LISA YANOVER Poem Source First Line: The first woman calls herself lilith Last Line: Out of danger by their true names, %back into human form Subject(s): Creation; Women OF EARTH, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: A mountain %is earth's mouth Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OF PROPERTY NAUGHT, by MARGARITA HICKEY Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OF WALTER WHITE'S FATHER IN THE RAIN, by JR. HOUSTON A. BAKER Poem Source First Line: Denied %like bessie Last Line: Passing in the rain, separate, %and forever unequalled Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Racism; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) OF WOMAN TORN, by SUHEIR HAMMAD Poem Source First Line: Did her skin smell %of zaatar her hair of %exploded almonds Last Line: I smell your ashes %of zaatar and almonds %under my skin %I carry your bones Subject(s): Arabs - Women OF WOMEN: 1. STATION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Here stares like stones fall Last Line: The posture of an ancient loneliness. Subject(s): Solitude; Women; Loneliness OF WOMEN: 2. WHO SHOULD DANCE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: By night touching the jewelled frets Last Line: In bone the very form of love. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love; Women OF WOUNDS, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA Poem Source First Line: I have no word to match with its white wonder Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OFF DUTY, by CATHERINE HARNETT SHAW Poem Source First Line: I won't go into detail Last Line: I was already five minutes late Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women OFFENDED, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: The needy were lined up by order of famine Last Line: That the cry fire burst from its heart %as its speech Subject(s): Women - Abused OH COUNT, WHERE HAS GONE, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fidelity; Women's Rights OH DEAR HOW I LONG TO GET MARRIED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a damsel so blooming and gay Last Line: "I am tired, etc" Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the hero of this poem Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Women; Valor; Bravery; Optimism OH, THE WATER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the hero of this poem Last Line: They know you've come home Subject(s): Courage; Hope; Poetry And Poets; Women OH, WHEN THIS EARTHLY TENEMENT, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Source Last Line: Thou may attain a brighter home %a home beyond the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): African Americans - Women OJISTOH, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am ojistoh, I am she, the wife Last Line: ^1^ god, in the mohawk language. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Duplicity; Hate; Marriage; Native Americans - Women; Deceit; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Squaws OKEANOS AND THE GOLDEN SICKLE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the toothed estuary the toothed Last Line: Softer than the old elementalisms Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Women OKLAHOMA HOME, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: There was a wood-pile fence Last Line: A coin would rise: an indian head Subject(s): Women OLD, by TERRY J. FOX Poem Source First Line: She is an old movie that no one watches anymore Last Line: An old movie star that no one watches anymore Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD AGE MUST BE LIKE THIS, by MARILYN ZUCKERMAN Poem Source First Line: Alone and sick at three in the morning Last Line: Wonders who will feed her birds Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD BILLY, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Around the turn of the century, in montana Last Line: Than the breakfast she'd had this morning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD CITY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Old city sailing by Last Line: Here in tempting old city Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OLD COYOTE HUNTING MAN, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: When mattie gives birth to coydogs Last Line: Night becomes the voice of coyotes %dawn the silence of the grass Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD HOUSES, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: I wear this house like a barrel Last Line: How come this new me %is looking out of an old house Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD INDIAN GRANNY, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Beginning silently with a paper cup under the viaduct Last Line: You might as well be dead Subject(s): Native Americans - Women OLD LADIES' HOME, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharded in black, like beetles Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living OLD LADY, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Here's the old lady, dumped by her daughter Last Line: And throwing her head back, says, with some pride, %'I counted twelve planes.' Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD LOVES, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Louise, have you forgotten yet Last Line: And I alone remember yet. Subject(s): Love; Women OLD MAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who has been whistled at Last Line: With pleading eyes. Subject(s): Women; Flirtation OLD MAN SLEEPS LIKE THE DEAD, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Come down, fisher of men, see if you can catch us again!' Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women OLD MATTIE, by LAURA BULMER Poem Text First Line: She comes and sits beside my door Last Line: We smile and wish each other well. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws OLD MEN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Old men, carrying false pregnancies above spindle shanks Last Line: Take over the night shift work of staying whole Subject(s): Women's Rights OLD MOTHER TURNS BLUE AND FROM US, by LORINE NIEDECKER Poem Source Last Line: Wash clothes! Weed!' Variant Title(s): Hj; Old Mothe Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OLD NELLY'S BIRTHDAY, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She knows where to get cracked eggs, does nelly Last Line: Ravished the creature till words could not utter %the glory of the dream Subject(s): Women OLD OAK TABLE., by DAVID ELLIOT Poem Source Last Line: Follow the grain Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD PEOPLE AT THE FILM SERIES AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Every monday, the city herds Last Line: The sweet connection of their first ten years %together with the bitter flavor of the last Subject(s): Jews - Women OLD PEOPLE DOZING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their thoughts are night gulls %following the ferry, gliding Last Line: Moving again through the closed door, %white and effortless, hungry Subject(s): Women OLD PETE, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: First light. The old mule Last Line: It takes forever to get home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD SLAVE WOMAN, by JOYCE SIMS CARRINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: She is like a wrinkled apple Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women OLD SOFTIE, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He talks so thick %before bed Last Line: This stark adonis %bobbing unpedelstalled Subject(s): Jews - Women OLD VALENTINES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny maids with sunlit hair Last Line: In one golden memory. Subject(s): Holidays; Memory; Past; Valentine's Day; Women OLD VOGAL, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Told me I was lucky Last Line: But 'lucky' 'cuz I'm a girl Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OLD WOMAN, by BILLIE LOU CANTWELL Poem Source First Line: A time was %when I smiled sweetly Last Line: Recollections %of not so long ago Subject(s): Women OLD WOMAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something approaches, about Last Line: The terror of full repose, %and so no terror Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Art And Artists; Old Age; Photography And Photographers; Women OLD WOMAN, by ARUN KOLATKAR Poem Source First Line: An old woman grabs Last Line: To so much small change %in her hand Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by HARRIET ROSENBAUM Poem Source First Line: The old woman sits on top of the mountain Last Line: Dying I still hear that old woman Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo Last Line: Homeless. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: Today she is sitting by a window Last Line: Time is crouching on the window Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women OLD WOMAN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: A very old woman once lived in a house Last Line: And what the old woman wrapped 'round her at night. Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College; Women OLD WOMAN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by BERWYN MOORE Poem Source First Line: We drive by an old woman Last Line: She separates the wheat from the chaff Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN OPENS HER DOOR., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: Into the night Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN SO FAT., by CARROW DE VRIES Poem Source Last Line: She'd be an omnibus Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN'S SONG III, by DELLA CYRUS Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't think just one more falling tooth Last Line: Enjoy the whole catastrophe Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, ESKIMO, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Her singing makes %the rain fall Last Line: For her children %to hear later on Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN., by DOROTHY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source Last Line: For someone else's rainy day Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN., by JR. CHARLES D. NETHAWAY Poem Source Last Line: One after the other Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN: LAMENT, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: It's a sunny hill from the marketplace Last Line: The hurl of my heart at the headlong years Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN; REST HOME, by NORMA ALMQUIST Poem Source First Line: They fed me breakfast three times Last Line: I can't seem to get ready %for what's going to happen Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMEN, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go sad or sweet or riotous with beer Last Line: Those same old hags would weave into their moans %an undersong of terrible holy joy Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD WOMEN, by BARBARA LAU Poem Source Last Line: Poinsettas in the snow Subject(s): Women OLD WOMEN, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arthritically bent, in black, spindle-legged Last Line: Our imperfect, earthly love Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD WOMEN'S SAYINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Draw near and give attention Last Line: Of the olden time Subject(s): Death;proverbs;women; "dead, The;maxims;adages; OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Spanish thunderstorms and an agitated sea Last Line: In her white-stockinged feet Subject(s): Women's Rights OLSON WOMEN AND THEIR HAIR, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: It matters that grandma's looks pretty Last Line: As long as we love what we hate %and never stand for loss Subject(s): Women OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Paintings & Painters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens OLYMPIA, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I convinced manet to paint me with a tinge of ocher Last Line: For centuries. This hand that will never rise %from my lap Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Paintings And Painters; Women OMEN OF VICTORY, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women in uniform Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women OMEN OF VICTORY, by MINA LOY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women in uniform Last Line: Fallen in the sugar Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women ON A FORTIFICATION AT BOSTON BEGUN BY WOMEN, by BENJAMIN TOMPSON Poem Text First Line: A grand attempt some amazonian dames Last Line: But the beginners well deserve the praise. Subject(s): Boston; Philip, King (native American Chief); Women; Metacomet; King Philip's War (1675-76) ON A LADY NAMED BELOVED, by ANNE DE ROHAN Poem Source First Line: Beauty, it would be a great wrong Subject(s): Women's Rights ON A LADY'S WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her even lines her steady temper show Last Line: That form her manners and her footsteps guide. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women Writers ON A LINE FROM JULIAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a number and my name is dumb Last Line: Such a barbarian have I become! Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON A LINE FROM SOPHOCLES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you cruel, you find me less than fair Last Line: Time, time, my friend, makes havoc everywhere. Subject(s): Enemies; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Time; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ON A LINE FROM VALERY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares Last Line: The gulf war Variant Title(s): Gulf War Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Literary Form; Valery, Paul (1871-1945); War; Women; Women's Rights; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Feminism ON A MILL WORKER IN ROCKWOOD, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: He'd come home and put his face in his hands Last Line: He'd come home and put his face in his hands Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ON A NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my flesh that hungers Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Lust; Women ON A NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my flesh that hungers Last Line: Judging your roundness %delightful Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Lust; Women ON A PARCHED NOVEMBER CARPET, by BARBARA L. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Oak leaves and maple Last Line: Mother chooses not to hear %begins another story %safer Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ON A PICTURE OF SELF WITH HOE, CULTIVATING PLUM BLOSSOMS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Unmarred blue %redolent hands Last Line: In fly blue kingfishers feathers, %wailing Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women ON A PLANE FLYING DOWN THE COAST OF FLORIDA, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Lately, it's been dreams of precipices Last Line: Returned to this low land, this leveled shore Subject(s): Women ON A REJECTED NOSEGAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what! Then you won't accept it, won't you? Oh!" Last Line: Wiater! A bottle of your oldest rum Subject(s): Women ON A WINTER NIGHT, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: Gives tongue, gives tongue! Subject(s): Women ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Subject(s): Aging; Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers ON AGING, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you see me sitting quietly Last Line: A lot less lungs and much less wind. %but ain't I lucky I can still breathe in Subject(s): Aging; Labor And Laborers; Women ON AN ENGRAVING OF HINDOO TEMPLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little the present careth for the past Last Line: By thy free laws and thy immortal creed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India; Temples; Women; Mosques ON AN ILL-NATURED BEAUTY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose's bloom her cheek adorns Last Line: And in her tongue we find the thorns. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Women ON AN OLD MUFF, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time has a magic wand Last Line: Hard in my garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Gloves; Women; Mittens; Muffs ON AN OLD WOMAN, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mycilla dyes her locks, 'tis said Last Line: No subsequent immersion. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Old Age; Women ON ANSELM'S TRAIL AT DAYBREAK, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I looked down and saw her Last Line: This earth I walk into sunrise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Old Age; Women ON BALANCE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: All those years Last Line: And sometimes, never Subject(s): Women's Rights ON BECOMING A SOCIAL WORKER, by JANET CARNCROSS CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: My parents hoped I'd be a doctor Last Line: Along with my patients, I began to expand and grow %better late, you know Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ON BEING A BUREAUCRAT IN SPRING, by DORIS VANDERLIPP MANLEY Poem Source First Line: You say to yourself Last Line: And run out to the woods %laughing? Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ON BEING A SECRETARY, by KATHRYN EBERLY Poem Source First Line: I swear to god Last Line: It was then that it occurred to %me, a seminar on career options %might be appropriate Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ON BEING A WOMAN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ON BEING A WOMAN, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is it, when I am in rome Last Line: Yet do you up and leave me-then %I scream to have you back again Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Soul; Women ON BEING ADVISED TO MARRY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sir, you are prudent, good and wise" Last Line: A man should think on 't - all his life Subject(s): Marriage;women; Weddings;husbands;wives ON BEING BORN THE SAME EXACT DAY OF THE SAME EXACT YEAR AS BOY GEORGE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb. Last Line: But I can set it straight. Subject(s): Birthdays; George, Boy (b. 1961); Baby Boom Generation; Women ON BEING BORN THE SAME EXACT DAY OF THE SAME EXACT YEAR AS BOY GEORGE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must have clamored for the same mother, hurried for the same womb Last Line: Well, don't be alarmed. There has been %but I can set it straight Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land Last Line: May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON BEING CHARGED WITH WRITING INCORRECTLY, by THE AMOROUS LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: I'm incorrect: the learned say Last Line: "these mighty dull, these mighty wise" Alternate Author Name(s): The Amorous Lady Subject(s): "busby, Richard (1606-1695);dennis, John (1657-1734);women - Writers; ON BEING HEAD OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I will look with detachment %on the signing of contracts Last Line: I am love Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON BERIA'S LAP, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Svetlana, are you grieving Last Line: It is a century you mourn for Subject(s): Beria, Lavrenty (1899-1953); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Russia - Stalin Era; Women's Rights ON BORROWED TIME, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At 76 and 80 my parents buy new tennis rackets Last Line: It frightens me %having lost so much Subject(s): Jews - Women ON CARLO DOLCE'S MAGDALEN, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fairest penitent! How pure the light Last Line: And the lone heart of love, in heaven its home of rest! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN Poem Text First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross! Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: And no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON DIVERSE DEVIATIONS, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love is a shimmering curtain Last Line: Where love is the scream of anquish %and no curtain drapes the door Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON FATHERISH MEN, by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source First Line: Great pompous ague, and vapid arguments Subject(s): Women's Rights ON GARI MELCHER'S WRITING IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, by HELEN A. PINKERTON Poem Source First Line: How often did she make such quiet, one wonders Last Line: The quiet art of keeping calm the house Variant Title(s): On Gari Melchers' Writing (1905) In The Los Angeles County Museu Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights ON HAPPY WOMEN, by MARY D. CAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow life had passed me by Last Line: That loving women prize. Subject(s): Envy; Happiness; Women; Joy; Delight ON HONOUR, by BERNARD MANDEVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the thronged luxurious town, / lives an enchantress of renown Last Line: Unless they first were knocked o' th' head. Subject(s): Honor; Women ON IMAGINATION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy various works, imperial queen, we see Last Line: Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON KNOCKING OVER MY GLASS WHILE READING SHARON OLDS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: The milk spread, %a translucent stain Last Line: To refill my glass %with her wild and holy blood Subject(s): Convents; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Praise; Prayer; Statues; Women - Bible ON LEARNING THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE OCCUPIED 2790 GREEN ST., by JANET WINANS Poem Source First Line: Odd of them to put a consulate Last Line: There's no one anymore to fix these things Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ON LEARNING. DESIRED BY A GENTLEMAN, by ELIZABETH TEFT Poem Text First Line: Well, ignorance, the cause is yet unknown Last Line: Consider, sir, a simple virgin's muse. Subject(s): Education; Women's Rights; Feminism ON LOVE: MARGARET FULLER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for attending this conversation on love Last Line: A woman can no longer be sacrificed for love Variant Title(s): The Lectures On Love: 4. Margaret Fuller Subject(s): Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850); Love; Women's Rights ON MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes' flood licks his feet's fair stain Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible ON MR. POPE'S CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ANNE (HOWARD) INGRAM Poem Source First Line: By custom doomed to folly, sloth, and ease Last Line: And vie in fame with ancient greece and rome! Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women ON MRS. MONTAGU, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Why boast, o arrogant, imperious man Last Line: Which breathes its thanks in rough, but timid strains. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Montagu, Elizabeth (1720-1800); Women - Writers ON MRS. WALKER'S POEMS: PARTICULARLY THAT ON THE AUTHOR, by CHRISTOPHER PITT Poem Text First Line: Blush, wilmot, blush; a female muse Last Line: The breeches and the bays. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Writers ON MY BIRTHDAY, by ROSE HIRSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Septuagenary body %you serve me well Last Line: I've spun, I've spun %seventy times - %ellipsing the sun! Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ON NOT SHOPLIFTING LOUISE BOGAN'S THE BLUE ESTUARIES, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your book surprised me on the bookstore shelf Last Line: And I put the book back Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ON ORNAMENT, by HONG YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: That a woman %begins to wear her ornaments Last Line: Or a wing on which are carried %the instense dreams of a woman Subject(s): Women ON REFLECTION, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: In the film adaptation of chekhov's platonov Last Line: In our own likenesses Variant Title(s): Unfinished Piec Subject(s): Women's Rights ON RISING FROM THE DEAD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturday noon: the morning of the mind Last Line: With dionysus, singing from the cross! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Morning; Religion; Resurrection, The; Waking; Women; Women's Rights; Theology; Feminism ON SEEING A PICTURE OF THE VIRGIN MARY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Roll back, thou tide of time, and tell Last Line: Love's last, love's sweetest sacrifice. -- Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Time; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON SIR J- S- SAYING IN A SARCASTIC MANNER, MY BOOKS WOULD MAKE ME MAD, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Unhappy sex! How hard's our fate Last Line: And thank our gracious laws that give such liberty. Subject(s): Women - Writers ON SOME PARTRIDGES SENT TO HER ALIVE, by FLORENCIA DEL PINAR Poem Source First Line: The nature of these birds Subject(s): Partridge; Women's Rights ON SUNDAY, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: I washed the toilet Last Line: I was nearly normal %for one whole day Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women ON THE AUTHOR'S HUSBAND DESIRING HER TO WRITE SOME VERSES, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Verses, my love! As soon could I Last Line: And each poetic fancy flies. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Women - Writers ON THE BEACH, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's really nothing Last Line: Bucketful of sands Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism ON THE BEACH, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's really nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Women's Rights ON THE COMING OF SPRING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: During the season when the optic nerve Last Line: The non-existence of unwilling women Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights ON THE DEATH OF LISA LYMAN, by DELLA BURT Poem Source First Line: I had become callous like most Last Line: Talk is too unreal Subject(s): African Americans - Women ON THE DEATH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same great angel who had once Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE DEATH OF NIZAR QABBANI, by MOHJA KAHF Poem Source First Line: I will never be this beautiful again Last Line: Spring, the april sea, our language, nothing %will ever be this beautiful again Subject(s): Arabs - Women ON THE DEDICATION OF DOROTHY HALL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the midnight of the gloomy past Last Line: The striving women of a struggling race. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Tuskegee Institute ON THE DIVINE POWER OF COURTLY LOVE, by MECHTHILD VON MAGDEBURG Poem Source First Line: Oh, sweet courtly love of god, always clasp the soul in me Subject(s): Women's Rights ON THE EDGE OF THE FIELD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: You knew it wasn't love but spring and grief Last Line: Edge of light moves slow and patient over %water, scanning for marks of love Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF BLUMA SACH'S DEATH, by VINNIE-MARIE D'AMBROSIO Poem Source First Line: Who knew her Last Line: How the bright rooms laughed with music %while we wept! Subject(s): Jews; Women ON THE FIVE LADIES AT SOT'S HOLE, WITH THE DOCTOR AT...HEAD, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ladies, number five Last Line: I'll treat you with burgundy Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Women ON THE GOTA CANAL, 1986, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The town hall shines farewell and the canal boat Last Line: With danger. We should pray all boats will dock Subject(s): Rape; Sweden; Women ON THE INFANCY OF OUR SAVIOUR, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, blessed virgin, full of heavenly grace Last Line: The weed not being, I may adore the wearer. Variant Title(s): The Child Jesus Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary ON THE MARIEN CAPELLE, CARLSBAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One silver star with evening's twilight strove Last Line: Bows down in worship to the virgin-born. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain, in the valley Last Line: All the young ones into the bushes. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sacrifices; Women ON THE PORCH, by MARJORIE POWER Poem Source First Line: The object of the game is to work all Last Line: Once she ended with three. There is no way %to improve her game. She plays %because the one pile is Subject(s): Women; World War I ON THE RIVERBANKS, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: With powerful smells edged with the noise %of metallic straps Subject(s): Women - Writers ON THE STREET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady, muffled deep in furs Last Line: And feels the day is growing colder. Subject(s): Desire; Women ON THE STREET, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day you pass this woman Last Line: To all you have hidden from yourself Subject(s): Streets; Women ON THE TENTH MUSE, by NATHANIEL WARD Poem Source First Line: Mercury show'd apollo, bartas book Last Line: Let men look to it, least women wear the spurrs Subject(s): Muses; Women ON THE THRONE OF MANY HUES, IMMORTAL APHRODITE, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To have fulfilled, fulfill, and you %be my ally Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion ON THE TOWER, by ANNETTE FREIIN VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: I stand on the tower's high balcony Subject(s): Women's Rights ON THE TURNING UP OF UNIDENTIFIED BLACK FEMALE CORPSES, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mowing his three acres with a tractor Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Corpses; Cadavers ON THE TURNING UP OF UNIDENTIFIED BLACK FEMALE CORPSES, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mowing his three acres with a tractor Last Line: That digs me up with this pen %and turns my sad black face to the light Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Corpses ON THE VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I syng [sing] of a mayden [maiden] Last Line: Wel may swych a lady %godes moder be Variant Title(s): A Maiden That Is Makeless; A Carol Of Mother Mary; The Maiden Makeles; Carol To Our Lady; As Dew In Apri Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE WATERGATE WOMEN, by ROBIN MORGAN Poem Source First Line: Maureen dean, wearing persimmon summer silk Subject(s): Homosexuality; Watergate; Women ON THE WAY TO CHURCH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one I know. I see her sometimes pass Last Line: Nor kneel, god's robber, near that angel face. Subject(s): Deception; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Women; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery ON THE WOMEN ABOUT TOWN, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too long the wise commons have been in debate Last Line: Must be damned in the cup like unworthy receivers. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Women ON WOMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May god be praised for woman / that gives up all her mind Last Line: That sheba led a dance. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women; Theology ON WOMEN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three talents to the fair belong Last Line: While thus th' inchanted rashly help it on. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Virtue; Women; Male-female Relations ON YOUR LIFE I HAVE SWORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ONCE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green lawn / a picket fence Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Southern States; South (u.s.) ONCE, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green lawn %a picket fence Last Line: The very %tips %of her %fingers Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Southern States ONCE MORE WITH YOU, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: These days of love are lollipops Last Line: I'm once more with you %wubd-stunned Subject(s): Jews - Women ONCE THERE WAS A WOMAN, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wonce there was a town with two hills Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women ONE DAY I KNOW THE PAGE, by AMINA SAID Poem Source First Line: Will cease to translate silence %into human speech Last Line: Only a shadow of flesh %can walk this earth Subject(s): Arabs - Women ONE DAY IT HAPPENS, by SILVIA CURBELO Poem Source First Line: One day it happens: your lover Last Line: Remembering the short barrel of his heart, %its single bullet Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 1. IMAGINE WEARING SOMETHING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Imagine wearing something as if Last Line: If I wear a flower it's an artificial one Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 11. FOR ME, FASHION IS NOT AMUSING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Born under the lion like nostradamus Last Line: Devastating, but on me it's deadly Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 12. IT'S ANGER THAT GETS WORK DONE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: It's thunder and instinct, a mouthful of pins Last Line: ...And I need a red scarf, here, at the throat %of her heart Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 13. THE FUTURE HAS A NOSE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: A perfume needs its own body to move Last Line: Its nose, that leaves a wake Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 17. TO RUN AWAY NOWHERE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: One sort of designer puts marks on paper Last Line: Imagine wearing something - a scent, a flower Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 3. TO RUN AWAY NOWHERE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The holidays were boring at valette Last Line: Spoiled brats, we couldn't wait to get home Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 5. I'D RATHER HAVE A TOUCH OF THE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I don't design for corpulence or corpse Last Line: Meant to be %seen: luxury - %outside and in Subject(s): Women ONE DESIGNING WOMEN: COCO CHANEL: 6. A COPY IS LOVE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Turning the uniforms of the 10th light horse Last Line: Multiplied with bogus pearls - like me Subject(s): Women ONE FLESH, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Lying apart now, each in a separate bed Last Line: These two who are my father and my mother %whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold? Subject(s): Aging; Parents; Women ONE GOOD QUALITY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Jezebel painting her face Last Line: As decorously as possible. %and don't we all? Subject(s): Women - Bible ONE LIFE, by DINAH BUTLER Poem Source First Line: Wen their vigilance slipped Subject(s): Women ONE MORE TIME, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And next morning, at the medical center Last Line: When the technician says breathe %I breathe Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women ONE NIGHT, by MILLICENT SUTHERLAND Poem Source First Line: I walked into a moon of gold last night Last Line: Now pondering from the moon I turned again, %over the sands,back to our house of pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ONE NIGHT MARLYCE JACOBSEN EXPRESSED HERSELF, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Was the eve of her enlistment in the u.S. Army %out at the holy rosary church Last Line: Glow from the golden moon above it in the west Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Prairies; Women ONE OF LOS MUCHOS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Accusing with his silence, %wanting, finding me wanting Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women ONE OF MANY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Some sing among the trumpets in the fray Last Line: A laurel -- or a rose. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE PARKS THE BIKE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Factory, the factory, first memory Subject(s): Women - Writers ONE PLANS EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, MASKED BALLS, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: There are often cats in the branches. Elsewhere, %mosquito bites, flies Subject(s): Women - Writers ONE PLUS ONE: UNION AND SEPARATION, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Mornings when abram sings to his sefer yetzirah Last Line: So much for him Subject(s): Women ONE SOLID PIECE, by LINDA SHEAR Poem Source First Line: In the corner of the kitchen Last Line: She knew she would have to make room %for this legacy Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ONE THING I DONT NEED', by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Steda bein sorry alla the time %enjoy bein yrself Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): African Americans - Women ONE THING OR ANOTHER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Behind the sky: another, bluer Last Line: Scars, musical in water Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives ONE TO NOTHING, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bibulous eagle behind me at the ball game: Last Line: Shucks a'mighty. If you're an eagle, you just go. Subject(s): Baseball; Birds; Eagles; Sports; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism ONE VERSION, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that mary magdalene Last Line: I know the woman well. Variant Title(s): Mary Magdalene Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT A WOMAN, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: Among the late night stillness of city Last Line: The woman stayed with me %stayed very still, with me Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights ONE WOMAN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou listenest to us with unheeding ear Last Line: Lays bare thy secret -- thou canst not forget! Subject(s): Women ONE WOMAN, by ELIZABETH WARREN JONES Poem Text First Line: She never bent Last Line: God lives -- and understands! Subject(s): Women ONE, TWO, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: One, two, three, four Last Line: Or someone else'll get there first Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Women ONGOING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shape of talk would sag / but the birds be brighter than ever Last Line: Caught? Subject(s): Arabs - Women ONLY A WOMAN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, the truth's out. I'll grasp it like a snake Last Line: The other woman was less true than I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Disappointment; Love - Loss Of; Women ONLY HERE FOR THE BIER, SELS., by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women ONLY IN THIS WAY, by MARGARET GOSS BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: Not by wayout hairdos, bulbous afro blowouts, and certainly Last Line: Only in this way to lay the groundwork for the change to come - %for the future - for your century Subject(s): African Americans - Women ONLY THE EYES, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: Baptize me again Subject(s): Women's Rights ONLY WOMAN, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: The only woman who is able to be Subject(s): Women's Rights OPEN HEART, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Tomorrow my grandmother meets her faith Last Line: To open it as she always done, against the odds Subject(s): Women OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen OPERATION, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Laying me down on the kitchen table Subject(s): Rape; Women OPHTHALMOLOGIES, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: What does the ophthalmologist see when he looks in my eye Last Line: Among branches, seeking the world Subject(s): Rape; Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 1. OVERTURE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Where have you been, sweetums? I can't tell you Last Line: See, every day for me, it's a walls-or-no-walls proposition Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 2. ALLEMANDE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Now, I know how to talk myself in from the rain Last Line: I'd just as soon slip through to na-pooh land Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 3. RONDO, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: My first time in, I must say, I was innocent Last Line: The trick is to turn it yourself Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 4. GIGUE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Just wait...I'm thinking how to give you the picture Last Line: A better person, on the whole...But, to go back Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 5. BADINERIE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So now. Say you limp yourself in to one of these sanctum Last Line: Conventionals, do doormat imitations, expect what you get Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 6. SARABANDE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So, my dear, another day, another dolor, but moving Last Line: What are daydreams for? Subject(s): Women OPUS OF WILHELMINA SCROWD: WILHELMINA'S SUITE: 7. MINUET, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Now, you...Well, so you can choose to go along Last Line: I don't mind at all being an imaginary person. Do you? Subject(s): Women OR ELSE ORANGE RED SPIRALING, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Of dark red skin in the white saucer Subject(s): Women - Writers ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The ORA PRO NOBIS, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While I was still a child so young Last Line: Ave maria, ora pro nobis. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ORANGE CHIFFON, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If orange chiffon sadness %flowered from my chin of three bumps Last Line: And my shadow half the size of two dates %broke Subject(s): African Americans - Women ORBITS, by 'AISHA ARNAOUT Poem Source First Line: Shapeless, the waves rise toward their elements, where the foam of Last Line: Where spaces zoom by %and time repositions itself Subject(s): Arabs - Women ORCHARD, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: We go into it at night Last Line: Tonight so many of them fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Orchards; Ranch Life; Women - Writers ORCHIDS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: My mother is watching them go past the car window Subject(s): Rape; Women ORDINARY MORNING, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Twas just an ordinary mornin' Last Line: And the calf is doin' fine Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OREGON, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: When you woke up that morning Last Line: To link the roses' repeated pattern Subject(s): Women's Rights ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Babe jesus lay in mary's lap Last Line: Babe jesus said never a word. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Singing & Singers; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary ORGAN SONGS: DORCAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might guess, then guess I would Last Line: And showed the coats she made. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dorcas (bible); Women - Bible ORGAN SONGS: MARRIAGE SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no more wine!' she said Last Line: Brimming full of heavenly wine. Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Drinks & Drinking; Feasts; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Water; Wedding Song; Women - Bible; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Virgin Mary; Epithalamium ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Last Line: To hear the black-robed choir of their sighs Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women ORIENTAL PHANTASY, by LE BARON COOKE Poem Text First Line: Sometimes the sky Last Line: Marionettes . . . Subject(s): Asia; Gays & Lesbians; Puppets; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Marionettes ORIFLAMME, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers ORIFLAMME, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her sitting bowed and black Last Line: Clutching our birthright, fight with faces set %still visioning the stars! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers ORIGIN OF OLIVE OYL, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When olive was an embryo, she curled her thumbs Last Line: Olive, so many dots of color, rearranging herself like nomenclature Subject(s): Comic Strips; Popeye (comic Strip); Women ORIGIN OF POEM, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Your storyself might rise Last Line: Something deep, alive, on the line Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women ORIGINAL SIN: A CAUSAL ANALYSIS, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: I needed a sin %an original sin Last Line: Fast-frozen in fame %in my husband's name Subject(s): Jews - Women ORIGINALS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I have stayed awake Last Line: Which all of humankind %has yet to unlearn Subject(s): Women - Bible ORIGINS, by BARBARA FIEDLER Poem Source First Line: Whence should I know who I am Subject(s): Women's Rights ORION, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: There must be a garden under this Last Line: Dragging the sky's double for stars to suck down and drown Subject(s): Women's Rights ORISHA, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the flesh and feeling of soledad Last Line: Immense in its infancy of these few words %orisha orisha satchmo orisha Subject(s): African Americans - Women ORISON TO THE FIVE JOYS OF OUR LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mary mother, hail to thee! / maid and mother, think on me" Last Line: "which for ever shall endure, / bring me, at thy will! Ave" Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary ORLANDO FURIOSO: WOMAN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Discourteous women, nature's fairest ill Last Line: Brought for eternal pestilence to the world. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sexism; Women ORPHAN, by THURAYYA MALHAS Poem Source First Line: I am an orphan %if I walk, %I trip on stones Last Line: When will you come back to me? Subject(s): Arabs - Women ORTHODOXIES 11, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: She used to flog her girls, a madam, in a half-assed way. It Last Line: Out of the embrace of a girl and a customer bear Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Turkish Literature; Women ORTHODOXIES 6, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: The most regal of long speeches. Standing face to face Last Line: Not only the tides of the sea, even the explanations were useless Subject(s): Quarrels; Women OSTEOPOROSIS, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, you wonder how to turn, if Last Line: Preparing to recite %the blessing before the meal Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OTHER FABRICS, OTHER MORES!, by ANNA MARIA LENNGREN Poem Source First Line: When I was young,' said aunt to me Subject(s): Women OTHER GIRLS IN LETTUCE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: These are the reminiscent lettuces Last Line: Words are nipples still allowed Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients OTHER LANGUAGE, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: The grownups line their bodies Last Line: But our eyes blink unsure %in the coming and present darkness Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women OTHER MOTHER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The other mother Last Line: Befuddled by grief %she lied for love Subject(s): Women - Bible OTHER MOTHER, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Because she is my mother, every night Last Line: Tigers, gazelles), a new kingdom to rule? Subject(s): Women OTHER VOICES, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are things we do not tell Last Line: And I hear them %and I don't %and even police can't stop earth telling Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ranch Life; Women - Writers OTHER WOMEN, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: I think of women whose lived-in looks Last Line: And stared out the glass at other women %plummeting past Subject(s): Women OTHERS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I tell the woman of too many days %I heard about the incident Last Line: Donovan. Emile and little sarah. %the mushrooms Subject(s): Homeless; Women OUGHTA BE A WOMAN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washing the floors to send you to college Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OUGHTA BE A WOMAN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washing the floors to send you to college Last Line: Too much of a task for any one woman Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR BRIEF TRIP TO THE CAPITAL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: But passing the scene of our fight, all I longed for was happiness Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women OUR DAUGHTER IS STILL INNOCENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR FATHERS, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: The day joe brodie fell into the acid pit Last Line: Like small boys print their names in dirt Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women OUR GROOM IS LIKE ROLLING THUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR HANDS IN THE GARDEN, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: We had this idea Subject(s): Women - Abused OUR LADY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess azure-mantled and aureoled Last Line: And complete the creation. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god! No lady thou Last Line: "and the rich he hath sent empty away." Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary OUR LADY EXAMINES HER ANGER, by NITA PENFOLD Poem Source First Line: Like a foreign object Last Line: The closest she had ever come %to loving herself Subject(s): Absence; Anger; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women OUR LADY IN THE MIDDLE AGES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I looked upon the earth: it was a floor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF FRANCE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave we awhile without the turmoil of the town Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF GOOD VOYAGE, by LUCY A. K. ADEE Poem Source First Line: You hold a silver ship Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF MERCY, by MARY BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: Our lady walks the parapets of heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE CANNERY WORKERS, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: Returning from watsonville Last Line: You turn to seed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE LIBRARIES, by MARY IGNATIUS Poem Source First Line: In bodleian and harleian Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE MAY, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O flower of flowers, our lady of the may! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE PASSION, by JOHN MAUROPUS Poem Source First Line: O lady of the passion, dost thou weep? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE REFUGEES, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: Mother, who knew Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF THE SKIES, by JAMES M. HAYES Poem Source First Line: Twelve stars upon the brow of her Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY OF TRASH DAY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: From a pile of amputated Last Line: And the sound of a one-handed rosary Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women OUR LADY ON CALVARY, by MICHAEL MARIE Poem Source First Line: So like a queen she moves Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY WITH TWO ANGELS, by WILFRED ROWLAND CHILDE Poem Source First Line: She sits in sarras, delicate and strange Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR LADY'S LABOR, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: Day after day Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S LULLABY, by RICHARD ROWLANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my lap my sovereign sits Last Line: Sing, lullaby, my life's joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Verstegen, Richard Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY'S SALUTATION, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spell eva back and ave shall you find Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LADY'S WELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fount of the woods! Thou art hid no more Last Line: Who hath made thee nature's own again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Ruins; Springs (water); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR LADY, HELP OF CHRISTIANS, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The puny child who knows he can have but little love Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OUR LITTLE HELPMEET, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If my manner speaks to you Last Line: I am woman; I am known. Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism OUR LORD AND OUR LADY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They warned our lady for the child Last Line: With the white moon at her feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OUR MOTHER'S MOTHER, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: She had no patience Last Line: Into a sliver of dust Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUR SISTER DINAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If dinah Last Line: And not %a person? Subject(s): Women - Bible OUR STUNNING HARVEST, SELS., by ELLEN BASS Poem Source First Line: She recognizes miner's lettuce Last Line: From nuclear holocaust? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women OUR WEAKNESS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Known are we women as the weaker sex Last Line: Because her greatness in her weakness lies. Subject(s): Women OUT OF SIGHT IN MIND: DELIVERY AT MOUNT MORIAH, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So I wave and watch 'till they are small as grains Last Line: In relief, once more. The cord is cut. His eyes have cleared. %my eyes can shut Subject(s): Women OUT OF THE DEPTHS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Out of the depths Last Line: In all the world %was you? Subject(s): Women - Bible OUT TO GRASS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: The young lambs bound %as to the tabor's sound,' Last Line: Worthy of what they eat Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers OUT TO TEA, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: What serets women tell each other Last Line: Back to their separateness, bearing their red marks home Subject(s): Women's Rights OUT WALKING, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: This is one of those things I require Last Line: If he could choose, he'd go Subject(s): Women OUTGROWING THE FAIRY TALE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The first time Last Line: I too have tried to save the city for too long Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights OUTGROWN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: It is both sad and a relief to fold so carefully Last Line: She stops being a child Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged OVER THE TOP, by SYBIL BRISTOWE Poem Source First Line: Ten more minutes! - say yer prayers Last Line: Over the top - to kingdom come! Subject(s): Women; World War I OVER THE WAY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the way, over the way Last Line: "please won't you be my mother-in-law?" Subject(s): Mothers-in-law; Women OVERFLOW, by NADA EL- HAGE Poem Source First Line: A word %a tear Last Line: And the universe was filled Subject(s): Arabs - Women OVERTHROW: FEMINIST POETICS, MODERNISM, THE AVANT-GARDE, SELS., by RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS Subject(s): Women - Writers OX-BONE MADONNA, by JAMES J. GALVIN Poem Source First Line: Once they minted our lady in multiple golden medallions Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OX-BORNE MADONNA, by JOHN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: We have minted her beauty in multiple golden medallions Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 7, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One person believes in nothing and another dislikes poetry Last Line: The old woman still standing in the street Subject(s): Women OXYGEN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Bearer of finches and clouds, pale atmosphere Last Line: Underneath wide maples, we will fill our nostrils %with a cool abundance of what gives us life? Subject(s): Oxygen; Rape; Women OYSTER, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: Your diffidence bewilders, sly miss of fire Last Line: His way in, pilfers the gem, missing the rest Subject(s): Women's Rights PACKING GRANDMA'S CHINA, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: You'd be surprised how little Last Line: Oh jude (she calls me by my childhood name), %I didn't want to take the silver Subject(s): Women PAEAN AFTER SNOW, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: And lo it came to pass Last Line: So warmly, warmly good. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PAGAN PRAYER, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Preserve the red leaf of this burning winter Subject(s): Women's Rights PAGAN WOMAN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To go dying and singing. And to baptize the shadow Last Line: Leaving thousands of eyes of blood on the dagger Subject(s): Catholics; Judith (bible); Women In The Bible PAGE 35, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The essence lady Subject(s): African Americans - Women PAGE 5, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun goes on shining Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating PAIN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Boon companion, never-forsaker Last Line: Tell the gods this when you return Subject(s): Women's Rights PAINT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: A rape victim with a paintbrush in her hand Last Line: She thinks how any minute he will come Subject(s): Rape; Women PAINTED MADONNA SPEAKS, by BERTA LASK Poem Source First Line: What has he done to me? I don't know what's become of me Subject(s): Women's Rights PAINTER, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Like rainhorses running wild through the first three Last Line: Clanging and hissing, the rogues Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTER'S WIFE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here's a glimpse of a famous cloud mountain Last Line: He is painting my portrait yet again, you see Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAINTERS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: N the cave with a long-ago flare Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Women PAINTERS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cave with a long-ago flare Last Line: A woman among them, painting Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Women PAINTING THE FACE OF A WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: To know you better %to smell you Last Line: Thus I invent you amid your sins and daily tasks Subject(s): Love; Paintings And Painters; Women PAINTING WAR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Breughel at fifty, dying, famous and poor Last Line: And her red heretical wound %on sullen snow Subject(s): Women's Rights PAINTING WHAT WE SEE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There is fear, I hug you tight Last Line: There are things we will not see, n'est-ce pas Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PAISLEY CEILING, by LILA ARNOLD Poem Source First Line: Looking up %I find myself written Last Line: A coral paisely cobra Subject(s): Women PAKI GO HOME, by HIMANI BANNERJI Poem Source First Line: 3 p.M. %sunless Subject(s): Canada; Immigrants; Racism; Women PALINODIA; FRAGMENT, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belles may read and beaux may write Last Line: I'm not a lover now! Subject(s): Women PALM WINE SELLER, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: Akosua selling palm wine Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women PANEGYRIC ON THE LADIES; READ ALTERNATE LINES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: That man must lead a happy life Last Line: Is sure of earthly blessedness Subject(s): Adam & Eve;bible;women PANIC FUGUE: 1. PAN'S TRICK, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: With eros gone, nothing to lose, no plan Last Line: To lose; then why not give this...Her whole broken heart? Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 2. PANIC REVENGE, ON A FALSE NOTE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Not knowing where eros had gone, psyche searched out Last Line: Craves murder, psyche knew. And left that baggage behind her Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 3. AT A LOSS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Quite hopeless in worldly terms, too sad Last Line: Quivering in his mother's bed, live psyche-bait Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 4. APHRODITE'S PLACE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Psyche knew her future mother-in-law Last Line: Aphrodite kept a straight face. Left eros's room Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 5. MIXED-UP SEEDS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: One handmaid, habit, dragged psyche by the hair Last Line: To sort, sift, order...Presto! - her task was done Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 6. SEIZING THE SUN BY ITS HAIR, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The goddess shrugs. A purely mechanical Last Line: Thus to gather, her wits whisked home %by cadence and lazy stream Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 7. HELL-BENT WATERS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Her third task to do or undo is set before her Last Line: Tugging - what's in that baby jug? A plaything? Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 8. SHOW AND TELL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: How describe, looking back, this moment, her life? Last Line: The puzzled face will want better Subject(s): Women PANIC FUGUE: 9. MUSEUM PIECE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: A better story Last Line: It was enough for psyche to go on Subject(s): Women PANTOUM TO A BEARDED MUSE ON LINES BY ROBERT GRAVES, by KATHLEENE K. WEST Poem Source First Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Last Line: A muse does not wear whiskers Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PAPAW, by GEORGE ELLA LYON Poem Source First Line: They told him, the youngest Last Line: I been there and there aint no tracks Subject(s): Appalachia; Women PAPI WORKING, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The long day spent listening %to homesick hearts Last Line: They came to hear him say %nada in their mother tongue Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women PAPIER-MACHE, by KATHRYN L. DROUGHT Poem Text First Line: A woman likes a tall man Last Line: I could not stay with you. Subject(s): Women PAPYRUS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acorn-brown, the girl's new nipples Subject(s): Growth; Women PAPYRUS, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acorn-brown, the girl's new nipples Last Line: Shrouded in the daylight he keeps breaking Subject(s): Growth; Women PARADE, by EDITH LOVELL Poem Text First Line: I don't know why Last Line: "and life to maim humanity." Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Parades; Women; Anti-war Protests PARADISE LOST, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Not only do you blame the fall of man Last Line: Your memory by blabbering to aubrey Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights PARAGUAYAN WOMAN, by IGNACIO ALBERTO PANE Poem Source First Line: She was born like the sweetest warbling of the little Last Line: And the blood of pelayo gave glory! Subject(s): Beauty; Paraguay; Pelayo. First Christian King (d. 737); Women PARANOIA, by SALWA AL- NEIMI Poem Source First Line: I was a ripe fig %they almost squashed me Last Line: What's the name of this city? Subject(s): Arabs - Women PARENTS' PANTOUM; FOR MAXINE KUMIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where did these enormous children come from Last Line: We offspring of our enormous children. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism PARLIAMENT OF WOMEN: PRAXAGORA REHEARSES, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, too, retire and sit you down again Last Line: Lodged in the pnyx, and there I heard the speakers. Subject(s): Women PARSON'S JOB, by MADELINE IDA BEDFORD Poem Source First Line: What do you want %coming to this 'ere 'ell? Last Line: Teach me - ow - to pray Subject(s): Women; World War I PARTINGS, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Birthing (then) and (now) parting Last Line: What steel cut true %leaving a thin scar? Subject(s): Jews - Women PARTITIONS: THE LOT OF BEING COMMON TO ALL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the windowless west wall Subject(s): Air Travel; Women PARTS OF A FLOWER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: A small village Last Line: The tiny pinup sun Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PARVE, by NINA JUDITH KATZ Poem Source First Line: There I was and I was parve Last Line: Grant me %my own set of dishes Subject(s): Jews - Women PASSAGE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Q: was I asleep for long? %a: not too long Last Line: Q: and will I dream again? %a: I was the one who waited at each station Subject(s): Women PASSAGE II, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Q: where is the man? %a: watching the woman sleep Last Line: Q: where is the man? A: watching her sleep Subject(s): Women PASSING GO, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Bowlegged behind her cane Last Line: Works every time now %don't it, dear? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN Poem Source First Line: We could almost be taken Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women PASSION OF OUR LADY, by CHARLES PEGUY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For the past three days she had been wandering, and following Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PASSION WEEK, 1966, by REBECCA MCCLANAHAN Poem Source First Line: In the sanctuary of fundamental no's Last Line: Her rebukers, claiming a higher charity, %and suffered the woman to do it Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women PASSIONFRUIT, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Here are rivers raining Last Line: Of memories, lean veins of new loves Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love; Passion PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: A CERTAIN FREEDOM OF SPEECH, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me a flirt from the judengasse Last Line: (where facts matter less than a manner of speaking Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: A CHANGED PERSON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Forgetting - my favorite of life forces Last Line: I had a rite to celebrate Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: ALL EXCLUDING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: How do you do and how do you define Last Line: With life itself...How many lay lonely tables? Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: BEAU MONDE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Abroad I'm from berlin, but in berlin Last Line: Even if I have to wear it upside-down Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: BEFORE AND AFTER, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: My heart is sore from the uneven chafe Last Line: After death they ask. You bet. %I'm living it Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: PRETENDING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Gossip is sweaty work. One doesn't chat Last Line: We belong with no one, no fast fellow-craft Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: TOO TRUE A REFLECTION, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Deja vu et deja entendu Last Line: To the wall, dispensing smiles, feeling them...Crack Subject(s): Women PASSIONS OF RAHEL VARNHAGEN: VIEWING THE BODY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I'd rather wear a paper crown in bedlam Last Line: Then gobble cakes and dance in your paper hat Subject(s): Women PASSOVER, by MIRIAM SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Jews must be everywhere Last Line: Despite our exile, wandering Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible PASSOVER 1988, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I'm of the tribe of sarah Last Line: A daughter pulling an enemy child %from this river? Subject(s): Jews - Women PATERNAL, SELS., by MARIELLA BETTARINI Poem Source First Line: But then what do you know about the rights of suffocated genitals Subject(s): Women's Rights PATH OF AFFECTION, by LAILA ALLUSH Poem Source First Line: Along the amazing road drawn from the throat of recent dates Last Line: And it sang out, believe me, with affection Subject(s): Arabs - Women PATIENCE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: If patiently %you touch my Last Line: Winking %at you Subject(s): Women's Rights PATIENCE, by JESSICA LIPSKY Poem Source First Line: Patience is the lesson Last Line: I wait for you to come Subject(s): Jews - Women PATIENCE: SONG OF THE DRAGOONS, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've been thrown over, we're aware Last Line: So we don't care,—so we don't care! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Women PAULA BECKER TO CLARA WESTHOFF, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn feels slowed down Last Line: Will hear all I say and cannot say Subject(s): Art And Artists; Becker, Paula (1876-1907); Modersohn, Otto; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Westhoff, Clara (1878-1954); Women PAULINE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the starlit seine went music swelling Last Line: To clear away the mysteries of such woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women PAXOS WOMEN, by EDWARD MCCRORIE Poem Source First Line: Most of their men were sea-changed. The women Last Line: A way back to the sky. You poured %slowly and waited Subject(s): Women PEACE, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am as awful as my brother war Last Line: Will first in peace dare shout the name of love? Subject(s): Women; World War I PEACE TO THE ODALISQUE, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the odalisue, the facile slave Last Line: But charity's white light shall never fail Subject(s): Women PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PEACK COCKS POEMS, SELS., by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I never thought to see us Last Line: Sista -- sista -- been and is Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Mothers And Daughters; Women PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women; Biographers PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Last Line: In a storm on a blackened stage like a house %on fire Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women PEARL SCREEN BEAUTY, by FENG ZIZHEN Poem Source First Line: Leaning into the eastern wind, a distant reflected loft Last Line: Generations designate her as 'momma pearl' Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women; Zhulian Xiv (b. 1270) PEARL SCREEN BEAUTY, by HU ZHIYU Poem Source First Line: Jade green bamboos by the edge of a damask-embroidered river Last Line: Hanging up all of the morning clouds and evening rains Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Women; Zhulian Xiv (b. 1270) PEARLS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It was the hurt he didn't see Last Line: Shimmering in her eyes Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love; Man-woman Relationships PEDDLER WOMAN, by ALICE ELODY BREDESON Poem Text First Line: Along the dusty road to farmer brown Last Line: "and said, ""see I'm not dangerous at all!" Subject(s): Peddlers & Peddling; Women PEGGY MITCHELL, by ANTHONY RAFTERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As lily grows up easily Last Line: -- and endlessly! Alternate Author Name(s): Blind Raftery; Raifteiri, Antoine; O Reachtabhra, Antaine Subject(s): Growth; Women PENANCE, by ELAINE HANDLEY Poem Source First Line: Three times a week she makes her way Last Line: And leaves for church %waiting for grace Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PENELOPE AND ULYSSES SETTLE A DOMESTIC DISPUTE, by JOYCE LA MERS Poem Source First Line: She'd managed on her own for 20 years Last Line: And so he sailed, pretending he had planned to Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Women's Rights PENITENT HOPES IN MARY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now shrynketh rose and lilye-flour Last Line: That al this world honoures. Amen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PEOPLE GATHER, by MARI E. EVANS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had it together Last Line: But once Subject(s): African Americans - Women PEOPLE OF FIRE, by NIDAA KHOURY Poem Source First Line: Burn the generations. %burn the olive leaves %offer incense Last Line: Wear ash and die as embers Subject(s): Arabs - Women PEOPLE OF GRAPES, by NIDAA KHOURY Poem Source First Line: Unripe grapes %hang on the fences of morning Last Line: In its shade %and my story ends Subject(s): Arabs - Women PEOPLE PIECE #11, by JO CARSON Poem Source First Line: You know the other day we went over at george's get some eggs? Last Line: Oh. Maybe that's why we ain't go no eggs Subject(s): Appalachia; Women PEOPLE WILL TALK, by JUNE BRANDER GILMAN Poem Source First Line: You may get thru the world, but it'll be very slow Last Line: But don't think to stop them, it's not any use, %for people will talk! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PER DIEM, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spherically wondrous sunbeam Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Unemployment; Wine PERCIPIENT PEACEMAKER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The united nations Last Line: And mediative methods %of the wise woman of abel Subject(s): Women - Bible PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERFECT POET, by ERICA MANN JONG Poem Source First Line: He says he is a perfect poet Last Line: That every lines smacks of his pefect taste Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PERFECT WIFE, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: George and I been thinkin' Last Line: This joke was once my life Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PERFECT WOMAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She was a phantom of delight Last Line: With something of angelic light. Variant Title(s): "a Portrait;seen, Loved, Wedded;""she Was A Phantom Of Delight""; Subject(s): Death; Hutchinson, Mary; Love; Marriage; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERHAPS - (TO R.A.L. DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE ... 1915), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps some day the sun will shine again Last Line: Again, because my heart for loss of you %was broken, long ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I PERJURY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Semen was all that pased between us, I tell the court Last Line: It's death I court with this one held breath Variant Title(s): Preliminary Hearin Subject(s): Rape; Women PERSEPHONE PAUSES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lengthened shadow of my hand Last Line: But cast it. Summertime, good-night! Subject(s): Desire; Hades; Persephone; Pomegranates; Women; Women's Rights; Proserpine; Proserpina; Feminism PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSISTENCE OF PINK, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Pink was ballet shoes Last Line: I embraced the pink inside Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights PET'S PUNISHMENT, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, if my love offended me Last Line: And punish her -- with kisses! Subject(s): Animal Rights; Pets; Women; Animal Abuse; Vivisection PETER QUINCE AT THE CLAVIER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Just as my fingers on these keys Last Line: And makes a constant sacrament of praise. Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Music & Musicians; Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible PEWTER ANGEL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Where she walks no rustling is heard Last Line: Her kind could fly, and her flameless %candle lit each of the stars Subject(s): Women PHAEDRA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay not thine hand upon me; let me go Last Line: Or off the knees of murder reaching it. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Women; Male-female Relations PHANTASIA FOR ELVIRA SHATAYEV, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold felt cold until our blood Last Line: To settle for less. We have dreamed of this %all of our lives Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Women PHANTOM PAIN, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Crazed on cheap rye, we scale the trash-maddened cliff Last Line: Between us dying %(but barely) Subject(s): Women's Rights PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Did pharaoh's daughter Last Line: Would at last %amount to Subject(s): Women - Bible PHENOMENAL WOMAN, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies Last Line: That's me. Subject(s): Women PHENOMENOLOGY OF ANGER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The freedom of the wholly mad Last Line: Is an unnatural act Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights PHILIPPINE MADONNA, by LOUISE CRENSHAW RAY Poem Source First Line: In every war, strange legends circulate Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PHILOMELA, SELS., by BETH FEIN Poem Source First Line: In the night a winged man comes to me Last Line: Paint our faces ember red %and howl Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Women's Rights PHILOMELA: NEVER TOO LATE: ISABEL'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting by a river-side Last Line: "fie on love that hath no law!" Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women PHILOMELA: SONNET (ANSWER), by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nature foreeseing how men would devise Last Line: No more but one, and heart will never lose him. Variant Title(s): Philomela: Woman's Eyes; Answer Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PHILOMELA: WOMAN'S EYES; A QUESTION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On women nature did bestow two eyes Last Line: Allow of two, and prove not nature vain. Subject(s): Beauty; Eyes; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women PHILOSOPHER'S CLUB, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: After class thursday nights %the students meet at the philosopher's club Last Line: The last thing they see as they enter the dark Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Bars And Bartenders; Women PHONE CALLS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I want to sleep a whole night Last Line: And its tongues like down on sand Subject(s): Rape; Women PHOTO-FINISH BRAT, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: About once a week, invited, I Last Line: Either she's grown up. %or I Subject(s): Jews - Women PHOTOGRAPH OF HER PARENTS, DANCING: 1956, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: A blond woman in the peopled background Last Line: In her darker, picture-perfect heart Subject(s): Women PHRASEOLOGY, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say things to myself %in a bitch of a syllable Last Line: The impulsive foam %of a spastic Subject(s): African Americans - Women PHRYNE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stripped to win the jury once, those languorous sweet greek bitches Subject(s): Women Writers PHYLLIS LEE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a primrose 'broider'd rill Last Line: "I'll keep them shut,"" said phyllis lee." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Women PIAF AND HOLIDAY GO OUT, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE Poem Source First Line: Bracelet eat into the flesh / the gangrene of Last Line: It will be easier. Sing it loud Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Piaf, Edith (1915-1963); Singing And Singers PIANIST, by CAROLYN J. FAIRWEATHER HUGHES Poem Source First Line: Gnarled fingers of hands Last Line: Drop from her hands %like ripened plums Subject(s): Women PICASSO IS RIGHT, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On my bedroom wall Last Line: The colour that makes everyone weep...' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Women - Middle Aged PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spring wind hustles hundreds of pages into the street Subject(s): Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers PICNIC; JULY 1917, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: We lay and ate sweet hurt-berries Last Line: Lest, battered too long, our walls and we %should break - should break Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept Last Line: Our lives suddenly beautiful, then Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings And Painters PICTURE IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women PICTURE OF OLD AGE, by PATTI TANA Poem Source First Line: Looking through her pictures Last Line: Her home echoes her own silence Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PICTURES IN VERSE: 3. JESUS AND JOHN CONTENDING FOR THE CROSS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the cross, I pray you dearest jesus Last Line: Of women first in honour and in woe! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cross, The; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Pesaro, Simeone Da; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary PIECE WORK, by MONA ELAINE ADILMAN Poem Source First Line: The knot of women Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women PIECE WORKER, by EMMA DOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Get up, now quickly wipe your eyes Subject(s): Women's Rights PIED UNTIDY, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: This dappling's the devil's work we must undo %curse him! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights PIERROT GOES TO WAR, by GABRIELLE ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: In the sheltered garden, pale beneath the moon Last Line: Pierrot goes forward—but what of pierrette? Alternate Author Name(s): Forbush, Gabrielle E. Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War PIGEONS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days and pigeons Last Line: Or where she or the pigeons go %at night Subject(s): Homeless; Women PILGRIM MOTHERS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now thank god for the women Last Line: Through sacrifice and tears? Subject(s): Mothers; Pilgrim Fathers; Women - Heroes PINE CAMP, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Frost has peeled scabs of bark from their useless ankles Last Line: Trying to inspire terror Subject(s): Women's Rights PINON NUTS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: We begged him to teach us spanish Last Line: Like a sweet, round nut Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women PIONEER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very old woman sits softly Last Line: She will fall softly asleep... Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Pioneers; Women PIONEER CHILD'S DOLL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Here, child, is what we mean by love Last Line: So by the sweat of your palm %on her brow will you bring %to her flat face a sheen Subject(s): Women PIONEER WOMAN, by ELLA ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Theresa martha's firm but slender hands Last Line: And wove with song her gentleness and verve. Subject(s): Pioneers; Women PISTACHIO ICE CREAM, by ANNEMARIE JACIR Poem Source First Line: They told me the %arabs named the stars %algol, sirius, aldebaran Last Line: With the morning sun, %and only ruins remain Subject(s): Arabs - Women PITY ME!, by FU HSUAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me!! My body is female Last Line: Love once severed is remote as antares and orion Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan Subject(s): Love; Pity; Women PITY OLD WOMEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity old women who sit at windows Last Line: Waiting at windows 'til life ends. Subject(s): Aging; Life; Pity; Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: A CHECKLIST, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Place one has an eight-year waiting list Last Line: Place eleven decides mother won't fit in Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: A SUDDEN ILLNESS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: When mother is discharged %from the hospital Last Line: You feel holier-than-thou Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: CONFUSION, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: While you ponder your choices Last Line: She isn't sure if she's a woman %or a man Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: IN CONCLUSION, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Not wanting to be a burden %on your children Last Line: Mother would be proud of you Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: LIFE MUST GO ON, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Your hair has turned white Last Line: Realize you forgot to flush %the toilet Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: MORE ADVICE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Have a daughter-to-mother talk Last Line: Promise you won't forsake her Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: PLATITUDES, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Mother is with god Last Line: You will mourn mother %the rest of your life Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: PRELIMINARY ADVICE, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Remember how you once went shopping Last Line: What have you done to my mother? Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: THE ORPHAN, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: There's no umbrella now Last Line: You're a survivor with all the loneliness %of survivorship Subject(s): Women PLACE FOR MOTHER: THE SEARCH, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Though mother says %she won't fit in anywhere Last Line: Who hanker after %geriatric sex Subject(s): Women PLACE TO BEGIN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: The place to begin is not your death Last Line: That you could almost feel %the child's head resting there; %solid, absolute Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women PLACENTA, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: After he has fallen asleep, after the last nursing Last Line: Like an angel, like another child I made and lost Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Fertility; Hospitals; Physicians; Pregnancy; Women PLAIN LISA, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Leonardo's studio! Each time it takes my eyes Last Line: And that does make me, more and more...Have to smile Subject(s): Women PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a flower-boy! Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PLANET OF THE APES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: On saturday afternoons Last Line: Planet of the apes Subject(s): Identity; Women PLANETARIUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in the shape of a monster Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Constellations; Herschel, Caroline (1750-1848); Herschel, William (1738-1822); Women PLANETARIUM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman in the shape of a monster Last Line: And the reconstruction of the mind Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Constellations; Herschel, Caroline (1750-1848); Herschel, William (1738-1822); Women PLANETARIUM, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Gibbons moon, night clicks Last Line: My hair at last come loose Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PLANTING, by CINDA THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Two %old people work Last Line: Sunflowers will bloom toward %late summer Subject(s): Women PLANTING PEAS, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's not spring yet, but I can't Last Line: Dancing in light green resses Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long Last Line: To their last temptation. Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary PLAY OF REAL LIFE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From down here, oops, balcon. She walks erect Last Line: Cosmic bad casting but it's too late to start over Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Life; Mothers; Plays And Playwrights; Women PLAYMATE: OPHELIA BACKSTAGED, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So here I sit, friends, not a stitch on Last Line: The act of my life Subject(s): Women PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PLEASE MASTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; America PLESANT TO YOUR TASTE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I bring you bread, dear boaz. Last Line: And let me be plesant to your taste %as well as the bread I bring Subject(s): Women - Bible PLIGHT OF POTIPHAR'SWIFE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Oh, joseph, you and I might have been Last Line: Thatled me to betray you. And still I burn %to share the uttermost planets of your dreams Subject(s): Women - Bible PLUCK, by EVA DOBELL Poem Source First Line: Crippled for life at seventeen Last Line: And smoke his woodbine cigarette Subject(s): Women; World War I PLUM TREE IN BLOSSOM., by DOROTHEA L. DUNNING Poem Source Last Line: For great, great grandson Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PLUMAGE OF THE FLOWERS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tetlapan as a poet carried Last Line: "face-down in crimson dew." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary PNEUMONIA, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The year of my mother's divorce Subject(s): Rape; Women POCAHONTAS, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Young daughter of a native chief Last Line: Young daughter of a native chief Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes POCAHONTAS: FROM HER NEW WORLD: 1. TO POWHATAN, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear, great powhatan, father, I would write Last Line: And something else, not old or new, but found Subject(s): Women POCAHONTAS: FROM HER NEW WORLD: 2. TO CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear captain smith, they told me you were dead Last Line: And surprising peace, dear impostor, dear friend Subject(s): Women POCAHONTAS: FROM HER NEW WORLD: 3. TO JOHN ROLFE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear husband, when you thought to marry me Last Line: Her arms around and around and around me now Subject(s): Women POEM, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: You sowed in me, not a child Last Line: I still, even now, can make you songs Subject(s): Jews - Women POEM, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the earnest path of duty Last Line: We would win a wreath immortal %whose bright flowers n'er fade and die Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM, by GLORIA T. HULL Poem Source First Line: What you said %keeps bothering me Last Line: Our labor is more important than %our silence Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights POEM, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little brown boy / slim, dark, big-eyed Last Line: You are. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks POEM, by CAROL E. MILLER Poem Source First Line: I have a beard, smeared Last Line: From these glazed lips the taste %of some golden thing Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Women's Rights POEM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Someday we will take this chance again Subject(s): Rape; Women POEM #8, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been a woman Subject(s): Women POEM ... FOR A LOVER, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: I would give you %the blue-violet dreams Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women POEM 1, by ABELARDO SANCHEZ LEON Poem Source First Line: What happens here happened to my grandfather and my father Last Line: Dragging the head of the land down Subject(s): Children; Family Life; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Women POEM ABOUT MY RIGHTS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM AT THIRTY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is midnight Last Line: Of the night. Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM FOR A DAUGHTER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm going to have it Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Birth; Women; Child Birth; Midwifery POEM FOR A MARRIAGE, by CHRISTINE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: My love I learned Subject(s): Women POEM FOR GEORGE PLATT LYNES, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George platt lynes photographed a naked man, curled Last Line: Raises his hand to feel the fine light fail? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POEM FOR GRANDMOTHER, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: A swirling mist blows through Last Line: She knew what %I meant Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POEM FOR MY SISTER, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source First Line: My little sister likes to try my shoes Last Line: Sure footed, %sensibly shod Subject(s): Women POEM FOR MY SONS, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you were born, all the poets I knew Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Women; Conduct Of Life POEM FOR NANA, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will we do %when there is nobody left %to kill? Last Line: God knows I hope he's right Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM FOR SOME BLACK WOMEN, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am lonely Last Line: Add here detract there %lonely Subject(s): African Americans - Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our own shadows disappear at the feet of thousands Last Line: We are the ones we have been waiting for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women POEM FOR THE WOMAN WHO FILLED A PROSTHESIS WITH BIRDSEED, by SALLY ALLEN MCNALL Poem Source First Line: When I weaned my girl Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women POEM FOR TWO WOMEN AT THE SAME TIME, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come, blond, wearing mourning's black Last Line: I'll play secretly with your hands Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women POEM FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY; FOR BARBARA THOMPSON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year both our birthdays end in zero Last Line: The password at the boundary is friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Friendship; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism POEM IN PRAISE OF MENSTRUATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a river Subject(s): Women; Menstuation POEM IN SEPTEMBER, ON MY MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: You've come for a visit, and it's snowing Last Line: The woodcutter is up there on the hillside %felling trees for cottage after cottage Subject(s): Women POEM OF A, by CATHY BERNHEIM Poem Source First Line: Human beings Subject(s): Women's Rights POEM OF DISTANT CHILDHOOD, by NOEMIA DE SOUSA Poem Source First Line: When I was born in the great house on the bank of the sea Subject(s): Women POEM OF TWO, SELS., by MICHELE MURRY Poem Source First Line: My mother talked of breakfast or laundry Last Line: I shook my head. The heavy belly dragged me down Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall / I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall %I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers And Daughters POEM TO STERN & STERN: THANKS TO COUSIN SHIMMY, I'M NO LONGER TOUTE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday while m. Was at the les-gay march Last Line: (they're three of these) paco, paco, paco Subject(s): Women's Rights POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POEM WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, by JANE MARVEL COOPER Poem Source First Line: John berryman asked me to write a poem about roosters Last Line: And even princeton struts like one god's betters? Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, SMALL AND DELIBLE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have been picketing woolworth's Last Line: Picketing woolworth's. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948); India; Social Protest; Racism; Women; Women's Rights; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Feminism POEMS BY WOMEN, by DACIA MARAINI Poem Source First Line: Poems by women are frequently ...' Subject(s): Women's Rights; Writing And Writers POEMS FOR THE NEW, by KATHLEEN FRASER Poem Source First Line: We're connecting Last Line: We are about to become! Subject(s): Women POET AND THE BUTCHER, by CATHERINE DURNING WHETHAM Poem Source First Line: Milton, thou shouldest be living at this hour Last Line: And ask your leave to let the matter drop Subject(s): Women; World War I POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Last Line: You have used our skulls %for ashtrays Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights POETESS, by MARTA FABIANI Poem Source First Line: The poetess has paragraghs of words Subject(s): Accountants And Accounting; Women's Rights; Writing And Writers POETRY, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: My grandfather pesach hung himself Last Line: Three generations %unpublished poets %each not knowing the language of the other Subject(s): Jews - Women POETS AND PEACOCOKS, by MARGARET ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Love hurts and sometimes there's cure for it Last Line: Feathers for peacocks, poetry for men? Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights POINTS OF NO RETURN, by JUDITH HOUGEN Poem Source First Line: This is the year elvis dies and delavan, wisconsin, finally Last Line: I can't even picture, a new way to see this simple, endless field of my life Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women POKING AROUND THE RUBBISH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some rotting, most clean vanished Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Art And Artists; Old Age; Photography And Photographers; Women POLICEMAN'S LOT, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, once I was a policeman young and merry Last Line: It's enough to make a copper turn to booze %(turn to booze) %patrolling the unconscious of ted hughe Subject(s): Gilbert, Sir William S. (1836-1911); Hughes, Ted (1930-1998); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights POLIO SUMMER, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: Best was the invalid, so we took turns Last Line: That day at the beach, suspended between two worlds Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women POLITICAL ACTIVIST LIVING ALONE, by PAT ARROWSMITH Poem Source First Line: I'm middle-aged Subject(s): Women POLLEN, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: The daylilies turn white at noon Last Line: And sleep beside the lily roots Subject(s): Women's Rights POLLEN-OLD-WOMAN, by JUDITH MOUNTAIN LEAF VOLBORTH Poem Source First Line: Listen ... %pollen-old-woman Last Line: There is pollen beneath her tongue Subject(s): Old Age; Women POLLY: HACKER'S SONG, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman's like the flatt'ring ocean Last Line: When the silly pilot's blind? Subject(s): Women POMEGRANATE WIDOW, by MONA ELAINE ADILMAN Poem Source First Line: Mrs pinsky perches on her gallery Last Line: She trips downstairs %to the delicatessen, and hopes mr. Klein is no prude Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women POMONA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: The hive's full of honey, the steading of stacks Last Line: Perhaps not the goddess, but one of her girls! Subject(s): Apples; Autumn; Fruit; Seasons; Women; Fall POOR OLD FAT WOMAN, WITHER BOUND?, by CHRISTINE DONALD Poem Source Subject(s): Women POOR WILL'S WIDOW, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Broad-faced as a cow, with bony knees Last Line: Don't need a heap of words %to prove it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers POOR WOMAN'S APPEAL TO HER HUSBAND, by MARY LEMAN GRIMSTONE Poem Source First Line: You took me, colin, when a girl, unto your home and heart Last Line: And as my heart can warm your heart, so may my mind your mind Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 4. LES PAPILLONS NOIRS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A black sedan draws along the woods stopping Last Line: "what to throw away." Subject(s): Bodies; Daffodils; Habits; War; Women POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 6. THE JOYOUS, THE LAKE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How two women can be the same, for instance, in poland Last Line: Drops down from a tree in the sun in marseille. Subject(s): Boats; Warsaw, Poland; Women; World War Ii; Second World War POPLAR TREE, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Oftimes I wish that I could be Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PORCH ROCKER EMPTY., by H. F. NOYES Poem Source Last Line: Slowly climbs the steps Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PORPHYRIA'S REPLY, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Bobby, my love, you guessed not how Last Line: You too lie strangled in my hair Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PORTRAIT, by HARRIET SEYMOUR POPOWSKI Poem Text First Line: When rita fared along the village walk Last Line: Breaking a heart—or brightening a day. Subject(s): Beauty; Jealousy; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before she has her floor swept Last Line: And the queen anne's lace! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Neighbors; Women PORTRAIT D'UNE FEMME, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your mind and you are our sargasso sea Last Line: Yet this is you. Subject(s): Farr, Florence; Women PORTRAIT HOUSE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Rivers climb back to the ceiling where they belong Last Line: That this house has always felt sad Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair--braided chestnut, Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Georgia (state) African Americans - Women; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes are sunlit hazel Last Line: "the brave and gentle friend." Subject(s): Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Friendship; Music & Musicians; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the smoke and fog of a december afternoon Last Line: Now that we talk of dying- %and should I have the right to smile? Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Friendship; Music And Musicians; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a symphony of silent smokes Last Line: To be desired of all life's offerings Subject(s): Desire; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Good morning, madam Last Line: Wilting on your breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A LADY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your thighs are appletrees Last Line: I said petals from an appletree. Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, by HELEN SORRELLS Poem Text First Line: Her kitchen window opened to the west Last Line: Knew sunset was her one extravagance. Subject(s): Women PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must be willing to please Last Line: For better, for worse, and for heaven's sake Subject(s): Women PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN AT THE 7-11, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: She stands in the grocery line Last Line: Is lost to the autumn wind Subject(s): Portraits; Women PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN BED, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's my things Last Line: I'm tired. Subject(s): Idleness; Women PORTRAIT OF MRS. W., by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go: bring them in, tom -- persons of worship coming, today Last Line: Curtain Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Common Law Marriage; Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797); Women's Rights; Feminism PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BITCH, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: She owns such a sad little life Last Line: Sound tune bone to reason: %as if: %her epitaph Subject(s): Women PORTRAIT UNDER STRESS, by ELENA KARINA BYRNE Poem Source First Line: I have cornered myself away from matches and mirrors Last Line: She knows where I live. By circumference, she knows my name Subject(s): Women PORTRAIT WITH NO SHORTAGE OF HISTORY, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: For a while, it seemed like you could pull the birds back to your arms, the Last Line: I am the road block that makes wounds open. Not a daughter at all, just a %voice, a drug, the breath Subject(s): Desire; Mothers And Daughters; Women PORTRAITS, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: When my friend don juan Last Line: The business of life. .... Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORTRAITURE, by ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Black men are the tall trees that remain standing Last Line: Black men are the tall trees that remain standing in a forest after a fire. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks PORTUGUESE HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, WRITTEN AT SEA, by JOHN LEYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Star of the wide and pathless sea Last Line: Ave maris stella! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary POST AND BEAM CONSTRUCTION, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: These familiar hills, bare in winter Last Line: In the silent winter nights, %I hardly heard them leave Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women POST HUMUS, by PATTI TANA Poem Source First Line: Scatter my ashes in my garden Last Line: That patti %she sure is some tomato! Subject(s): Women POST MASTECTOMY - WEEK ONE, by MARIAN S. IRWIN Poem Source First Line: The hard new path Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Glamour-we look for it and it's not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Photography And Photographers; Singing And Singers POSTCARD FROM ALANYA, TURKEY, by ANNE SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: A man and a woman, equidistant Last Line: Against the backdrop of glinting waves %that don't fall Subject(s): Camels; Mankind; Photography And Photographers; Women POSTCARDS FROM ROTTERDAM, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came such a long way Last Line: Carolyn. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism POSTFEMINISM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights; Feminism POSTFEMINISM, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are two kinds of people, soldiers and women Last Line: There are two kinds of people. Hot with mixed %light, drunk with insult. You and me Subject(s): Survival; Women's Rights POSTMAN, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I open the door, it is the postman Last Line: Tomorrow he will stand guard by my gate Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged POTTED HAM AND CRACKERS, by RITA SIZEMORE RIDDLE Poem Source First Line: We're going home today,' he said Last Line: Her mom was right. That's all there was to keep Subject(s): Appalachia; Women POTTERY MAKER, by MARGARET MARCHAND BROWN Poem Text First Line: Yellow the pueblo, sun! Last Line: To a woman. Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Pottery And Potters; Women POWER, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of the penis remains Subject(s): Sex Organs; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POWER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The difference between poetry and rhetoric Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men POWER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving in the earth-deposits of our history Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Women POWER, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loving in the earth-deposits of our history Last Line: Her wounds came from the same source as her power Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Women POWER, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You come from a line of Last Line: Fly antoinette therese %villanueva Subject(s): Women PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman and my poems Last Line: What rhythm add to stillness %what applause? Subject(s): Women PRAEMATURI, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Source First Line: When men are old, and their friends die Last Line: But there are years and years in which we shall still be young Subject(s): Women; World War I PRAIRIE WOMAN, by SHIRLEY DILLON WAITE Poem Text First Line: This is the dawn! I have awaked too soon Last Line: And have not these impounded for your need. Subject(s): Prairies; Women; Plains PRAISE, by DINAH LIVINGSTONE Poem Source First Line: Praise, that's it! Subject(s): Women PRAISE OF WOMEN, by ROBERT MANNYNG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No thyng ys to man so dere Last Line: Than a chaste womman with lovely worde. Alternate Author Name(s): Manning, Robert; Robert De Brunne Subject(s): Women PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women PRAISESONG FOR AUDRE LORDE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It is looking at you Last Line: Owning self, life, wealthy, %in their womaness Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Women PRAYER, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: I saw a dark boy Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts PRAYER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet jesus, let her save you, let her take Last Line: Either life you choose will end in her arms Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Women PRAYER ON THE APPROACH OF ACCOUCHEMENT, by FANNY NEUDA Poem Source First Line: Oh, my god! Soon, soon approaches the great hour Last Line: Keep and preserve me from all evil. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PRAYER TO ST. FRANCIS, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now low rod : Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYER TO THE NEW YEAR, by FADWA TUQAN Poem Source First Line: In our hands is a fresh yearning for you Last Line: We will push our steps to a precipice %from which to reap life's victories Subject(s): Arabs - Women PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES, by HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gracious lady: / simple as when I asked your aid before Last Line: The futile folly of the infinite! Subject(s): Catholics; Chartres, France; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary PRAYERS FOR A SICK DAUGHTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I sleep %this winter Last Line: We will be done %to begin Subject(s): Jews - Women PREAMBLE, by ELIZABETH COX GILLILAND Poem Source First Line: Before I can paint I must think Last Line: That I begin to make my art Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women PRECIOUS CRAZY GIRL GIGGLES, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Collard greens, bluefish, brown rice Last Line: And kiss %the morning we met Subject(s): Identity; Women PREDESTINATION OR, LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: I kissed the frog firmly Last Line: Fiercely resisting princehood Subject(s): Jews - Women PREFERENCE, by DANIEL SARGENT Poem Source First Line: I should rather say one prayer to the mother of god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PRELUDE: LUSUS NATURAE: 1. THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY AND THE KING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: She: how could I guess a world's collective breath Last Line: Drawn headlong out from a long-winded fetch Subject(s): Women PREMONITION, by ANTONIA POZZI Poem Source First Line: The last light lingers Subject(s): Women's Rights PRESENCES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This night has been so strange that it seemed Last Line: And one, it may be, a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women; Fear; Dreams PRETTY PICTURE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: If a beautiful woman Last Line: The handsome but insensitive %and witless man? Subject(s): Women - Bible PRIEST, by WILLIAM FAULKNER Poem Source First Line: Evening like a nun shod with silence, evening like a girl slipping along Last Line: Ave, maria; deam gratiam...Tower of ivory, rose of lebanon Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; God; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Nuns; Women - Bible PRIESTESS, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: Somewhere in the desert %is a woman in flowing Last Line: And black always flowing into each other, yin and yang Subject(s): Deserts; Food And Eating; Women PRINCESS, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the premiums he had paid she put a new front porch Last Line: Entice the newly planted, twining vines Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PRINCESS MICHAL'S SONG, by ROSALIND (ROSA) DARROW Poem Source First Line: Here in the garden %sit david and I Last Line: And I shall weave %garlands alone in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women PRISMS, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Eight months since your death Last Line: Through our fingers Subject(s): Women's Rights PRISONER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The water speaks in all its slippery tongues Last Line: He tries to remember the body it resembles most Subject(s): Rape; Women PRIVATE SHOWING, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I lock his hat in its tall box Last Line: Then give to him, shining Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives PRIZED EQUALLY, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Women can rebel Last Line: By god %in new creation Subject(s): Women - Bible PRO BONO PUBLICO, by PAUL WEST Poem Text First Line: She knew she had 'a call' to be a poet Last Line: It's gained -- what's twice as valuable -- a cook! Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers PRO CASTITATE, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin born of virgin Last Line: Love and love and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary PRO FEMINA: FOUR. FANNY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At samoa, hardly unpacked, I commenced planting Last Line: Never again succumb to the fever of planting. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Marriage; Mothers; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it! Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women. Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism PRO FEMINA: TWO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take as my theme 'the independent women' Last Line: Springing, full-grown, from your own head, athena? Subject(s): Independence; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism PROFESSION, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Exhausted of rhetoric %and anger Last Line: Astringent as loving %that only music immutable Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights PROLETARIAT SPEAKS, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love beautiful things Last Line: And hurrying out, dab my unrefreshed face %with bits of toiletry from the ten cent store Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women PROLOGUE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The disappeared women slipped in among dreams. They would watch me Last Line: Because I wish to accompany my dead sisters Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Pain; Women PROLOGUE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou speaker of all wisdom in word Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PROLOGUE FOR THE WOMEN, WHEN THEY ACTED AT THE OLD THEATRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard Last Line: The gaudy house with scenes will serve for cits. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Plays & Playwrights ; Theater & Theaters; Women; Actresses; Dramatists; Stage Life PROLOGUE TO THE PAIR-ROYAL OF COXCOMBS, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, as you say, you love variety Last Line: This, ladies, humbly begs a gentle doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights; Women PROMISE, by JOHARI M. KUNJUFU Poem Source First Line: I am warm Last Line: They will only know me Subject(s): African Americans - Women PROMISE OF GOOD FOOD, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Emma sizzles through sparks, through fernley Last Line: As long as it takes him to find something Subject(s): Women PROMISE OF HAPPINESS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Long neck bejewelled, brows plucked Last Line: Your missing eye meets mine Subject(s): Women's Rights PROMISES TO MYSELF, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: No desserts Last Line: Stop making lists Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights PROMISES: ON A FAMILIAR POEM BY ROBERT FROST, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What vows you made, I don't pretend to know Last Line: A few, or most, or some, before you slept Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PROMISING AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving on the road to stinson beach Last Line: Who wept for mercy as you died. Subject(s): Disappointment; Driving & Drivers; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Feminism PROOF, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Papi brought home a puppy Last Line: Right under our very noses Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women PROOF, by BESSIE CALHOUN BIRD Poem Source First Line: Other loves I have known Last Line: The gift sublime %the intransmutable verity Subject(s): African Americans - Women PROOF AND PLENTY: AN INGENIOUS ENTERTAINMENT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The cachinnation pales, paroxysm fades Last Line: Of a cup set too quickly down. %and that's it Subject(s): Women PROPERZIA ROSSI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One dream of passion and of beauty more! Last Line: "say proudly yet -- ""'twas hers who loved me well!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Rossi, Properzia; Women PROPHECY, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: We're not watching the fireworks this year Last Line: I think so,' you say, and I know then -- it is settled Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PROPHECY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall lie hidden in a hut Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Women PROPHECY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall lie hidden in a hut Last Line: Behind the panes, with wind about %to set his mouth against a crack %and blow the candle out Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Women PROPHET'S WIDOW DISCOVERS THE OIL OF GLADNESS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: I who had borrowed too much Last Line: And miracle %of our sharing Subject(s): Women - Bible PROPOSAL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Was there a harvest moon that noisy night Last Line: His who are you? Is followed by the smile %which proves that he has loved her all the while Subject(s): Women - Bible PROPOSAL TO ROBERT BURNS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Let's make a wedding time won't hook Last Line: You won't be asked to share your name Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PROTEST, by AMAL AL- JUBURI Poem Source First Line: Why did you reproach him %and turn him away? Last Line: And you, %you are nothing but %a pair of flawed boots Subject(s): Arabs - Women PROVERB, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: If I had %a cliche Last Line: For every crisis, %I'd be a rich woman Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights PROVERBS 31, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: What a rare find is a capable wife! Last Line: Extol her for the fruit of her hand, %and let her works praise her in the gates Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS 31. AN UPDATED VERSION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who can find a wise woman? Last Line: Many women have done wisely %but she excels them all Subject(s): Shalvi, Alice; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion PROVERBS: SOLOMON, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PROVERBS: THE JOYS OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed are those who have discovered wisdom Last Line: Glory is the portion of the wise, %all that fools inherit is contempt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: THE SUPREME INVITATION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And now, my children, listen to me Last Line: All who hate me are in love with death Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS CREATOR, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning Last Line: At play everywhere on his earth, %delighting to be with the children of men Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS HOSTESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom has built herself a house Last Line: Leave foolishness behind you and you will live, %go forwards in the ways of perception Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM SPEAKS, A WARNING TO THE HEEDLESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom calls aloud in the streets Last Line: But whoever listens to me may live secure, %will have quiet, fearing no mischance Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVING THE PERTINENCE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Statistically men Last Line: And prove their pertinence %to all the sacred story Subject(s): Women - Bible PSALM 44, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: O god! We with our ears have heard Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PSALTER OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, by BONAVENTURE Poem Source First Line: Blessed is the man, o virgin mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PSYCHE'S PRELUDE REVISED: 1. A QUEEN'S CONFESSION, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The midwife helped me feign to carry my 'psyche' Last Line: Left behind by perfection is bound to hurt Subject(s): Women PSYCHE'S PRELUDE REVISED: 2. A KING'S CONFUSION, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I let my wife keep her secret, not to admit Last Line: As any suitor to touch her, and betrayed us both Subject(s): Women PSYCHE'S PRELUDE REVISED: 3. THE REAL MOTHER OF PSYCHE'S BEAUTY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I'm your typical midwife-witch, gorgeous and tough Last Line: For wear. Nor me, and most of the trouble was mine Subject(s): Women PSYCHE'S PRELUDE REVISED: 4. BOXING THE COMPASS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Sure, I'm talking comedy, dante no more nor less Last Line: Psyche would name her unborn burden joy Subject(s): Women PUBLIC JOURNAL, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is four in the afternoon. Time still for a poem Last Line: And the american royalties, and an inherited income, %to keep the wolf at bay Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights PUBLISHER'S PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At tea in cocktail weather Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Publishing; Women Writers; Publishers PUBLISHER'S PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At tea in cocktail weather Last Line: Away in haste I slither, %feeling I need a breather Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Publishing; Women - Writers PULP FEMINISM, APRIL INSTALLMENT, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Because when I go for my yearly physical Last Line: And now if I only had the nerve to %call you first Subject(s): Physicians; Relationships; Women's Rights PURDAH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Jade / stone of the side Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURDAH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jade %stone of the side Last Line: The cloak of holes Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURDAH I, by IMTIAZ DHARKER Poem Source First Line: One day they said Last Line: Inward and again %inward Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURDAH II, SELS., by IMTIAZ DHARKER Poem Source First Line: The call breaks its back %across the tenements Last Line: Only to scent its own small trail of blood Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURDAH, THE MUSLIM PRACTICE OF SECLUDING AND VEILING WOMEN, by ALICE GLARDEN BRAND Poem Source First Line: They sew in quick chain stitches at my feet Subject(s): Women - Secluding PURIFICATION, by COSMAS Poem Source First Line: Sion, thy bridal-bower prepare Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Last Line: By his owne death can make his mother live. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary PURIFICATION OF YE B. VIRGIN (TO A BASE, A TENOR, AND TWO TREBLES), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How shall chrystall purer grow? Last Line: Sweet law of humilitie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary PURIFICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Source First Line: May we have leave to ask, illustrious mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible PURPLE THOUGHT, by HOUDA AL- NA'MANI Poem Source First Line: It is ghosts that kill you without a drop of blood Last Line: What might perhaps impress you- %a walking mountain? Subject(s): Arabs - Women PURPLE TULIPS, by LAURIE WAGNER BUYER Poem Source First Line: After a weekend of shakespeare %and talk and friends, the renewal of Last Line: Of the road; it will always bring us home Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE, by DONNA HILBERT Poem Source First Line: I learned about sex from freud and grace metalious Last Line: That trailer truck barreling down %the highway toward them Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women PUZZLE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Based on biblical teaching Last Line: Under my bed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina PYGMALION TO GALATEA, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pygmalion spoke and sang to galatea Last Line: "give me an equal kiss, as I kiss you." Subject(s): Courtship; Galatea; Love; Pygmalion; Women QIRYAT SHMONEH, by ESTHER COHEN Poem Source First Line: Bible men walk %with beards Last Line: On top of the sunrise and we'll eat soup together %with one golden spoon Subject(s): Jews - Women QUARRY, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: We went to the ditches. We went to the palace Last Line: And rinse and, if there's enough time, if there's enough water, %rinse again Subject(s): Women's Rights QUATRAIN, by MAHSATI Poem Source First Line: Better to live as a rogue and a bum Last Line: Their lives; risk yours, or you're not going to make it Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Women QUATRAIN: 2, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange that grass should sing Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women QUATRAIN: THE COME-BACK, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Most women facing trouble Last Line: And face the world again. Subject(s): Hair; Women QUEEN CHARMING WRITES AGAIN, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Dear godmother, %another year, and today Last Line: That can fall and lift again, to pray or scream... %as never, ever, %your 'cinderella' Subject(s): Women QUEEN GUINEVERE, by MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I wear a crown of gems upon my brow Last Line: And hush me to that slumber, calm and deep, %from which none wake again! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Women QUEEN OF ANGELS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of angels, mary, thou whose smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF COURTESY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blissful,' said I, 'can this be true' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF HORIZONS, by JOSEPH DEVER Poem Source First Line: Oh lord, give me a plane Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUEEN OF SHEBA, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Her dark beauty Last Line: Long after she departed - and so do we Subject(s): Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Women - Bible QUEENS, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven dog-days we let pass Last Line: Of all are living, or have been. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Women QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone seemed more american Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women QUESTION OF SINGING-PART I, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I don't know when it happened or why, she just stop singing Last Line: Sometimes, in red winged dawns of african, free women Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Pain; Singing And Singers QUESTION OF SINGING-PART II, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I like how you come and sit with me Last Line: Hoping to make song again Subject(s): Anger; Singing And Singers; Women QUIA AMORE LANGUERO (THE VIRGIN'S COMPLAINT), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within a chamber of a tower Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible QUIET MENTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He bullied her for years Last Line: She didn't win and yet she won Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Solitude; Women - Abused QUILTING, by MELETA MURDOCK BAKER Poem Source First Line: It occurs to me why I want to make a quilt Last Line: It's all done with hidden stitches %sturdy and minute Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women RACE RELATIONS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sang in the sun Last Line: Of the breakers of stone Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When memnon's sculptured form the god of day Last Line: What victor monarch's crown is with such gems / enwrought Subject(s): Jews;rachel (bible);women;women In The Bible; Judaism RACHEL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN Poem Source First Line: For her blood runs in my blood Last Line: For memories are preserved in my feet %ever since, ever since Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wan september moonbeams, struggling down Last Line: Crowned with the palm, walking the fields of peace! Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: I will sit here very still Last Line: A late bloomer - but special Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL, by BOBBI SYKES Poem Source First Line: Named from the bible %that good and holy book Last Line: Need to take a closer look... %suffer the little children... Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL CARSON, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: When rachel was a child Last Line: And all things growing wild Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes RACHEL CRIED THERE FOR HER CHILDREN, by RIVKA MIRIAM Poem Source First Line: Rachael cried there for her children not yet born Last Line: And they hovered quietly into her cry %as into their border Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL LAMENTS, by MARION ETHEL HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: O rachel, crying and lamenting loud Subject(s): Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL'S HUNGER, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I've seen rachel tear at the strings Last Line: Until the shadow of a child's hand %touched her face Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL'S TOMB, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Source First Line: On the fields of bethlehem Last Line: Merging silently Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Graves; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible RACHEL: 3, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung from the blood of israel's scattered race Last Line: Her genius and her glory are her own. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism RADICAL, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Fear trembling, fire-dry, in pill-sheathed Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women RADIUM GIRLS, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: She doesn't mind talking about hers Last Line: Sixty years later this midwestern grave %of the last of the red-hot mommas %still too hot to handl Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women RAGWEED, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first night I stayed at my reluctant boyfriend's apartment Last Line: He said to call him back when I looked normal again Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women RAIDERS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: In shadowy formation up they rise Last Line: Down the uncharted roadway of the skies Subject(s): Women; World War I RAIN, by NEWMAN LEVY Poem Source First Line: On the ilse of pago pago, land of palm trees, rice and sago Subject(s): Islands; Life; Rain; Sailors And Sailing; Women RAIN, by DUNYA MIKHAIL Poem Source First Line: When the rain of god falls down %please, my friend Last Line: Is it why the heart clamors for icy friends? Subject(s): Arabs - Women RAIN AT NIGHT, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Falls through %the fiddleneck ferns Last Line: That only the light %of morning can drown Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women RAIN IS FALLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women RAIN PRAYER, by MARGOT LIBERTY Poem Source First Line: For so long, we've longed for rain Last Line: Rain remembrance of thy love Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAINY DAY, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can still close my eyes and open them four floors up Last Line: On like the rest of us, this immense journey, for love, for rain Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women RAINY DAY, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can still close my eyes and open them four floors up Last Line: Rest of us, this immense journey, for love, for rain Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women RAINY SEASON LOVE SONG, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: Out of the tense awed darkness, my frangepani comes Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women RAINY SUNDAY., by LOUISE SOMERS WINDER Poem Source Last Line: The mother's day card Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women RAISED IN THE DARK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: What wood can do - what curves! Last Line: I like to think I've come this far Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives RAISIN EYES, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: I saw my friend ella Last Line: She said with a little laugh Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RANCH WOMAN, by MARGARET CARROLL BRADY Poem Text First Line: She skimmed sour cream with a wide flat spoon Last Line: She tasted nectar only wild bee sips. Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women RANCHER ROULETTE, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: It's no trick to get killed ranching Last Line: He said, 'I hope I don't live to be a hundred; %I can't afford it.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RAPE, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After twenty years I want to call it that, but was it? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RAPTURE, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: What is the gear that turns this world Last Line: As the gold block of cheese on the dark shelf Subject(s): Appalachia; Women RAPUNZEL, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Think what it must have been like for her, caged Last Line: Brave enough, their own minds not quick enough for %them to save themselves Subject(s): Beauty; Courtship; Women RAPUNZEL, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Rapunzel was a sister Last Line: And she did not need any rescuing Subject(s): Identity; Women RAVINE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Because he thinks she moves like water Last Line: He wants to bathe in again and again Subject(s): Rape; Women RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Last Line: He says, feel my muscle, and I do Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women REACHING IN, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: What goes on %inside those wooly bodies Last Line: I have greater respect for my hand now than I used to Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REACHING TOWARD BEAUTY, by HYACINTHE HILL Poem Source First Line: Your love declines. You, thinking little lines Last Line: Only the core of this crone was ever real Subject(s): Women READING HER THE NEWS., by JANE K. LAMBERT Poem Source Last Line: Who died today, dearie?' %she asks Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women READING LU CHI, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight touching all eight corners Subject(s): Books; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men READING SCIENCE AND THINKING OF THE CAVES AT PECH-MERLE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Science invents a catastrophe theory, a theory of chaoes Last Line: We knew the vortex of zero at the cave's low end Subject(s): Women's Rights READING THE POSTCARD PAINTING, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: When you sent the card, did you know Last Line: Sulks alone in its mists, upholding %the notion of distance even here Subject(s): Women READING WHITMAN IN A TOILET STALL, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A security-man who stood, arms crossed, outside Last Line: As we walk out of our secrets into the world Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Trysts; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men READING YOUR POEMS IN YOUR HOUSE WHILE YOU ARE AWAY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning my first roadrunner Last Line: And give them back, like moonlight. Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (1911-2004)); Religion; Women's Rights; Reading; Male-female Relations; Theology; Feminism READING, DREAMING, HIDING, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were reading. I was dreaming Last Line: The color blue was full of darkness, dreaming %in the wind and trees. I was reading you Subject(s): Books; Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Milosz, Czeslaw (b. 1911); Religion; Women's Rights REAL PEOPLE, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Those women were complicated Last Line: Of real people %made in the heterogeneity of god Subject(s): Women - Bible REAL WOMAN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: A virtuous woman Last Line: Of god %as any man may be Subject(s): Women - Bible REALISM, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And truth, you say, is all divine Last Line: Is handmaid to the hags of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Realism; Women REALITY TRICK, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Keep is the room I know Last Line: To hush! The thrill %and quiet after Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives REALIZATION, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Momma said, 'pretty does!' Last Line: I offer this gift to others Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina REAR WINDOW, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: Love is a hovering, a deafening Last Line: Scripted and its twin %is terror. Subject(s): Women's Rights REASON, MY DEAR MARIA, BRINGS US TO PROXIMITY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: You've said, I'm afraid, if my devils leave me Last Line: See my secretary on the way out; your 50 minutes are up Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights REASONABLE FACSIMILE, by BONNIE MICHAEL PRATT Poem Source First Line: The ghost of me walks these halls Last Line: Do not know %that I was never here Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women REASONINGS OF A WOMAN POET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You men who hold forth Subject(s): Women's Rights REASSURANCE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you imagine nothing better, brother Last Line: Than man hath known before. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism REBECCA, by SUSAN GRIFFIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rebecca, sweet-one, little-one Last Line: Like a needle %through my life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women REBECCA, THE JEWESS, by CLARK B. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Closed are the tear-gates of paradise now Last Line: The beautiful land of dreams. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism REBEL, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Charon: I shall be a scandal on your ferry Subject(s): Women's Rights RECALLING WARM WEATHER, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: The bread lady. The bird lady Last Line: Memory is the open beak, this seasonal hunger Subject(s): Women RECIPE, by SUSAN (RITTER) LEVINKIND Poem Source First Line: A guggle muggle %I'm not even sure how to spell it Last Line: Don't burn your throat, %so it feels, yes? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women RECOVERY, by EMILY SIMS Poem Source First Line: Midsummer sun Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women RECRUIT FROM THE SLUMS, by EMILY ORR Poem Source First Line: What has your country done for you Last Line: And when all is said, she's our mother old %and we creep to her breast at the end Subject(s): Women; World War I RED DRESS AND DEATH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Lady death Last Line: Of my sorrows Subject(s): Women's Rights RED JACK, by MARY DURACK Poem Text First Line: She rises clear to memory's eye Last Line: Went all their ways alone. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Solitude; Women; Loneliness RED JOURNEYS, SELS., by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: I dream red dreams, an oasis of fire and light Last Line: Tell me: what threads memory, dream, myth, reality? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women RED LANTERNS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: I have seen black-robed men Last Line: I will raise the red lantern Subject(s): Women RED ROCK CEREMONIES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: The clear moon arcs Last Line: I am making the words %speak in circles Subject(s): Family Life; History; West (u.s.); Women RED SHOES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She no longer Last Line: To the %air Subject(s): Women's Rights RED STRING, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women RED STRING, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first she thought the lump in the road Last Line: Even if blood must sign your name Subject(s): Ku Klux Klan; Women RED-HAIRED WAITRESS, by KEL MUNGER Poem Source First Line: I used to smile with more than teeth Last Line: Here's a threat you don't even know about Subject(s): Dugan, Alan (1923-2003); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights REDISCOVERY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more I go over your earthly body Last Line: Waiting a marriage of heaven and hell in the bed of this world Subject(s): Beauty; Explorers; Sex; Women; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers REED, by CARYLL HOUSELANDER Poem Source First Line: She is a reed Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REETIKA ARRANGES MY CLOSET, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her apartment is a lesson in schematics Last Line: I'm going to give her everything I own Subject(s): Girls; Houses; Rooms; Women REFLECTION, by LYN DENAEYER Poem Source First Line: It was open session sign up Last Line: Is always found in love's reflection Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REFLECTIONS LOST IN THE LADIES ROOM, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Distant flushings sing; run softly; flow Last Line: How well you look.' and flushings sing. 'I know.' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients REFLECTIONS ON C YARD, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Tuesday, early chow Last Line: Behind boarded windows and darkness %in a house left empty Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women REFLECTIONS, WRITTEN ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Deep in this grave her bones remain Last Line: We turn to dust, to sleep, to repose. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Friendship; Graves; Mortality; Tombs; Tombstones REFUGEE, by LAILA HALABY Poem Source First Line: The lungs of the wrinkled gray-eyed man %bellow with love Last Line: A river %to take him home Subject(s): Arabs - Women REFUSAL, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS Poem Source First Line: Shadows; pillows; the garden sloping down Subject(s): Women's Rights REGINA ANGELORUM, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lady went into a strange country Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REGINA COELI, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, did his sisters wonder what could joseph see Last Line: Who was indeed thy god! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary REGINA COELI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O queen of heaven, be joyful, alleluia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible REJECTION, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: They circle around Last Line: Blood flows %from my %vein Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights REJOICE IN THE BLESSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women RELAPSE, by AUDREY HANKINS Poem Source First Line: Aa books and coors cans Last Line: And know he'll kill you yet Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RELUCTANT HEROINE, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: I am now part of history Last Line: To the progress of women Subject(s): Citadel (military Academy); Faulkner, Shannon (b. 1975); Women's Rights REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States REMEMBER MEDUSA?, by EUNICE DE SOUZA Poem Source First Line: My dumb ox loyalty is Subject(s): Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women REMEMBERED WOMEN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land Last Line: The women they left behind, they fight on. Subject(s): Soldiers; Women REMEMBERING, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Remembering wasn't dangerous Last Line: By naming him Subject(s): Women's Rights REMEMBERING AND HONORING TONI CADE BAMBARA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How to respond to the genius Last Line: Read everything? Saw everything? Subject(s): Bambara, Toni Cade (1939-1995); African Americans – Women; Social Protest; Writing & Writers REMEMBERING FANNIE LOU HAMER, by THADIOUS M. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Precious night-blooming cereus %you flowered once in mississippi Last Line: But for strong new growth %under midnight moons Subject(s): African Americans - Women REMEMBERING NANA, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I remember the pattern engraved in her spoons Last Line: The fullness of how much of her would be remembered for a %lifetime Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights REMEMBERING WILLIE MAE, by JOAN HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: I remember like last night, willie mae coming to town Last Line: You know, willie mae, some things just ain't meant to be.' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers REMEMBRANCE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Counting under her breath Last Line: Eyes patched with velvet %railroad ties Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women REMEMBRANCE (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love taketh many colours, and weareth many shapes Last Line: To droop beneath an outward smile -- such is woman's lot. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Women REMEMBRANCE DAY IN THE DALES, by DOROTHY UNA RATCLIFFE Poem Source First Line: It's a fine kind thought! And yet - I know Last Line: But the years are long since the lads went west Subject(s): Women; World War I REMINISCENCE, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long since, these ghosts lay dead - Last Line: Memories are only heavy prisoners now. Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Memory; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men REMONSTRANCE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughters of eve! Your mother did not well Last Line: Find the lost eden in their love to you. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve RENEGADE, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: I saw your gaping eyes %where sight had ended Last Line: I dug you out of your lapsed body %to plant you in the heart of mine Subject(s): Arabs - Women REPLY FROM HIS COY MISTRESS, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I am not a bird of prey Last Line: You've all our lives to praise the rest Variant Title(s): Coy Mistres Subject(s): Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights REPLY TO A DREAM SONG, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: Maybe them macho poets should not marry, man Last Line: Weren't all that keen on women, anyway Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights REPLY TO HER DAUGHTER, IV, by MADELEINE DES ROCHES Poem Source First Line: I love more than ever my solitary life Subject(s): Women's Rights REPLY TO THE SHADE OF DESCARTES, by ANNE DE LA VIGNE Poem Source First Line: Lo! You appear, illustrious and learned shade Subject(s): Women's Rights REPLY TO THE VERSES OF M. LEBRUN ENTITLED:, by PHILIPPINE DE VANNOZ Poem Source First Line: When lebrun in his felicitous lines Subject(s): Women's Rights REPORT ON THE SITUATION, by HELGA NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Many of us are still sitting Subject(s): Women's Rights REPORTED MISSING, by ANNA GORDON KEOWN Poem Source First Line: My thought shall never be that you are dead Last Line: Of these familiar things I have no dread %being so very sure you are not dead Subject(s): Women; World War I REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers REQUEST TO A YEAR, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If the year is meditating a suitable gift Last Line: Year, if you have no mother's day present planned; %reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand Subject(s): Grandparents; Women REQUIEM FOR SYLVIA PLATH, by LUCIANA FREZZA Poem Source First Line: A requiem for you Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Women's Rights REQUIEM: 10. CRUCIFIXION, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of angels glorified the hour Last Line: His mother stood apart. No other looked %into her secret eyes. Nobody dared Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Russia - Stalin Era; Women - Bible REQUIEM: EPILOGUE - I, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There I learned how faces fall apart Last Line: Under that red blind prison-wall Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Russia - Stalin Era; Women RESCUING THE BUDDHA, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: There are more than 50,000 rivers in china Last Line: As if related by blood, his brothers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged RESEMBLANCES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Naked, me Last Line: Of a common blood Subject(s): Women's Rights RESIGNATION (2), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could resign that eye of blue Last Line: To -- do without you altogether. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): To Cloe Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Women RESISTANCE, by CONNIE FIFE Poem Source First Line: Resistance is a woman Last Line: Of fire accompanied by her daughters %perseverance and determination Subject(s): Women RESOLUTION IN MOVING ON, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps that love we wanted Last Line: To where %I am %now Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights RESOLUTION, SELS., by JOSEFA MASANES Poem Source First Line: That I be a writer? Absolutely not Subject(s): Women's Rights; Writing And Writers RESPONSE TO THOMAS GRAY BY HIS FAVOURITE CAT, SELIMA, by D. A. PRINCE Poem Source First Line: It's not my fault the vase's side Last Line: Like off'ring me your favourite chair %I rest my case Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights REST IN LOVE, SELS, by DIANA HELEN MELHEM Poem Source First Line: Say french: %who knows what lebanese is? Last Line: But the poet composed %for others Subject(s): Arabs - Women RETABLO, by RONNIE BURK Poem Source First Line: Was it woman in the shape of a tree? Last Line: As I fly into %the sun Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible RETICENCE, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: Yesterday %when I found %the curtains of the neighbor's floor Last Line: Which belonged to a bird- %pellets which dried and melted Subject(s): Arabs - Women RETURN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Left here, as if I sprang Last Line: I will count the waves and decide what to do with my life Subject(s): Women's Rights RETURN, by MARY DORCEY Poem Source First Line: At last, the train will lurch in Last Line: As though for the first time Subject(s): Women RETURN, by JOHARI M. KUNJUFU Poem Source First Line: Things begin again Last Line: And the earth is warm deep soft and full %when the quietness bursts Subject(s): African Americans - Women RETURN OF EVE, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When man rose up out of the red mountains Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible RETURN TO FRANKFURT, SELS, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: The girl thinks if I can only change Last Line: Wordless and smiling, in some quiet street Subject(s): Women RETURN TO LIFE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is not a pear tree Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism RETURN TO TEMPTATION, by MARY E. WEEMS Poem Full Text First Line: Melvin's dead. / a cloud-nine moves Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women RETURN TO TEMPTATION, by MARY E. WEEMS Poem Source First Line: Melvin's dead. %a cloud-nine moves Last Line: Return to %temptation Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women REUNION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than thirty years we hadn't met Last Line: Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you. Subject(s): Disappointment; Reunions; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Educators; Professors; Feminism REVAMPING THE VIRGIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How green the grass looks on the other side Last Line: To get it right this time and have a girl. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology REVELATION, by CAROLE CLEMMONS GREGORY Poem Source First Line: An old woman in me walks patiently to the hospital Last Line: And looked so good %and when am I coming back to stay Subject(s): African Americans - Women REVISION (FOR NOVEMBER 11TH), by EILEEN NEWTON Poem Source First Line: In those two silent moments, when we stand Last Line: Because your soul, long-risen from the dead, %is crowned by love's immortal constancy Subject(s): Women; World War I REVOLT, by ADINE BRABART RIOM Poem Source First Line: You would hear, o lord, woman's lament Subject(s): Women's Rights REVOLUTIONARY, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Psychotherapy is indulgent Last Line: Still can't control anyone %except myself Subject(s): Identity; Women REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy lou of rue / sent to his reward Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Murder REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sammy lou of rue %sent to his reward Last Line: Don't yall forgit to water %my purple petunias' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Murder REVOLUTIONARY STORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good mother, what quaint legend are you reading Last Line: "who ever have been loved." Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Books; Roses; American Revolution; Love – Loss Of; Memory REVOLVING HOUSE, OR ANOTHER GIRL FRIEND POEM: 7, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sitting women are sitting there Last Line: Watches back waving at every other passerby Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Friendship; Women REWARDING, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: After eliciting Last Line: Of the day %off! Subject(s): Women - Bible REWRITING HISTORY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: No one remembers Last Line: You'd ever memorized was on the test Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women RHETORIC OF LANGSTON HUGHES, by MARGARET DANNER Poem Source First Line: While some 'rap' over this turmoil Last Line: And dedicated ourselves %to be unraveling Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Hughes, Langston (1902-1967) RHYME FOR THE TIME, by EMILY JANE (DAVIS) PFEIFFER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What is to say, had best be said Last Line: I'll labour stoutly for your weal, %and trust your maker for the rest Subject(s): Women RHYME OF MY INHERITANCE, by JOAN LARKIN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My mother gave me a bitter tongue Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 9, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As like the woman you can' Last Line: In which shall cumulate the race.' Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Women RICHARD BROUGHT HIS FLUTE, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: The day the two old women were dissecting two birds Last Line: And all silence was reduced to listening Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Grandparents; Women RIDDLE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman, though my head and tail are both of them the same Last Line: "metamorphosed to a man then, the woman disappears!" Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Men; Riddles; Women RIDDLE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: What goes on four legs Last Line: How comes my mother thus? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women RIDDLE, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: Gone wild, grown old Last Line: Apple tree, daughter of the hill Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women RIDE TO THE CATTLE, by SALLY HARPER BATES Poem Source First Line: The ashes lie smirking Last Line: That my love lets him ride to the cattle Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RIMBAUD'S CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The candy striper on her rounds Last Line: Approaching stress and stress that perishes Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients RIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS BABY (AT 48 WEBSTER PLACE, ORANGE), by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear bess, %he'll have rings and linen things Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women RING ROAD, by SANDRA MANGINI Poem Source First Line: We shall not forget anything Subject(s): Women's Rights RINGLING BROS. PRESENT: THE LUCKY LUCIE LAMORT, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Between this dream junk wasteland and the milky way, I taunt Last Line: Like a pure and dizzy prayer. Yeah Subject(s): Women RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, / when my next volume (granted: slender) Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism RIPOSTE, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear tom, %when my next volume (granted: slender) Last Line: And you might find an artists' colony %a perfectly respectable resort Subject(s): Disch, Tom (b. 1940); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights RISA, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: When risa crosses her long legs Last Line: All the wadis of judea go streaming %in the rush of spring Subject(s): Jews - Women RISE UP, MY LOVE (BOAZ' SONG TO RUTH), by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rise up, my love, my fair one. Come away. Last Line: Arise, my love, my fair one. Come away %this day of days shall be our wedding day Subject(s): Women - Bible RITE OF PASSAGE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Firmly fixed on returning once more Last Line: As promised her darlin' louie Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina RITES DE PASSAGE, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: As our bodies took shape Last Line: Of passage gleamed like dime %in your eyes Subject(s): Jews - Women RITUAL OF MY BREASTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Today, I stand Last Line: Of your lips Subject(s): Women's Rights RIVER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We could have Last Line: Arm %of water Subject(s): Women's Rights RIVER, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Men rose and prayed Last Line: But roots bound below, %cracking temples Subject(s): Women's Rights RIVER, by ETHEL M. CAUTION Poem Source First Line: The river is decrepit old woman Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women RIZPAH, by LUCY MARION BLINN Poem Source First Line: The long, bright day of harvest toil is past Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the desolate rizpah said Last Line: The beasts of the desert, and fowls of air. Subject(s): Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible RIZPAH, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is growing dark Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sons, how many generations Last Line: That lights towards hell his bondslaves and their czar. Subject(s): Mothers; Poland; Rizpah (bible); Russia; Tragedy; Women - Bible; Soviet Union; Russians RIZPAH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Wailing, wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea Last Line: Going. He calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; England; Mothers; Rizpah (bible); Tragedy; Women In The Bible; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; English RIZPAH, by GEORGE M. VICKERS Poem Source First Line: Night came at last. The noisy throng had gone Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH WITH HER SONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bread for my mother!' said the voice of one Last Line: [unfinished.] Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women - Bible RIZPAH, DAUGHTER OF AIAH (WRITTEN FOR MUSIC), by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the changing sky Last Line: Rizpah, daughter of aiah. Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible ROAD BLOCK, by IAIN DEANS Poem Source First Line: This is for the apple faced old lady Last Line: You cracked all the machines perfectly Subject(s): Subways; Traffic; Women ROAD TRIPS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Somewhere, between the verrazzano bridge Last Line: On the road trips of yesterday Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers ROBERTA, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Roberta, girl cousin %the stalks are ready in their green rows Last Line: And not to worry %to just be girls Subject(s): Girls; Togetherness; Women ROBIN HOOD, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: It wasn't so much robin hood Last Line: And the thigh Subject(s): Women's Rights ROBIN HOOD AMONG THE PILLOWS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: From out of sleep, as it seeps across the glow Last Line: I come round to myself Subject(s): Women's Rights ROC, by MOHJA KAHF Poem Source First Line: Here's my mom and dad leaving Last Line: And ages away. Spiny talon %digs into rock Subject(s): Arabs - Women ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, 1965, by KELLY SIEVERS Poem Source First Line: Hot tunnels wound beneath the ground Last Line: Hiding our hot %and steaming hearts Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Nurses; Women ROCK, by NATALIE R. SHEFFLER Poem Source First Line: My father was the silence that we ate Last Line: He lowered his voice so the neighbors couldn't hear, %his silence the rock inside the stone Subject(s): Jews - Women ROCK ME TO SLEEP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward, turn backward, o time, in your flight Last Line: Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Home; Mothers & Daughters; Time; Women; Youth ROCK-SOLID WOMEN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Gemma's dead, but her presence srcubs the kitchen Last Line: Please say the grudge isn't all we hold between us Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women ROCKET TO RUSSIA (2), by ALISON STONE Poem Source First Line: I woke up with purple hair and paul Last Line: A women asked if I'd been mugged Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ROLAND, by PEGGY GODFREY Poem Source First Line: Everyone was sure %roland was my pa Last Line: A child had been in bondage %a woman was set free Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers ROMAN GIRL'S SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rome, rome! Thou art no more Last Line: As thou hast been! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Women ROMAN WOMEN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close by the mamertine Last Line: O pincian woman, do not come to rome! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Roman Empire; Women ROMANCE, by REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, she's just around the corner, and she's just beyond this street Last Line: As to strangle in the meshes of her hair! Subject(s): Women ROMANCE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know we made it up, like god Last Line: Throbs, aches. Nothing there %and still, the pain makes a shape Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women ROMANCE REKINDLED, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Very good at hellos Last Line: As they launched their own %may day Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ROMANCE: 8, by JOHN OF THE CROSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Then he summoned an archangel Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: MARIE ANTOINETTE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plate-glass windows gleam in the sun Last Line: He starts in fearful amazement. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France; Women ROMANCING POET, by HELEN HAMILTON Poem Source First Line: Granted that you write verse, %much better verse than I Last Line: We are not glory-snatchers! Subject(s): Women; World War I RONDEAU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: By two black eyes my heart was won Last Line: Though proper to reward my flame / by two black eyes Subject(s): Love - Unrequited;women RONDEAU, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny kissed me when we met Last Line: Jenny kissed me! Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; Innocence; Kisses; Love; New Year; Time; Women ROOM OF ONE'S OWN, by HODA HUSSEIN Poem Source First Line: One day %I will have a room of my own, %fix on its walls Last Line: And remember the grief we had %when we were homeless Subject(s): Arabs - Women ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women; Buddha; Buddhists; Psychoanalysts; Psychotherapy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ROOMS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That it would be okay very soon okay, that okay it could be sooner before I Last Line: Over. You don't even have a vocabulary yet Subject(s): Buddhism; Psychoanalysis; Reason; Women ROSA MYSTICA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is no rose of such virtue Last Line: And follow we this joyful birth. / transeamus Variant Title(s): The Rose That Bore Jesu Subject(s): Jesus Christ;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary ROSA MYSTICA, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is a mystery' -- where is it found? Last Line: Draw me by charity, mother of mine. Subject(s): Flowers; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Roses; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary ROSABEL (OF ROSALIE), by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves that whisper whisper ever Last Line: And for her, -- for her. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Women's Rights; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Feminism ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ROSANE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: After you have lost me once ...' Subject(s): Women's Rights ROSARY, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: A fragrant silence filled the purple air Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ROSE, by MARGO HITTELMAN Poem Source First Line: Crazy, they called you Last Line: I'm sorry %I love you Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ROSE AYLMER'S COUSIN, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Ah, what avails the sceptered race Last Line: Till forced to stand in line Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights ROSE DOLORES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moan of rose dolores, she made Last Line: "I know whose kiss was in the wind—o jailer, set me free!" Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Women - Captives; Sorrow; Sadness ROSES OF SHARON, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: My friends trot in and out of doors Subject(s): Women's Rights ROSETTE, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Yes! I know you're very fair Last Line: As I used to love rosette! Subject(s): Aging; Longing; Love; Women ROSIE, by NICOLE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: She tosses bread to them Last Line: He gives her ends %from cold-cuts. And stale bread Subject(s): Jews - Women ROSSETTI'S WIFE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: He wants his poems, now: the ones he buried Last Line: He digs you up and grabs his verses back Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Women's Rights ROUEN; 26 APRIL - 25 MAY 1915, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early morning over rouen, hopeful, high, courageous morning Last Line: And the trains that go from rouen at the end of the day. Subject(s): Nurses; Rouen, France; Women; World War I; First World War ROUND, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Im my head %house of bone Last Line: & who will remember %my mother my father? Subject(s): Jews - Women ROUND WOMEN, by E. K. CALDWELL Poem Source First Line: Round women %taught to hate our bodies Last Line: Ans strength to the souls %of round women Subject(s): Obesity; Women ROUNDELS, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish men, who accuse woman without reason Last Line: The world, the flesh and the devil! Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women - Abused ROXANNE, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was flatbush born, was twenty-six Subject(s): Women; Suicide; Survival ROYAL LEGACY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Childhood is the kingdom where Last Line: Now denied heirs for their own future kingdoms Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamuchka, %it has been so long Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Jews - Women ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamushka, it has been so long since we have spoken Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women RUBBLE WOMEN, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: They stood for hours at a time Last Line: Facing an empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Baby Boom Generation; Women RUFINO TAMAYO'S WAITING WOMAN, by MATTHEW BRENNAN Poem Source First Line: In the foreground, there's a woman wrapped Last Line: Looks hopelessly remote in the far distance Subject(s): Sex; Women RULES: 1. SCHOOL BUS, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: I wait in the frozen rut Last Line: Where jim johnson sits Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women RULES: 2. SPEECH, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: To have speech perfect %rising in pitch Last Line: Is a kind of speech %the whole school understands Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women RULES: 3. SCALES, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: Only 10 lbs. Of cracked corn Last Line: Of the heaped scale. My thumb %pushes up my side Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women RULES: 4. FIRE ON THE NORTH FORK, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: Eighteen singed men slouched Last Line: Glad my mouth knows the rules Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women RULES: 5. LEAVING, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: One spring I leave for town, %I leave for love Last Line: The morning to mould in the field Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women RUMMAGE SALE, by MELA D. MLEKUSH Poem Source First Line: Orange plaid polyester pantsuit Last Line: Rattle in a two-pound folger's can Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers RUNNER, by GEORGEANN ESKIEVICH RETTBERG Poem Source First Line: On the cellar steps Last Line: Moving up the line %in the business of monday wash Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people from idaho are crazed rednecks Last Line: Lives to curse your blessed plaster bleeding heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Discontent; Idaho; Insanity; Montana; Washington (state); West (u.s.); Women; Women's Rights; Dissatisfaction; Madness; Mental Illness; Southwest; Pacific States; Feminism RUTH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And it was back in the days of judges Last Line: Oved and his wife gave birth to jesse %and he to david Subject(s): Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plume-like swaying of the auburn corn Last Line: "thy people and thy god shall be mine own!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn Last Line: Share my harvest and my home. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness RUTH, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: It took 27 years to write this poem Last Line: Read this %and count them Subject(s): African Americans - Women RUTH AND NAOMI, by WILLIAM OLIVER BOURNE PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell? Oh, no! It may not be Last Line: My firm and faithful heart from thee. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism RUTH IN THE BEGINNING, by JANET FRASER Poem Source First Line: Alien in the corn my mother wanders Last Line: Curved ruth, sheltering thoughts and mapping dreams Subject(s): Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH'S ANSWER TO NAOMI, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Entreat me not, I must not hear Last Line: Shall fleshly, sweetly bloom for me. Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RUTH'S WEDDING SONG, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Now once upon a time within that land Last Line: Honey and milk are underneath your tongue. %your lips, my bride, are as the honeycomb.' Subject(s): Women - Bible RUTH: RUTH TO NAOMI, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Entreat me not to leave thee Last Line: If aught but death part thee and me Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Religion; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible RX, by HARVEY C. GRUMBINE Poem Text First Line: What can one do to move her not wanting Last Line: This recipe, if she takes it insures love's what she makes it. Subject(s): Women RYE UNHARVESTED, by YULIA DRUNINA Poem Source First Line: The rye, unharvested, sways Last Line: To war go the girls these days %just as the lads go Subject(s): Women; World War Ii S. MARY MAGDALEN'S OINTMENT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Forbid her not, nor ask a reason why Last Line: And fill th' eternall mouth of holy fame. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Legends; Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene SABBATH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I have chopped the fish Last Line: Blue blossoms hang low %on the bush Subject(s): Jews - Women SABBATH EYES, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Holy one of being Last Line: Help us feel your presence Subject(s): Jews - Women SABBATH MACAROONS, by BINA GOLDFIELD Poem Source First Line: Her cadence whipping egg whites Last Line: She lights the candles %that summon sabbath stars Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women SACAJAWEA, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: Long years ago a girl embarked Last Line: She walked into our history books Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes SACRAMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the altar of the world in flower Last Line: This flesh (our flesh) crumbled away like bread, %this blood(our blood) poured out like wine, like w Subject(s): Women; World War I SACRED CEREMONY, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: Oh, this day of sacred rites Subject(s): Women's Rights SACRED EPIGRAM: GOD IN THE WOMB OF THE VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold your father, nature! Here is your father, he is here Last Line: Indeed, while you lie, a chaste wife, with your husband - %this more strange - you are yourself a co Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BASHFULNESS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is (believe it) the modesty not of the mother but of the son Last Line: In order to see heaven must be cast down Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BASHFULNESS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask why the virgin should keep her eyes on her lap Last Line: She looks down, but even so she nevertheless still sees heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE DAY OF THE MASTER'S PASSION, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay even you too adore the ashes of your phoenix Last Line: Moistened this eternal morning of life and your day Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE EASY PARTURITION OF BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still she was not made a mother without pain Last Line: That one time he was the joys of birth for his mother; %every day he was the groans of birth Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: THE BLESSED VIRGIN SEEKS HER JESUS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, may you return, sweet boy, may you return to your poor parent Last Line: If our arms could hold you, their god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: THE FIRST DAY OF WEEK COMETH MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You came beore the rosy dawn, holy Last Line: And to be the new morning star for the new sun! Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor does caesar's bird now say his hail Last Line: Hear how my hail should differ from your hail: %he speaks yours, you give birth (behold!) to mine Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPIGRAM: TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN, BELIEVING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder (indeed what else would you do?) bur also you believe Last Line: You were a faithful daughter of god; you will be [his] mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SACRED EPOGRAM: THE WOMAN OF CANAAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever the old legend said about the amazon girls Last Line: A woman, and of such strong faith? Now I believe that faith is %more than grammatically of the femin Subject(s): Faith; Women SADIE AND MAUD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maud went to college Last Line: In this old house. Subject(s): African Americans - Women SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The SAFE HOUSES, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: On the tenth of november Last Line: To our safe house %saved by mommy Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE MOTHER OF THE DAUGHTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE MOTHER OF THE SONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE POET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAILOR, by SAFAA FATHY Poem Source First Line: Because the question was, 'where am I?' Last Line: Buffeted by the wind, %giving up diving into the deep Subject(s): Arabs - Women SAINT BERNARD'S HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin mother, daughter of your son Last Line: All the good of all created things Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Variant Title(s): Saint Bernard's Hymn Of Praise To Virgin Mary (paradiso -- Canto 33 Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible SAINT MARY MAGDALENE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What great apostle, / when the christ rose Last Line: And himself appears. Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SAINT PETER AND THE BLUESTOCKING, by MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Poem Source First Line: A woman knocks on the pearly gates Subject(s): Women's Rights SAINT RITA / SANTA RITA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, rain, fog this morning Last Line: So from within, their holy spirit will shine Subject(s): Saints; Women – Abused; Shame SAINTS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Who's not attracted Last Line: Lion, inkwell, saint, skull Subject(s): Women's Rights SALL' (IN AID OF THE WOUNDED HORSES), by INEZ QUILTER Poem Source First Line: I'm none of yer london gentry Last Line: But I'm sall, plain sall, and sall goes 'ard! Subject(s): Women; World War I SALMA IN WONDERLAND, by MONA FAYAD Poem Source First Line: She eyes herself in the mirror Last Line: Where her eyes used to be Subject(s): Arabs - Women SALT MARSH, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Tonight the cranes or smaller birds Last Line: A map upon the pillow of your bed Subject(s): Women SALUTATION, by ZEREA JACOB Poem Source First Line: Hail, hail to thy blessed name, o mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SALUTATIONS: TO MARY, VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hail! Mother-maid, unmatched since time was born Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SALVAGE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: When you carried over the box Last Line: Between us, if I have saved your belongings Subject(s): Women SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary SALVE REGINA, by HERMANUS CONTRACTUS Poem Source First Line: Mary, we hail thee, mother and queen compassionate Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SAM'S GHAZAL, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: You're out. The house is dead. With me Last Line: So keep your name and stay unwed with me Variant Title(s): Sams Ghaza Subject(s): Women SAMARITAN, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: No fires in the sky at five, but there's steam Last Line: Because it feels good because it feels Subject(s): Women's Rights SAMSON AGONISTES, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: What better option does delilah have Last Line: Of intertribal, unprotected sex? Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women's Rights SAN DIEGO (ON A RAINY DAY), by LAMIA ABBAS AMARA Poem Source First Line: The light rain makes me long for you Last Line: Where swords are sharpened for our people? Subject(s): Arabs - Women SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women; Beach; Coast; Shore; Journeys; Trips SAN DIEGO AND MATISSE: 1. INSIDE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A TREE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful women in smoky blue culottes Last Line: Smell of saltwater swimming in the room Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; San Diego, California; Seashore; Tourists; Travel; Women SAND IN FLAMES, by NOUJOUM AL- GHANIM Poem Source First Line: I put my cameleer off two thousand and one times Last Line: Bodies float by...The city drowns %in blood Subject(s): Arabs - Women SANDHILL CRANES, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: We sit on the orange-striped couch Last Line: An open door she passes through Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SANTCA MARIA DOLORUM, OR THE MOTHER OF SORROWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In shade of death's sad tree Last Line: Lo, heart, thy hope's whole plea! Her pretious breath %powr'd out in prayers for thee; thy lord's in Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SANTORINI DAUGHTER, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Mother, blood irises unfold Last Line: What's inside her basket Subject(s): Women's Rights SAPPHIC SUICIDE NOTE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day out Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAPPHO, by MARIE VON NAJMAJER Poem Source First Line: Though only your name still shines Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women's Rights SAPPHO BURNS HER BOOKS AND CULTIVATES THE CULINARY ARTS, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Companions of my favorite hours Last Line: Severest -- disappointed love. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Books; Cooking & Cooks; Women - Writers; Reading SAPPHO LIVES AGAIN, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Source First Line: In lesbos long ago the moon would rise Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Women's Rights SAPPHO'S LAST SONG, by VITTORIA AGANOOR POMPILI Poem Source First Line: Sea, the last song Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women's Rights SARA'S DAUGHTERS, by CAROL DORF Poem Source First Line: We're sara's daughters, middle-aged Last Line: We long for an angel to hover over our beds Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SARAH ALLEN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days comes to the albany rural cemetery Last Line: And says the names that sound like prayers Subject(s): Homeless; Women SARAH AND ISAAC HER SON: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Abraham's eyes blaze the command to bathe his son Last Line: Weeping for hagar's forgiveness as though it were a trail %she might follow Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH IN HER DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ... REMEMBERS THE SHUL, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I'm remembering: %in the old country, you know, in the shul Last Line: The tears cames running some more Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SARAH TALKS TO GOD, by LILLIAN ELKIN Poem Source First Line: And why, oh king, my god, should the blood of a child Last Line: And my sorrow sounds me with knives %and I am bitter in my doubts Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH: CHESHBON HANEFESH, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: I know I don't look too good Last Line: The tunnel was sealed at both ends from the start Subject(s): Jews - Women SARY 'FIXES UP' THINGS, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, yes, we've be'n fixin' up some sence we sold that piece o' groun' Last Line: We can set it fer the golf-lynx ef he ever sh'u'd get loose. Subject(s): Women SASSAFRAS TEA, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: The sass'fras tea is red and clear Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SATELLITE FATHER, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: When she was no longer eleven, in her party Last Line: A stage of the earth, at which nothing much %had yet begun to happen Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SATIRE ON THE TOUN LADIES, by RICHARD MAITLAND Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Some wifis of the burrows-toun Alternate Author Name(s): Lethington, Lord Subject(s): Towns; Women SATIRE: 6, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: In saturn's reign, at nature's early birth Last Line: Rather than fail, the dagger does the deed. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Variant Title(s): The Sixth Satire Of Juvenal Subject(s): Women SATIRE: 6. THE NEW WOMAN, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: Some faults, though small, no husband yet can bear Last Line: Can drown their clangor, and dissolve the spell Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Women's Rights SATORI, by GAYL JONES Poem Source First Line: Disturbed by consciousness %god created creation Last Line: We pray over our beer %and I spring from the %buddha's forehead %black as jesus Subject(s): African Americans - Women SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow Last Line: Still shiny enough to see her face Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I first see imitation of life Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I first see imitation of life Last Line: An empty screen, pale blue, diamonds falling %until it's all covered up Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SATURDAY NIGHT AT ALBERTSONS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Somewhere between %the bosc pears, bologna Last Line: Can we handle any more perfection %than this? Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women SAUL'S HAMMER, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Today it matters, that I hold Last Line: The blossoming and the dying %and what that meant Subject(s): Jews - Women SAVANNAH LADIES, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: Two old ladies, friends since girls Last Line: And don't forget your taxi money Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SAVING THE POEMS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: As if giving were an art tht needed practice Last Line: My hands curled like cradles for gathering Subject(s): Women's Rights SAWYER'S WIFE, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We could go like your grandmother, over Last Line: And how seductive, the dark broth Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women SAY GOODNIGHT (1), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is better to be alone. Tree and sun Subject(s): Solitude; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (2), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trunks of charred pines rooted to the rocks Subject(s): Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (3), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muted bells ringing inside my body Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY GOODNIGHT (4), by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No kisses. Not tonight. Stand Subject(s): Night; Togetherness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SAY HELLO TO JOHN, by SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: I swear I ain't done what richard Last Line: His bright black face above me %saying, say hello to john Subject(s): African Americans - Women SAY HELLO TO THE LITTLE WOMAN, by ROBERT PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: She asserts herself at the damnedest times - Last Line: Look how you're holding that wine glass Subject(s): Women SAYING GOODBYE, by SUZANNE JUHASZ Poem Source First Line: I have watched you Last Line: Or salvation %without me Subject(s): Women SAYRE (WOMAN PROFESSOR), by LYNN STRONGIN Poem Source First Line: The men in her department envied her Last Line: So handsomely she moved, so darkly as through glass Subject(s): Women SCALE, by DIANE RAPTOSH Poem Source First Line: The strong pitch of roof over the shed Last Line: Too, grew to be old starting from there Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women SCARLET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Last Line: Bethink thee: today must end; there is no end of tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SCARS, by ELIZABETH LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: There's a white crooked scar Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women SCENE FOR THE MORNINGS PRECEDING THE FIRE, by GHADA SHAFA'I Poem Source First Line: A beam of light in the mouth of azure %sucks the blood of darkness Last Line: To the shoulder of the plain- %a shawl the fields wear Subject(s): Arabs - Women SCHOOL OF YOUNG LADIES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fair upon the admiring sight Last Line: For rest, can conquer all. Subject(s): Women SCLEROTIC, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Sclerotic means the scars are all inside Last Line: Our lives consist of what we choose to hide Subject(s): Jews - Women SCOTIA: A VISION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight's solemn peal had rung Last Line: Seemed wrapt in sadder, deeper gloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SCREEN TEST, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They don't make movies %like this anymore, mother would say Last Line: Illuminated on screen %for the whole world to watch Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Motion Pictures; Women SCREENS (IN A HOSPITAL), by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They put a screen around his bed Last Line: But - jove! - I'm sorry that he's dead Subject(s): Patriotism; Screens; Women; World War I SCROLL IS OPEN, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Source First Line: The scroll is open - many a name is written Last Line: Erect and free, the image of his god Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): Abolitionists; Freedom; Slavery; Women's Rights SEA CHANGE, by MARY DORCEY Poem Source First Line: Your thighs your belly Last Line: And rocking the moon in her tide Subject(s): Women SEA HAG IN THE CAVE OF SLEEP, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Words whirl her round in pools Last Line: I come out from between my own legs %into this world Subject(s): Men; Sex; Women SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEA-BIRDS, by ANGELICO CHAVEZ Poem Source First Line: In days when albion's seamen knew Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SEAMY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and my women can unsnarl the state Last Line: Each other versions of an endless tale Subject(s): Relationships; Women SEARCHING, by ALICE S. COBB Poem Source First Line: The chains that bind my thinking Last Line: Where she dare preen and reaffirm %her womanness Subject(s): African Americans - Women SEARCHING/NOT SEARCHING, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What kind of woman goes searching and searching? Subject(s): Women; Guests; Visiting SEASON OF LOVERS AND ASSASSINS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe from the wild storms off cape hatteras Last Line: The slow assassination of the years. Subject(s): Assassination; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SEASONS, by SAFAA FATHY Poem Source First Line: There was a month I called may. When I buried it in papers, passion Last Line: And the vagrancy of lone words %on the sidewalks of meaninglessness? Subject(s): Arabs - Women SEASONS, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: I hear the small singer Last Line: The broken weather Subject(s): Women SEASONS IN SOUTH DAKOTA, by LINDA M. HASSELSTROM Poem Source First Line: Dirty snow left in the gullies, pale Last Line: There's still time to sit before the fire, %curse the dead cold outside, %the other empty chair Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SEASONS OF THE SWASTIKA, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: The first swastika season %I was four Last Line: I never touched them Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 1, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Pale moon, ever coming and going Last Line: Awaken us to the beauty of endless cycles %visible signs of god's eternal love Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 2, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out of time Last Line: A witness to that timeless moment %present now in the light of your torah Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 3, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: The ark is sweet with flowers' scent Last Line: To receive once more the breath of light %in the whispered awakening of dawn Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 4, by ROSIE ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Unroll the parchment scroll Last Line: Like the eternal bride and bridegroom joined as one %rejoice! Subject(s): Jews - Women SECOND LOVE: 41, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you too must shortly go the way Last Line: But oh, let end what will, I hold you fast %by immortal love, which has no first or last Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I SECOND REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS AFFLICTION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I study weather: %fingertip, storm Last Line: And sometimes with nothing but frowns Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SECOND TIME AROUND, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're entangled with someone more famous than you Last Line: Comes tiptoeing into your study with a nice cup of coffee. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism SECOND WOMAN'S LAMENT, by BRENDA IRENE CHAMBERLAIN Poem Source First Line: He was not only friend and my lover Last Line: And throw his challenge out in lanes of light Variant Title(s): Fisherman Husban Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Women SECOND WORLD WAR, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The voice said 'we are at war' Last Line: Of what our world waited for Subject(s): Women SECRECY OF MIRRORS, by AL-ZAHRA AL- MANSOURI Poem Source First Line: I need huge trees to grow within me, %stars to water my calling Last Line: The sun tumbles from the angles of my body Subject(s): Arabs - Women SECRET, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall make a song like your hair Last Line: I shelter a song for you %secretly Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SECRET, by MARY JENNESS Poem Source First Line: O you that strike will never flinch Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Racism SECRET, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: A century has gone by Subject(s): Women's Rights SECRET, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: Don't tell your mother!' Last Line: Until now never revealed Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough Last Line: Like gospel, like gold Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SEDUCTION, by JO ANN HALL-EVANS Poem Source First Line: Sensuous %sloe eyed Last Line: Se - duc - ed!! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Seduction SEE UNDER, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: There's a word for a beggar who fakes being blind Last Line: Keeps arriving, %but somewhere else Subject(s): Women's Rights SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEED-MERCHANT'S SON, by AGNES GROZIER HERBERTSON Poem Source First Line: The seed-merchant had lost his son Last Line: As he had never before seen seed or sod: %I heard him murmur: 'thank god, thank god!' Subject(s): Women; World War I SEED-TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of the field - by the sunset furrow Last Line: "they will be wanting bread." Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SEEING THROUGH: AN EXODUS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I tell pharaoh to send my 'brother' pearls and sheep Last Line: Pharaoh's last gift to me is his daughter, hagar Subject(s): Women SELECTED FOR THE MASS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Something other than what happened was remembered Last Line: To nothing: little miss fear. Miss flesh Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients SELECTED QUATRAINS, by MAHSATI Poem Source First Line: I knew like a song your vows weren't strong Subject(s): Women SELF TALKS TO THE SELF, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: After you kissed the orange, pulpy fruit of the sun Last Line: Put me down. Pick me up. %I could wish it warmer Subject(s): Women's Rights SELF-CONTAINED VIEW: 'I AM A WOMAN,', by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said. I was drunk. I sat in t-shirt and shorts and basked Last Line: Destructive. We make ourselves live. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Relationships; Seduction; Women SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to be today? So many choices Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who to be today? So many choices Last Line: Up under that wig, her head %sweating, hot as an idea Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SELF-JUDGMENT, by BERTA LASK Poem Source First Line: I have helped to kill Subject(s): Women's Rights SELF-PORTRAIT, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was far outside the frame, beyond %the pale, lost in the margins, smudged Last Line: The silver rings and necklaces of white surf Subject(s): Appalachia; Women SELF-PORTRAITS BY FRIDA KAHLO, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Blood was her dress and her embassy Last Line: In the shattered mirror on the ceiling than she Subject(s): Women's Rights SELLING TATTERED PEONIES, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Facing the wind, my sighs are stirred Last Line: That he has no way to buy Subject(s): Aging; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Peonies; Women SEMELE RECYCLED, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After you left me forever Last Line: Its birth and rebirth and decay. Subject(s): Bodies; Reunions; Semele (mythology); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SEMELE TO JUPITER, by WILLIAM CONGREVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my frailty, don't upbraid me Last Line: I am woman as you made me Subject(s): Women SENESCENT LOVERS, by T. S. KERRIGAN Poem Source First Line: The andersons, grown old Last Line: Hiw strange that they'd insist %this latter love is lost Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SENIOR PICTURE, 1971, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I take it all back %each dirty, lowdown thing I ever said Last Line: One inside/outside beautiful %special girl Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SENRYU: OCCUPIED, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he unzipped Last Line: Stimulus package - Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Jane austen could have written the beginning Last Line: As you sewed me at eighteen %into my wedding gown Subject(s): Women SENT FROM THE CAPITAL TO HER ELDER DAUGHTER, by SAKANOE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More than the gems Last Line: Not even an hour Alternate Author Name(s): Otomo Of Sakanoe; Sakanoye Subject(s): Daughters; Women SEPARATION, by MIRIAM R. KRASNO Poem Source First Line: Twice in ten months Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: You got at miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Beauty SEPIA FASHION SHOW, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their hair, pomaded, faces jaded Last Line: I'd remind them please, look at those knees %you got a miss ann's scrubbing Subject(s): African Americans - Women SERENADE: ANY MAN TO ANY WOMAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark angel who art clear and straight Subject(s): Women SERENADE: ANY MAN TO ANY WOMAN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark angel who art clear and straight Last Line: Born of my tears - your lips, the bright %summer-old folly of the rose Subject(s): Women SERVING GIRL, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD Poem Source First Line: The calabash wherein she served my food Last Line: The countless things she served with her eyes? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SEVEN, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: We were hardly the pleiades Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SEVEN SPIRITUAL AGES OF MRS. MARMADUKE MOORE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Marmaduke moore, at the age of ten Last Line: For when a lady is badly sexed %god knows what god is coming next Subject(s): Women SEVINGES, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in natchitoches there is a statue in a public square Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SEX ED, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: Well-dressed, demure, jammed into those Last Line: Her toss back her yellow hair and yank open %the heavy doors to school Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women SEXES, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O, you are fair -- you have soft-turtle eyes Last Line: Hiss in our dull ears: how can we be pure? Subject(s): Men; Women SEXUAL PRIVACY OF WOMEN ON WELFARE, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The aclu mountain states regional office came across a %welfare application Last Line: Of a city street whose perspective %darkens with the morninglight? %document Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Privacy; Sex; Welfare SEXUALITY BECAUSE OF SEXISM IS A PROBLEM FOR MOST WOMEN, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there could be a dinner Last Line: Salt of the sea - & hollers - 'honey...' Subject(s): Women SHADOW, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Source First Line: There was a shadow on the moon; I saw it poise and tilt, and go Last Line: Rim of the shadow of the hell %of the world's young men Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Women; World War I SHADOWBOXING, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm telling my story to this couple who're over for dinner, they're friends, though not best friends Last Line: It takes some getting used to Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Marriage; Theater & Theaters; Motor Vehicle Bureaus; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Stage Life SHAKESPEARE WAS A WOMAN, by JOAN RETALLACK Poem Source First Line: Then appointed no hope Last Line: This this blue Subject(s): Language; Women SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What word to him hadst thou to tell Last Line: O stolen novice of saint clare? Subject(s): Dramatists; Literature; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHAKESPEARIAN READINGS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but to fade, and live we know not where Last Line: Earning their bread. Was not this love indeed? Subject(s): Women SHALIMAR GARDENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of earth a square of water Last Line: To die again, into the living stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHANNON WAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's going blind. Wrote a poem once Last Line: As the shannon flow Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rivers; Shannon (river), Ireland; Women SHARD CAMP, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Barefoot in a slip in the midst of all this fervency Last Line: Visiting the new world Subject(s): Women's Rights SHARDS, by LAURENCE HARTMUS Poem Text First Line: I walk among you, women, Last Line: In walking among you. Subject(s): Men; Women SHARING THE WISDOM, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: You come, old one, %to my bones that ache from Last Line: Your thin frame and silvered mind, %a talisman against growing old Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SHE, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is a woman in the world Last Line: Saves her flesh for the cattails, %the seashell breeze Subject(s): Women SHE DOESN'T ASK FOR MONEY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: If you're looking for the woman of too many days Last Line: Her bags are like pollen sacs. %she's self contained Subject(s): Homeless; Women SHE INSISTS ON ME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I offer my %little sister up. No Last Line: Walks past words and %insists on me Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women SHE SEEMED TO KNOW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That she'd been designed for Last Line: The appearance of the god Subject(s): Women SHE STILL LIVES ON RUE VALETTE, NEAR LE PANTHEON, by ANGELA KARSZO Poem Source First Line: Her neighbours call her 'la fiancee eternelle' Last Line: As no one knows that every night she falls %asleep to dream hope & forgiveness Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SHE WALKS, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She lies in silence Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHE WALKS SLOWLY, by NORA REZA Poem Source First Line: A window serves as empty light Last Line: Gathering up the ravellings %of a jute doormat Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SHE WHO IS TO COME, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman-in so far as she beholdeth Last Line: Is she who is to come! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Justice; Women's Rights; Feminism SHE WHO UNDERSTANDS, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: With her black hair fallen forward Subject(s): Women's Rights SHE WHO UNDERSTANDS, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Her dark head fallen forward in her grief Last Line: Lord, do not let my child be born a woman!' Subject(s): Grief; Women SHE WHO WOULD TAKE A BATH, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: Susanna this landscape goes well with blondes Subject(s): Women - Writers SHE WRITES TO HER LOVER, WHOSE HAIR IS THICK AND CLEAN, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Here in indiana it has rained Last Line: Then you're alone, there's a mirror, and it rains Subject(s): Women SHE'S FAIR AND FALSE, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's fair and false! That such a heart Last Line: Fade icy-cold in depths and gloom. Subject(s): Beauty; Duplicity; Women; Deceit SHE'S FREE!, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How say that by law we may torture and chase Last Line: For the child of her love is no longer a slave. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery; Social Protest; Women; Serfs SHE-FOX, by CLAIRE STUDER-GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pack-master strokes his whip Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Claire Subject(s): Women's Rights SHEARERS'SONG, FR. KING RENE'S ROMANCE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What do the maids at shearing-time? Last Line: A maid can clip as well as a man. Subject(s): Sheep; Women's Rights; Feminism SHED, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Source First Line: Sweeter than honey and the honeycomb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHEEP AND FODDER, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: Here's a prayer from a spry old tit Last Line: We were better than none Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives SHEETS, HOW TO DESCRIBE THEM?, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Room, a stately coffee machine, its shiny dials Subject(s): Women - Writers SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year Last Line: How far it would carry you Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women SHELLEY'S DEATH, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: Shelley set out that day Last Line: Spiraling, his understanding %consumed Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SHINING PARLOR, by ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: It was a drab street Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SHIP OF FOOLS, SELS., by ALEXANDER BARCLAY Poet Analysis Subject(s): Fools; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most %when he came home from work Last Line: The white fire of the torch, the whistle, %and the long drive home Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women SHO NUFF, by NILENE O. A. FOXWORTH Poem Source First Line: Godl soft drinks Subject(s): Women SHOPPING ADVICE, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Fresh is much better than frozen Last Line: I have the right Subject(s): Jews - Women SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF A WASHERWOMAN, by YOLANDA ULLOA Poem Source First Line: Emilia %strung the lines of white laundry Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Women SHORT COURSE IN SEMIOTICS: 1., by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Naked woman surrounded by police': that's one way Last Line: That she has beens wimming - in lake tiorati - Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women SHORT COURSE IN SEMIOTICS: 3., by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Naked woman dadadadada police': not a story but words Last Line: And blindly her hand happens on the child Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Women SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need? Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives SHORT ODE TO SCREWBALL WOMEN, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sullen nights like these Subject(s): Women SHORTEST DAY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Fur thickens on the woodchuck dozing in his den Last Line: The shortest day could last forever Subject(s): Women's Rights SHOT GLASS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never forget the day this beautiful woman Last Line: She left me some room for improvement and %a sense of what to work on... Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Conversation; Self; Women SHRINE IN NAZARETH, by MARY SAINT VIRGINIA Poem Source First Line: Out of the garden in the gathering gloom Alternate Author Name(s): Berry, Virginia Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SHRINE OF THE BLACK MADONNA AT CZESTOCHOWA, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: A multitude, such as jesus must have spoken to, swells the Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible SHROPSHIRE LAD'S FIANCEE, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Since, as you most justly say Last Line: You talked to me the other day Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SHROUDED WOMAN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Between slits and amulets Last Line: Covers her with greenish and solitary %epitaphs Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Terror; Women SHUTTLE, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Look -- it's her(the woman you've waited on) Last Line: The shape of her face, the size of a planet Subject(s): Women's Rights SHY SCHOOLGIRL IN PIGTAILS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just waiting for luz to say the magic word Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SICELIDES, SELS., by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women SICILIAN SESTETS AT ETNA, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: There is nothing left on earth that's new Last Line: To all those other ancient, made-up lives Subject(s): Women's Rights SIDEKICKS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: God freed eve Last Line: Prime partners &for the new enterprise Subject(s): Women - Bible SIGH, by NATHALIE HANDAL Poem Source First Line: The sea sighs, thieves fly %fleeing the suburbs of gloomy dreams %and sorrow Last Line: As it sighs and sighs in the mouth of will Subject(s): Arabs - Women SIGHT-SEEING IN THE MOORS OUTSIDE OF LIANG-ZHOU, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Old men of the prairie, two or three homes Last Line: The shamanka dances in frenzy, %dust shows on her stockings of gauze Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Clergy; Travel; Women SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man Last Line: Nothing but cotton and road signs-stop or slow Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SILENCE, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Past parentage or gender Last Line: (george fox %was one) %great openings Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SILENCE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: In the depths of time a marvellous silence turns green Last Line: A flower, a bird, a crucifix, %crushed by the same stone Subject(s): Silence; Women SILENCE, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: How I welcome you, little salmon Last Line: I hear the music of the heavens, %and it guides my way Subject(s): Nature; Women SILENCE OF WOMEN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old men, as time goes on, grow softer, sweeter Last Line: But must make music %any way it can Subject(s): Old Age; Women SILENT, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: You, like most mothers who have it Subject(s): Rape; Women SILVANA GOES A-STROLLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SILVER BADGE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Kim had black velvet skin Last Line: Standing on the glistening concrete %of boston's combat zone Subject(s): Identity; Women SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: She hated to give him up Last Line: For the sun to slip through Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Temples; Women - Bible SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 1. DIALOGUE: PARIS, 1914-23, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Love's necessity - food for a child Last Line: Sanctity. Love's body: broken klutz Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 10. THE COLLAR: NEW YORK, 1942, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Conquerors are dreamers. I dream too Last Line: Still better, give up to darkness and for good Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 11. AFFLICTION: LONDON, 1943, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: London at last. No holiday. For me Last Line: Available to anyone. A peasant's wife Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 12. AFFLICTION STILL: LONDON, 1943, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Like certain insects, I am the color Last Line: The village idiot is a genius Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 15. LOVE: MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, 1943, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Why must we be cannibals in love? Last Line: All seeds. My dearest condiment...For love Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 2. PROVIDENCE: PARIS, 1924-29, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: They say I was a pretty child, but now Last Line: Twelve o'clock: it's time for lunch.' Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 3. BITTER-SWEET: ROANNE AND ST. ETIENNE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: They didnt' like my sniffy monotone Last Line: Knowing, sharing slavery, is genius Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 4. JUSTICE: PARIS AND PORTUGAL, 1935, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: No more than mascot for the toughs, clumsy Last Line: Is a natural christian. I, a slave Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 5. DENIAL: SPAIN, 1936, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Klutz as I am, I will not be left out Last Line: I limp home - failed cook - it's true Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 6. FAITH: ITALY, 1937, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Beauty is not to eat. I looked for hours Last Line: The mess, bit beauty, swallowed and was soiled Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 7. REDEMPTION: THE HEART OF THE MIND, 1938, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: When the thief love enters, he must also break a heart Last Line: I couldn't find that room again. He was through Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 8. THE BUNCH OF GRAPES: NEAR THE RHINE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The city's occupied. A jew can't teach Last Line: Famished, fit. Amare amabam Subject(s): Women SIMONE WEIL: HUNGER'S FOOL: 9. DISCIPLINE: MARSEILLES, 1941, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: After the fall in pity's paralysis Last Line: I try to focus, hope Subject(s): Women SIMPLE GIFTS,' A SHAKER HYMN, by ANN+(2) LEE Poem Source First Line: Tis the gift to be simple Last Line: Twill be in the valley of love and desire Subject(s): Shaker Hymn; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion SINCE I, BY MY GOOD FORTUNE, RETURN TO LOOK ON, by VERONICA GAMBARA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SINCE THEY HAVE DIED TO GIVE US A GENTLENESS, by MAY WEDDERBURN CANNAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And laughter come back to the earth again Subject(s): Women; World War I SINCE YOU HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS OF FINE DESIRE, by ISABELLA MORRA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SING A SONG OF WAR-TIME, by NINA MACDONALD Poem Source Last Line: All the world is topsy-turvy %since the war began Subject(s): Women; World War I SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 102, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear old woman in the lane Last Line: And wheel her chair round, if we may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Neighboring Subject(s): Old Age; Women SINGER, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The woman knows she is not a metaphor Last Line: Watching the sun sink the day Subject(s): Women's Rights SINGING ALOUD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all have our faults. Mine is trying to write poems Last Line: Or they'll lock us up like the apes, and control us forever. Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SINGLE PEARL LIES ON THE BLACK TABLE, by JOAN HALPERIN Poem Source Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divinest art, the stars above Last Line: By showing what her sex can be. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters; Women SIREN, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: To say no Subject(s): Women's Rights SIREN - WOMAN AND BIRD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: In a small bed we tried the nights Last Line: That explode in your hair Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Women SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights; Iliad; Odyssey; Male-female Relations; Feminism SIREN SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one song everyone Last Line: But it works every time Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sirens (mythology); Women's Rights SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SISTER LUCINDA TAUGHT MATH, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source Last Line: Than mr. And mrs. O'leary ever had Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights SISTER MAIME FIELDS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dull patina %over rim of blue eye Last Line: All heavy loads lighter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory; Old Age SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA TO THE EDITOR OF COLUMBUS DISPATCH, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since 1830, the pope's signed off on Last Line: The day the earth stood still Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Women - Bible SISTER MORPHINE, SELS., by PATTI SMITH Subject(s): Women SISTER MOTHER, by FRANCA MARIA CATRI Poem Source First Line: Mother what happened in the beginning Subject(s): Women's Rights SISTER OUTSIDER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were born in a poor time Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women SISTER OUTSIDER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were born in a poor time Last Line: And beyond fear Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women SISTER PROPHECY: A GIFT FOR BONITA'S 32ND BIRTHDAY, by CELIA Y. WEISMAN Poem Source First Line: Round bellied sisters %pose tummy to tummy Last Line: One moon inside both of us now Subject(s): Jews - Women SISTER SUKIE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I always loved peaches of simone's four women Last Line: Where did you get such %a brown, pretty baby Subject(s): African Americans - Women SISTER SUKIE II, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I believe you came Last Line: Precious medallion around our lives Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sisters SISTER'S CHOICE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: San francisco's fog burns off %by noon Last Line: Safe beneath storm at sea Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women SISTERS, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: One whine shy of a forced march Last Line: I'm going to name her cream puff Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SISTERS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My sister %was the bad one Last Line: And laugh at everybody- %two bad sisters Subject(s): Women SISTERS, by ALEXIS DE VEAUX Poem Source First Line: Ntabuu %ntabuu - selina and ntabuu of the red dirt road in new orleans Last Line: Ancient grafiti hidden on vulva walls Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights SISTERS, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Married to one man Last Line: Not a man's wife,' %said leah Subject(s): Jews - Women SISTERS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The school bus drove us home from high school, where Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Women's Rights; Racism; Feminism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SISTERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I easily say Last Line: Her I should recognize %years later, anywhere Subject(s): Women SISTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vine-shadows on the veranda Last Line: I walk alone,' say the old sisters on the veranda Subject(s): Old Age; Women SISTERS IN ARMS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge of our bed was a wide grid Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Death - Children; South Africa; Racism; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Death - Babies; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SISTERVOICE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: It was carved in stone Last Line: Sings for us all Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights SISTREN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I sit in the living room Last Line: Like diamonds in your eyes Subject(s): Family Life; Love; Women SIX O'CLOCK NEWS, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: At six o'clock, my mother %always listened to the news Last Line: A final act of love Subject(s): Jews - Women SIXTH DAY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Brushing against %each other, our bodies Last Line: Sabbath waits like a storm Subject(s): Women SIXTH REMOVE: IN WHICH THERE IS CONCLUSION, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Listen, providence: %deliver me Last Line: (are there wounds? I cannot say Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SIXTIES, by RITA RANDAZZO Poem Source First Line: I remember them %which proves I didn't Last Line: Riding the subway home Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SKATE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: What she has gotten herself into is a boat Last Line: As if nothing had happened Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Sea Voyages; Skating And Skaters; Sports; Storms; Women SKETCH OF THE FRONTIER WOMAN, by CARMEN BRANNON BEERS Poem Source First Line: Standing erect in the mire Last Line: Which is less than beauty Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Paintings And Painters; Women SKIN OF IT, by PHYLLIS WITTE Poem Source First Line: She was black %I was white Last Line: How do we dare? Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SKIN-TEETH, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Not wvery skin-teeth Subject(s): Women SKINNY GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: I am a skinny girl Last Line: And weird and childlike dreams %sir %like green water Subject(s): Women - Abused SKIRT, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source First Line: Not %the nude but %the clothing Last Line: Woman passing %ecstasy and pigeons Subject(s): Women - Writers SKIRT ARCHITECTURE SOFTENED, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Going doubly %around Subject(s): Women - Writers SKIRTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Underneath %my skirts Last Line: That give off light Subject(s): Women's Rights SKY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: From the train, a web of light, broad slashes Last Line: The dense perfume of a woman beautiful for years Subject(s): Women SKYLINES, by BESSIE MAYLE Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SLANT, by LORRAINE VERNON Poem Source First Line: When a woman has Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women SLEEP CLOSE TO ME, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Fold of my flesh Subject(s): Women SLEEPING FURY (ROME, MUSEO DELLA TERME), by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are here now Last Line: Alone and strong in my peace, I look upon you in yours Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SLEEPING OUT, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Poem Source First Line: When the new clover has sewn itself through Last Line: Than a crushed impression in the grass Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SLEEPING WOMAN, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: All of you is sleeping Last Line: Sleeping with me while you sleep Subject(s): Sleep; Women SLIGHTEST OF WINDS, by LUCIO MARIANI Poem Source First Line: Women die in autumn, in a hush Last Line: Of grief. The slightest of winds is enough Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Wind; Women SLIPPING GIRLS, by SUSAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Women who want sex Last Line: Is rising like ephemera %and neon and concrete Subject(s): Women SMALL COMPOSITION IN THE COLORS OF THE SKY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Orange,' my son says, speaking Last Line: My waking child Subject(s): Women SMALL DEAD GIRL, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: A small dead girl Last Line: Bathes herself blue in moonlight %while her heady perfume rises Subject(s): Women - Abused SMALL DEFEATS: WALKING THROUGH SEASONS, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Lady, take a thoughtful, loving walk with me Last Line: Lady, I ask you, what else earns its certain end so well as a too-short %loving walk? Subject(s): Aging; Nature; Seasons; Walking; Women SMALL GODS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought my father was a god Last Line: Day after day, I watched them grow. Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Children; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Parents; Women; Childhood; Parenthood SMALL HOUSE, THE ROOM, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: There are eyes, and hatred, without object, tolerant Subject(s): Women - Writers SMALL MAN, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SMALL PLEASURES, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: The wurlitzer stirs, all girl, all groan Last Line: Stirs, all girl, letting motown %down easy. Subject(s): Women's Rights SMALL PLEASURES, by NANCY IMBERMAN TAMLER Poem Source First Line: Walking home from schul Last Line: As adorned %as the earth, herself Subject(s): Jews - Women SMALL QUARREL WITH T. S. ELIOT, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: If love is not the best of poems ever penned Last Line: Still, every kiss is our beginning and our end Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights SMALL SINS, by MARAM MASRI Poem Source First Line: Tell the wind %to calm down %for I do not like the wind Last Line: I lost my balance %but I did %not fall Subject(s): Arabs - Women SMALL WINGS, SELS., by MAUDE MEEHAN Poem Source First Line: She has withdrawn from us Last Line: Calligraphy of small swift wings take flight Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding; Harlots; Whores; Brothels SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue Last Line: It will not escape. Do not look up. God is %on high. He can see you. You will die Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding SMELL OF RAIN, by KIM BARNES Poem Source First Line: I've read the obituary of a woman Last Line: Echoing long after decay has begun Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women SMILES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I saw a black girl once Last Line: And night comes back. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Blacks; Smiles; Women SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Last Line: Like the ghost the night will become Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women SMOKE, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: I knew about your reputation Last Line: Through the bright blond %garden of your hair Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SMOTHERED FIRES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman with a burning flame Last Line: She breathed a soft—good-night! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Passion SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You, once a belle in shreveport Subject(s): Daughters-in-law; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, once a belle in shreveport Last Line: But her cargo %no promise then: %delivered %palpable %ours Subject(s): Daughters-in-law; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights SNOW IN OCTOBER, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw a thing of arresting poignant beauty Last Line: As prematuure grief grays the strong head %of a virile, red-haired man Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SNUG, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: A lucky girl I am Last Line: On this first day of february Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SO DRUNK AM I WITH THE NIGHT, THE AIR, AND THE TREES, by MONA SAUDI Poem Source First Line: So drunk, I enfold the seas of forgetfulness Last Line: Coming in the absent present %in the present absence %in a sweeping sea of circles Subject(s): Arabs - Women SO EARLY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I wake so early Last Line: Can you tell me, whoever you are, what this pain is for Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had / put an end to his argument Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO HELP ME SAPPHO, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lofty teacher had %put an end to his argument Last Line: Maidenhead, did she commit suicide Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Muses; Mythology; Poetry And Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Zeus SO MANY FEATHERS, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You danced a magnetic dance Last Line: So many feathers I remember %josephine josephine Subject(s): African Americans - Women SO MUCH SUFFERING, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: With so much suffering Subject(s): Women's Rights SO OPEN WE CONCEIVE, by CHANA BELL Poem Source First Line: She said you'll find what you need here Last Line: My parents gave birth to their hope %resurrecting life out of ashes %I give birth to you - little tr Subject(s): Jews - Women SO THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Hansel sleeps heavily Last Line: Where she has met a lady %with a special recipe Subject(s): Women SO WILY ARE THE WAYS OF LOVE, by FLORENCIA DEL PINAR Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SOCIAL SECURITY, by BARBARA BOLZ Poem Source First Line: She knows a cashier who Last Line: Is to be on welfare %and love roses Subject(s): Women SOCIALISM, I SAY, by UTE ERB Poem Source First Line: The poet g.B. Says about himself Subject(s): Women's Rights SOCKS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: Shining pins that dart and click Last Line: He'll come out on top, somehow - %slip 1, knit 2, purl 14 Subject(s): Women; World War I SOHO HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange room, from this angle Last Line: To the lights and the long street curving Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Hospitals; Women SOLACE, by CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My window opens out into the trees Last Line: Which knows no pain. Subject(s): African Americans - Women SOLDIER'S RETURN, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: She picked up the snapshot Last Line: For his bed %in his room Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women SOLEDAD, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, he lies in the blinded room Last Line: Oh swings: beyond complete immortal now. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Davis, Miles (1926-1991); Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs SOLITARY REAPER GETS HER WORDS' WORTH, by JEAN LEBLANC Poem Source First Line: Behold him, idle dandy there Last Line: Forever, as I am right now Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) SOLITUDE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: This is solitude where the altitude's Last Line: Concord, rhapsody, paradise; plunge down Subject(s): Women SOLITUDE EXERCISES, by IMAN MERSAL Poem Source First Line: He sleeps in the room next to mine, a wall between us Last Line: Who never had to steal sympathy from others Subject(s): Arabs - Women SOLO PERFORMANCE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days is appearing at proctor's Last Line: And no one knows when to applaud or leave Subject(s): Homeless; Women SOLOMON'S PARENTS, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do I turn to poison? Am I corrupt? Last Line: How they grew. Subject(s): Bathsheba (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Women In The Bible SOLSTICE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The straw man is torched Last Line: To keep the green man coming Subject(s): Women's Rights SOMALI SHOPPING FOR ORGANIC FIGS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was walking out of the health food store Subject(s): Beauty; Surprise; Women SOME ANGELS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Every day I paint all day, riding Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME HANDS ARE LOVLIER, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: Two trees breathe Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SOME HISTORY, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler and the woman of too many days Last Line: But she won't say Subject(s): Homeless; Women SOME LADIES, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies now make pretty songs Last Line: And some at writing verses. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Women SOME MEN, by DAZZLY ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Wee nah look no quarrel wi dem Subject(s): Men; Women SOME MOTHERS & SOME OTHERS, by ELEONORE F. HAHN Poem Full Text First Line: Within her home a woman dwelled Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Mothers; Women SOME PENCIL-PICTURES: TAKE AT SARATOGA, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your novel-writers make their ladies tall Last Line: The dearest objects of their fondest pride! Subject(s): Beauty; Saratoga, New York; Women SOME RIVERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Gave me some rivers some moons some rain, I forget when Last Line: Some hands take some things Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SOME WOMEN, by SIMONIDES OF AMORGOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the creation god made women's natures Last Line: By god -- she is the best and wisest wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Semonides Of Amorgos Subject(s): Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SOMEONE IS BEATING A WOMAN, by ANDREI VOZNESENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Her grief-fevered forehead Alternate Author Name(s): Voznesenskii, Andrei Subject(s): Women - Abused SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO BE A WOMAN, by LIZ LOCHHEAD Poem Source Last Line: If you can't bloody stand your man Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Women SOMETIMES OUR GIFTS ARE SMALL AND FAST, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Emma learned to drive at eighteen Last Line: Emma's already got a car, a memory, and a place to go Subject(s): Women SOMETIMES SHE DREAMS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: This woman %I call my mother Last Line: Wide and open, %so much space to be filled Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Native Americans - Reservations; Women SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT ACCOUNT OF PARADISE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Adam was sick of the same old scene Last Line: Your name is woman Subject(s): Women's Rights SOMEWHERE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: She knows who she is, the one who creeps Last Line: She still answers the moon Subject(s): Rape; Women SOMNAMBULIST, by ADELE NE JAME Poem Source First Line: In the pale light of the half moon, she sees him Last Line: She trembles, fearing the moment of his waking Subject(s): Arabs - Women SON OF MARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She the mother was of one Last Line: Yea: her love's beloved -- john. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, I'll reform, I will, I swear!" Last Line: And die a cuckold and a saint Subject(s): Repentance;women; Penitence SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say women are like the sea Last Line: "from wine, wine, women and wine, / they run in a parallel" Subject(s): Women SONG, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weaving a song of waters Last Line: Sing a little faster! %sing! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SONG, by YANETTE DELETANG-TARDIF Poem Source First Line: I want my dance Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG, by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He who offends a women Last Line: With superhuman might Subject(s): Women SONG, by PAULI MURRAY Poem Source First Line: Because I know deep in my own heart Last Line: Would say, 'I want you always near' Subject(s): African Americans - Women SONG, by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh unto flowers Last Line: To turn to my side. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War SONG (1), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love a woman? You're an ass Last Line: Does the trick worth forty wenches. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Misogyny; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONG (OCTOBER 1969), by KATHLEEN FRASER Poem Source First Line: I love your, mrs. Acorn. Would your husband mind Subject(s): Women SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG FOR A DANCER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: U[pn my lips they laid Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONG FOR A DANCER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream my love goes riding out Last Line: Upon my lips they laid' Subject(s): Beauty; Women SONG FOR A LISTENER, SELS., by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Source First Line: Because of her who flowered so fair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG FOR A TEMPERANCE DINNER TO WHICH LADIES WERE INVITED, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A health to dear woman! She bids us untwine Last Line: It is countersigned nature. -- so, room for the girls! Subject(s): Temperance; Women; Prohibition SONG FOR A YOUNG GIRL'S PUBERTY CEREMONY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I am on my way running Last Line: To that I am on my way running Subject(s): Women SONG FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day of hope and day of glory! After slavery and woe Last Line: As his world goes marching on! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism SONG FOR ISHTAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a sow Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women SONG FOR ISHTAR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is a sow Last Line: We rock and grunt, grunt and %shine Subject(s): Ishtar (babylonian Goddess); Women SONG FOR MY FATHER, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Peace, the hour %when doves crowd the top of the thicket Last Line: Among the grasses of the field Subject(s): Jews - Women SONG FOR WINDS AND MY VASSAR WOMEN, by RITA MAE BROWN Poem Source First Line: Here among the trees Subject(s): Vassar College; Women's Rights SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Three moorish girls I loved Last Line: In jaen, %axa and fatima and marien Subject(s): Love; Women SONG FROM THE DAY THE PUMP BROKE, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: We fought the water pipes all day Last Line: I love you, and I always will, my dear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SONG IN SIXTEEN WORDS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Cold %standing in west wind, green sleeves thin Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women SONG OF A SILESIAN WEAVER, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: When the hills are resting calmly Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG OF A THOUSAND EMPTY HANDS, by ADELE NE JAME Poem Source First Line: I will build you a house of windows to let Last Line: You have only to raise your eyes to see %my body, a tree growing skyward Subject(s): Arabs - Women SONG OF AN OLD WOMAN ABANDONED BY HER TRIBE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alas, that I should die Subject(s): Women SONG OF DEBORAH (JUDGES 5:1-31), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Then sang deborah and barak the son of abinoam on that day saying Last Line: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth%in his might Subject(s): Deborah (bible); Women In The Bible SONG OF FRUSTRATION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You children of ogwaje Last Line: He has denied me! Subject(s): Igede (african People); Women SONG OF HOPE, by DAISY YAMORA Poem Source First Line: One day the fields will be forever green Subject(s): Women SONG OF MARY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere it being yesterday Last Line: I watching my mother. %I smiling an ordinary smile Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF MARY THE MOTHER OF CHRIST, by HENRY WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I write, my mind ashamed is Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF MEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Subject(s): Men; Body, Human; Women; God SONG OF SOLOMON: CANTICLE OF CANTICLES, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: I am the flower of the field Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG OF SONGS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: O my beloved, there is none like you, Last Line: You the pleasant fruit of all my fascination %your banner over me is all I need Subject(s): Women - Bible SONG OF THE BEAUTIFUL LADIES, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Third month, third day, in the air a breath of newness Last Line: Where power iks all-surpassing, fingers may be burned; %takecare and draw no closer to his excellenc Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Women SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge. Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SONG OF THE HAMMER, by ARMANDA GUIDUCCI Poem Source First Line: Courage, I told myself, gather courage Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG OF THE OLD WOMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All these heads these ears these eyes Last Line: And my hair my hair will have disappeared Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Women SONG OF THE RICE WORKERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh mama dear, come and meet me Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last! In sight of home again Last Line: But quicken it to prime! Subject(s): Boer War; Women; South African War SONG OF THE VENETIAN SILK-SPINNERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Poor silk-spinners Subject(s): Silk; Women's Rights SONG OF WOMAN, by MARION GOBLE Poem Text First Line: A new heart also will I give you Last Line: Core of my love. Subject(s): Women SONG TO OUR LADY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of one that is so fair and bright Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG TO OUR LADY (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the star of the sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG TO THE NEW DAY, SELS., by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I rise up Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by PERO LOPEZ DE AYALA Poem Source First Line: Lady, as I know thy power Last Line: My pilgrim steps shall see Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONG/FOR SANNA, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hasn't happened / intrudes, so much Last Line: Miss you. Variant Title(s): Song / For Sanna Subject(s): Absence; Food & Eating; Love; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism SONG: 103, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to live at rest Last Line: That I have lak'd so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Life; Love; Women; Belief; Creed SONG: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, robin, / jolly robin Last Line: And let them warm with thee.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Robins; Women; Joy; Delight SONG: 84, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quondam was I in my lady's grace Last Line: Sure quondam was I. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Women SONG: 97, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, I you require Last Line: Ye get not that ye lack. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Language; Truth; Women; Words; Vocabulary SONG: PROMOTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS, by CH'IU CHIN Poem Source First Line: Our generation yearns to be free Last Line: Never to fail or disappoint, out citizen heroines! Subject(s): China - Democracy; Women's Rights SONG; TO ALBERTO DE LACERDA, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is all the bright company gone Last Line: For had I never the apple-branch broken, %death had not fallen on mankind and me Subject(s): Women SONGS OF APOCALYPSE,' SELS., by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I thought we knew the earth Subject(s): Women's Rights SONGS OF CREATION: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stuff out of which a poem is wrought Last Line: From being artist'cally treated. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Women; World SONGS OF THE WIVES OF SOLOMON: VARIATIONS, by ELIZABETH DEWING KAUP Poem Text First Line: He says I am fair among fair women Last Line: For an hour of that which I have not. Alternate Author Name(s): Dewing, Elizabeth Bartol; Dewing, E. B. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SONGS TO HOLY MARY, by HILDEGARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O splendid jewel, serenely infused with the sun! Last Line: And his inner power appear like a face from his heart Alternate Author Name(s): Hildegarde Of Bingen; Hildegard Von Bingen Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spiritual Life; Women - Bible; Women And Religion SONGS WERE HORSES I RODE, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: One more stride east, one last push Last Line: They rise and bolt for the ridge Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 20, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis, give this humour over Last Line: Live in far more perfect joy. Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Happiness; Pride; Women; Youth; Belief; Creed; Joy; Delight; Self-esteem; Self-respect SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 25, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe beauty has and wit Last Line: And kindly help to quench the fire. Subject(s): Beauty; Charm; Mercy; Women SONNET, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like wine grown stale, the street-lamp's pallor Last Line: At rest because old memories have grown cold. Subject(s): Old Age; Women SONNET, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had no thought of violets of late Last Line: Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam. Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Flowers; Violets SONNET, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is my lady like? Thou fain would'st know Last Line: Like a hard saying, wonderful and wise Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Women SONNET (2), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since childhood have I dragged my life along Last Line: And spin a stronger thread more perfectly. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism SONNET FOR THE MADONNA OF THE CHERRIES, by ARCHIBALD PERCIVAL WAVELL Poem Source First Line: Dear lady of the cherries, cool, serene Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SONNET IN PRIMARY COLORS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is for the woman with one black wing Subject(s): Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Women SONNET IN PRIMARY COLORS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is for the woman with one black wing Last Line: Of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow Subject(s): Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Women SONNET ON THE FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE: INVOCATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the tired voyager on stormy seas Last Line: When god's own whisper shook the cedars of your clime! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible SONNET ON THE FEMALE CHARACTERS OF SCRIPTURE: INVOCATION CONTINUED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And come, ye faithful! Round messiah seen Last Line: Sink to the gentleness of infant sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible SONNET TO --., by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a lovely one - her shape was light Last Line: Who was it! Dear young lady, was it you? Subject(s): Women SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America SONNET TO A PAINTER ATTEMPTING DELIA'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash painter! Canst thou give the orb of day Last Line: Fairer than venus, daughter of the sea. Variant Title(s): Sonnets Of Abel Shufflebottom: 2 Subject(s): Beauty; Disdain; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Venus (goddess); Women; Scorn SONNET TO A PLOW-WOMAN OF NORWAY, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: Deep-bosomed, stalwart-limbed, superbly made Last Line: She lifts a brief intoxicated glance. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers SONNET TO A SISTER IN ERROR, by DILYS BENNETT LAING Poem Source First Line: Sweet anne of wilchilsea, you were no hellion Last Line: Separate in time, we mutiny together Subject(s): Finch, Anne. Countess Of Winchilsea; Women's Rights SONNET TO F.C., by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are who say the world is slow Last Line: Ay, and that rosy lips were made to kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Women SONNET TO LADY FITZGERALD, IN HER SEVENTIETH YEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such age how beautiful! O lady bright Last Line: As pensive evening deepens into night. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women SONNET TO PERCY IN ITALY, FROM ENGLAND, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I cannot come to your quaint italy Last Line: So do as your italians do, and cope Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Women's Rights SONNET: 1, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sporting at fancie, setting light by love Last Line: When his faire forehead with disdain is frowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 1, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now there is a love of which dante does not speak unkindly Last Line: For a joining that is not easy Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 10, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus was my love, thus was my ganymed Last Line: He loves to be belov'd, but not to love. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 10, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow Last Line: I am most faithless when I most am true. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "oh, I Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow!; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 104, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To me, fair friend, you never can be old Last Line: Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 11, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighing, and sadly sitting by my love Last Line: He straight perceav'd himselfe to be my lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 110, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! 'tis true I have gone here and there Last Line: Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 116, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments Last Line: I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Variant Title(s): "love;love's Not Time's Fool;true Love;love Unalterable;the Marriage Of True Minds;""let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds""; Subject(s): Fidelity; Gays & Lesbians; Life Change Events; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Religion; Faithfulness; Constancy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology SONNET: 12, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some talke of ganymede th' idalian boy Last Line: But he is fairer then I can indite. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 14, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here: hold this glove (this milk-white cheveril glove) Last Line: Then glove is love: and so I send it thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 144, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Two loves I have of comfort and despair Last Line: Till my bad angel fire my good one out. Variant Title(s): "two Loves I Have, Of Comfort And Despair""; Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 17, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cherry-lipt adonis in his snowie shape Last Line: Be slow to love, and quicke to hate, enduring? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 19, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah no; nor I my selfe: though my pure love Last Line: Are dearest unto me, as doth ensue. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Ganymede (mythology); Beauty; Love - Erotic; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 2, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it, tell me, that this new self can be Last Line: The I of love that you in love bestow? Variant Title(s): "how Is It, Tell Me, That This New Self Can Be-""; Subject(s): Women SONNET: 20, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But now my muse toyld with continuall care Last Line: Pardon I crave of them, and of thee, pitty. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 20, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Last Line: Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. Variant Title(s): "a Woman's Face, With Nature's Own Hand Painted""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 29, by EDMUND JOSEPH BERRIGAN Poem Source First Line: Now she guards her chalice in a temple of fear Last Line: Okinawa was a john wayne movie to me Subject(s): Women SONNET: 29, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes Last Line: That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Variant Title(s): "amor Omnia Vincit;a Consolation;fortune And Men's Eyes;""when, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes""; Subject(s): Desire; Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Jealousy; Love; Religion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Theology SONNET: 35, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done Last Line: To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 36, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Let me confess that we two must be twain Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 4, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two stars there are in one faire firmament Last Line: How can it chuse (with me) but be dark night? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 41, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, being born a woman and distressed Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "i, Being Born A Woman And Distressed""; Subject(s): Love; Women SONNET: 41, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, being born a woman and distressed Last Line: I find this frenzy insufficient reason %for conversation when we meet again Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): I, Being Born A Woman And Distresse Subject(s): Love; Women SONNET: 53, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What is your substance, whereof are you made Last Line: But you like none, none you, for constant heart. Variant Title(s): "what Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 55, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not marble nor the gilded monuments Last Line: You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 57, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Last Line: Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. Variant Title(s): "absence;""being Your Slave, What Should I Do Not Tend""; Subject(s): Absence; Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 6, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet corrall lips, where nature's treasure liea Last Line: What should I doe, if I did so indeede? Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 60, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore Last Line: Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. Variant Title(s): "revolutions;""like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbled Shore""; Subject(s): Aging; Gays & Lesbians; Time; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 67, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Ah wherefore with infection should he live Last Line: In days long since, before these last so bad. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 67. TO INEZ MILHOLLAND, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon this marble bust that is not I Last Line: Even now the silk is tugging at the staff: %take up the song; forget the epitaph Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Pionee Subject(s): Milholland, Inez (1886-1916); Women's Rights SONNET: 7, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet thames I honour thee, not for thou art Last Line: My mirth is turn'd to extreame miserie. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 8, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I wish that I his pillow were Last Line: How hony-combs from his lips dropping bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 85. FATAL INTERVIEW: 16, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I moved among the elysian fields Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SONNET: 85. FATAL INTERVIEW: 16, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I moved among the elysian fields Last Line: Whenceforth I was among them well I knew Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SONNET: 87, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing Last Line: In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. Subject(s): Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Loss; Love; Separation; Isolation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 94, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They that have power to hurt, and will do none Last Line: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. Variant Title(s): "the Life Without Passion;""they That Have Pow'r To Hut And Will Do None""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Hypocrisy; Sin; Villains In Literature; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SONNET: 95. FATAL INTERVIEW: 26, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women have loved before as I love now Last Line: When treacherous queens, with death upon the tread, %heedless and wilful, took their knights to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Women SONNET: A CRY TO MEN, by LUCY KNOX Poem Source First Line: Say to men, women starve, and will they need? Last Line: Yet cry, weak voice; cry while thy strength avails! Subject(s): Women's Rights SONNET: THE VENUS OF MILO, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou? Woman? Goddess? Aphrodite? Subject(s): Women; Venus De Milo SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 20, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, my beloved, when I think Last Line: Who cannot guess god's presence out of sight. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say over again, and yet once over again Last Line: To love me also in silence with thy soul. Variant Title(s): Assurance Subject(s): Love - Marital; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 22, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our two souls stand up erect and strong Last Line: With darkness and the death-hour rounding it. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 26, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lived with visions for my company Last Line: Because god's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 27, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own beloved, who hast lifted me Last Line: That love, as strong as death, retrieves as well. Subject(s): Love; Spiritual Life; Women & Religion SONNETS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM: 1. DELIA AT PLAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She held a cup and ball of ivory white Last Line: Who on that dart impales my bosom's gem? Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Man-woman Relationships; Play; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Women; Male-female Relations SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 30. CHRIST AND WOMAN, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Nor shalt thou hold our women. Their grey eyes Last Line: Thou rulest not the land of oak and pine. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Women SONNETS ON PICTURES: MARY MAGDALEN AT THE DOOR OF SIMON THE PHARISEE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wilt thou cast the roses from thine hair? Last Line: He needs me, calls me, loves me: let me go!' Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Catholics; Mary Magdalen; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Mary Magdalene SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10C. VANITY FAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies dress in muslin full and white Last Line: Go to the bason, poke them o'er the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women; Youth SONNETS: PASTICHE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the woman moulded by your wish Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SONNETS: PASTICHE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the woman moulded by your wish Last Line: Is there not lacking from your synthesis %someone you may occasionally miss? Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SOPHIE'S BREASTS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Were important to us seventh grade boys Last Line: Perhaps, then, I'd believe and be satisfied Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Dreams; Women SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights SORCERESS, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Where are my affections Last Line: Now I'm a dull myth Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SORREL HORSE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I heard this, but I don't believe it Last Line: But it's funny how stories get around Subject(s): Homeless; Women SORROWFUL MYSTERIES, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: A mystery is a sacred thing Last Line: Can outrun bullets, not afraid %to testify against us Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women SORROWS OF YAMBA, OR THE NEGRO WOMAN'S LAMENTATION, by HANNAH MORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In st. Lucia's distant isle Last Line: There 'the weary are at rest' Subject(s): Blacks; Lament; Saint Lucia, West Indies; Slavery; Women SORTES VERGILIANAE, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have been living now for a long time and there is nothing you do not know Last Line: Only long patience, as the star climbs and sinks, leaving illumuniation to the setting sun Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SORTING CATTLE, by THELMA POIRIER Poem Source First Line: Sorting cows, canners and keepers Last Line: Corral %large enough for both of you Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SOUL ON ICE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: In the cupboard behind the chipped cups Last Line: What does this mean: life without the possibility of parole? Subject(s): Rape; Women SOUND BITES: EL ROUND UP, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those hard days now called a background! Last Line: From one language to another Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: FIRST DAYS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nueva york, el hotel beverly Last Line: What else didn't you tell us? Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, mami, what a shame Last Line: Wears a little pillbox hat Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: I SIZE UP LA SITUATION, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Translate yourself, nina Last Line: From the united states of america Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: MAMI'S ADVICE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep your voices down, girls Last Line: I dont want to hear another word Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND BITES: TALKING BACK TO MAMI (YEARS LATER), by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had to cut myself out Last Line: Not who you really are Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women SOUND FLYING INTO AND OUT OF MY EARS, by PAULA SERGI Poem Source First Line: I don't know if it's white, like the one Last Line: Through my ears like ribbons in a weave of wanting Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL; MIRIAM'S SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the loud timbrel o'er egypt's dark sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumph'd, his people are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Theology SOUTHWEST HARBOR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Although it's sunday, the lobster boats Subject(s): Women's Rights SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 43, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Your eyes, two inkwells seem Last Line: Your breast a letter shut Subject(s): Women SPEAKING OF GABRIEL, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: Like all visitors my son disturbed me Subject(s): Women's Rights SPECIAL TREASURE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: If you like a challenge Last Line: And she will transform and expand your existence Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, the moles on each hand Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, the moles on each hand Last Line: Not that elevator lurching up, then down Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping SPEECH AFTER LONG SILENCE, by LLOYD VAN BRUNT Poem Source First Line: Feverish and mumbling %disheveled in a lawn chair Last Line: Like mist through a country dawn Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SPELL OF BLAZING TREES, by SA'ADYYA MUFFARREH Poem Source First Line: His laugh: %silver %a horse neighing %a fragrance %of warm regret Last Line: Transforming into a sun %but not intending %to set %for very long Subject(s): Arabs - Women SPELLING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women; Language SPELLING, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter plays on the floor Last Line: Your first naming, your first name, %your first word Subject(s): Daughters; Women SPHINCTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hope my good old asshole holds out Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness SPIDER, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Beginning at my car's left headlight, Last Line: Going home this afternoon, the usual run %made in minutes? Where will it try new space? Subject(s): Rape; Women SPIDER RIDE, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: More and more now %the woman of too many days talks crazy Last Line: Thinking I meet myself %in the strangest places Subject(s): Homeless; Women SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations SPIN OR LACE IT IN STORY, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a spinster Last Line: Did not want to stop imagining Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Story-telling; Women; Writing And Writers SPINAL CORD, by 'AISHA ARNAOUT Poem Source First Line: In your sight %I swallow mercury %I drink ink through my pores Last Line: The climax of death %the stuttering of birth Subject(s): Arabs - Women SPINNING, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: When from remote lands the wind rose Last Line: The stars became orbits thrusting into the night... %and night fissioned Subject(s): Arabs - Women SPIRAL IN VERMILLION; AFTER HUNDERTWASSER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the fog submits to the lake, the lake Last Line: You have arrived. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Loss Of; Women SPIRAL STAIRCASE, by LIANA CATRI Poem Source First Line: Shutters closed Subject(s): Women's Rights SPIRIT FLOWERS ARE OUR LIVES, by DELLA BURT Poem Source Last Line: Spirit flowers are we Subject(s): African Americans - Women SPIRIT OF RUIN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: If peace had been a possibility Last Line: Moved achilles, however briefly, to tears Subject(s): Women's Rights SPOIL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Fair spoil I thought him as I reached the well Last Line: "peace! . . . And two hours ago I thought him spoil!" Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology SPOILED ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: O pout! %o fuss and bother Last Line: I do not arch or shiver Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives SPOILS TO THE VICTORS, by ROSS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Always, when the conquerors come Last Line: In every conquered household Subject(s): Human Rights; Imperialism; War; Women SPONSA DEI, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamb of god! Yea, mary, and thy lamb! Last Line: For a sick child, his own and mary's son? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary SPOOKING THE HORSES, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: It wasn't enough to scale the grapestake -- we dared Last Line: Someone else's fruit, tortured into our own Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The secret of the stars, - gravitation Last Line: My secret: under a mound that you shall never find. Subject(s): Women SPOTLESS MAID, by VINCENT MCNABB Poem Source First Line: Ladye marye! Today Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SPRAY, by BIDDY JENKINSON Poem Source First Line: If I were the spreading tide sheets I would overwhelm your insteps Last Line: The sea staff through the sea membranes %is delicately stirring Subject(s): Nature; Women SPREAD, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This blood is the same color as the jam I used to eat every morning made of Last Line: Handle that's a string you pull right down out of yourself Subject(s): Blood; Girls; Menstruation; Women SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth down at sides Subject(s): Art & Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Women - Writers SPRECHSTIMME (COUNTESS OF DIA), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth down at sides Last Line: What need his guns Subject(s): Art And Artists; Betrayal; Deception; Love; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers; Women - Writers SPRING, by PATRICIA CUMMING Poem Source First Line: Sue asked, why is there a line Last Line: The shadows, hers Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women SPRING BLIZZARD, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: Without warning the calamity of ice closes in Last Line: As if it could swallow what's haunting this air Subject(s): Women's Rights SPRING CLEANING, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Thanks to my husband I support myself Last Line: Damaged by elbow grease and compliance Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women SPRING FLOWERS OWN, SELS, by ETEL ADNAN Poem Source First Line: A butterfly came to die %between two stones Last Line: To cover the secret of %death Subject(s): Arabs - Women SPRING IN NAZARETH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is come!' a shepherd Last Line: Green, green, the barley and the corn! Subject(s): Christianity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Spring; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary SPRING IN WAR TIME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the spring far off, far off Last Line: Gray death? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; Women; World War I; First World War SPRING IN WAR-TIME, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sprinkled blackthorn snow Last Line: Not yet have the daisies grown %on your clay Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Women; World War I SPRING IN WESTEND, by HELGA NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Evergreen conifers Subject(s): Women's Rights SQUAW, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I? A hated thing, a squaw Last Line: For who am I? A hated thing, a squaw. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Squaws SQUIRREL, by ALICE R. FRIMAN Poem Source First Line: Here fame lasted a week, the running Last Line: The way gears mesh and lock, the way a zipper closes Subject(s): Fame; Squirrels; Women ST. CECILIA'S HYMN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! Born of a virgin, most lowly and meek Last Line: To live, like a virgin baptiz'd in thy name. Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Saints; Women & Religion ST. DOROTHY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hath been seen and yet it shall be seen Last Line: That I may one day see her in the face. Subject(s): God; Mythology - Classical; Saints; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She pass'd up the aisle on the arm of her aire Last Line: Prove worthy thy worship,—confound him! Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Love; Women ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating ST. LUKE PAINTING THE VIRGIN, by VICKI HEARNE Poem Source First Line: St. Luke's eyes are steady on the babe Last Line: Between the light and the world Subject(s): Luke, Saint (1st Century); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Van Der Weyden, Roger; Women - Bible ST. MARIE DE LA MER, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In st. Marie de la mer Last Line: An aroused woman upon the reddish moss Subject(s): Gypsies; Love - Unrequited; Paintings And Painters; Women ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, beauteous saint! More white than day Last Line: Who saint themselves, they are no saints. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Saints; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene ST. MARY MAGDALENE, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kneeling before the altar step Last Line: Of utter woe Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible ST. PAUL STREET SEASONAL, by KATHY MANGAN Poem Source First Line: Not the crocuses, sporadic Last Line: Of his fingerless glove so grimy %it shines Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women ST. PEREGRINUS' CANCER, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: His miracles abbreviated, lives of saints Last Line: We were alike, at last Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients ST. SENANUS AND THE LADY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Haste and leave this sacred isle Last Line: She ne'er had left his lonely isle. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Senanus, Saint (488-560); Women STABAT MATER, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the cross of expiation Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sorrowing mother was Last Line: The bird of paradise %from you to me Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O thou mournful mother, standing by the cross with / eyes uplift Last Line: How a mother's pain may be a soul's sublime beatitude. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Pain; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery STABAT MATER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jews were wrought to cruel madness Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER, by JOSEF WITTLIN Poem Source First Line: The grieving mother stood in the square Last Line: Stabat mater, poland our mother, %with her crown of thorns, by the gallows-tree Subject(s): Freedom; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STABAT MATER (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the shadow of the rood Last Line: With thy glory crowned. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary STABAT MATER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The star that in his splendor hid her own Last Line: On tearful calvary. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Calvary; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the afflicted mother weeping Last Line: Glories bright of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the cross her station keeping Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STABAT MATER DOLOROSA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Helye! Goddes moder dolorous Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible STABAT MATER SPECIOSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the lovely mother smiling Last Line: To the vision of his face! Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary STAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She scrubbed as hard as she could with a stone Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women - Old Age STAINED GLASS, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: One of michael's windows hangs between us Last Line: And each smile you make is a crack %beginning Subject(s): Women STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by JILL BIALOSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girlfriend and I snuck out Last Line: And the long dark dialogue would begin Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Last Line: The siskiyou mountains divide up ahead, %waiting to swallow us whole Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women STAMINA, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: The bed, the laminated stand Last Line: The absences, no obstacle to calm Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients STANDING WORSHIP, by DHABYA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: I said bismillah in your name, singer Last Line: Innocence cries out to be saved... %innocence finds no one Subject(s): Arabs - Women STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion STANDOFF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assail god's hearing with gull-screech knifeblades Last Line: When shall we %dare to fly? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion STANZAS OF A NUN OF ALCALA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My parents, as if enemies Subject(s): Women's Rights STANZAS WRITTEN IN GREAT HASTE IN REPLY, by MARCIA BELISARDA Poem Source First Line: Men, do not dishonor Subject(s): Women's Rights STAR, by JACKLYN W. POTTER Poem Source First Line: You said sing, daddy Last Line: Daddy, I am singing Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women STAR OF THE SEA, by RICHARD WEBB SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Hail, star of the sea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible STAR VEHICLES: I'M NOT IN 'DARLING', by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bette davis has no reason to be jealous of michelangelo antonioni Last Line: A wilderness stretching farther than the exiled eye could see Subject(s): Davis, Bette (1908-1989); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAR VEHICLES: THE GARBO INDEX, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dead friend vito praised garbo's last scene in queen christina Last Line: With the tranquililty of all final compositions Subject(s): Garbo, Greta (1905-1990); Gays & Lesbians; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAR VISION, by MARILOU AWIAKTA Poem Source First Line: As I sat against the pine one night Last Line: Once more, lying on the grass Subject(s): Appalachia; Women STARS IN ALABAMA, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In alabama %stars hand down so low Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women STARS WHICH SEE, STARS WHICH DO NOT SEE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sat by the water. The fine women Last Line: And then its promise, but never the water. Subject(s): Beauty; Seine (river), France; Water; Women STATUE OF NEPTUNE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: He is a powerful-handsome man Last Line: It is,' I say, with a big smile Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STAYING UP ALONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a week apart we sit face to face Last Line: In this locality-a grown woman Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women STEADFAST LOVE OF RIZPAH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Rizpah, whose name means glowing coal Last Line: With those of saul and jonathan %indomitable rizpah has done all she can Subject(s): Women - Bible STEALING: 1. THE HEIST, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Pick the lock of this %rib cage Last Line: Steal back, %you thief, oh thief Subject(s): Women STEALING: 2. THE POCKET, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: My old self vanished when you went Last Line: Of tweed: how dark, and how secure Subject(s): Women STEALING: 3. KEEPSAKE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: How, between finger %and thumb, you measure Last Line: Pull back the trigger Subject(s): Women STEEPLECHASE, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: What did she mean Last Line: As we run the long race? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina STELLA AND FLAVIA, by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stella and flavia every hour Last Line: Each day give stella more. Subject(s): Women; Charm; Beauty STEPPING WESTWARD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is green in me Subject(s): Women STEPPING WESTWARD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is green in me Last Line: Of bread that hurts %my shoulders but closes me %in fragrance. I can %eat as I go Subject(s): Women STEREOGRAPH: 1903, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: She means two things Last Line: Arms around each other's waist Subject(s): Women's Rights STEW, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: When I stir the pot this morning Last Line: Into carrion country Subject(s): Women STILL I RISE, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies Last Line: I rise. Subject(s): African Americans - Women STILL LIFE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I used to be kind to inanimate things Last Line: Yesterday, tomorrow, the day after Subject(s): Women's Rights STILL LIFE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astride the boney jointed ridge Last Line: The whole dry world's gaping misery Subject(s): Bodies; Breasts; Women STILL LIFE WITH CACTUS AND MAGNOLIA, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Let's say there's a hat Last Line: The threshold, uncrossing %herself forever Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women STINGS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bare-handed, I hand the combs Last Line: The mausoleum, the wax house Subject(s): Honey; Women STITCH IN TIME, by LINDA PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Taught to be handy with needle and thread Last Line: Threading over, under, around, and through Subject(s): Appalachia; Women STONE WILL TALK, by HOUDA AL- NA'MANI Poem Source First Line: Even in bronze curtains, I pierce the white ceiling Last Line: And the moans of the dead %will be heard Subject(s): Arabs - Women STORE CANDY, by ELIZABETH EBERT Poem Source First Line: Don't go,' she said, 'we'll do with what we have.' Last Line: And all the bright store candy scattered round Subject(s): Cowboys; Ranch Life; Women - Writers STORY, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: When anyone comes from Last Line: Before I too fly out of the story Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Women STORY BOOKS ON A KITCHEN TABLE (1976), by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of her womb of pain my mother spat me Last Line: For the vanished mother %of a black girl Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women STORY OF A HOTEL ROOM, by ROSEMARY TONKS Poem Source First Line: Thinking we were safe - insanity! Last Line: The concurring deep love of the heart %follows the naked work, profoundly moved by it Subject(s): Women STRANGE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange with women when Last Line: On the mouth again Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Women; Human Behavior STRANGE FRUIT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spray-painted across a garage door Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Prejudice; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STRANGE MUSIC, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men have seen their own graves at the edge Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STRANGER, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Nothing could be stranger to me than my own life Last Line: Twitchings which constitute the motion of a life Subject(s): Women's Rights STRANGER MYSTERY: SUSTAINING HOSPITALITY, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: And I have to laugh the next day too, as long as I see Last Line: I blush again. Abraham's guests get up to go. %I bleed for him Subject(s): Women STRANGERS, by HUDA ABLAN Poem Source First Line: No one belongs to the path %except a pocket %stuffed with the leaves of night Last Line: And melts in the shudder %of an endless beckoning Subject(s): Arabs - Women STREET LAMPS IN EARLY SPRING, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night wears a garment Last Line: Move slowly with their gem-starred light Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women STREETS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered through the eight hundred and eight streets of the city Subject(s): Women; Beauty; City & Town Life STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within, walls white as canvas stretched to stain Last Line: As I try to keep us, here upon this page. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Netherlands; Poetry & Poets; San Francisco; Villages; Wharves; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Piers; Feminism STRETCH MARKS AND CELLULITE, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Mirror, mirror, on the wall Last Line: And mothers don't always %regain their shapes Subject(s): Identity; Women STRING MUSIC FOR THE GODS, by LI HE Poem Source First Line: The shaman woman pours wine Last Line: Then she sends the gods, riding in thousands, %back to the green hills Subject(s): Clergy; Women STRIP MINING, ANTRIM CEMETERY, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Through the ore of autumn, toward the stone angel Subject(s): Rape; Women STRIPPER, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the woman %in the mirror %undressing Last Line: Dreamskin, a dilapidated girdle %pickled grey with washing Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women STROKE UNITS, by FREDERIKE FREI Poem Source First Line: That is certainly a sensitive man Subject(s): Women's Rights STROLLER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the hills blue Last Line: Of an old willow. Subject(s): Women STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women STUDENT ASKS THE POET BASHO: WHAT IS VICTORIA'S SECRET?, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Eight pairs of sexy panties Last Line: I try on %your blackberry brassiere Subject(s): Desire; Lingerie; Poetry And Poets; Women STUPIDITY, by MILDRED M. HOTT Poem Text First Line: I said you'd better go away Last Line: I thought you'd see right through me! Subject(s): Women STUPOR MUNDI: 1. MORTAL QUESTIONS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The queen: had I any hope, presentiment, or scheme Last Line: No, no, no. Though it would make a better story Subject(s): Women STUPOR MUNDI: 2. BIG DEAL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: The king: what can psyche's father do? My castle Last Line: A holiday to remember. %always. With love Subject(s): Women STUPOR MUNDI: 3. IN MEMORIAM, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: - much less the child's cry Subject(s): Women STUPOR MUNDI: 4. BEYOND MIDWIFERY, ANON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: A pin through a butterfly's heart: will chemistry Last Line: - the diadem? %- just forget her! Subject(s): Women STYLE, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: She stood and delivered, unsightly, those nights Last Line: To settle. We're dying, we think Subject(s): Korea; Women STYLES & FASHIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "good people all both old and young, I hope you will be easy" Last Line: And tells me to mind my own affairs - the child is in the fashion Subject(s): Fashion;hair;singing & Singers;women STYX RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't help weeping with delight Last Line: I did. Subject(s): Death; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Rivers; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUBALTERNS, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: She said to one: how glows Last Line: Now, life's so deadly slow Subject(s): Women; World War I SUBSTITUTION, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is life itself but many ways of thought Last Line: His all-mind bids us to keep this sacred place Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SUBWAY SONG, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Big black man hugging the subway pole Last Line: Keep my mouth closed %and my eyes elsewhere Subject(s): Jews - Women SUDDEN THOUGHT, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: While negotiating Last Line: She knew %all along? Subject(s): Women - Bible SUFFERING, by MARIA GUACCI NOBILE Poem Source First Line: To invoke rhymes and verse in vain I try Subject(s): Women's Rights SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG, by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK Poem Text First Line: Lo! The nations have been toiling up a steep and rugged road Last Line: For the hope still leads them on! Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism SUFFRAGE, 1917: IMPRISONED FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I could not sleep thinking of the girl Last Line: Cell by cell, line by line, the voiceless and the free Subject(s): Fights; Labor Unions; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Strikes; Women - Captives SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When woman is in rags, and poor Last Line: "to that small voice that crieth—""stop her!" Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Hunger; Poverty; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SUICIDE, by LINA TIBI Poem Source First Line: The mouth that gave me your voice Last Line: The bier killing itself willingly %hungry for the sand of god Subject(s): Arabs - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 1: MARY, KYUKUH, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken, a %tremble like Last Line: Mother, so maybe they sent her away and made up the rest Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 2: FERN, LAGUNA, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small woman huddled on the couch Last Line: Can't see another world around you like the lamps %soft and comforting around this room? Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 3: DELILAH, NAVAJO, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earthwoman %authentic as any white man Last Line: On the edge of the reservation %and make joking fantasies %do for real Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUICIDING(ED) INDIAN WOMEN: 4: SHIPAP, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful corn woman Last Line: The people lost %the beautiful first home %to the raging war gods %and wander homeless now. %they ha Subject(s): Native Americans - Women SUM, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Early atomists like lucretius believed in unity, Last Line: Backward before his sheathed and gleaming power. Subject(s): Women's Rights SUMMER BREEZE., by EDWARD J. RIELLY Poem Source Last Line: A torn teddy bear Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUMMER COMPANY, by EUGENE ROGER COLE Poem Source First Line: I cannot tell you Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUMMER COUNT, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: A moment ago -- this sudden fecundity of just cut hogs Last Line: Before the stains dry from these trees? Subject(s): Women's Rights SUMMER IN ENGLAND, 1914, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On london fell a clearer light Last Line: The very kiss of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War SUMMER MATURES, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant-bellied newt flashes Last Line: Come. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SUMMER NEAR THE RIVER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have carried my pillow to the windowsill Last Line: It seems, for a moment, the river ceases flowing. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fidelity; Love - Complaints; Women; Women's Rights; Faithfulness; Constancy; Feminism SUMMER ORACLE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without exception %there is no end Last Line: Under its cloak of lies Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women SUMMER RAIN, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Eyes closed over despair Last Line: Or black butterflies scattering home Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women SUMMER WORDS FOR A SISTER ADDICT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first day I shot dope Last Line: And we all sing Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Drugs & Drug Abuse SUMMER WORDS FOR A SISTER ADDICT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first day I shot dope Last Line: To mingle with the sister's young tears %and we all sing Subject(s): African Americans - Women SUMMERTIME, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where we live there are caged peacocks Last Line: Could bounce to the sky and stick Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SUN AND I, by RACHEL FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sunned %sunned through Last Line: Or receive the light Subject(s): Jews - Women SUN GOING DOWN UPON OUR WRATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who are so beautiful Subject(s): Women SUN WITNESS, by NURUNNESSA CHOUDHURY Poem Source First Line: Long ago a young girl Subject(s): Women SUNDAY, by MARCIA G. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Alone on sunday %I envy you Last Line: Because I felt so lonely %with you Subject(s): Jews - Women SUNDAY BAKING, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: He thinks she cannot see him through the window Last Line: That this is what is meant by home Subject(s): Women SUNDAY MORNING, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: My mama is blotting her red lipstick Last Line: And purple is the color for the church %the color for royalty Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SUNFLOWERS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The sunflowers are turning Last Line: Shabbat is too long with so much sun, %too long without flowers, with broken wings Subject(s): Jews - Women; Sunflowers SUNFLOWERS AND SATURDAYS, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD Poem Source First Line: Daddy sits %in his brown %leather chair Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women SUNG IN A GRAVEYARD, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O I'm a professional wife Last Line: Tra la la Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Women SUNKEN SHIP, by SALMA KHADRA JAYYUSI Poem Source First Line: My ship is sinking. %I don't save it. %night frost gathers snow in it Last Line: You'll see your suppressed terror...%in my heart Subject(s): Arabs - Women SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch any cool northern girl Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Women; Italy; Sex; Italians SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SUNWORSHIPPERS, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look how they love themselves Last Line: And fully formed, was a way of shining %out of this world Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SUPPLIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: Because I believed my stepmother hated me Last Line: And explained how to soak %blood stains out in cold water Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women SUPPRESSING THE EVIDENCE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Alaska oil spill, I edit you out Last Line: I must hold in my mind one small dead otter pup. Subject(s): Alaska; Escapes; Industrial Accidents; Petroleum; Women; Women's Rights; Fugitives; Oil; Feminism SURF, by NAGASE KIOKO Poem Source First Line: A mountain of books half-finished Last Line: I'm surfing now Subject(s): Women SURPRISE PARTY, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL Poem Source First Line: On her birthday, she couldn't sit still Last Line: But for the bathroom light that burned %like a huge candle above her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, by MARGARET FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: Eyes swollen she lay in their bed Last Line: Like the frames of stolen paintings left behind Subject(s): Women SURVIVOR, by KATHERINE GALLAGHER Poem Source First Line: A woman sits in a corner of sun Subject(s): Women SURVIVOR, by WILHELMINA YOUNG Poem Source First Line: We sit at the round oak table Last Line: Cries real tears, the other %just stares Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUSAN, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dropt a tear on susan's bier Last Line: And let herself be woo'd again. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Death; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUSAN DANCES, by BETH JOSELOW Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was in all of her dancing Last Line: And knows that practicing %is all there is Subject(s): Jews - Women SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is foolish for rubens to show her Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS, by JACK GILBERT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is foolish for rubens to show her Last Line: Far off, the small coin of color. %and, sometimes, leaves Subject(s): Susanna (bible); Women In The Bible SUSANNA IS DRENCHED, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: And especially the satin %bathrobe Subject(s): Women - Writers SUZANNE, by RHONDA C. POYNTER Poem Source First Line: If I dressed up in my finest Last Line: This has nothing to do with %men Subject(s): Women SWAY, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone at lake kearney had a nickname: Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Women SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see my white-faced sisters of the foul tenements Last Line: The devil-dance of the shuttles! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Sweating System; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers SWEEPING, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The other day I saw the hobbler %sweeping the sidewalk Last Line: But the next day he wasn't there Subject(s): Homeless; Women SWEET ABBIE AT THE SPRING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I have read of sculptured beauties Last Line: A-drinking at the spring. Subject(s): Monasteries; Women; Abbeys SWEET BOY, GIMME YR ASS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lemme kiss your face, lick your neck Last Line: Softness this relaxed sweet sigh? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SWEET ETHEL WAS A ROAMING GIRL, by LINDA PIPER Poem Source Last Line: And she'll never %walk the streets no more Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Prostitution SWEET HEART, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Here I am, sweet heart, my long white lizzie siddal skirts Last Line: Who is afraid Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged SWEET ROSE OF ZION, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It could have been 1929 Last Line: Oh, sweet rose of zion, %fly free, %fly free Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Movement SWF PROFESSIONAL SEEKS HUSBAND, by CINDY THOMPSON-RUMPLE Poem Source First Line: A very special value Last Line: Hurry! Won't last long Subject(s): Advertising; Mankind; Relationships; Women SWING, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: The yellow metal seat flashes Last Line: Her skirt opening to gather the dark Subject(s): Women SWITCH HITTING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Lefty or righty Last Line: On my brother's feet Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia my heart in wond'rous wise alarm'd Last Line: Is still a sad good christian at her heart. Subject(s): Women SYMPATHY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lately, alas I knew a gentle boy Last Line: Nor mortals know a sympathy more rare. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sympathy; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Empathy SYMPHONY IN BLUE, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: The gentian sleeps in waters Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible SYZYGY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Syzygy, syzygy, syzygy Last Line: I am aching with syzygy's pull Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons Last Line: That has begun to split the bowl in half Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping TABLEAU 66 FROM THE INCLINED HOUSE, by SABAH AL-KHARRAT ZWEIN Poem Source First Line: I have already lost the style and maze of language. I have already fallen Last Line: We were embracing the falsehood of space and the fragility of our hours Subject(s): Arabs - Women TACO SAUCE: 1982, by PENELOPE REEDY Poem Source First Line: I fold my apron %and prepare to catch my flight Last Line: And write: 'taco sauce: 1982 %first wife' Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TAH SHEMA, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Come, come and listen Last Line: On whose tree %it grew? Subject(s): Jews - Women TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women TAHOE IN AUGUST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What summer proposes is simply happiness Last Line: The mother she looks like stands at the counter snapping beans Subject(s): Tahoe (lake), Sierra Nevada Mountains; Women TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TAKE THIS ADVICE, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: When your husband dies, vary your story Last Line: You heard nothing when your whole world changed Subject(s): Women TAKING FLIGHT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: He fashions wings Last Line: He is guilty only of loving Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TAKING IT BACK, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Hand-tinted, creamy olive skin Last Line: [what] still splits off in the wind Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TAKING THE FENCES, by JUDITH H. MONTGOMERY Poem Source First Line: Here's how I lived Last Line: To the dangerous fences %we always cleared Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women TALE OF THREE WOMEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sisera's mother Last Line: All be as the sun %in his glorious rising Subject(s): Women - Bible TALISMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You leave the house in its stillness Last Line: The iridescent husk spill %from your hands Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TALKING WOMAN, by HELEN OLSEN Poem Source First Line: It was his fate Last Line: Which drove him mad Subject(s): Fate; Women TALL BUSH, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: A cowgirl has a heap of fun Last Line: The bliss of pure relief Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stares Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes Subject(s): Grandparents; Women; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TALL WOMAN WALKING, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun stares Last Line: In her purple tennis shoes Subject(s): Grandparents; Women TANGLEHAIR'S DREAM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your voice, like rain %blowing across the fields Last Line: Wolves bay in the distance. %the owl cries into the dawn Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGLEHAIR'S MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the sound of scissors %that will not let me sleep Last Line: I am the fox, the wolf, the hawk Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGO, by ELENA JORDANA Poem Source First Line: I am that binge you need Last Line: The one whose name you forget to ask %or ask if you could see again Subject(s): Women's Rights TANKA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man has sucked too Last Line: Navigate a blackwomansail Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Love – Complaints TANKA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman without heat Last Line: Dreams of secreting milk Subject(s): Women; Sex TANTRA, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Let us begin again, here where Last Line: We gaze at the snow-fast peaks, and hope Subject(s): Women's Rights TAR & FEATHER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Let me say this outright Last Line: Over and under bows, the self in flight calls %why %why %why Subject(s): Birds; Women TARPEIA, by JULIET H. CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unblushingly the maiden stood Last Line: Of her reward was built. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Juliet H. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Treason & Traitors; Women TARPEIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Lightly to part with one's soul as the sea with his foam! Last Line: Woe to tarpeia, tarpeia, daughter of rome! Subject(s): Daughters; Rome, Italy; Soul; Women TASK, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The body shuts its pleasures down Last Line: Eating the sun, drinking the lashings of rain? Subject(s): Women's Rights TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Last Line: The weaver at rest Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weavers And Weaving; Women And Religion TASSO AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat, where on each wind that sighed Last Line: He of the sword and pen! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Sisters; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Women TAX MAN, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %says how she visited her tax man the other day Last Line: Like some family members %you didn't know you had Subject(s): Homeless; Women TAXI, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Why don't we cruise Last Line: I'd like to take you %you as you are Subject(s): Women TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Last Line: Promise corrupts %what it does not invent Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers And Daughters; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Women TEACHING, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: I have begun to tell the students Last Line: The jobs they will hold in four years Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women TEACHING, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: You can tell an abused kid Last Line: And questions not answered %but asked Subject(s): Identity; Women TEARS OF MARY, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but he is so helpless and so sweet ...' Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TEBAY LAKE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Water goes everywhere and is not afraid Subject(s): Rape; Women TECHNIQUES OF THE MASTERS, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In this painting with their flushed cheeks Last Line: They typeset, bound and shut Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Gabriel; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible TELEPHONE CALL, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: When emma heard him say he didn't love her Last Line: She thought of dresses she had never worn Subject(s): Women TELL ME AGAIN, by NIGAR HANIM Poem Source First Line: Am I your only love-in the whole world-now? Last Line: Tell me again Subject(s): Women TELL ME, O GAZELLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TELL ME,' I ASK MIGUEL ANGEL, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As I take the reins into my trembling hands Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women TELL US AGAIN, by JO-ANN MAPSON Poem Source First Line: Back then,' gemma said, 'they gave you ether, Last Line: Gleaming with sequins Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TELLING THE GOSPEL TRUTH, by BETH ANN FENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who placed this here, bible Last Line: Whither. %whither Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Women - Bible; Women And Religion; Writing And Writers TELLURIAN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The hills are ebbing home today Subject(s): Women's Rights TEMPEST, by SEKEENA SHABEN Poem Source First Line: There is little inspiration %tonight; air cool and wet Last Line: And now this %unbearable stillness Subject(s): Arabs - Women TEMPLE, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Let her sleep begin with folderol Last Line: Lights donated in the name of so-and-so Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers TEMPTATION, by SALWA AL- NEIMI Poem Source First Line: Marital quarrels are not poetic Last Line: While I wash the dinner dishes Subject(s): Arabs - Women TENDER SAPLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TENDERLOIN CAFETERIA POEM, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: I have sat one too many Last Line: The other on the %obituary column Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women TENEBRIS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tree, by day Last Line: Or is it a shadow? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shadows TENTH ARMISTICE DAY, by S. GERTRUDE FORD Poem Source First Line: Lest we forget!' let us remember then Last Line: Build their memorial in the league of nations! Subject(s): Women; World War I TERENCE MACSWINEY, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TEREUS: WOMANKIND, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away from home I am nothing. Oftentimes Last Line: We must give praise and think that all is well. Subject(s): Women TERM PAPER, by MARY PIERCE BROSMER Poem Source First Line: Today %I graded %a term paper Last Line: I wept %for %them both %us all %starving Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women TERMINAL, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: I landed at the gate Last Line: Could be scrubbed clean away Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING ANSWERING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Who is not going to ask me that again Last Line: Who is not going to answer that again Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING AUGUST 4, 1892, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I was in the yard. I heard a groan Last Line: He's dead - %and how Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING BEING ARRESTED, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Is that question meant to mix me up? Last Line: Accord won't find me guilty Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING HIM COMING BACK, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: At the top of the stairs. Yes, that was quite out Last Line: Could they have committed double suicide? Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING IS DIFFICULT DAYS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I was out Last Line: They had to do it Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING MY MORNING, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I might have been down cellar or in my room Last Line: To cloth and cash in torrents... And I laugh Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING MY TRIAL: JUNE 5, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: They line the streets. They make me a carnival Last Line: To be sure to be sure to %be there Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING THINGS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Now I believe in things and all the things Last Line: I swear the pears were dropping one by one Subject(s): Women TERRIBLE MEMORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN: REMEMBERING TO BE A LEGEND, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: And everywhere at once, the whole world waiting Last Line: Toward undoing %the verdict %I could go on Subject(s): Women THAMOS, KING OF EGYPT, by RAMAN FREY Poem Source First Line: When young, she snag with her hands Last Line: The elephant's warm breasts had sung beautifully mozart's unwritten Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music And Musicians; Women THANKS, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can't take it - you're so handsome! Last Line: On those beautiful lips, those treacherous teeth Subject(s): Women THANKSGIVING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: One roasting turkey Last Line: And no one cares about my wooly armpits Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights THAT GHASTLY NIGHT IN DOVER, by KATHERINE MCALPINE Poem Source First Line: The sea was calm, and sweet was the night air Last Line: Stuff about naked shingles and sophocles Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THAT I WILL NOT BE A RESTLESS GHOST, SELS., by MARGARET MEAD Poem Source First Line: That I will not be a restless ghost Last Line: And all the future in your hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THAT I'M ILL MARRIED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights THAT KIND OF POEM', by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He called our son to ask if he Last Line: "of poem"" to keep her alive." Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Women; Dead, The; Relatives THAT PATCHED-UP BALL, by PAUL WEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Just because he sent me to spade up the crummy Last Line: Just past noon Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THAT WAS THE FRUIT OF MY ORCHARD, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No moon. No night Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women THAT WOMAN, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Just as you imagined, she has silk Last Line: Under her breast the weight of the diehard %concubine, the heavy heart of gold Subject(s): Women THAW, by MYRT WALLIS Poem Source First Line: The south slope %bares it's breast Last Line: Out of my back %like grubs Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THE 'ANTI' AND THE FLY, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fly upon the cartwheel Last Line: Thinks she makes the wheels go back! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism THE ADOPTED CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wouldst thou leave me, oh! Gentle child? Last Line: "lady, kind lady! Oh, let me go!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Adoption; Women THE ADORED ONE: 1 (TO HER OF THE MANY FILMS), by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile is very sweet: yet it baffles me Last Line: Much am I baffled! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Women THE ADORED ONE: 2, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be what you are: all women in one Last Line: Baffle us no longer: you are only baffling yourself. Subject(s): Women THE ADORED ONE: 3, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are proud and strong lion-hearted girl Last Line: Filling the light of the world with the light of your eyes. Subject(s): Women THE ADORED ONE: 4, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You play the queen Last Line: Crowns but muffle the night-dream of your hair. Subject(s): Women THE ADORED ONE: 5, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you kissed that kiss that draws open the door of life Last Line: Go and know love, the giver of victories. Subject(s): Women THE ADORED ONE: 6, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose adored one is this? For her beauty walks Last Line: You too must adore the beloved, and kneel down yourself when he kneels. Subject(s): Women THE AE WEE ROOM, by ELLEN C. NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: It's years sin' last we left it - oh, sae weel's I mind the day! Last Line: The thocht o' puirtith's happy days in ae wee room. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Mrs. James Subject(s): Rooms; Women THE AFFINITY, by ANNA WICKHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have to thank god I'm a woman Last Line: Is free to be very hungry, very lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Sexism; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism THE AFTER WOMAN, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of the ancient eve Last Line: This song is sung and sung not, and its words are sealed. Subject(s): Christianity; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE AGE OF AIDS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our postman, jim was always after me Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Postal Service; Aids (disease); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE ALIBI, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Gwendolyn / has not been in Last Line: "I like it and it keeps me thin." Subject(s): Smoking; Women; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE AMAZON (COPY OF A STATUE BY POLYCLITUS OF ARGOS, 5TH CENTURY B.C.), by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This marble is a dream of woman grown Last Line: Her body into growth, but not her wit! Subject(s): Amazons; Statues; Women THE AMERICAN FOREST GIRL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wildly and mournfully the indian drum Last Line: "away,"" they cried, ""young stranger, thou art free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forests; Women; Woods THE AMERICAN JEWESS, by ALBERT ULMANN Poem Text First Line: O youngest daughter of thy ancient race Last Line: And make of each a better man, a worthier jew. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Jews In America; Judaism THE ANACREONTICS: 8, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her (o transcendent sight Last Line: Have felt them in my heart ere this. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Beauty; Women THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel / appeared to Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Angels; Wishes THE ANGEL FOOD DOGS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaping, leaping, leaping Subject(s): Christianity; Women; Theology THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 3. PRELUDE: UNTHRIFT, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, wasteful woman, she who may Last Line: Had made brutes men, and men divine. Subject(s): Women THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 4. PRELUDE: THE TRIBUTE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boon nature to the woman bows Last Line: To profit so by eden's blame. Subject(s): Women THE ANGEL'S VISIT, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a glorious summer eve Last Line: Was breathed before the throne. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE ANNIAD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of sweet and chocolate Last Line: The minuets of memory Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) THE ANNUNCIATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowliest of women, and most glorified! Last Line: And own thyself the handmaid of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How pure, and frail, and white Last Line: Here at her feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Naught in heaven, divinity beneath Last Line: In hers portrayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANNUNCIATION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiat' - the flaming word Last Line: Of life and light. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Annunciation, The; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fashionable women in luxurious homes Last Line: To great democracy and womanhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Americans; Elections; United States; Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America; Feminism THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE APPARITION, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dead love came to me, and said Last Line: "may I take refuge here?" Subject(s): Women THE ARGIVE MOTHER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the terse heroic pages Last Line: Have no patience in our prayer! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Juno (goddess); Mothers; Women - Heroes THE ASHES; FOR WILLIAM GASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This elderly poet, unpublished for five decades Last Line: Her name known to everyone, safe in her fame. Subject(s): China - Red Guards; Honor; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE ASS FESTIVAL, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pink cum dribbles out my anus Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Gays & Lesbians; Love - Erotic; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the little ass of christ Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology THE ASSIGNATION, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every vow I kept Last Line: Inside of you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Promises; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE ASSUMPTION, by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is she that ascends so high Last Line: Flames with flames t'unite. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASSUMPTION (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! The mother bird Last Line: "thy fledgling calls thee home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASSUMPTION (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor bethlehem nor nazareth Last Line: Were not his mother there. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE ASTROLOGER PREDICTS AT MARY'S BIRTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This one lie down on grass Last Line: It will break here eye Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE AUTHOR OF THE JESUS PAPERS SPEAKS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream Subject(s): Christmas; God; Women; Nativity, The THE BABE TO THE GIFT-BEARER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot hold within my hands Last Line: Till I am older grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE BALLAD OF A BAD GIRL, by MABEL DODGE LUHAN Poem Text First Line: When I was a baby, mother pushed me from my cradle Last Line: "and teach me how to mother and that's all, all, all!" Subject(s): Women THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me now in what hidden way is Last Line: But where are the snows of yester-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Time; Women THE BALLAD OF HIRAM HOVER; A BALLAD OF NEW ENGLAND LIFE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the moosatockmaguntic Last Line: Comfort for a wedded pair! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): New England; Women THE BALLAD OF LOVELY LADYES OF LONG AGOE, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me where and in what lande Last Line: But where are the white snowes borne awaye? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Past; Women THE BALLAD OF THE MADE MAID, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is rich and talented Subject(s): Women's Rights; Marriage; Feminism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BATHERS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can there be women alone and no serpent near? Subject(s): Seashore; Women; Desire; Beach; Coast; Shore THE BATTLE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, do not smile at her as she goes past Last Line: For well, she knows that she must lose at last! Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Defending you, my country, hurts Last Line: For once I would be what I would always be Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BEAR'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have taken the woman of beauty Last Line: For her I made this song and for her I sing it Subject(s): Beauty;haida Indians;love;native Americans;women; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America THE BEAUTIFUL, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incertitudes are buying shirts Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate women with eyes open Subject(s): Women THE BELLE OF THE BALL, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years, years ago, ere yet my dreams Last Line: But only mrs. -- something -- rogers! Variant Title(s): The Belle Of The Ball-room Subject(s): Disappointment; Women THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God makes sech nights, all white an' still Last Line: In meetin' come nex' sunday. Subject(s): Courtship; Women THE BIRD OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy, holy, holy Last Line: All the birds together. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Rewards; Salvation; Self-immolation; Women - Bible; Belief; Creed; Virgin Mary THE BIRDS OF PASSAGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birds, joyous birds of the wandering wing! Last Line: So may we reach our bright home at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Women THE BIRTH, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a legend that the love of god Last Line: A rain of spirit and a dew of song! Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Stars; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE BIRTH IN A NARROW ROOM, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeps out of western country something new Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BLACK MAMMY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitened head entwined in turban gay Last Line: That it some day might crush thine own black child? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Babies; Family Life; Infants; Relatives THE BLACK VIRGINITY, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby priests/ on green sward Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women; Religion; Theology THE BLACKSTONE RANGERS: 3. GANG GIRLS; A RANGERETTE, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gang girls are sweet exotics Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE BLAME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Men couple her name with sin and with shame Last Line: We're to blame, brother mine, we're to blame! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Men; Women THE BLESSED VIRGIN, COMPARED TO THE AIR WE BREATHE, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild air, world-mothering air Last Line: Fold home, fast fold thy child. Variant Title(s): Mary Mother Of Divine Grace, Compared Subject(s): Air; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BODY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was Last Line: Over age that darkens, and griefs that destroy? Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Flowers; Roses; Women THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Click the grief castanets. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Social Commentaries; Skin Condition; Grandparents; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man mistakes his rounded shoulders for wings Last Line: The dead man speaks also for those who were turned into stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women; Dead, The THE BRIDAL GIFT, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night at the fair I met light-footed polly Last Line: As rosy the posy — la, no! Subject(s): Brides; Gifts & Giving; Women THE BRIDE, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh to be a bride Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Women; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BRIDE OF THE GREEK ISLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come from the woods with the citron-flowers Last Line: In the sudden flow of a plaintive lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Greece; Women; Greeks THE BROKEN PITCHER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a moorish maiden was sitting by a well Last Line: How he met moorish maiden beside the lonely well. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Spain; Women THE BROKEN SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark Last Line: The bird caught in the cage whistles its joyous stave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Soldiers; Soul; Strength; Women; World War I; First World War THE BROWN-EYED GIRLS OF JERSEY, by HENRY MORFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before my bark the waves have curled Last Line: Some brown-eyed girl of jersey! Subject(s): New Jersey; Women THE BUGLER'S FIRST COMMUNION, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bugler boy from barrack (it is over the hill there) Last Line: Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these. Subject(s): Army Life; Eucharist; Gays & Lesbians; Drills & Minor Tactics; Communion; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CALL TO ARMS IN OUR STREET, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a woman sobs her heart out Last Line: God go with you where you go! Subject(s): Women & War; World War I; First World War THE CALL TO EVENING PRAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Allah ho akbar! Allah ho akbar! Last Line: Naray'yana! Naray'yana! Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Religion; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Virgin Mary; Theology THE CANTERBURY TALES: PROLOGUE OF THE PRIORESS'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, oure lord, thy name how merveillous Last Line: "gydeth my song that I shal of yow seye." Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CANTERBURY TALES: PROLOGUE TO SECOND NUN'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ministre and the norice unto vices Last Line: Now have I yow declared what she highte. Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CARD-DEALER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not drink her gaze like wine? Last Line: And know she calls it death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Card Games; Women; Playing Cards THE CENSUS AND THE FAIR DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rude querist! My feelings your question enrages Last Line: "till I know what is his who will make me a bride." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Aging; Census; Rudeness; Women; Bad Manners THE CENTENARIAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think we shall Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE CHANGES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What bird, if you could be a bird Last Line: For whiter-throated nancy! Subject(s): Birds; Desire; Women THE CHERRY TREE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her gnarled sleep it Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Cherry Trees; Environment; Gays & Lesbians; Poetry & Poets; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE CHERRY TREE CAROL (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Joseph was an old man Last Line: To see the uprising / of the heavenly king Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary; THE CHIEF WITNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her that hath hid a babe beneath her breast Last Line: "through me the race aspires from man to man!" Subject(s): Humanity; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Sons; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILD JESUS TO MARY THE ROSE, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father above, beholding the meekness Last Line: When they me pray for help in thy presence. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE CHILD TAKEN FROM THE MOTHER, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could do nothing. Nothing. Do you Last Line: And women, lovers, mothers, lesbians. Yes Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Child Custody; Sacrifices; Women's Rights THE CHILD'S LAST SLEEP; SUGGESTED BY MOMUMENT OF CHANTREY'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepst - but when wilt thou wake, fair child? Last Line: Beautiful dust! When we look on thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Death - Children; Sculpture & Sculptors; Women; Death - Babies THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: When I was but a little tot Last Line: Within the nurseries of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women; Childhood THE CHILDLESS WOMAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children she had missed Last Line: Was a dream, but a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Childlessness; Children; Heaven; Mothers; Women; Childhood; Paradise THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON Poem Text First Line: A star shone in the east Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Beautiful as morning in those hours Last Line: Down to death's chamber, and his bridal-bed. Subject(s): Women; Christianity; Death THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star Last Line: In every little baby's birth. Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE CHRONICLE; A BALLAD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margarita first possest / if I remember well, my breast Last Line: Whom god grant long to reign! Variant Title(s): The Lover's Chronicle Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women THE CIRCUS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In my purse there was gold Last Line: But grace went to the circus. Subject(s): Circus; Money; Spendthrifts; Women THE CLOISTER, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eyes no longer sail the tidal streets Last Line: These he has gardened, for they please his eyes. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Women And War THE CLOUD, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what your thoughts are, little cloud Last Line: Celeste: the cloud! Subject(s): Clouds; France; Plays & Playwrights ; Women; Dramatists THE COAL-FIRE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, we'll light the parlor fire Last Line: But coal of each sex shall contribute its part. Subject(s): Fireplaces; Guests; Winter; Women; Visiting THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COMFORT OF A WOMAN, by RALPH BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I woke to the smell of furnace gas Subject(s): Women; Hunting THE COMING OF KALI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the black god, kali Last Line: You know you know me well Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE COMING WOMAN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love Last Line: Exist, without a man cook. Subject(s): Housekeeping; Women's Rights; Feminism THE CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO THE REV. MR. C --., by MARY BARBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time to conclude; for I make it a rule Last Line: And find, in your wife, a companion and friend.' Subject(s): Letters; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Feminism THE CONSTANT CANNIBAL MAIDEN, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, oh, far is the mango island Last Line: A-waitin' for me -- with a knife and fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Cannibals; Women THE CONVENT THRESHOLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's blood between us, love, my love Last Line: And love with old familiar love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE COOUETRY OF MEN, by MAURICE MAGRE Poem Text First Line: We too, no less, have all our little arts Last Line: Both hide their viewless hearts forevermore. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Women; Nightmares THE COPULATING GODS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brushing back the curls from your famous brow Last Line: They will concoct a scripture explaining this. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER; TRIOLETS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For long the cruel wish I knew Last Line: The woman - women always do! Subject(s): Women THE CORNELIAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No specious splendor of this stone Last Line: And none remain'd to give the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE COULDN'T, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then, one day, though my mother had sent me Subject(s): Women THE COUNTERSIGN WAS MARY, by MARGARET (WINSHIP) EYTINGE Poem Text First Line: Twas near the break of day, but still Last Line: "the countersign is 'mary.'" Subject(s): Women THE CRAZY LADY SPEAKING, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the one in the irt tunnel Last Line: From each of their graves I rise, daughter. Embrace me Subject(s): Insanity; Talk; Women; Madness; Mental Illness THE CRAZY WOMAN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not sing a may song Last Line: Who would not sing in may Subject(s): Women THE CRINOLINE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Good people give attention and listen to my rhyme Last Line: With the hoops off her mother's washing tub she made a crinoline Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;singing & Singers;women THE CROCUSES, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They heard the south wind sighing Last Line: Were loving her so much. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE CROWS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who has grown old Last Line: The literary review, Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE CRY OF RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark; I beat on the floor Last Line: Let me in, death. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism THE DAMNED, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drawers of my mother's bedroom Last Line: If either of us can be saved Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE DANCERS (DURING A GREAT BATTLE, 1916), by EDITH SITWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floors are slippery with blood Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War THE DAY LADY DIED, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is 12:20 in new york a friday Last Line: Minneapolis, mn, www.Coffeehousepress.Com Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Men; Music & Musicians; Music, Rock; Singing & Singers; Rock & Roll; Songs THE DAY THAT WAS THAT DAY, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind rose, and the wind fell Subject(s): Women; Despair; Loveless; Poisons & Poisoning; Family Life; Relatives THE DEAD POET, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face Last Line: And so I woke and knew that he was dead. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DEATH OF A PUBLIC SERVANT; IN MEMORIAM, HERBERT NORMAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a day when good men die from windows Last Line: Take these to your shade: of rage, of grief, of love. Subject(s): Defamation; Mccarthyism; Suicide; Women; Women's Rights; Slander; Libel; Feminism THE DEATH OF ANTINOUS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the beautiful young man drowned Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DEBTOR CHRIST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, woman is my debt to thee Last Line: "I gave thee power to die." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE DECLAIMER, by HENRY BAKER Poem Text First Line: Woman! Thoughtless, giddy creature Last Line: Kneeled and whined at celia's feet. Subject(s): Love; Unfaithfulness; Vanity; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DEPARTED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shrink ye from the way Last Line: Our own familiar friends! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE DESCENT OF ALETTE [I STOOD WAITING], by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women THE DESCENT OF ALETTE [I WALKED INTO], by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I walked into the forest; for the woods were lit by yellow Subject(s): Women THE DESCENT OF ALETTE [PRESENTLY], by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Presently we neared a pale beach, narrow with trees behind it Subject(s): Women THE DESCENT OF ALETTE [THE WATER OF THE RIVER], by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water of the river was mild-temperatured, the current Subject(s): Women THE DEVONSHIRE MOTHER, by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: The king have called the devon lads and they be answering fine Last Line: With his tanned face, his eyes of blue, and he so strappin' tall. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women And War; World War I; Childhood; First World War THE DISQUIETING MUSES, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, mother, what illbred aunt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women THE DISTANT SHIP, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-bird's wing o'er ocean's breast Last Line: For human hearts are there. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Women THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness THE DREAM SONGS: 68, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard, could be, a hey there from the wing Last Line: Black to the birds instead Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Songs THE DUMB BELLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What cares the dumb belle for the baseball game? Last Line: And yet, you simp, you'll take her there again! Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE ECHO IN THE HEART, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's little I can tell Last Line: Wakes an echo in my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Love; Women THE EDGE OF DOOM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsick, homeless, weak, and weary Last Line: Even as leah, to the land. Subject(s): Women; Homeless; Grief THE EFFIGIES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warrior! Whose image on thy tomb Last Line: In that lone path to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): War; Women THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 4, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, merry, merry will my heart be Last Line: And go like a lady, warmly drest. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE ELOPEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman never agreed to it!' said my knowing friend to me Last Line: And now she is rich and respectable, and time has buried the past. Subject(s): Time; Women THE EMULATION, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say, tyrant custom, why must we obey / the impositions of thy haughty sway? Last Line: No, we'll be wits, and then men must be fools. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Women THE EMULATION. A PINDARICK ODE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Tell me why, deluded sex, thus we" Last Line: "will owe our charms of wit, of parts, and poetry" Subject(s): Beauty;secrets;women THE ENCHANTED SHELL, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair, fragile una, golden-haired Last Line: Is it a vision? Who can tell? Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Shells; Conchology THE ENDLESS ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: With folded hands beside the fire Last Line: Dim regiments of shades march by. Subject(s): Women And War; World War I; First World War THE EPISTLE TO MRS. SCOTT OF WAUCHOPE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind it weel in early date Last Line: Ne'er at your hallan ca'! Subject(s): Farm Life; Women THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS, by KIZER. CAROLYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window Last Line: Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love Subject(s): Books & Reading; Women's Rights; Innocence; Love - Erotic; Feminism THE ETONIAN; LAURA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A look as blithe, a step as light, / as fabled nymph, or fairy sprite Last Line: And then I wept, -- as now I weep. Subject(s): Love; Women THE ETONIAN; TO JULIA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia, while london's fancied bliss Last Line: And hate a female whipper-in. Subject(s): Beauty; Women THE EVENING TURNED ITS BACK UPON HER VOICE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is she waiting for a knock on the door Subject(s): Memory; Women THE EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming & Swimmers; Women; Nightmares; Swimmers THE EXECUTIVE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women who work for us Last Line: Into the evening. Subject(s): Office Work; Women THE EXILE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You too mistook me; for no man is wise Last Line: My head upon your wide and sheltering breast. Subject(s): Women THE EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE EXPLANATION; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Charles, discoursing rather freely Last Line: "than the best that she can do!" Subject(s): Women THE FACTORY GIRL'S COME-ALL-YE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all ye lewiston fact'ry girls Last Line: "sing dum de whickerty, dum de way" Subject(s): Factories;labor & Laborers;women THE FAIR MILLINGER, by FREDERICK WADSWORTH LORING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a millinger most gay Last Line: "thanks!"" says my millinger." Subject(s): Courtship; Jokes; Women THE FAREWELL TO FOLLY: DESCRIPTION OF THE LADY MAESIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature and her shape were passing tall Last Line: To show what nature's cunning could afford. Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE FAT LADY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely house it was. We all thought so Last Line: The one world I know how to love had died Subject(s): Obesity; Women THE FEAST OF THE 'MUTCHES', by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a lamiter, girzie, or I wad hae been Last Line: To gentles an' grannies to meet yet in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Poverty; Women THE FEMINEAD: FEMALES, SACRED AND PROFANE, by JOHN DUNCOMBE Poem Text First Line: The modest muse a veil with pity throws Last Line: Your empty sneers, and shock the sex no more. Subject(s): Earth; Sacrifices; Women's Rights; World; Feminism THE FESTUBERT SHRINE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sycamore on either side Last Line: We are no less poor than they. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Women In The Bible; World War I; Virgin Mary; First World War THE FINE LADY'S LIFE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though they call me country lass Last Line: "with a 'stand by! Clear the way!'" Subject(s): Country Life; Women THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O mary, drooping by the door Last Line: Before thy son, the king. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE FIRST GRAY HAIR, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The matron at her mirror Last Line: Behold the first gray hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Women - Middle Aged THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FISHERWOMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took from her basket four fishes Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Labor & Laborers; Women; Anglers; Work; Workers THE FIVE JOYS OF THE VIRGIN MARY, by RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a man a song doth find / for her who gladdens all mankind Last Line: E'en in our utmost need. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE FLOATING MORMON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer she hadn't struggled Last Line: Like parents' front-seat voices. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Mormons; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF, OR THE LADY IN THE ARBOUR; A VISION, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now turning from the wintry signs, the sun Last Line: Thy simple style to suit thy lowly kind. Subject(s): Fables; Flowers; Nature; Vision; Women; Allegories THE FORSAKEN, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloom of youth had faded from her face Last Line: A broken heart and early grave foretell. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE FORSAKEN WIFE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Methinks, 'tis strange you can't afford Last Line: I yet superior am to you. Subject(s): Men; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE FUGITIVE, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When she returned to the clouded land Last Line: But I came back again... Subject(s): Women THE FULFILMENT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these that go with our girl white as snow Last Line: Sets all the roses swinging in heaven's bower. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Saints; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE GARDEN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were after crevices, whatever god had Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Seekinmg; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GARDEN BY MOONLIGHT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A black cat among roses Last Line: When I am gone. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE GARDENER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who comes to tend the garden Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Women THE GENTLEST LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say he was a serious child Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE GHOST, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There stands a city, - neither large nor small Last Line: That mrs. Mason used a cushion in her chair! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Women - Abused; Ghosts; Wife Beating THE GHYRLOND OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARIE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, are five letters in this blessed name Last Line: As if they adored the head, whereon they're fixed. Variant Title(s): The Garland Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE GIFT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gift of another day! Last Line: Let us rest, hold, stay. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE GIRL I CALL ALMA, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The girl I call alma who is so white Last Line: And that it's the others who scar me, not you Subject(s): Women; Greeks THE GIRL WITH THE JERSEY, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You can sing of the maid Last Line: But the girl with the jersey is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Women THE GLASS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your body tolls the hour Last Line: By one touch you put out time. Subject(s): Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream Last Line: It walked out of the light Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships THE GODDESS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She in whose lipservice / I passed my time Subject(s): Women THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung? Last Line: Slain lies for wild beasts and vultures. Ha! For the sacrifice! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Islam; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sacrifices; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly took she her leave of me, asma-u Last Line: Stoodst the day of hayáreyn. Our proof is proven! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Fights; Man-woman Relationships; Soldiers; War; Male-female Relations THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long so Last Line: Woe be to all false friends! Woe to the envious! Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Enemies; Fights; Friendship - False Friends; War; Fair Weather Friends THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ZOHEYR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me for 'ommi 'aufa! Woe for the tents of her Last Line: Only the mouth that hath no silence endeth in emptiness. Subject(s): Arabia; Arabs - Women; Friendship THE GOOD AUTHOR, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contrary to the views Last Line: To any word you say. Subject(s): Games; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Feminism THE GOOD COUNSEL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ride thou for the crest, / beauty to thy breast Last Line: For that beauty yet to be! Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women THE GOOD TEACHERS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: You run round the back to be in it again Last Line: "if poetry could truly tell it backwards, Subject(s): Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 10. PILATE'S WIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why came in dreams the low-born man Last Line: As poor a verity. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Marriage; Pilate, Pontius; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 11. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the hot sun, for water cool Last Line: She has the master found! Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Women; Wine THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 12. MARY MAGDALENE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With wandering eyes and aimless zeal Last Line: Dwell'st with him in god's heart! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Resurrection, The; Women; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 13. THE WOMAN IN THE TEMPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A still dark joy! A sudden face! Last Line: Oh, wash them clean again! Subject(s): Bible; Capital Punishment; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Shame; Women; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 14. MARTHA, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With joyful pride her heart is high Last Line: And with the dead man rise? Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 15. MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sitteth at the master's feet Last Line: For he had left the tomb. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Lazarus; Mary And Martha (bible); Women; Women In The Bible THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 16. THE WOMAN THAT WAS A SINNER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face, his words, her heart awoke Last Line: Lord, make no difference! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Redemption; Sin; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 2. THE WOMAN THAT LIFTED UP HER VOICE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filled with his words of truth and right Last Line: We hear no more of her. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 3. THE MOTHER OF ZEBEDEE'S CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt, she bore a bold request Last Line: God hath prepared it. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 4. THE SYROPHENICIAN WOMAN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant, lord, her prayer, and let her go Last Line: In fulness of her will! Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 6. THE WOMAN WHOM SATAN HAD BOUND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years eighteen she, patient soul Last Line: And hoping I endure. Subject(s): Bible; Exorcism; Jesus Christ; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 7. THE WOMAN WHO CAME 'BEHIND HIM IN THE CROWD, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near him she stole, rank after rank Last Line: He comforteth her soul. Subject(s): Bible; Healing; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Women; Cures THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 8. THE WIDOW WITH THE TWO MITES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here much and little shift and change Last Line: Nor knew her heavenly meed. Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Widows & Widowers; Women THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 9. THE WOMEN WHO MINISTERED UNTO HIM, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough he labours for his hire Last Line: To him 'tis very much. Subject(s): Bible; Generosity; Jesus Christ; Love; Women THE GRACE WIFE OF KEITH', by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No whit is gained, do you say to me Subject(s): Women THE GRAVE OF A POETESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside thy lowly grave Last Line: And joy the poet's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Woodstock, Ireland THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They grew in beauty, side by side Last Line: And naught beyond, o earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Women; Graveyards THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers THE GREAT BLUE HERON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered on the beach Last Line: My mother would drift away. Subject(s): Death; Herons; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism THE GREAT PALACES OF VERSAILLES, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing nastier than a white person! Subject(s): Versailles, Frances; Violence; Women THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE HAG, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old hag sat on the park bench, picking her teeth Last Line: And see what else the world means. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women THE HAMMAM NAME (FROM A POEM BY A TURKISH LADY), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winsome torment rose from slumber, rubbed his eyes, and went his way Last Line: The water froze. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Gays & Lesbians; Turkey; Showers & Showering; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE HARDSHIP PUT UPON LADIES, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor ladies! Though their business be play Last Line: And female pleasures be to read and write. Subject(s): Women THE HAREEM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the veil, where depth is traced Last Line: Amid the stains of evil days. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Harems; Women - Middle East THE HEART OF A WOMAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn Last Line: While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women THE HEART OF THE WOMAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what to me the little room Last Line: My breath is mized into his breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Women THE HEART-CRY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She turned the page of wounds and death Last Line: Rests to face life as fearlessly. Subject(s): Grief; Women & War; World War I - Casualties; Sorrow; Sadness THE HEROINES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heroines lived with their husbands' Last Line: And drowned in the attic. Subject(s): Attics; Heroism; Women; Heroes; Heroines THE HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Old Age THE HILL WOMAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day a roving gypsy passed my door Last Line: "soon you will go, too!" Subject(s): Gypsies; Transience; Women; Gipsies; Impermanence THE HILLS ARE LIKE A WOMAN, by GLADYS MCCAIN FREEMAN Poem Text Last Line: The hills are like a woman! Subject(s): Women THE HINDOO'S DEATH, by GEORGE BIRDSEYE Poem Text First Line: A hindoo died; a happy thing to do Last Line: "begone! We'll have no fools in paradise!" Variant Title(s): Paradise; A Hindoo Legend Subject(s): Hinduism; Religion; Women; Theology THE HOLY WOMEN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen mary at the cross Last Line: Live on our street. Subject(s): Women THE HOMES OF ENGLAND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stately homes of england Last Line: Its country and its god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): England; Home; Houses; Women; English THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY24TH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Originality is important Last Line: Or maybe you did Subject(s): Women; Dreams; Hope THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 56. TRUE WOMAN, HERSELF, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a sweetness more desired than spring Last Line: That flecks the snowdrop underneath the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Women THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 57. TRUE WOMAN, HER LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She loves him; for her infinite soul is love Last Line: The hour of sisterly sweet hand-in-hand? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Women THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 58. TRUE WOMAN, HER HEAVEN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If to grow old in heaven is to grow young Last Line: To feel the first kiss and forbode the last. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Women THE HOUSEWIFE; ADDRESSED TO LYSANDER, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that with deciding voice oft sways Last Line: When woman's knowledge own'd its boundary here! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Housewives; Mythology; Women THE HULDRA-WOMAN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who walks alone in the red pinewood Last Line: Again, and again betray. Subject(s): Women; Love THE HUMBLE WISH, by ARABELLA MORETON Poem Text First Line: I ask not wit, nor beauty do I crave Last Line: Give me a mind to suit my slavish state. Alternate Author Name(s): Morton, Bell Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE HUNTING OF DIAN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of a midnight lost, lost forevermore Last Line: As far away I heard the cry her dim sea-lover gave. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Diana (goddess); Eden; Hunting; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women; Hunters; Male-female Relations THE HUSBAND OF LADY GODIVA, by FRANCES WIERMAN Poem Text First Line: True it is, women are deceivers! Last Line: By that diamond, bedded in white velvet! Subject(s): Duplicity; Women; Deceit THE ICE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her day out from the workhouse-ward, she stands Last Line: She, who's been old, is now a child again. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE ICE EAGLE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was with resolution that she gave up the Last Line: The ice people can do nothing / but melt Subject(s): Reality; Swanson, Gloria (1897-1983); Women THE ICE-CREAM WARS, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Although I mean it, and project the meaning Last Line: A randomness, a darkness of one's own Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE IDAHO EGG WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway between troy and moscow Last Line: Her age a cipher of circles. Subject(s): Eggs; Idaho; Women THE ILLUMINATED CITY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hills all glowed with a festive light Last Line: So must thy spirit be taught to feel! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Light; Women THE IMAGE IN LAVA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou thing of years departed! Last Line: It must, it must be so! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Archeology; Bodies; Women THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dewdrop of the darkness born Last Line: Wherewith was veiled divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary THE IMPOSSIBLE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who essays to pose Last Line: Into a bud to close. Subject(s): Charm; Women THE IMPROVISATORE: THE INDUCTION TO THE THIRD FYTTE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tale was said. Fair agnes rose Last Line: Upon the marvels of his tongue. Subject(s): Aging; Bribery; Minstrels; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE INDIAN CITY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal in splendour went down the day Last Line: This was the work of one deep heart wrung! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): India; Women THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An indian girl was sitting where Last Line: The rustling of my footsteps near. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Grief; Squaws; Sorrow; Sadness THE INFERNAL FEMININE, by BAIRD LEONARD Poem Text First Line: Ever since the days of adam Last Line: Is, and shall be till the end. Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Subject(s): Jews - Women THE INIMITABLE FAIR, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come pluck me a feather from cupid's left wing Last Line: What may only expose her to laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Women THE INTRUDER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother - preferring the strange to the tame Last Line: She washed and washed the pity from her hands. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Violence; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE ITALIAN GIRL'S HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep hour of dreams Last Line: And maiden's heart, blest mother, guide and save! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE JACK OF SPADES AND THE QUEEN OF' CLUBS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: We couldn't stick together / in a royal flush Subject(s): Women THE JAZZ GIRL, by MYRTLE HICKEY MCCORMACK HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Like a butterfly that flits from flower to flower Last Line: In her jazz -- she forgot all maidenly duty. Subject(s): Aging; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Women THE JEWESS, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Her hair is winged with summer nights Last Line: The story of her race. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism THE JEWESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother she in israel Last Line: Of eden and gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jews - Women THE JEWISH MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A star of guidance o'er life's troubled ocean Last Line: Keeps evermore the day of holy rest Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women;mothers; Judaism THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went upon a journey Last Line: All my journey sung! Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE KAISER'S FEAST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kaiser feasted in his hall Last Line: At the kaiser's feast that night. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forgiveness; Louis Iv, King Of Germany (1283-1347); Women; Clemency THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were ten maidens in the green corn Last Line: The pains of hell for the king's daughter. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daughters; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE KISS, by THOMAS LANSING MASSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What other men have dared, I dare' Last Line: "you may begin,"" she said." Alternate Author Name(s): Masson, Tom Subject(s): Kisses; Women THE KNOT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright queen of heaven! God's virgin spouse Last Line: United keeps for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE LABOURING WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You married men and women too Last Line: What a woman has to do Subject(s): Labor & Laborers;singing & Singers;women THE LADIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I've taken my fun where I've found it Last Line: Are sisters under their skins! Subject(s): Army Life; Women; Drills & Minor Tactics THE LADIES OF LEWISTON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Pour syrup over their husbands' silence Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life THE LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely. Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old Maids THE LADY IN THE WHITE DRESS, WHOM I HELPED INTO THE OMNIBUS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know her not! Her hand has been in mine Last Line: Guards but this bright one's shining. Subject(s): Women THE LADY OF THE CASTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou see'st her pictured with her shining hair Last Line: How didst thou fall, o bright-haired ermengarde! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LADY'S RESOLVE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame Last Line: He comes too near, that comes to be deny'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): The Resolve Subject(s): Women THE LADY'S SONNET. TWILIGHT, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not why I chose to seem so cold Last Line: "I'll send your answer."" now I've told you all." Subject(s): Absence; Women; Separation; Isolation THE LADYE OF THE LAB, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: He fareth in a joyous wise Last Line: The ladye of the lab! Subject(s): Women THE LAMP AND THE GUITAR, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, she lives in salamanca Last Line: Copy luisa—love all spain! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sparrows; Women THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism THE LAST WISH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the forest shade Last Line: Forgetting her that in her spring-time died! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE LAUGHTER OF DEAD MEN, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Candid jeremiads drizzle from his lips Last Line: And all the singular adventures it implies Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LAW OF JAVA, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Gaze on her bosom of sweets, and take Last Line: The wisest of men a fool. Subject(s): Women THE LAWYER AND JUSTICE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Thou divinest good below Last Line: Till hardwicke sooth'd her into grace. Subject(s): Fables; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Men; Women; Allegories THE LAY OF THE LOVER'S FRIEND, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would all womankind were dead Last Line: A short time ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Women THE LEAP FROM THE LONG BRIDGE; AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now rest the wretched. The long day is past Last Line: And her sorrow and bondage are o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Escapes; Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Fugitives; Serfs THE LEAVES, LIKE WOMEN, INTERCHANGE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To notoriety Subject(s): Leaves; Women; Secrets THE LEOPARD-NURSER, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since children hear what they will hear, I heard Last Line: By which a child nurses a dangerous beast to strength Subject(s): Leopards; Women THE LETTER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him Last Line: "gesture, coquette, and shake your head!" Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Letters; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LIBERTY, by SARAH FYGE EGERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be one, of those obsequious fools Last Line: With what reluctance they indure restraints. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Edward, Mrs.; Fyge, Sarah Subject(s): Freedom; Life; Pride; Women; Liberty; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOLERANCE TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold cup 1 woman 2 Last Line: Gold cup 1 Subject(s): Women THE LIGHT THAT LIES, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time I've lost in wooing Last Line: Is now as weak as ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Courtship; Women THE LILY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of flowers! Pre-eminent o'er all Last Line: The virgin mother of all nations blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE LINE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The line runs the length of the department store aisle-a mother grips a Subject(s): Babies; Mothers; Women; Infants THE LION FOR REAL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I came home and found a lion in my living room Subject(s): Animals; Gays & Lesbians; Lions; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LITERARY LADY, by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What motley cares corilla's mind perplex Last Line: And tears, and threads, and bowls, and thimbles mix. Subject(s): Women THE LITERARY SOUVENIR; STANZAS WRITTEN IN LADY MYRTLE'S BOCCACCIO, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these gay pages there is food Last Line: Why, what's become of lady myrtle?' Subject(s): Women THE LITTLE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars began to peep Last Line: And knows that it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Ghosts; God; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Supernatural; Women - Bible; Childhood; Virgin Mary THE LITTLE MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange mockery of motherhood! Last Line: Give them a fate more frolicsome. Subject(s): Home; Loss; Mothers; Tears; Time; Women THE LITTLE WOMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little woman, of you I sing Last Line: So closely here in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Stars; Women THE LONG JOURNEY, by SUSAN R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: A ghostly caravan of women bowed Last Line: She weirdly plods her way fore'er detached. Subject(s): Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips THE LOST BABY POEM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time I dropped your almost body down Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE LOST LOVER: PROLOGUE, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first adventurer for her fame I stand Last Line: And therefore she resolved to coppy you. Subject(s): Fame; Plays & Playwrights; Women; Reputation THE LOST PLEIAD, by ARTHUR REED ROPES Poem Text First Line: Twas a pretty little maiden Last Line: As merope or sterope -- I can't recall her name! Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian Subject(s): Girls; Pleiades (constellation); Stars; Women THE LOST SEX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What, still another woman false Last Line: One woman true, just one. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations THE LOST WOMEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I need to know their names Subject(s): Women THE LOVE OF A WOMAN, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: If he should come to me to-day Last Line: "nor mine to take away." Subject(s): Love; Women THE LOVE-KNOT, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tying her bonnet under her chin Last Line: As she tied her bonnet under her chin. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women THE LOVER, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been seeing his face everywhere, the face of a former lover Last Line: Seeing his wrath in faces passing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE LUTE PLAYER (A WOMAN), by HAN YU Poem Text First Line: Tell-tale your song -- as tell-tale as your eyes Last Line: Like water flooding from a broken vase. Alternate Author Name(s): T'su-chih Subject(s): Lutes; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Women THE MACHINE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dreary place where women die Last Line: Find only this, a respite from the loom? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Mills & Millers; Women; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE MADONNA'S ISLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Embosomed on the deep there lay Last Line: Still kneeling on the shore! Subject(s): Islands; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of the flatland of my youth Last Line: And wait for him Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE MAID OF MURRAY HILL, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint valentine, saint valentine! Last Line: And still—and still—and still— Subject(s): Desire; Murray Hill, New York; Women THE MAID OF THE GHETTO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sad eyes and dark she bends upon the throng Last Line: Some judith with a falchion in her hands? Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women; Judaism THE MAID SUBURBAN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I must confess that I'm afraid Last Line: Give me the sweet suburban! Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Man-woman Relationships; Suburbs; Women; Urban Life; Male-female Relations THE MAIDS OF THE MOUNTAINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the wild weddin mountains Last Line: No more maids of the mountains - / the bonny bush belles Subject(s): Deception;hunting;women; Hunters THE MALINGERER, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exempt! She 'does not have to work' Last Line: Both fail to serve the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Mothers; Women's Rights; Feminism THE MARVIN GAYE VERSION, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie wants to wake up where she can walk outside in her nightgown Last Line: I want to dance 'heard it through the grapevine' 56 times. / marie and donna do too Subject(s): Women; Desire THE MASK, by CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So detached and cool she is Last Line: Was slipped once more in place. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE MATER PIA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Softly the fading moon dies in the sky Last Line: Lullaby, lullaby, god is with thee. Subject(s): Catholic Church - Liturgy; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Messiah; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE MATERNITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One through mother mary, we Last Line: Earth had closer claims of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MAY MAGNIFICAT, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May is mary's month, and I Last Line: In god who was her salvation. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man talks Subject(s): Women THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...." Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War THE MEMORIAL OF MARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast thy record in the monarch's hall Last Line: One lowly offering of exceeding love. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MEMORIAL PILLAR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and child! Whose blending tears Last Line: Surely your hearts have met at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Clifford, Anne. Countess Of Pembroke; Mothers & Daughters; Women THE MEMORY OF MARTHA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in de night a sad bird moans Last Line: W'en dey sees yo' face a-shinin', den dey 'll know. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE MERCY SEAT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sat in an enamel tub with a black Last Line: While he was content to settle on the facts... Subject(s): Angels; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mercy; Salvation; Vision; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE MILD MADONNA, by BEULAH MAY Poem Text First Line: The mild madonna has her shrine Last Line: To bless them every one. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MISTAKEN MOTH, by ? WEGENER Poem Text First Line: Mid the summer flush of roses Last Line: "butterfly!" Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Kisses; Women; Bugs THE MOABITESS, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet moab gleaner on old israel's plain Last Line: And god himself smiles on their godlike beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE MONOPOLY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mines of sulphur in my breast do lie Last Line: They take their feathers, we the head. Subject(s): Women THE MONTH OF MARY; A SONG, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green are the leaves, and sweet the flowers Last Line: And they will ne'er decay. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; May (month); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE MONUMENT: 29, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It occurs to me that you may be a woman. What then? I suppose I Subject(s): Women THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their footprints on her face Last Line: For women are, after all, only space. Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World THE MOON OF MIND AGAINST THE WOODEN LOUVER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The visitors in room 8509 Last Line: Fence from our despair, our rage, our bitter greedy fear. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Fear; Healing; Hospitals; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Illness; Feminism THE MOONFLOWER, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The flower that lives in the light of the moon Last Line: There to sleep forever, drowned in the nectar I have drunk. Subject(s): Flowers; Women THE MOTHER, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abortions will not let you forget Last Line: All. Subject(s): Abortion; African Americans; African Americans - Women; Mothers; Negroes; American Blacks THE MOTHER (2), by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her boys are not shut out. They come Last Line: And not go out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Mothers; Women And War; World War I; First World War THE MOTHER AT HOME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice deep and solemn is sounding abroad! Last Line: Best help, truest cure, from the mother at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Housewives; Mothers; Women; English THE MOTHER'S CHARGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She raised her head. With hot and glittering eye Last Line: Her daughter died in turn, and made one more. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Housekeeping; Mothers; Women THE MOTHER-IN-LAW, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was my dream's fulfillment and my joy Last Line: And so, forgive me, if my eyes are wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Women THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mothers of our forest-land! Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground." Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOURNER FOR THE BARMECIDES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen was the house of giafar; and its name Last Line: "speak of thy lords -- they were a princely band!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Women; Bereavement THE MUFFLED DRUMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For brothers laid in blood Last Line: And we chant, chant the world redeemed by woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Pacifism; Sex Role; Women; Peace Movements THE MUSE'S FAVOR, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh muse! I crave a favor Last Line: Rings out with the tardy song. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE MUSE'S FAVOR: THE SONG, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, foully slighted ethiope maid! Last Line: That staid this song, I sing to thee. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE MUTES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These groans men use / passing a woman on the street Subject(s): Lust; Sexual Harassment; Women THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women THE NAME, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Be natural Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Parents; Women; Parenthood THE NAMES OF OUR LADY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wide world thy children raise Last Line: The first we breathe in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary And Martha (bible); Names; Prayer; Religion; Women; Women In The Bible; Theology THE NATIVES OF AMERICA, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Tell me a story, father, please Last Line: "remember this, though I tell no more." Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE NATIVITY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down kedron's vale the wind blows chill Last Line: To find the manger-cradled king. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE NEW BLOOMER COSTUME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "listen, females all, no matter what your trade is" Last Line: "oh dear, what shall we do, when women wear the breeches" Subject(s): Change;clothing & Dress;women THE NEW CHURCH ORGAN, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They've got a bran new organ, sue Last Line: A squealin' over me! Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Organs (musical Instruments); Women THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hierusalem, my happy home" Last Line: "would god my woes were at an end, / thy joys that I might see!" Variant Title(s): The Heavenly City Subject(s): Death;jerusalem;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "dead, The;virgin Mary; THE NEW MAGDALEN, by RICHARD L. CARY JR. Poem Text First Line: The yellow death came stealing Last Line: The true new magdalen? Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene THE NEW WOMAN, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Vulgarity, nor more nor less Last Line: She now affects his vices! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE ODD WOMAN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At parties I want to get even, Last Line: And leave for the long river drive to town. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Parties; Single People; Women - Middle Aged; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain poet in outlandish clothes Last Line: A murmur of soft words and meeting lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Courts & Couriers THE OLD APPLE-WOMAN; A BROADWAY LYRIC, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits by the side of a turbulent stream Last Line: And the gates of a heavenly city. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poverty; Rivers; Women THE OLD LADIES OF AMSTERDAM, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indomitable, in black stockings, the old ladies of amsterdam Last Line: In the honey-colored light of vermeer. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Old Age; Women THE OLD MAID'S PETITION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old maid Last Line: Whose nights in unavailing tears are spent! Subject(s): Death;grief;love;women; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE OLD WOMAN LAMENTS THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I seem to hear lamenting / the armoress who once was fair Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women; Youth; Transcience THE OLD WOMAN OF TROYES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is an old woman, certainly one Last Line: Of this old woman of troyes! Subject(s): Old Age; Troy; Women THE OLD WOMEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pass upon their old, tremulous feet Last Line: An old grey woman with a shaking head. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE ONE GRAY HAIR, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wisest of the wise Last Line: Fair as she was, she never was so fair. Variant Title(s): The One Of White Hair;the One White Hair Subject(s): Aging; Women THE ORANGE-PEEL IN THE GUTTER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, unto myself I said Last Line: A glory that is all divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): London; Poverty; Women THE ORATION; AFTER CAVAFY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boldest thing I ever did was to save a savior Last Line: It was the speech of my life. Subject(s): Life; Speech; Women; Women's Rights; Oratory; Orators; Feminism THE ORGASMS OF ORGANISMS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above the lawn the wild beetles mate Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Spring; Women THE ORIGIN OF OLIVE OYL, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When olive was an embryo, she curled her thumbs Last Line: Sometimes popeye smoked a pipe and sometimes he didn’t Subject(s): Comic Strips; Popeye (comic Strip); Women THE ORPHARION: THE SONG OF ARION, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seated upon the crooked dolphin's back Last Line: Fair women are rich jewels unto men. Subject(s): Arion (7th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Male-female Relations THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE PAINTED LADY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sick of lust,' the painted lady said Last Line: "and I would to god that I were dead!" Subject(s): Beauty; Lust; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PALACE OF STARLIGHT, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: By day men pity me Last Line: The stars build before my eyes. Subject(s): Women THE PALE WOMAN, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: Woman, why so pale and thin? Last Line: Would strive in such a little place? Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): White (color); Women THE PALM TREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It waved not through an eastern sky Last Line: The same whence gushed that child-like tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Palm Trees; Women THE PARTERRE, by E. HARRIET PALMER Poem Text First Line: I don't know any greatest treat Last Line: Than every roses buttoning there. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Noses; Roses; Women THE PASSION OF MARY; VERSES IN PASSION-TIDE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady mary, thy bright crown Last Line: O light in light, shine down from heaven! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE PATIENT LOVERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is an illness still to be Last Line: That we are ill, of being well. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Sickness; Women; Women's Rights; Illness; Feminism THE PEASANT GIRL OF THE RHONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There went a warrior's funeral through the night Last Line: The tomb's last garland! -- this was love in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE PEEPER, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: On the french doors of the parlor is a great big curtain Last Line: (billy's going to fan him, too.) Subject(s): Window Treatments; Women; Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes THE PENITENT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come to thee blind, despairing Last Line: These my tears on thy feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Mary Magdalen; Repentance; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Penitence THE PENITENT ANOINTING CHRIST'S FEET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mournfulness in angel eyes Last Line: For thee, the child won back, the penitent forgiven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Forgiveness; Women In The Bible; Clemency THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For love we all go Subject(s): Women; Mankind; Human Race THE PERFECT COMRADE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The perfect comrade says nothing, nothing Last Line: With twin stars, shining serenely. Subject(s): Comfort; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PETRIFIED WOMAN, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she turns the corner, daylight begins to fail Last Line: Inside out, potosi become huakajchi, the mountain that cried Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Women; Strikes THE PHANTOM OF THE ROSE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet lady, let your lids unclose Last Line: "e'en kings are jealous of its bliss." Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Women THE PICTURE, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Ere dissolves the house of clay Last Line: But in blessing was she bless'd. Subject(s): Models; Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 2. THE WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh give not beauty to an artist's eye Last Line: Might touch the lips of prayer and make them blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Kisses; Love; Women; Belief; Creed THE PLACE OF REST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto the deep the deep heart goes Last Line: The mother takes her child again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Theology THE PLANET KRYPTON, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the window the mcgill smelter Last Line: We could have anything we wanted. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Baby Boom Generation; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Women; Nuclear Freeze THE PLAYBOY OF THE DEMI-WORLD, by WILLIAM PLOMER Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft in heavenly mansions, doubleyou one Subject(s): Hate; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE PLEDGE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: These are the words of your judiths Last Line: New legions, their own unborn sons. Subject(s): Jews; Judith (bible); Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 168, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I left the mountains Last Line: Men don't ever get free Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Chinese Literature; Men; Women THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 28, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This maid is from hantan Last Line: Her embroidered quilt fills a silver bed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 64, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring women flaunt their looks Last Line: Their husbands know why Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Flirtation; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET'S JOURNAL: A WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is a woman: therefore, I a man Last Line: But man's true mother, and his equal wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Women; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE PORTRAIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He wouldn't buy her shoes Last Line: A portrait of a woman as less than one. Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poverty; Women THE POSTCARD AT VERTIGO BOOKS IN D. C., SELS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the photo of billie holiday at the 1957 newport jazz festival Last Line: Look for it and it’s not there Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Famous People; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music & Musicians; Photography & Photographers; Singing & Singers THE POWER OF WOMEN, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wish not the mechanic arts to scan Last Line: We have the substance, they may keep the name! Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism THE PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman and my poems Subject(s): Women THE PRAYER OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit, that broods upon the hills Last Line: Cry, cry to thee, o compassionate! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Children; Man-woman Relationships; Prayer; Salvation; Women; Childhood; Male-female Relations THE PRICE OF WOMEN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every woman, you say, has her price Last Line: And asked for my life? Subject(s): Trade; Women THE PRIME OF LIFE, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Just as I thought I was growing old Last Line: Just as I thought I was growing old. Subject(s): Aging; Gray (color); Life; Old Age; Women; Grey (color) THE PRINCESS; A MEDLEY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir walter vivian all a summer's day Last Line: From those rich silks, and home well-pleased we went. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Echoes; Mothers; Religion; Sea; Supernatural; Women's Rights; Theology; Ocean; Feminism THE PROCESSION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now let our womankind tend hearth and house Last Line: Make deposition as to woman's worth. Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Time; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PROUD MISS MACBRIDE; A LEGEND OF GOTHAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Terribly proud was miss macbride Last Line: Is subject to irritation! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE PUPPETS, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: Our life is but a puppet show Last Line: Just so the puppet dances! Subject(s): Puppets; Women; Marionettes THE PURIFICATION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, woman is thine offering Last Line: "and I, the mother-dove." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purity born of a maid Last Line: Her god and redeemer and child. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virtue; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE QUADROON GIRL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slaver in the broad lagoon Last Line: In a strange and distant land! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Slavery; Serfs THE QUAKER LADY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid drab and gray of moldered leaves Last Line: Their quaint obeisance made. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Women; Quakers THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA'S TOMB, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stands where northern willows weep Last Line: Still blends with victory's! -- she was gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Prussia; Women; Tombs; Tombstones THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary THE QUILT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive in a brown stucco house Last Line: She smoothed the quilt across their bed. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women THE RABBINICAL ORIGIN OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell us that woman was made of a rib Last Line: Why—he leaves her behind him as much as he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Bible; Women THE READER; AN IDYL, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I am an ancient lady Last Line: Lesbia, phryne or thais. Subject(s): Women THE RECOMPENSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made a garden first for man Last Line: My adam praise me night and morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Children; God; Home; Mothers; Parents; Trade; Women; Childhood; Parenthood THE RED HAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady had come right through the front door Last Line: Smiling behind the screen with her clothes off Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Hats; Memory THE RED SHOES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the ring Last Line: What they did would do them in Subject(s): Women; Shoes; Theology THE RED TURTLENECK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand for approval Last Line: As I wear it into my scent. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Sand, George (1804-1876); Seduction; Women; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant THE RED-HAIRED MAN'S WIFE, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have taken that vow Last Line: Still are secret; unreached, and untouched, and not subject to you. Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism THE REPLY OF THE SHUNAMITE WOMAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell among mine own.' - oh! Happy thou! Last Line: Weaving from each some link for home's dear charities. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible THE RETORT, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old birch [or, nick], who taught the village school Last Line: "o, dear! I didn't know 't was you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RIDDLE, by E. H." "H. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Where's an old woman to go when the years Last Line: "leaving her faltering, furrowed and scored - / what's an old woman's reward?" Alternate Author Name(s): "h., E. H.; Subject(s): Old Age;riddles;women THE RIDDLE FOR MEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This riddle rede or die Last Line: Their souls behowl the plain. Subject(s): Riddles; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, injured woman! Rise, assert thy right! Last Line: That seperate rights are lost in mutual love. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Variant Title(s): The Rights Of Women Subject(s): Women's Rights; Women's Rights; Feminism; Feminism THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN - PROLOGUE FOR MISS FONTENELLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things Last Line: Ah! Ca ira! The majesty of woman! Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism THE RING, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long before the grave Last Line: Into the morgue’s gas jets Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Rings; Gifts & Giving; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE ROAD, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, little road all whirry in the breeze Last Line: Rise to one brimming golden, spilling cry! Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE ROCK, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow sloping to its point pyramidal Last Line: And drank the sunrise glory of the sea. Subject(s): Beauty; Stones; Women; Granite; Rocks THE ROUGH SKETCH, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great grieved heart, an iron will Last Line: In high resolve and hardihood. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 12, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A book of verses underneath the bough Last Line: Oh, wilderness were paradise enow! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Love; Time; Women THE RUNE OF THE PASSION OF WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who love are those who suffer Last Line: Hopes unfulfilled, and unavailing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Life; Loss; Love; Mothers; Pain; Passion; Women; Suffering; Misery THE RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE RURAL BEAUTY; A VILLAGE ODE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift the window, lift it high Last Line: She burns me with her blushing cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SAGA OF THE SMALL-BREASTED WOMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A prepuberty owl with popcorn Last Line: Delights in dumplings at the feast. Subject(s): Beauty; Breasts; Women THE SALLE MONTESQUIEU; A PARISIAN REMINISCENCE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the doors of the trois freres provenceaux Last Line: And her shrine is the salle montesquieu! Subject(s): Charm; Paris, France; Women THE SCHOOL FOR SATIRE, by SOPHIA (RAYMOND) BURRELL Poem Text First Line: How oft we see the female sex / themselves with jealous fancies vex! Last Line: Composure, harmony and grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Clay, Mrs. William Subject(s): Envy; Jealousy; Women THE SEA, by EVA L. OGDEN Poem Text First Line: She was rich, and of high degree Last Line: "it's the very image of the sea!" Subject(s): Sea; Women; Ocean THE SEAMY SIDE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I and my women can unsnarl the state Subject(s): Relationships; Women THE SECOND SERMON ON THE WARPLAND, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the urgency: live! Last Line: Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind. Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE SECRET (F.P.D.), by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bethlehem the stable was small and mean and old Last Line: Then held him close against her breast, for little jesus smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Jesus Christ - Legends; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SEED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing a life unseen Last Line: Love-lost -- and saved! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene THE SENSITIVE PLANT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sensitive plant in a garden grew Last Line: No light, being themselves obscure. Variant Title(s): To The Sensitive Plant;a Garden Subject(s): Permanence; Plants; Women; Planting; Planters THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A laughing knot of village maids Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE SHIPFITTER'S WIFE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him most / when he came home from work Subject(s): Hearts; Kisses; Love - Marital; Women; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE SHOP, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: The shop is red and crimson. Under the forge Last Line: And laugh together, and smoke at the day's end. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Forges; Women THE SHOSHANAH, by GEORGE E. CHODOWSKY Poem Text First Line: A lily lies broken and bare on a highway Last Line: "in zion to flourish again." Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Mourning; Zionism; Judaism; Bereavement THE SHRINE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories THE SHRINES OF MARY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are many shrines of our lady Last Line: The throne of the queen of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Shrines; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SHRIVING OF GUINEVERE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still she stood in the shunning crowd Last Line: The noise of wings departing thence. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Love; Women - Heroes THE SICILIAN CAPTIVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The champions had come from their fields of war Last Line: The lyre was broken, the minstrel gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women THE SILENCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took the spareribs out of the oven Last Line: Wish I was there with you Subject(s): Mothers; Farewell; Absence; Gays & Lesbians; Togetherness; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SILENT MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In your first book of poems, printed Last Line: But you are silent. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Silence; Tragedy; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SINGING-WOMAN FROM THE WOOD'S EDGE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What should I be but a prophet and a liar Last Line: What should I be but just what I am? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Women THE SIREN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "no age, no profession, no station is free!" Last Line: We all love a pretty girl - under the rose Subject(s): Women THE SISTER AT A MATERNITY HOSPITAL, by R. ALEXANDER BATE Poem Text First Line: When sister through the doorway peeps Last Line: Madonna and the child asleep. Subject(s): Birth; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Sisters; Women In The Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Theology THE SISTERS OF BETHANY AFTER THE DEATH OF LAZARUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One grief, one faith, o sisters of the dead! Last Line: Free service from the heart is all in all to heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Lazarus; Women In The Bible THE SISTINE MADONNA, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She treads the unseen stair of heaven Last Line: When they revisit the home they left. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SIZE OF IT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the length of an average penis Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sexual Organs; Size & Shape; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sex Organs; Genitalia THE SKEIN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight through my gauze curtains Last Line: So I memorize these lines, without salutation, without close. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Moon; Poetry & Poets; Window Treatments; Women; Women's Rights; Wu, Emperor (140-87 B.c.); Venetian Blinds; Curtains; Shades; Drapes; Feminism THE SLAVE MOTHER, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that shriek? It rose Last Line: Oh, father! Must they part? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America THE SLEEPING FURY (ROME, MUSEO DELLA TERME), by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are here now Last Line: Patience and half-sorrow, beneath which a coward's hope trembled Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Women THE SMACK IN SCHOOL, by WILLIAM PITT PALMER Poem Text First Line: A district school, not far away Last Line: "I thought she kind o' wished me to!" Variant Title(s): The Kiss In School;a Rousing Smack Subject(s): Children; Kisses; Schools; Women; Childhood; Students THE SMALL VASES FROM HEBRON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tip their mouths open to the sky Last Line: And the long sorrow of the color red. Subject(s): Arabs; Arabs - Women; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the socialist to the suffragist Last Line: "just get into the game!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye daughters and soldiers of israel look back Last Line: Omnipotent-glorious-eternal-alone Variant Title(s): Sacred Melody Subject(s): Disasters;god;jews;miriam (bible);women In The Bible; Judaism THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for israel's god! Spear, crest and helm Last Line: Back to the life-springs of thy native urn! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible THE SONG OF RED RILEY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a girl in the east Last Line: She bit blood from my mouth. Subject(s): Lust; Women THE SONG OF SONGS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair woman's body is a song Last Line: Be thinner than befitting. Subject(s): Bodies; Nature; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs THE SONG OF THE BEGGING CRIPPLE, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy masters, worthy wives Last Line: Spare a mite for me! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mites; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SONG OF THE HUMBUGGED HUSBAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She's not what fancy painted her Last Line: What would they say if they but knew / how terribly they scratch? Subject(s): Shrews (women) THE SONG OF THE SLATTERN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing me a song of the sloven Last Line: As she erred, so will many another fool err. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Self-pity; Solitude; Women; Loneliness THE SONG OF THE STANDARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands Last Line: Take to thy bosom the nations, and there shall the world come to rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Italy; Women; Italians THE SONG OF THE VIRGIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, as a sunburst flushing mountain-snow Last Line: Being of god, and therefore not to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE SONG OF THE WOMEN; A WEALDEN TRIO, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When ye've got a child 'ats whist for want of food Last Line: Singin' of the shepherds on that morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Women; Nativity, The THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 4, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For me, the eldest and the loveliest god Last Line: Leaving his outworn body for my food. Subject(s): Bodies; Flowers; Soul; Women THE SORROWS OF WERTHER, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Werther had a love for charlotte / such as words could never utter Last Line: Went on cutting bread and butter. Subject(s): Women THE SOUND OF ONE FORK, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof Subject(s): Aging; Loneliness; Women; Neigbors; Longing THE SPANISH CHAPEL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made a mountain brook my guide Last Line: "an angel thus to heaven!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Spain; Women; Death - Babies THE SPARROW AND THE DOVE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was, as learn'd traditions say Last Line: And, sighing to himself, withdrew. Subject(s): Doves; Fables; Sparrows; Women; Allegories THE SPELLS OF HOME, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the soft green light in the woody glade Last Line: And the kindly spell shall have power once more! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Home; Women THE SPIDER AND THE BEE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph who walks the public streets Last Line: By folly your own schemes undo.' Subject(s): Beauty; Bees; Charm; Desire; Insects; Spiders; Women; Beekeeping; Bugs THE SPINNER, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: Mary the mother of jesus, / a lady of high degree Last Line: Her tears falling down on his hands. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE SPIRIT'S MYSTERIES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The power that dwelleth in sweet sounds to waken Last Line: Shall then be blest, for that high nature's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women THE SQUAW'S LAMENT, by JOHN EDWARD LOGAN Poem Text First Line: A blood-red ring hung round the moon Last Line: I hear the loon cry every night. Alternate Author Name(s): Dane, Barry Variant Title(s): The Indian Maid's Lament Subject(s): Absence; Lament; Native Americans - Women; Separation; Isolation; Squaws THE SQUIRE OF DAMES; OR, A TOUR IN SPAIN, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy who travels from london to cadiz Last Line: That man highly favour'd, the squire of four ladies. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spain; Women; Work; Workers THE STORM (1), by TIMOTHY LIU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black ants crawl in the sugar bowl Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE STRANGE LADY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by Last Line: He went to dwell with her, the friends who mourned him never knew. Subject(s): Hunting; Women; Death; Hunters; Dead, The THE STRAPLESS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scrawny yank of a kid Last Line: Paint in the women never filled. Subject(s): Beauty; Fashion; Women THE STREET MASHER, by HELEN EMMA MARING Poem Text First Line: What was it in my eyes that made you wait Last Line: Perhaps you followed her when you left me. Alternate Author Name(s): Payne, Lorrin A., Mrs. Subject(s): Sexism; Women's Rights; Feminism THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness THE SUBURBANS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgetting sounds that we no longer hear Last Line: Our limited salvation is the word. Subject(s): Conformity; Poetry & Poets; Self-consciousness; Suburbs; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE SULTANA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the draperies' purple gloom Last Line: With her sumptuous disgrace! Subject(s): Women THE SUMMER GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses Last Line: For an angel masquerading oft is she, the summer girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Women THE SUMMER WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild bee humming in the gorse Last Line: Wild bees, wild bees, come back again! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Summer; Tears; Voices; Women THE SUN GOING DOWN UPON OUR WRATH, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who are so beautiful Subject(s): Women THE SUNBEAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art no lingerer in monarch's hall Last Line: The faith touching all things with hues of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Happiness; Hope; Sun; Women; Joy; Delight; Optimism THE SUPPLIANT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I beat with timid hands upon life's leaden door Last Line: The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a fool! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks THE SWITZER'S WIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the time when children bound to meet Last Line: With a low hymn, amidst the stillness deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Switzerland; Women; Swiss THE TALE OF THE WHOLE-TONE SCALE: OR, THE LADY WHO DIDN'T PLAY VERDI, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, little lady, go all the way back to rossini? Last Line: In the ranks of the youthful whose pranks live so long! Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Women THE TARBOLTON LASSES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye gae up to yon hill-tap Last Line: It's bessy's ain opinion! Subject(s): Women THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if god were an old man Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion THE TAXI, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I go away from you Last Line: To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Taxis; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE TENTH MUSE: THE PROLOGUE, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sing of wars, of captains and of kings Last Line: Will make your glist'ring gold but more to shine. Subject(s): Children; Home; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Women's Rights; Childhood; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; Feminism THE THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had not expected to be an ordinary woman Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Mothers & Daughters; Middle Age THE THREAD OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irresponsive silence of the land Last Line: And sing, o grave, where is thy victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE THREE FLAPPERS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Three little flappers in near-silver foxes Last Line: And rolled down their stockings till they looked like soxes. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women THE THREE LADIES, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt. I saw three ladies in a tree Subject(s): Women; Love THE THUNDER GODS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: To-day the thunder gods strike on their anvils in heaven Last Line: And her soul belong to her love; not to her lovers. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Virginity; Women; Vestals THE TIGER-WOMAN, by DONALD DAVIDSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tiger-woman came to me Subject(s): Women THE TOMB OF GAUGIN, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of tahiti, when time's pace Last Line: And the infinite love of the archipelago! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOPER, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: She tells me with claret she cannot agree Last Line: Let her go to the devil, there's no more to be said! Subject(s): Women THE TREACHEROUS MAID OF THE MILL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Here is our comrade - he's racing along Last Line: And at night sallies forth caterwauling! Subject(s): Love; Mills & Millers; Women THE TREE (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art the blessed tree Last Line: Of love divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE TRETIS OF THE TUA MARIIT WEMEN AND THE WEDO, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apon the midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis Last Line: Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif, gif ye suld wed one? Variant Title(s): The Book Of The Two Married Women And The Widow Subject(s): Marriage; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glad as the weary traveller, tempest-tost Last Line: And freed the nation best beloved of god. Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Sex Role; Victory; Women THE TRUE AMERICAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America, here is your son, born of your iron heel Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD: GOD'S WOMAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you angry at nature? Said god to his woman Last Line: Choose, said god Subject(s): God; Women THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; THE TRYST AT BETHLEHEM, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN Poem Text First Line: The daily tasks are set aside Last Line: "my tryst at bethlehem." Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Travel; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary; Journeys; Trips THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was playing with my hoop along the road Last Line: ...Maybe she was a witch from foreign lands! Subject(s): Old Age; Supernatural; Women THE TWO ANGRY WOMEN OF ABINGTON, by HENRY PORTER Poem Text First Line: Gentlemen, I come to ye like one that lacks and would borrow Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Anger; Marriage; Neighbors; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss." Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midas watched the golden crust Last Line: "nature is evil,"" midas said." Subject(s): Environment; Gold; Midas; Women; Women's Rights; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Feminism THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the hand of god man was created Last Line: "come, child of mine, and slumber in my bosom." Subject(s): Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Virgin Mary THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances THE UNLOVED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the women whom no man has loved Last Line: The telling of a patient rosary. Subject(s): Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE UNPARDONABLE SIN, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I speak to women - woman I Last Line: To fail you for your sanctity. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Women THE VALIANT GIRLS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The valiant girls-of them I sing Last Line: Sweet juliet of the telephone. Subject(s): Girls; Women THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My new friend, maisie, who works where I work Last Line: Fodor's spain, 1984 Subject(s): Franco, Francisco (1892-1975); Spain; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE VANITY OF EXTERNAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, by MARY WHATELEY Poem Text First Line: Ye smarts and belles, whose airs and arts confess Last Line: And my life vanish in a tuneful sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Darwall, Mrs. John Subject(s): Aging; Facades; Vanity; Women; Appearances THE VENUS DE MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No human form or thing of clay e'er gave Last Line: Into the shoals of life degenerate. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo; Women THE VENUS HOTTENTOT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Science, science, science! Last Line: Geometric, deformed, unnatural Subject(s): Circus; Women - African THE VETERAN; MAY, 1916, by MARGARET ISABEL POSTGATE COLE Poem Text First Line: We came upon him sitting in the sun Last Line: "nineteen, the third of may." Subject(s): Veterans; Women; World War I; Youth; First World War THE VIGIL OF RIZPAH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who watches on the mountain with the dead Last Line: The unconquerable angel, mightiest love! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rizpah (bible); Women In The Bible THE VIRGIN MARY (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To work a wonder, god would have her shown Last Line: At once, a bud, and yet a rose full-blowne. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The virgin marie was (as I have read) Last Line: Once shut, was never to be open'd more. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mist hath dimmed that glorious face Last Line: Let sorrow string my heavy lute. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MARY TO THE CHILD JESUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, mine holy one! Last Line: Wak'st thou, o loving one? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that goddess to whom men should pray Last Line: As you with erring reverence overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a secret recess Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S CRADLE-HYMN; COPIED FROM A PRINT OF THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling" Last Line: "come, soft slumber, balmily" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (PIEDMONTESE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, oh sleep, dear baby mine" Last Line: "sleep my child, and lullaby" Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY (SICILIAN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The virgin thus to jesus did sing Last Line: "sleep now that my tears freely may flow." Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE VISION OF EVE, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: Three years their leaves on eden's smirch had shed Last Line: Two streams of gold o'er thee their radiance threw. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; God; Love; Women; Eve THE VISION OF JESUS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest son, what dost thou see? Last Line: The shadows of three gaunt crosses fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Predestination; Vision; Women - Bible; Childhood; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary THE VISITATION OF OUR LADY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is passing along to-day Last Line: In the time of love's dear visiting. Subject(s): Catholics; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Paradise; Virgin Mary THE VOICELESS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We count the broken lyres that rest Last Line: As sad as earth, as sweet as heaven! Subject(s): Adversity; Women THE WAITING ROOM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ladies in the waiting room of the atchley pavilion Last Line: Tropical design on sleeves) has lit a cigarette Subject(s): Medicine; Women; Drugs, Prescription THE WAITING WOMAN, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A woman is waiting for you, my lad Last Line: And the eyes of the wise are sad! Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends! Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WARMING PAN; ABISHAG, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: When age had david stricken Last Line: Is certain of her fame. Subject(s): Abishag (bible); David (d. 962 B.c.); Women In The Bible THE WARS IN SWEDEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The streets of stockholm are churning with guerrillas Last Line: Being the conscience of the white race isn't much fun. Subject(s): Social Protest; Sweden; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WAY IT WAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked out quietly Last Line: Trying to be white Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Identity THE WAY WE WRITE LETTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must lie long in the weeds Last Line: From the meadow. Turn on the poem & the light. Subject(s): Letters; Poetry & Poets; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Journeys; Trips; Feminism THE WAYSIDE VIRGIN, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the virgin; from this granite ledge Last Line: Felt the first sunshine of the early spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE WEDDING BONNET, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She tied her wedding bonnet on Last Line: Then blushed as if she felt the ring. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEEPER (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, sister springs Last Line: A worthier object -- our lord's feet. Variant Title(s): Saint Mary Magdalene Or The Weeper Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Theology THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A well there is in the west country Last Line: "for she took a bottle to church." Subject(s): Wells; Women THE WHISTLER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'you have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart" Subject(s): Kisses;whistles & Whistling;women;youth THE WHITE WATCH (OPUS 27: NO. 2), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lifeless garden of the moon Last Line: A little over the garden below. Subject(s): Moon; Sleep; Women THE WHITE WOMEN, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where dwell the lovely, wild white women folk Last Line: And gazing died. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Amazons; Legends, Malayan; Women's Rights; Feminism THE WHOLE SELF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of the long history of the self Subject(s): Arabs - Women THE WIFE OF BATH HER TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In days of old, when arthur filled the throne Last Line: Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. Variant Title(s): Fables Ancient And Modern: The Wife Of Bath Her Tale Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Rape; Women; Arthur, King; Allegories THE WIFE OF FERGUS; A MONODRAMA, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease -- cease your torments! Spare the sufferers Last Line: No guilty fear in death. Subject(s): Marriage; Murder; Regicide; Scotland; Suicide; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIFEBEATER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There will be mud on the carpet tonight Last Line: And the wife and daughter knit into each other / until they are killed Subject(s): Women – Abused; Family Life; Theology THE WISE WOMAN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must be rich who can forego Last Line: A thing that time so often steals. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Women THE WISE-WOMAN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the last low cottage in blackthorn lane Last Line: Perchance. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE WITCH, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have walked a great while over the snow Last Line: Oh, lift me over the threshold, and let me in at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE WIVES OF WEINSBERG, by GOTTFRIED AUGUST BURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Which way to weinsberg? Neighbor, say! Last Line: A weinsberg dame my wife shall be. Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WIZARD'S CRUX, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I, by wondrous fate, possessed Last Line: Witch them again to womanhood? Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Women THE WOFLE NEW BALLAD OF JANE RONEY AND MARY BROWN, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this week Last Line: To pull you all hup to a'beckett the beak. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Gays & Lesbians; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE WOMAN I MET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger, I threaded sunken-hearted Last Line: She turned and thinned away. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE WOMAN IN MY ARMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As the soft white down of the wild duck's wing Last Line: As tribute to womanhood's worth. Subject(s): Women; Women - Captives THE WOMAN THING, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunters are back from beating the winter's face Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women THE WOMAN WHO WROTE TOO MUCH, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have written Subject(s): Women - Writers THE WOMAN WITH THE SERPENT'S TONGUE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is not old, she is not young Last Line: The woman with the serpent's tongue. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Cruelty; Women THE WOMAN'S THANKS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is so much strong men are thankful for Last Line: My thanks for these thy little blessings' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; God; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Sabbath; Thanksgiving; Women; Sunday THE WOMAN-SOUL, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stood before the fiery gate Last Line: She entered in -- alone. Subject(s): Women THE WOMEN, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women are gathered at the back porch sink Subject(s): Women THE WOMEN FO'K, by JAMES HOGG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, sairly may I rue the day Last Line: For they winna let a body be! Alternate Author Name(s): The Ettrick Shepherd; The Bard Of Ettrick Subject(s): Women THE WOMEN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Were not treated so well as I. Last Line: To work a miracle with everything left to her Subject(s): Women; Concentration Camps; Hair THE WOMEN OF DAN DANCE WITH SWORDS IN THEIR HANDS ..., by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not fall from the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Africa; Women THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM AT THE CROSS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like those pale stars of tempest-hours Last Line: To that which her deep soul hath proved of holiest worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women In The Bible THE WOMEN OF RUBENS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giantesses, female fauna Subject(s): Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Women THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like a beast borne on the flood of passion, boat without oars, but mindful of all his dignity Last Line: With my hands, a lion Subject(s): Women THE WOMEN TOILERS, by GRACE BOWEN EVANS Poem Text First Line: I saw them from our car today Last Line: As I was passing by their fields today! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers THE WOMEN YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The edge / of this Last Line: Your burning blood, your dancing tongue Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Negroes; American Blacks THE WOMEN YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing that same black dress Last Line: Your burning blood, your dancing tongue. Subject(s): Dreams; Women; Nightmares THE WOMEN'S PRISON, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The women in the prison Subject(s): Women; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts THE WOOD-CUTTERS WIFE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Times she'll sit quiet by the hearth Last Line: That grows full glory, when she comes again. Subject(s): Women THE WORD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You called it screwing, what we did nights Subject(s): Love; Women THE WORKFORCE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Do you have adequate oxen for the job? Subject(s): Jobs; Women; Wit & Humor THE WORST HORROR, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dire is the violence of ocean waves Last Line: Of woes unnumbered, and their deadly foe. Subject(s): Men; Women THE YELLOW DOT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God does what she wants. She has very large Last Line: A rembrandt drawing if you put it down Subject(s): God; Women; Death THE YOKE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement THE YOUNG LION AND THE APE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true I blame your lover's choice Last Line: And pays with interest scorn for scorn.' Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Beauty; Charm; Fables; Lions; Women; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Allegories THE ZULU GIRL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her breasts / naked, the soft Subject(s): Women; Zulus THE ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus THEADOSIA, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: She was my mother's mother's mother Last Line: The only time I ever saw that woman %lying down Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THEATER OF TABLEAUX VIVANTS, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A man stopped to see the tableaux vivants Last Line: And outside all the roofs were covered with snow Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Women THEE, MY BELOVED, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEFT, by ESTHER POPEL Poem Source First Line: The moon %was an old, old woman tonight Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women THEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was my first landscape Last Line: Of birds. Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women & Religion THEM, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That summer they had cars, soft roofs crumpling Last Line: Have it, we could reach right down into their %bodies and steal it back Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Lifeguards; Sex; Teenagers; Virginity; Women THEN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My parents and the parents Subject(s): Parents; Women; Parenthood THEN AND NOW, by KATH WALKER Poem Source First Line: Om my dreams I hear my tribe Last Line: Better when I had nothing but happiness Subject(s): Women THEODORA, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By that name you will not know her Last Line: "I am desolate, forsaken!" Subject(s): Women; Human Behavior THEOTOKOS, by LEONORE WILSON Poem Source First Line: Light coming out of the darkness out of the earth Last Line: Better not to appear in tortillas glass building %what assurance can you give us that our sores will Subject(s): Marriage; Virginity; Women's Rights THERAPIST, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: It had to be a garden in the wood Last Line: You feed us, free us, give us growing air Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women THERAPIST, by RUTH ROSTON Poem Source First Line: Marcia fogelson is dancing Last Line: Spinning light into the whiteness %of the ward Subject(s): Jews - Women THERE ARE PASSIONATE LOVE AFFAIRS, OFTEN BETWEEN, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: It on bikes, with packs. One sees them, from afar Subject(s): Women - Writers THERE IS A WOMAN IN THIS TOWN, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source Last Line: It lives for those who once upon a time had a dream Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Homosexuality THERE IS CERTAINLY SOMEONE, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source Last Line: Who forgot to close my greedy eyes %and allowed my wasted passion Subject(s): Women - Abused THERE SHE IS, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I go into the garden, there she is Last Line: It will have to include her Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Imagination; Women THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS', by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground Last Line: Would scarcely know that we were gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spring; War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War THERE'S JUSTICE, by PHYLLIS HOGE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I'm old enough now. I'm out of danger Last Line: I have found my own cold place to sleep %outside and alone Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THERE'S NOBODY, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: I am not in Subject(s): Women's Rights THERE'S WISDOM IN WOMEN, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh love is fair, and love is rare'; my dear one she said Last Line: Have cried on love so bitterly, with so true a tongue? Subject(s): Women; Soldiers' Writings THERE, SELS, by ETEL ADNAN Poem Source First Line: In the green escape of my palace, over a bridge, under a Last Line: Didn't come to their aid, did we? Subject(s): Arabs - Women THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. METTIKA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Though I am weak and tired now Last Line: The breath %of liberty Subject(s): Buddhism; Freedom; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. MUTTA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So free am I, so gloriously free Last Line: And all that has held me down %is hurled away Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. SUMANGALAMATA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A woman well set free! How free I am Last Line: And contemplate my happiness Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights THERIGATHA: SONGS OF THE NUNS. UBBIRI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O ubbiri, who wails in the wood Last Line: I turn, my heart now healed Subject(s): Buddhism; Spiritual Life; Women And Religion THESE ARE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: These are more beautiful than words Last Line: A woman's eyelids opening from rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Clouds; Women THESE DAYS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: From dreams of fountains in the hallways Last Line: Bury the corpses that collect in the garden Subject(s): Women's Rights THESE HIPS, by KATE BRAID Poem Source First Line: Some hips are made for bearing Last Line: On small, strong hips %built for the birth %of buildings Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women THESE LADIES, by LACEY SAWYER Poem Source Last Line: These ladies %they know Subject(s): Mothers; Women THESE WOMEN, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: It is not my purpose Last Line: For our own %avowals Subject(s): Women - Bible THESMOPHORIAZUSAE: WOMEN'S CHORUS, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're always abusing the women Last Line: Until she looks out again. Subject(s): Women THEY, by VENUS KHOURY-GHATA Poem Source First Line: They bubble up to the surface of our memory Last Line: To fetch the nuts summer didn't want %shaking them like children's rattles Subject(s): Arabs - Women THEY ARE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN ONE DOES THE RIGHT THING, by ELLEN BASS Poem Source Last Line: You will never know, will never have to know Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women THEY DID NOT BUILD WINGS FOR THEM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here the world was a passionate place and she %would visit it at night baring her breasts %to the mo Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY KEEP THEIR STORY, by RIPLEY SCHEMM Poem Source First Line: Tall smooth lavender hills Last Line: These steep folded hills Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women THEY RELEASED MANDELA, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Today they released mandela Last Line: But what they did yesterday %still matters Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights THEY SAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY SAY SHE IS VEILED, by JUDY GRAHN Poem Source Last Line: We who are veiled %and without faces Subject(s): Women THEY SHUT ME UP IN PROSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And laugh -- no more have I Variant Title(s): Poem: 445; Poem: 61 Subject(s): Women THEY USED TO LOVE ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THEY WENT HOME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went home and told their wives Last Line: They'd spend one night, or two or three %but Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women THEY WERE ALONE IN THE WINTER, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: Each night, I braid my daughter's hair Last Line: It will come as many different horses' Subject(s): Women THIGHS I HAVE KNOWN, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Thick and muscular Last Line: To me %and away Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights THIN WOMEN WOO EACH OTHER, by CHRISTINE DONALD Poem Source Subject(s): Women THINGS I'LL NOT DO: NOSTALGIAS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never go to bulgaria, had a booklet & invitation Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF JERUSALEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a black thread Last Line: And keep filling %their plates with more Subject(s): Jews - Women THINKING OF MY MOTHER WHO FIFTEEN YEARS LATER, HAS GONE EAST ..., by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: How could my mother have known Last Line: Backward glances of the sun Subject(s): Leaves; Mothers And Daughters; Women THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 11, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love loves truth, then women do not love Last Line: To have fair women false than none at all. Subject(s): Women; Love - Complaints; Deception THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind are her answers Last Line: But one night went betwixt. Subject(s): Courtship; Love; Waiting; Women THIRD REMOVE: IN WHICH ATTEMPTS ARE MADE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Attic attic. %every room is a high perch Last Line: There is no applause, no good reason Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives THIRST, by THURAYYA AL- URAYYID Poem Source First Line: When your longing spans the earth %an ancient root %thirsty for a drop of water Last Line: A soul yearning for far horizons, %in the grip of shackles %transfixed Subject(s): Arabs - Women THIRTEENTH ODE, by SEKEENA SHABEN Poem Source First Line: With the window sliced open %in a circle %on the brightest part of your length Last Line: The division of your limbs %emptied a place for me Subject(s): Arabs - Women THIRTEENTH STATION, by WILLIAM A. DONAGHY Poem Source First Line: Now you may have him, mary, they are done Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THIRTEENTH STATION, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Source First Line: Once you journeyed with him, mary Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had expected more than this. %I had not expected to be %anordinary woman Subject(s): Absence; African Americans - Women; Aging; Mothers And Daughters THIS BEAUTIFUL, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Flesh first falls from %breasts Last Line: Would be so %easy to %see Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights THIS CHILD IS THE MOTHER, by GLORIA CATHERINE ODEN Poem Source First Line: Black is; slavery was; I am Last Line: The fierce physics of %that soothing fountain %outpouring %from her side Subject(s): African Americans - Women THIS ENGLISHWOMAN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This englishwoman is so refined Last Line: She has no bosom and no behind Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Women THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to accept women Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Sex; Women; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to accept women Last Line: And that's my situation, folks Subject(s): Homosexuality; Sex; Women THIS IS JUST TO SAY, by ERICA-LYNN GAMBINO Poem Source First Line: I have just %asked you to Last Line: Driving %me insane Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Women's Rights THIS ONE GOES AND THAT ONE GOES, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS OTHER NIGHT I SAW A SIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THIS PLACE RUMORD TO HAVE BEEN SODOM, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might have been. / certainly these ashes might have been pleasures Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THIS RAGE, by SILVIA BATISTI Poem Source First Line: This rage is not aroused Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights THIS SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an afternoon bright with Last Line: Murmurs from high in the old pine trees Subject(s): Hair; Women THIS WORLD I'D WISH TO LEAVE AND GOD TO SERVE, by COMPIUTA DONZELLA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights THIS, THE BODY, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Even with your fingers upon my thigh Last Line: Look: christ's fingers, unlike yours, are curled Subject(s): Women THOMAS HARDY, UNDER GLASS, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: What count of pebbles fits into an urn? Last Line: Through which man dreams and ultimately hopes Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THORN PIECE, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cliffs, / cliffs, / and a twisted sea Last Line: Like leaves falling Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Russell, Ada Dwyer (1863-1952); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THORNS AND BEES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: Life was all up in me, then, %says the woman of too many days Last Line: Wind's goin to have to bring me down Subject(s): Homeless; Women THORNY GAPS SUDDENLY MOVING, by FATMA KANDIL Poem Source First Line: The keys that open doors %are the keys that close them Last Line: Every day- %until it became my home Subject(s): Arabs - Women THOROUGHLY MODERN ALICE, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: I've shed my petticoats, I've unbuckled Last Line: Girl, this defunct alice Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives THOSE DAMNED WIRE GATES, by GWEN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: The sun was high, the weather fair Last Line: Cuz I'm at war with those damned wire gates! Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers THOU MOON AND O YE STARS, FR. JUDITH, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou moon and o ye stars, ye hosts of light! Last Line: [she returns into the tent and draws the curtain.] Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Judith (bible); Women In The Bible THOUGH SHE SLUMBERS, by JOSEPH JOEL KEITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, small one Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible THOUGHTS OF THE WOMAN MUCH MISSED, by MARGARET KAY Poem Source First Line: No, husband, that was not me calling you, calling you Last Line: Beneath the daisies now, quite silently Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights THRALL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is sparsely furnished Last Line: So you may write this poem. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism THREAT TO A FICKLE LADY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet lady sleep, befriend me Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Women THREE ABOUT THE BODY, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The body says, if you weren't Last Line: Twin? Everything sacred %enters through you Subject(s): Women THREE CROWS COMES A WEDDING DAY., by ANNE MCKAY Poem Source Last Line: Nana used to say Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THREE EMIGRATIONS: 3. THE MAN AND WOMAN, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Together in this cave with windows Last Line: From the slag, the bones and straw of our time Subject(s): Immigrants; Men; Women THREE GOLDEN STARS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy, helen, ruth! Sweet names they have Last Line: When truth and love make all the nations one. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Women; Dead, The THREE GREAT LADIES, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They seemed a sort of frame for the town's life Last Line: Of her familiar saint of self-control. Subject(s): Women THREE LADS, by ELIZABETH CHANDLER FORMAN Poem Source First Line: Down the road rides a german lad Last Line: For I'm off to the war and away Subject(s): Women; World War I THREE MOMENTS IN PARIS: 1. ONE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though you have never possessed me Last Line: Wants to go to bed Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Paris, France; Women THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of eight women / I don't know Variant Title(s): Three Photographs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes of eight women %I don't know Last Line: Their ready gaze through him, %to me, straight ahead Variant Title(s): Three Photograph Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck to find them here! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What luck to find them here! Last Line: Too full with new graves %and no flowers Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural, he say. / what he want from me? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Natural, he say. %what he want from me? Last Line: Like he be seeing me- %distant and small-forever Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping THREE THINGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Three things puzzled aristotle's wife: Last Line: The mind of her man. Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Bees; Insects; Reason; Tides; Women THREE VALENTINES TO THE WIDE WORLD: 3, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, in the middle of my life, the earth stalks me Last Line: Love and art, which are compassionate Subject(s): Middle Age; Women THREE WOMEN, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am slow as the world. I am very patient, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women THREE WOMEN: FIAMMETTA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Her speech like a tame serpent hiss Last Line: To live when she dies? Subject(s): Women THREE WOMEN: G --, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Sister is she to woodlands deep Last Line: Unconscious what a place she fills. Subject(s): Women THREE WOMEN: SYLVIA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In the twilight was her birth Last Line: Not quite human from the first. Subject(s): Women THREE-PART INVENTION FOR CELAN, by PATRICIA WILCOX Poem Source First Line: Put out two teacups Last Line: Has the scent of violets %been this potent Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights THRENODY FOR A BROWN GIRL, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, you who love her Last Line: We need elegies. Subject(s): Death; African American Women; Dead, The THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the laboratory waiting room Last Line: In the empty eye. Subject(s): Children; Eyes; Vanity; Women; Women's Rights; Childhood; Feminism THROUGH THE CEILING, MAIDEN VOYAGE, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Sliding %under an airduct, then Last Line: Under ceilings %unaware %unsuspecting Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women THUGS, by MURA DEHN Poem Source First Line: The years don't serve their time Last Line: Out of my hands %and fled Subject(s): Women TIGERS, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: My girl shivers beside me Last Line: I just hear them roar. And I shiver Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: There comes a time when Last Line: Of the sun's perfect sense of timing Subject(s): Sun; Women TIME FOR DEJECTION, by HAMDA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: Forever %it dwells in the windows and doors Last Line: There is no fire in these poems %there is no warmth in this place! Subject(s): Arabs - Women TIME TO SHINE, by HAMDA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: Go away a bit my sadness %I'll open my notebooks %and draw the heart's gardens Last Line: My heart %is %armed with the morning Subject(s): Arabs - Women TIME'S UNFADING GARDEN, by ANNE SPENCER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God never planted a garden' Last Line: Nor take the morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Bannister, Anne Bethel Scales Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Alphabet Verse TIMON, A SATYR, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What timon! Does old age begin t' approach Last Line: To drink bear glass, and hear the hectors roar. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Boileau, Nicholas (1636-1711); Porter, George (1622-1683); Sedley, Sir Charles (1639-1701); Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724); Women TIMOTHY DRAW, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: We pause at the top of timothy draw Last Line: And we slip on down the draw Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TIOLET, by PAUL T. GILBERT Poem Text First Line: I love you, my lord! Last Line: Was all that she said. Subject(s): God; Love; Women TIRED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go Last Line: And are you shawled against this east wind's chills? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Morality; Prisons & Prisoners; Women; Ethics TIRED POEM: .. UNEMPLOYED BLACK PROFESSIONAL WOMAN, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: So it's a gorgeous afternoon in the park Last Line: And then it is very quiet Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights TITTY BOAT, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: My aunt Last Line: Its black holds Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Aunts TLAZOLTEOTL, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Goddess of love %goddess of death Last Line: Goddess of love %tlazolteotl! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Women - Bible TO - (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Well I know your subtle sex Last Line: But where have demons hid thy heart? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women TO A BOY, by NANCY MOREJON Poem Source First Line: Between sea-foam and the tide Subject(s): Women TO A BRIDE-TO-BE, by NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Poem Source First Line: And do you marry, offering your youth Subject(s): Women's Rights TO A DARK DANCER, by MARJORIE MARSHALL Poem Source First Line: Within the shadow of the moon you danced Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO A DARK GIRL, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love you for your brownness Last Line: And let your full lips laugh at fate! Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you / at eight to ride Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A DAUGHTER LEAVING HOME, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I taught you %at eight to ride Last Line: Handkerchief waving %goodbye Subject(s): Growth; Home; Mothers; Women TO A FAIR LADY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lady, you were clad in white Last Line: When first your gentle eyes I met. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Women TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Subject(s): Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (1926-2009); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO TRIUMPH, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider icarus, pasting those sticking wings on Last Line: See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down %while his sensible daddy goes straight into town Subject(s): God; Icarus; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Religion; Snodgrass, William Dewitt (b. 1926); Women's Rights TO A GONE ERA (MY COLLEGE DAYS - CLASS OF '73), by IRMA MCCLAURIN Poem Source First Line: The eye of this storm is not quiet Last Line: Their sorrow sings through the cracked tenement walls Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO A GOOD FRIEND WHO WOULD PROVE THE FICKELNESS, by MARGARETHA SUSANNA VON KUNTSCH Poem Source First Line: The fickleness of women can not be fully proved Subject(s): Women's Rights TO A LADY, by ANGELINA S. MUMFORD Poem Text First Line: Thine eyes are very beautiful! Last Line: And for thy only child. Alternate Author Name(s): Picciola Subject(s): Women TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This unphilosophic sight Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This unphilosophic sight Last Line: In lines of noble heritage; %and so, you do not show your age Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Women TO A LOVELY WOMAN, by JANE DRANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Those myriad hours and days unwillingly spent Last Line: My record has authority as true. Subject(s): Women TO A MAN, by SUSANA MARCH Poem Source First Line: Overcome this great divide of sex Subject(s): Women's Rights TO A MAN OF THE WORLD, by BETTY PAOLI Poem Source First Line: Before you I have cried in vain Subject(s): Women's Rights TO A PICTURE OF THE MADONNA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair vision! Thou'rt from sunny skies Last Line: Ave! Such power be ever thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO A QUILT IN A FRAME, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: It is such an awkward task, the quilting it Last Line: In this quaint-patterned, touched-with-magic cover. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women TO A RICH YOUNG WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I will not ask if thou canst touch Last Line: "enough for me, love, if thou still / canst draw thy dividends!" Subject(s): Women TO A SENORITA OF SOUTH AMERICA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: You have the loveliness of far-off hills Last Line: Beneath the sun, yet faithful year on year. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Beauty; Spain; Women TO A SERIOUS WOMAN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: You are a serious woman who laughs Last Line: This is my work. %this is my life Subject(s): Women TO A SLEEPING MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Do not rudely wake her, nor reproach Last Line: That finds in dreams a world more fair than this. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sleep; Women; Nightmares TO A VIOLINIST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This woman who is gentle to the last Last Line: Cries and defies her in her violin. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Violins; Women TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here tame boys fly down the long light of halls Last Line: To father men and poems in your mind. Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO A WOMAN, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think that you were born mature Last Line: But only be the happiest of fools. Subject(s): Maturity; Women TO A YOUNG WIFE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a fool to dream that you Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Negroes; American Blacks TO A YOUNG WIFE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a fool to dream that you Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TO ALCAEUS, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Were you desiring good and fair Last Line: But you had pled your plea outright Subject(s): Alcaeus (6th-7th Century B.c.); Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mythology - Classical; Women's Rights TO ALCITHOE, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In your dim greece of old, alcithoe Last Line: The last, still, exquisite vision of your sleep. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The TO ALL VERTUOUS LADIES IN GENERALL, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each blessed lady that in virtue spends Last Line: But chiefly those as thou hast graced so. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Beauty; Virtue; Women TO ALMYSTREA [MARY ASTELL], ON HER DIVINE WORKS, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Hail, happy virgin! Of celestial race Last Line: From the false brand of incapacity. Subject(s): Astell, Mary (1668-1731); Women's Rights; Feminism TO AN ICICLE, by BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: Chilled into a serenity Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO AN OLD BLACK WOMAN, HOMELESS AND INDISTINCT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your every day is a pilgrimage Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Homeless; Women – Old Age TO AN OLD BLACK WOMAN, HOMELESS AND INDISTINCT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your every day is a pilgrimage Last Line: Folks used to say 'that child is going far' Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Homeless TO AN OLD FRIEND, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER Poem Source First Line: I saw you smoldering, %sipping black coffee with Last Line: And sipped rich coffee with cream- %with cubes of sugar Subject(s): Arabs - Women TO AN OLD GENTLEWOMAN, THAT PAINTED HER FACE, by GEORGE TURBERVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave off, good beroe, now %to sleek thy shrivelled skin Last Line: To other trulls of tender years %resign the flag of fame Alternate Author Name(s): Turbervile, George Subject(s): Aging; Cosmetics; Women TO AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripeness is all; her in her cooling planet Subject(s): Old Age; Women TO AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripeness is all; her in her cooling planet Last Line: And but in darkness is she visible Subject(s): Old Age; Women TO AN OLD WOMAN, by RAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Come mother - %your rebozo trails a black web Last Line: Senor, how much ess thees? Subject(s): Women TO AN UNKNOWN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't the heart to say Last Line: In this bastion of culture. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Estrangement; Outcasts; Feminism TO ANITA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High/yellow/black/girl Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO ANY WOMAN, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never tell me what you are Last Line: Worthy your reality. Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian Subject(s): Women TO AUSONIUS, by PAULINUS OF NOLA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, through all chances that are given to mortals Alternate Author Name(s): Meropius Pontius Anicius Pauli Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO BE BORN MALE, by ADELA ZAMUDIO Poem Source First Line: How she labors without end Subject(s): Women's Rights TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Range / a rest / face off Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused; Journeys; Trips; Wife Beating TO BLUNT THE KNIFE, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Range %a rest %face off Last Line: I sought the wild animal %salamat jalan Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Tourists; Travel; Women - Abused TO CATULLUS -- HIGHET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My lover says he'd want to lie with none Last Line: Write it on thin air, read on the run Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Highet, Gilbert (1906-1978); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO CLARISSA SCOTT DELANY, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has not found herself a hard pillow Last Line: She is only unseen, unseen? Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO COLLEGE GIRLS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The college girls of a former day Last Line: Of today and the years before! Subject(s): Courtship; Girls; Love; Women's Rights; Feminism TO COME WITH ACCESSORIES, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Inherited: the opals set in cuffs Last Line: I am a body in ash-blonde smoke, aroused alone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TO CRUEZER, by KAROLINE VON GUNDERODE Poem Source First Line: When I see the evening reds, friend, blushing deep in the west Subject(s): Women's Rights TO D.H. LAWRENCE, by LESLIE RICHARDSON Poem Source First Line: The female should always be secret, you said Last Line: Is it she who %puts shame on you? Subject(s): Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930); Women TO DONNE RHYMING, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Busy young fool, unruly donne Last Line: (the afternoon might be a better time) Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO E.J.J., by ETHEL M. CAUTION Poem Source First Line: Sparkling eyes of diamond jet Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO EDGAR, FROM HELEN, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Edgar, your verses are to me Last Line: Let both be banned! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO ELIZA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eliza, what fools are the mussulman sect Last Line: The garden of eden would wither without you. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Pigot, Elizabeth; Women TO ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have not met thee in this outward world Last Line: Sends love and blessings unto thee and thine. Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861); Imagination; Love; Women; Fancy TO EMERGE FROM A WOMAN IS TO BECOME SEPARATE, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The earth gleams naked Subject(s): Hearts; Women TO ENJOY THE HORROR, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID Poem Source First Line: There was a common wall between the fence of our elementary school Last Line: To continue the game after the mid afternoon prayers %and to enjoy the horror Subject(s): Arabs - Women TO FEMALE DUTIES CLORINDA SCORNED, by PETRONILLA PAOLINI MASSIMI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights TO G.A.G., by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hasty jest I once let fall Last Line: A woman's soul, most soft, yet strong. Subject(s): Women TO GEORGE SAND, by IDA VON REINSBERG-DURINGSFELD Poem Source First Line: You've been both exalted and debased Subject(s): Sand, George (1804-1876); Women's Rights TO HARRIET, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harriet! To see such circumspection Last Line: More cautiously to write. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Women TO HAVE A CHILD THESE DAYS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights TO HER, by STEPHEN ROBERT GIBSON Poem Source First Line: I thought you'd like to be a sailor on a ship gone out to sea Last Line: They say a word and they might as well have touched you Subject(s): Sailors And Sailing; Women TO HER LITTLE SON RINALDO WHEN SICK, by FAUSTINA MARATTI ZAPPI Poem Source First Line: Oh where, my sweet, my dear beloved son Subject(s): Women's Rights TO HOLD THE WORLD, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: To hold the world tight Last Line: Lie down to sleep Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights TO ISAIAS, SEER, by MARY OF THE VISITATION Poem Source First Line: How did you picture her before the ages Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO JOAN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joan %did you never hear Last Line: Did you not then sigh %my voices my voices of course? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women TO JULIA DE BURGOS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already the people murmur that I am your enemy Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism TO JULIA DE BURGOS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say I am your enemy Subject(s): Women's Rights TO JULIA DE BURGOS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The word is out that I am your enemy Last Line: Smelling the horizons of the justice of god. %I am rocinante, running headlong Subject(s): Women's Rights TO KEEP THE MEMORY OF CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE - 1915, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still are there wonders of the dark and day Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights TO LADY ASTOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LADY ASTOR (PICTURED WITH BRITISH LION AT HEEL), by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world reknown Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LALAGE (ON HER RESIGNATION AS FILE CLERK), by RHEINHART KLEINER Poem Text First Line: Sweet mistress of the cabinets Last Line: Was more than you could do! Subject(s): Retirement; Secretaries; Women TO M***, by CONSTANCE-MARIE DE SALM-DYCK Poem Source First Line: What? Dorval, me you applaud Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MAINZ, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Angela davis, the virgin mary, and I Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MAKE A DRAGON MOVE, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I have rules and plenty. Some things I don't touch Last Line: Into my final fat-free smile, where there is no pain Subject(s): Women TO MALLARME, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: The lamp %the blank paper Last Line: Have no answer %your mistress indifference Subject(s): Mallarme, Stephane (1842-1898); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TO MARY, by GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG Poem Source First Line: Thou lily-leaf, thou roseal-bud Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MARY AT CHRISTMAS, by JOHN GILLAND BRUNINI Poem Source First Line: No stranger pilgrims wear the shepherd's way Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MARY AT THIRTEEN, by JULIE KING Poem Source First Line: You taught me to bake Last Line: Warmed air, and your hips %swaying in silky, slow circles Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women TO MARY MAGDALEN, by BARTOLOME LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA Poem Source First Line: Blessed, yet sinful one Last Line: Forever, to the skies Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mary Magdalen; Sin; Women - Bible; Women And Religion TO MARY WOLSTONECRAFT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily cheek, the 'purple light of love' Last Line: To offer, nor unworthy thy regard. Subject(s): Godwin, Mary Wollenstonecraft (1759-79); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Poetry & Poets; Strength; Victory; Women's Rights; Wollenstone, Mary (1759-79); Feminism TO MARY: AT THE THIRTEENTH STATION, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source First Line: You are the priest tonight Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO MERLE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say skinny mannysided tall on the ball Last Line: Let me call you sister, sister, %I been waiting for you Subject(s): Sisters; Women TO MISS ANNA MARIA TRAVERS. AN EPISTLE FROM SCOTLAND, by CHARLOTTE BRERETON Poem Text First Line: I rise about eight, if the morning is warm Last Line: Your friend most sincere, and true humble servant. Subject(s): Child Care; Women Writers; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MISS CORNISH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, lady, that to-day Last Line: Miss cornish, on your natal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Birthdays; Sea; Women; Ocean TO MISS FLIRTILLA LANGUISH, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flirtilla, the pride of the street Last Line: If I failed for to warm her myself. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Consumerism; Women TO MITHERS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, mithers, o mithers! Last Line: That hauds a drucken wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Marriage; Mothers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MOTHER, by JULIE G. LANDSMAN Poem Source First Line: I can't imagine you with only one breast Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 2. WILFUL WOMEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Women are wilful, and the kindest are Last Line: And makes me for the nonce a better man. Subject(s): Humanity; Wisdom; Women TO MR. POE, FROM HIS BEAUTIFUL ANNABEL LEE, by GRAY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: My dear mr. Poe, you silly twit, to sleep so by the sea! Last Line: Nut I guess I was always a roll in the sepulchre %signed, beautiful annabel lee Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights TO MRS. MANLEY, by CATHARINE TROTTER Poem Text First Line: Th' attempt was brave, how happy your success Last Line: Where they have lost their hearts, the lawrel yield. Subject(s): Manley, Delaiviere (1670-1724); War; Women TO MRS. MANLEY, UPON HER TRAGEDY CALL'D THE ROYAL MICHIEF, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: As when some mighty hero first appears Last Line: Whilst trifles keep from the rich store within. Subject(s): Heroism; Manley, Delaiviere (1670-1724); Tragedy; Women; Heroes; Heroines TO MY BROTHER (IN MEMORY OF JULY 1, 1916), by VERA MARY BRITTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your battle-wounds are scars upon my heart Last Line: As once in france %two years ago Alternate Author Name(s): Catlin, George E. G., Mrs. Subject(s): Women; World War I TO MY CHILDREN, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: Others may pity me but you shall not be ashamed Last Line: Your presence changes my wilderness to a garden Subject(s): Women TO MY CHILDREN, by ROSANNA GUERRINI Poem Source First Line: You will do he will do you will do Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MY DISTAFF, by CATHERINE DES ROCHES Poem Source First Line: Distaff, my care, I promise thee and swear Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not live until this time Last Line: Immortal as our soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Friendship; Gays & Lesbians; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO MY FATHER, by DINAH BUTLER Poem Source First Line: You %black man Subject(s): Women TO MY FATHER, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A leaf from freedom's golden chaplet fair Last Line: Divine approval is thy sweetest praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO MY GRANDMOTHER, 187-1970, by CAROL ASCHER Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you're gone and I see years ago Last Line: Dead, now dead %and a time is over Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TO MY LADY, by THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHERIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twine, lanken fingers, lily-lithe Last Line: Then -- kiss me, lady grisoline! Alternate Author Name(s): Anstey, F. Subject(s): Bodies; Kisses; Women TO MY MOTHER, by GIUSEPPINA TURRISI COLONNA Poem Source First Line: Oh, perhaps your doubt, perhaps anxiety Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MY MOTHER, by HANNAH SENESH Poem Source First Line: From where have you learned to wipe the Last Line: From where have you learned strength? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters; Women TO MY MOTHERS, by SIGRID AMMER Poem Source First Line: This time I will Subject(s): Women's Rights TO MY RAPIST, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: When you rub my breasts Last Line: That burn with flames %of violation Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TO MY UNKNOWN HUSBAND, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source First Line: Above my half of the world Subject(s): Women TO ONE CONSECRATED, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Your paths were all unknown to us Last Line: But not its ring of wounding spears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO OTHER MARYS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ said, 'mary,' as he walked within the garden Last Line: "mary"" was the first name that god ever said." Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Mary (name); Mary Magdalen; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Names; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (1), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that (o queen of queens) thy birth was free Last Line: Who had your god for father, spouse and son? Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sovereign of queens: if vain ambition move Last Line: And, jealous, bids me love her alone. Subject(s): Ambition; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Worship; Virgin Mary TO OUR BLESSED LADY (3), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I any love o queen but thee Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO OUR BLESSED LADY (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet queen: although thy beauty raise up me Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO OUR GIRLS, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Our country gives the sons that she has treasured Last Line: Give them a womanhood worth dying for! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women - Heroes TO OUR LADY, THE ARK OF THE COVENANTS, by RAYMOND ELLSWORTH F. LARSSON Poem Source First Line: And if by such bright tokens Alternate Author Name(s): Larsson, R. E. F. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO PEACE, by W. W. M. Poem Text First Line: We are the dead Last Line: Make green thy fields for us, and bring us tears and laughter? Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Social Protest; War; Women; Dead, The TO PHOEBE, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle, modest little flower Last Line: But I do not, phoebe dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Women TO RABBIE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: O rabbie, at her window see Last Line: The stood-up mary morison! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights TO RETREAT INTO MYSELF, TO ACCEPT, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights TO ROSABELLE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my young lady has grown great and staid Last Line: To each she ran, and took and gave a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (1), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed offender, who thyself hast tried Last Line: And in my spouse's palace give me place Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (2), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such as returned from sight of men, like thee Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (3), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet saint: thou better canst declare to me Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible TO SAINT MARY MAGDALEN (4), by HENRY CONSTABLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For few nights solace in delitious bed Last Line: What high rewards by little pain is won Subject(s): Bible; Mary Magdalen; Religion; Women - Bible TO SHAKESPEARE'S MOTHER, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Did he, madonna, on thy bosom turning Last Line: Girlish ophelia's love, and juliet's grave. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dramatists; Legacies; Mothers & Sons; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Women; Inspiration; Creativity; Dramatists TO SIR JOHN SPENSER KNIGHTE, ALDERMAN OF LONDON, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Led by the swift report of winged fame Last Line: Which substance now this shadow seems to crave. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): The Authors First Epistle-dedicatory Subject(s): Women TO SOME SUPPOSED BROTHERS, by ESSEX HEMPHILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You judge a woman Last Line: The way america / loves us Variant Title(s): Conditions: 21 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TO SOULFOLK, by MARGARET GOSS BURROUGHS Poem Source First Line: Soulfolk, think a minute Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO SPEAK I KNOW NOT WHERE, by ANGELE VANNIER Poem Source First Line: I want to live again Subject(s): Women's Rights TO ST. MARY MAGDALEN, by BENJAMIN DIONYSIUS HILL Poem Text First Line: Mid the white spouses of the sacred heart Last Line: Like that long gold which wiped the feet of god? Alternate Author Name(s): Edmund, Father Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women In The Bible; Mary Magdalene TO THE BEAUTIFUL ELIZA J - N, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, liberty! Girl, can it be by thee named Last Line: And over their hearts a proud despot so reignest. Subject(s): Freedom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism TO THE BOSTON WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o boston wives and maids, draw near and see" Last Line: "if not, we'll cut your throats, and burn your town" Subject(s): American Revolution;boston;women TO THE CARYATID (IN THE ELGIN ROOM, BRITISH MUSEUM), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long ago, and day by day Last Line: They are as sweet as long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Caryatids; Museums; Women; Art Gallerys TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF HUNTINGDON, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Illustrious lady, where shall I begin Last Line: Speak out the rest, you cannot reach her praise. Subject(s): Muses; Praise; Women TO THE COUNTESS OF DORSET, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See here how bright the first-born virgin shone Last Line: There's no way to be safe, but not to see. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Milton, John (1608-1674); Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE COUNTESS OF EXETER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What charms you have, from what high race you sprung Last Line: Nor could he burn so fast, as thou could'st build. Subject(s): Charm; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Praise; Rome, Italy; Women TO THE DEAD FAVOURITE OF LIU CH'E, by DJUNA BARNES Poem Text First Line: The sound of rustling silk is stilled Last Line: Have touched her not a thousand years. Subject(s): Women TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA, by PHILO PHILIPPA Poem Text First Line: Let the male poets their male phoebus chuse Last Line: Wit is still higher by humility. Subject(s): "humility; Philips, Katherine (""orinda"") (1631-64); Poetry & Poets; Soul; Women; TO THE FAIR UNKNOWN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To the fair unknown! These lines I dedicate Last Line: To the fairest of the fair who's still unknown. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Women TO THE GAUCHAS OF SALTA, by SUE WALLIS Poem Source First Line: My sisters of salta Last Line: We have much to speak of Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TO THE GIRL WHO HELPED IN THE WAR, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM BACON Poem Text First Line: Before the flag had floated free Last Line: But it made a woman of you! Subject(s): War - Home Front; Women; World War I; First World War TO THE HOLY VIRGIN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of him who made us! First of mothers! Last Line: Far in the past, with jesus and with john! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE INDIFFERENT WOMEN; A SESTINA, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who are happy in a thousand homes Last Line: Is joined with man's to care for all the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism TO THE LADIES, by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wife and servant are the same Last Line: You must be proud, if you'll be wise. Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauties! -- (for, dressed with so much taste Last Line: A well-dressed english woman. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; England; Nature; Women; English TO THE LADY CASTLEMAIN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As seamen, shipwrecked on some happy shore Last Line: New life to my condemn'd and dying muse. Variant Title(s): To The Lady Castlemain - Afterwards Duchess Of Cleveland Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Sailing & Sailors; Villiers, Barbara. Duchess Of Cleveland; Women; Seamen; Sails TO THE LADY IN THE CHIMSETTE WITH BLACK BUTTONS, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not who thou art, oh lovely one! Last Line: My love shall hover round thee! Subject(s): New York City - 19th Century; Women TO THE LIGHTED LADY WINDOW, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I kiss my hand to you Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE MEMORY OF HEBER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it be sad to speak of treasures gone Last Line: Shines as the star which to the saviour led! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Heber, Reginald (1783-1826); Women TO THE MEMORY OF J. HORACE KIMBALL, by SARAH LOUISA FORTEN Poem Source First Line: Another youthful advocate of truth and right has gone Last Line: When slavery's galling chains are loosed, and all the oppressed are free Alternate Author Name(s): Ada Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO THE MOTHER OF CHRIST, THE SON OF MAN, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We too (one cried), we too Last Line: Of our humanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE MOUNTAINS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The woman of too many days %is going to the mountains Last Line: Has no intentions of making a reservation Subject(s): Homeless; Women TO THE OTHERS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the gleam then that lured from far Last Line: With the banner of christ over them—our knights new-made. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Women; World War I; First World War TO THE QUEEN OF DOLORS, by MARY MAURA Poem Source First Line: Seven times seven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE QUEEN OF SWEDEN, ON HER CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN'S MINDS, by ? CERTAIN Poem Source First Line: You're perfectly right, o treasure of knowledge Subject(s): Women's Rights TO THE SISTINE MADONNA, by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Poem Source First Line: Mary, most serenely fair Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE TUNE ETERNAL HAPPINESS, by CH'ING-CHAO LI Poem Source First Line: The setting sun is molten gold Subject(s): Women TO THE TUNE THE FALL OF A LITTLE WILD GOOSE, by HUANG HO Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time I was Subject(s): Women TO THE TUNE THE RIVER IS RED, by CH'IU CHIN Poem Source First Line: How many wise men and heroes Last Line: And bearing brilliant and noble human beings Subject(s): Women TO THE TUNE THE RIVER IS RED, by CHIN CH'IU Poem Source First Line: How many wise men and heroes Last Line: Blooming like fields of flowers %and bearing brilliant and noble human beings Subject(s): Women TO THE TUNE A FLOATING CLOUD CROSSED ENCHANTED MOUNTAIN, by HUANG HO Poem Source First Line: Every morning I get up Last Line: Overwhelmed with passion Subject(s): Erotic Love; Women TO THE TUNE OF 'TUNG HSIEN KO', by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Old moonlight %shines in old windows Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 17. THE CHILD'S PURCHASE; A PROLOGUE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a young child, whose mother, for a jest Last Line: Which he who does it deems impossible!' Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 7. TO THE BODY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creation's and creator's crowning good Last Line: Quick, tender, virginal, and unprofaned! Subject(s): Bible; Elijah; Feet; Hair; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN, by FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD VON HARDENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand hands, devoutly tender Last Line: My whole rapt being—heart and mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Novalis Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN, by JOHN LYDGATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen of heaven, of hell eke emperess Last Line: To thy five joys that have devotion. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary TO THE VIRGIN MARY, by ANDREAS GRYPHIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No room at the crowded inn for you. And why? Last Line: The world itself is too cramped for what's inside you Subject(s): Evil; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TO THE WOMAN THAT'S GOOD' (THE ELKS' TOAST), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ho, gentlemen! Lift your glasses up" Last Line: Of the woman that's good - god bless her! Subject(s): Women TO THE WOMEN OF EUROPE, by MURIEL NEWTON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes, between the fighting and the crying Last Line: "seek,"" said the master, ""seek, and ye shall find." Subject(s): Europe; Women TO THEE WE BOW, by INEZ LINDSEY ELLIS Poem Text First Line: You are like the soul of woman Last Line: To give man happiness. Subject(s): Beauty; Women TO THELMA WHO WORRIED BECAUSE I COULDN'T COOK, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because no man would taste you Last Line: I am a woman and %I know what to do Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Food And Eating; Hunger; Women TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! I love you Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO THOSE OF MY SISTERS WHO KEPT THEIR NATURALS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! I love you Last Line: The natural respect of self and seal! %sisters! %your hair is celebration in the world! Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Conformity; Pride TO THROW LIKE A BOY, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Despite appropriate estrogen levels Last Line: Without balls, a pussy, a woman Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TO TONY - AGED THREE (IN MEMORY T.P.C.W.), by MARJORIE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Gemmed with white daisies was the great green world Last Line: To win that heritage of peace you have. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Wilson, T.p. Cameron (1889-1918); Women And War; World War I - Casualties TO TURN FROM LOVE, by SARAH WEBSTER FABIO Poem Source First Line: No, %I cannot %turn from love Last Line: On a fresh made %bed Subject(s): African Americans - Women TO USWARD, by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us be still %as ginger jars are still Last Line: For there is joy in long dried tears %for whetted passions of a throng Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE HER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than the truth Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Women; Love; Beauty; Truth TO WHITTIER, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Text First Line: In childhood's sunny day my heart was taught to love Last Line: With condescension write for me thy name. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON ON READING HIS 'CHOSEN QUEEN', by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A loyal subject, thou, to that bright queen Last Line: Than thee, thy chosen queen shall never find %a truer subject nor a firmer friend Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879) TO WOMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman! Experience might have told me Last Line: Woman, thy vows are traced in sand.' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy TO WOMAN, by CHARLOTTE T. HILL Poem Text First Line: O woman, whither goest thou? Last Line: To the ultimate good of thy sisterhood! Subject(s): Women TO WORDSWORTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is a strain to read among the hills Last Line: Bright healthful waves flow forth, to each glad wanderer free. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) TO YEVTUSHENKO, by JUDITH BISHOP Poem Source First Line: My dove-gray brother %behaving as poets are supposed to behave Last Line: A resilience almost feminine Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny (b. 1933) TODAY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Sailing home from the barred islands today Last Line: That was enough for today and tomorrow Subject(s): Women's Rights TODAY BLACK HAIR, by ROSALIA DE CASTRO Poem Source Subject(s): Pessimism; Women's Rights TOM, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A key. The door. Open Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOMATO PACKING PLANT LINE, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bumped and rolling jovially Last Line: Which did not survive %their ripeness Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women TOMB OF THE KINGS, by ANNE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: My heart is on my fist Last Line: And turn its punctured eyeballs %toward the morning? Subject(s): Women - Abused TOMORROW, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where the falling day Last Line: And all deceive. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Lies; Women TOMORROW, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See where the falling day / in silence steals away Last Line: And all deceive. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women TONANTZIN, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: Mother %are you here %with us? Last Line: And fire of %our rebellion! Subject(s): Aztecs; Legends, Mexican; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mexico; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans; Women - Bible TORCH SONG, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Having a fling %I don't expect Last Line: It's like the flu %having a fling with you Subject(s): Women TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) TOTEM, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: How he tried to steal my words Last Line: A foaming stripped tiger becomes my totem Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Fights; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships TOTENTANTZ, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The aging scholar shuffles Last Line: Wasted lives waltzing on the new-turned turf Subject(s): Women's Rights TOUCHE, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, when we sit in that high, placid room Last Line: I knew a lad in my own girlhood's past - %blue eyes he had and such waving gold hair! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TOUCHED RELICS, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: A mother's amber necklaces and pearls Last Line: Cover where the scars follow hers Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients TOUCHSTONE, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At la guardia's touch-tone, charge-a-call phone Last Line: Imagined bodies %genuinely touching Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women TOUGH GOODBYE, by VIRGINIA BENNETT Poem Source First Line: He stood there by the windmill, and gazed out over his spread Last Line: But as he heads for his truck he knows, it'll take all he's got to do it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers TOUJOURS LES FEMMES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think it was a persian king Last Line: There was a woman in the case! Subject(s): Women TOUTOUNIER, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Even the artichoke leaves Last Line: A future that's now past Subject(s): Women's Rights TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS A WOMAN OF A MAN, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democracy! Last Line: I will conceive by thee, democracy. Subject(s): Bodies; Democracy; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, proud curve-lipped youth, with brown sensitive face Last Line: And I remain gazing into them. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. O TENDER HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tender heart of our humanity Last Line: All suffering for thy dear sake is holy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Hearts; Humanity; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Religion; Women In The Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Theology TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it Last Line: Others a sound of weeping. Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TRACKS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck Last Line: Sweeping the hills with branches Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States TRACKS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a man under the wheel of my truck Last Line: It smells of tar and sage. There is blood on the tip, %still wet Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women TRADER, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN Poem Source First Line: You'll be wanting a woman,' cavanaugh said with a laugh Subject(s): Marriage; Women TRAGEDIES: 9, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was only a woman, famish'd for loving Last Line: Grimacing and fing'ring his fiddle-strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Hearts; Musical Instruments; Women TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TRAIN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every time I take a trip Last Line: We're gone in a flash! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Commuters; Love - Complaints; Railroads; Women TRAIN RIDES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So on the first day of fall only not really because it's still early october Last Line: And this poem recognizes that Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Appalachia; Women TRAIN TO HELL, by MONIQUE BURI Poem Source First Line: A passenger at times in your trains of vice Subject(s): Women's Rights TRAITOR, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What did that girl on the playground mean Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women TRAITOR, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What did that girl on the playground mean Last Line: Nappy plaits, my skin %the same rough brown Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women TRANSCENDER OF GENDER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Three of the hebrew Last Line: Attribute %which we theologize Subject(s): Women - Bible TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY HOUSE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The house is brown, a simple framed structure Last Line: Traveling over a great distance at a spirited pace Subject(s): Angels; Churches; Heaven; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Spirituality; Women - Bible TRANSLATIONS, by MARGARET H. CARSON Poem Source First Line: She sits there on the steps and listens Last Line: But she is smiling as she falls asleep %hearing the loons' wild, eerie laughter Subject(s): Women TRANSPORT OF WOUNDED IN MESOPOTAMIA, 1917, by MARGERY LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: You who sat safe at home Last Line: And let us die! Subject(s): Women; World War I TRAUB, IN MY GRANDMA'S WORDS, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: A small village, %a few huts Last Line: Opens like a child's mouth %to the russian sky Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TRAVEL, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: With steady looks the young men are firing arrows Last Line: I think he is a frog Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged TRAVELER, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I'm a traveler, states the woman of too many days Last Line: That's the one, she says Subject(s): Homeless; Women TRAVELING, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: We have spent this trip Last Line: Hands locked for safety Subject(s): Women's Rights TREASURES ON EARTH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What no one wants. Coin by coin Last Line: Intervals — till you shut it off completely Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Absence; Transience; Relationships; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TREASURY OF EVILS IS WOMAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What god, o who was it who fashioned you, wicked woman? Last Line: Enough that this machine had been built against our walls, %human furies will make our hell Subject(s): Women TREE, by ZULUYKHA ABU-RISHA Poem Source First Line: O little brother %come let's dream together of journeying far Last Line: Alone %in the swamp Subject(s): Arabs - Women TREE MARRIAGE, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In chota nagpur and bengal Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TREES AT NIGHT, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slim sentinels %stretching lacy arms Last Line: The trembling beauty %of an urgent pine Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TRESPASSES, SELS, by NOUJOUM AL- GHANIM Poem Source First Line: I don't know how I lost my amulets Last Line: Like a stranger in a town unappealing to you Subject(s): Arabs - Women TREVISO, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: We are caught between stasis and motion Last Line: My pulse beats with the rhythm of music, of stars Subject(s): Women's Rights TRIAL, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Sarah had laughed Last Line: Did not own sarah. And sarah herself %did not own abraham. God owned them all Subject(s): Women - Bible TRIBUTE: TO THE SWEET BARD OF THE WOMAN'S CLUB, ALICE RUTH MOORE, by ELOISE BIBB THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: I peer adown a shining group Last Line: So graceful, sweet, and terse. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dunbar-nelson, Alice Ruth Nelson TRIO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say sorrow fades Last Line: And a third, who had no song. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Happiness; Women; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Feminism TRIPART, by GAYL JONES Poem Source First Line: A very friendly %prison Last Line: In a restaurant %dealing with humanity Subject(s): African Americans - Women TRIPOLI, by NADIA TUENI Poem Source First Line: This is the city of three leaves %wide as a smile Last Line: Here time at times takes the wrong road Subject(s): Arabs - Women TRIPTYCH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I got his coffee Last Line: Let everybody see Subject(s): Women's Rights TRITAMERON: THE DESCRIPTION OF SILVESTRO'S LADY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her stature like the tall straight cedar-trees Last Line: To show what nature's lineage could afford. Variant Title(s): Silvestro's Lady-love Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Appearances; Male-female Relations TRITOGENEIA RECURRENT DREAM, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Athena under water, aquamarine Last Line: Who next to sleep inside of Subject(s): Women's Rights TROMPE POEIL IN WINTER, by MARY ANN SAMYN Poem Source First Line: Everything white, the lake's cheek, turns Last Line: Beyond the moon and past the frigid stars Subject(s): Frontier And Pioneer Life; Women - Captives TROUBLE WAS MEALS, by ELIZABETH BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Dad was head of the family, for sure Last Line: And put it on the shelf next to old crow %so I could find I t when mother got old Subject(s): Women TRUE AMERICAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America, here is your son, born of your iron heel Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women TRUE MYTH, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Tell a child she is composed of parts Last Line: She is the myth that is true Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Identity; Women TRUE WOMAN, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No quaint conceit of speech Last Line: Is aye a gentle mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Women TRULY, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: Whoever has not choked on a word Subject(s): Women's Rights TRULY WISE MEN, by MARGARITA HICKEY Poem Source First Line: The truly wise men, wheresoever Subject(s): Women's Rights TRUST IN WOMEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When nettles in winter bring forth roses red Subject(s): Trust;women TRUST; NAOMI, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know if good or ill Last Line: Thou art beside me still. Subject(s): Naomi (bible); Trust; Women In The Bible TRUTH ABOUT HIGH HEELS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: She wants to be someone's protagonist Last Line: My own voice Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TRYING ON FOR SIZE, by MARY DORCEY Poem Source First Line: Capsized on the bed Last Line: You were trying on for size Subject(s): Women TRYING ON MARILYN MONROE'S SHOES, by CYNTHIA GALLAHER Poem Source First Line: I said, girl, like when did marilyn ever walk around in these? Last Line: Even after I slip those shoes off Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Shoes; Women TRYING ON SWIMSUITS WITH MOTHER: MEMORIAL DAY, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Round and round the rack I go Last Line: My length no longer fit %the curve of your young-mother's arm Subject(s): Women TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck Subject(s): Love; Singing & Singers; Women; Songs TRYING TO RAISE THE DEAD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at me. I'm standing on a deck Last Line: I'm the only one here on my knees Subject(s): Love; Singing And Singers; Women TRYING TO REMEMBER, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: A note from my friend on this morning of the first Last Line: I am trying to remember what my grandmother told me Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women TRYING TO TALK ABOUT SEX - 1, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: For days I've been thinking about sex Last Line: Everything I say bears witness against me Subject(s): Women TRYING TO TALK ABOUT SEX - 2, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Tonight all of the women, all of the men Last Line: Where nothing ravishes me but what I invent Subject(s): Women TU B'SHEVAT, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Midwinter yet it has started Last Line: Shows buds beginning %blossoms Subject(s): Jews - Women TULUM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They gathered sacred Last Line: Of the %sea Subject(s): Women's Rights TUMESCENCES, REMEMBRANCES, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: When I am old and ache and cannot see Last Line: My swelling chins and bosoms all awag %straining to keep my lovers, and my pride Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women TUMPS, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't ask him the time of day. He won't know it Last Line: We're not like the tumps. Not at all Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TUNE: HSING-HSIANG TZU (FRAGRANT WANDERING: A SONG), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: The night seems endless Last Line: The shrill cry of the geese Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: JU-MENG LING. TITLE: SWALLOWS, by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Not all the swallows have left with the spring Last Line: With a smile, I reply, 'no, you mustn't' Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Swallows; Women TUNE: K'U HSIANG-SSU (BITTER LONGING), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Dusk in the still yard, cut from the same pattern Last Line: And beyond the wall, sound after sound Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TUNE: MAN CHIANG HUANG (FULL RIVER BED), by WU TSAO Poem Source First Line: Shut the door against the setting sun Last Line: Is it still too soon for spring? Alternate Author Name(s): P'in-hsiang; Wu Zao Subject(s): Memory; Past; Women TURKOMEN WOMEN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pulled from their fathers %at night under dark veils Last Line: World they cut them %selves off from as %cut off as the dark blood strands of wool Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Variant Title(s): Marrakesh Wome Subject(s): Women TURN, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: Build cities %for time and time's seeds Last Line: Return to those cities %where events await you Subject(s): Arabs - Women TURTLE, SWAN, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the road to our house Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 1, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever in this city, screens flicker Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 12, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping, turning in turn like planets Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWENTY-ONE LOVE POEMS: 16, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across a city from you, I'm with you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my heart in my hand Last Line: But shall not question much. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women TWILIGHT ZONE, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Of course the restaurant was open Last Line: They closed down the store %and the rest of the town Subject(s): Jews - Women TWIRLING, by JANE FLANDERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring and the girls are twirling batons Last Line: Whose bodies shimmer, then dim, like lights %from a little town quickly passed over Subject(s): Women TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We two will stand in the shadow there Last Line: Thou only canst judge between the two Subject(s): Women TWO APPROCHES TO A SINGLE PROBLEM, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Can you be more specific? Last Line: With a %rusty %blade Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights TWO CZECH SCHOLARS VISIT PALOMAR: THEY OBSERVE AN AMERICAN ASTRONOMER, by DEBORAH LARSEN Poem Source First Line: When we two sisters saw the learned astronomer Last Line: At all the abstract stars Subject(s): Astronomy And Astronomers; Women TWO FISHERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One morning when spring was in her teens Last Line: A hundred-and-fifty-pounder Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;women TWO GREY HILLS, by NANCY ROXBURY KNUTSON Poem Source First Line: Sky of boundless blue Last Line: By first snow she will finish Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women TWO JAPANESE POEMS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am tired of being japanese Last Line: Anymore, that she is a puppet anyway Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Japan; Women; Japanese TWO LITTLE GIRLS, by FAWZIYYA ABU-KHALID Poem Source First Line: I hang on the hem of her dress like a child hanging Last Line: Who can solve the riddle: %which is the mother, %which is the daughter? Subject(s): Arabs - Women TWO LOVES: TO THE SPHINX, by ALFRED BRUCE DOUGLAS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed I stood upon a little hill Last Line: "I am the love that dare not speak its name." Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TWO MOTHERS, by SHANE LESLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the hill of weeping Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible TWO POEMS FOR DAVID KALSTONE: 2. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art. It cures affliction. As lights go down and Variant Title(s): Farewell Performance Subject(s): Aids (disease); Gays & Lesbians; Sickness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Illness TWO POETS BY THE LAKE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lakeshore modulated to a cove Last Line: The balked need urgent in your words, and mine. Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Writing & Writers; Pools; Ponds; Feminism TWO SINNERS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man, it was said one time Last Line: "but the world said, frowning, ""we shall not call." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Men; Repentance; Sin; Women; Penitence TWO SISTERS OF PERSEPHONE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls there are: within the house Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Full Text First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women; Estrangement; Outcasts; Writer's Conferences And Workshops TWO STANDARDS, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: Joan's one eighth. I'm a quarter Last Line: I will take that ancestral one Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Authors - Conferences And Workshops; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Women TWO TAKEN, by SCOTT HIGHTOWER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In iran, the table of allah Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Iran; Capital Punishment - Minors; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Persia TWO WOMEN, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are a snowdrop, sweet; but will Last Line: If I had kissed your prudence still Subject(s): Women TWO WOMEN, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Two faint shadows of women were ascending Last Line: Who had been withered leaf and shadow of flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Women TWO WOMEN, by NAN MINARD STENDER Poem Source First Line: Poetry unlocks poetry Last Line: Or the train willnever reach the platform Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Railroads; Women TWO YOUNG WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TYGER'S REPLY TO BLAKE, by MARY HOLTBY Poem Source First Line: Meagre, meagre, little man Last Line: Dares speculate how I began! Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights TYING ONE ON IN VIENNA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been, faithfully, to the thirty-nine birthplaces of beethoven Last Line: Hooray for purple and gold, for liquor and angels! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Vienna; Women; Women's Rights; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Feminism U NAME THIS ONE, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let uh revolution come. Uh Subject(s): African Americans - Women U NAME THIS ONE, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let uh revolution come. Uh Last Line: Let uh revolution come. %couldn't be no action like what %I dun already seen Subject(s): African Americans - Women UGLY THINGS (A SONG), by TERESITA FERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: In an old worn-out basin Subject(s): Women ULLA; OR, THE ADJURATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou'rt gone! -- thou'rt slumbering low Last Line: Shut, and grew still again. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Necromancy; Women ULTRAVIOLET, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Pinewoods at noon, the sky walking Subject(s): Rape; Women UNA JEFFERS TO HER HUSBAND, ROBINSON, by BARBARA BRENT BROWER Poem Source First Line: All those rocks piled up Last Line: And then your inhumanness %becomes superbly human Subject(s): Jeffers, Robinson (1887-1962); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My husband,' sighed the weeping wife Last Line: "sit upon the floor, and weep and wail forevermore." Subject(s): Marriage; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating UNBIND YOUR ANGERED TRESSES, SELS., by PETRONILLA PAOLINI MASSIMI Subject(s): Women's Rights UNBORN, by CAROLINE GILTINAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, full of grace thou art Last Line: These months when god is part of thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Harlow, Leo P., Mrs. Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UNCERTAINTY, by NOLANNE O'HAIR Poem Text First Line: If I had been thy mother, holy child Last Line: Have given thee as mary gave? ... O holy child... Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary UNCLE RUBE ON THE RACE PROBLEM, by CLARA ANN THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: How'd I solve de negro problum?' Last Line: Whethah folks like it or no. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry UNDER A SOPRANO SKY, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I lived on pillars in a green house Subject(s): Women; Conduct Of Life UNDER ATTACK, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: Listen. These voices are under attack Last Line: They too are denied adjustment of status %in the land of thefree. In the home of the brave Subject(s): Women UNDER THE DAYS, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days fall upon me Last Line: Who will ever find me %under the days? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Women's Rights UNDER THE DOG-STAR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The heart's veins fork and then converge Last Line: And hearts pulse separately, at last Subject(s): Women's Rights UNDER THE EDGE OF FEBRUARY, by JAYNE CORTEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your arson of alert %beautiful Subject(s): African Americans - Women UNDER THE HUNTER MOON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: I slip the rifle sling over my shoulder Last Line: Her eyes hold me accountable Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers UNDER THE MISTLETOE, by GEORGE FRANCIS SHULTS Poem Text First Line: She stood beneath the mistletoe Last Line: "you surely would have -- would have -- dared." Subject(s): Love; Mistletoe; Women UNDERESTIMATION OF POWER, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: When daddy pushed me and girlhood innocence Last Line: They underestimated my power Subject(s): Identity; Women UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER, by LINDA NOEL Poem Source First Line: You are too wild Last Line: Are laced in perfume %and dishwater suds Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Unfaithfulness UNDOING BRAIDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: After the wintered mirrors Last Line: Fires in the violent invention of your hands Subject(s): Women's Rights UNDOUBTEDLY MISS EDGEWORTH, by KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK Poem Source First Line: Yeats said that in your youth Last Line: Explanations. He helped them to bar her way Subject(s): Love; Poetry And Poets; Women; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) UNEMPLOYMENT POEM, by LORRAINE SCHEIN Poem Source First Line: I have joined the ranks of the unemployed Last Line: Our job is making the air circulate Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Unemployment; Women UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WITH HORSE, by GEORGE LOONEY Poem Source First Line: It's how birds mimic the horse's mane, strung in the dead elm Last Line: Maybe the horse is the point of this, the only thing not left Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Nature; Women UNION, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: When she combs her hair morning and evening Last Line: The dark walk back Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Mothers; Women UNION OF WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a literary gathering in santa monica Last Line: So here's to solidarity, cinquains, brave bearded ladies -- hooray! Subject(s): Beards; Hotels; Labor Unions; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Feminism UNKNOWN WARRIOR, by ELIZABETH DARYUSH Poem Source First Line: Not that broad path chose he, which whoso wills Last Line: Yea, who dares thus die, haply he may see, %suddenly, unsought immortality Subject(s): Women; World War I UNMARRIED WOMAN AT MASS, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Beneath the moses of the incense Last Line: To the whispers of the mass Subject(s): Single People; Women UNREAL PRECISION OF THE HOUSES AT FIRST LIGHT, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Memory; Women; Fathers; War UNTITLED, by MARAM MASRI Poem Source First Line: You who %often go %to disappear for long %indifferent Last Line: For I don't want to discover that you love questions %only Subject(s): Arabs - Women UNTITLED, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: On the terrace a maiden will sing Last Line: Knowing nothing Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Women UNVEILING, by HILARY SAMETZ LLOYD Poem Source First Line: Mama, lying so far down Last Line: We are bursting %out of our womb, %your grave Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women UNWANTED, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poster with my picture on it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Social Protest; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Work; Workers UNWEDDED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her there in the evening sun Last Line: You waste your pity on such as she. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Love; Marriage; Women; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UP AND DOWN: 1. SNOW KING CHAIR LIFT, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prey swooped up, the iron love seat shudders Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men UP AND DOWN: 2. THE EMERALD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearing that on sunday I would leave Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men UP IN THE ATTIC WITH THE ANTIQUE ELECTRIC ORGAN, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: I come up for the clumsy pleasure Last Line: Alarmed at our crooked pleasure, at our irresistible pain Subject(s): Women's Rights UPON HEARING OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE RECRUITED WA FAMILY TROOPS, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: The wa family is famed for extraordinary bravery Last Line: Yet for merits to record they rely on a woman general Subject(s): Women UPON HER PLAY BEING RETURNED TO HER STAINED WITH CLARET, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear wanderer, once more Last Line: For idiots, like thee and I. Subject(s): Women Writers UPON HIMSELF (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could [co'd] never love indeed Last Line: Neither broke I'th whole, or part. Subject(s): Self; Spinsters; Women; Old Maids UPON LOVE, BY WAY OF QUESTION AND ANSWER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bring ye love: quest. What will love do? Last Line: Ans. Kisse ye, to kill ye. Subject(s): Love; Women UPON SOME WOMEN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wilt not love, doe this Last Line: Onely true in shreds and stuffe. Subject(s): Misogyny; Women UPON WOMAN AND MARY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So long (it seem'd) as maries faith was small Last Line: But mary cal'd then (as s. Ambrose saith). Subject(s): Women UPPER BROADWAY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leafbud straggles forth Subject(s): Women UPPER BROADWAY, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leafbud straggles forth Last Line: I look at my face in the glass - and see %a halfborn woman Subject(s): Women UPPER PENINSULA LANDSCAPE WITH AUNTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Home from casino or fish fry Last Line: Through needles' eyes %to the shimmering kingdom of heaven Subject(s): Aunts; Family Life; Women UPPITY WOMAN IN FEBRUARY, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: She lives on a blue ridge with a wrap-around view Last Line: With more to come Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FOURTH CANTO, OR LAST QUARTER, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moone's bright throne by mulciber was built Last Line: Declare her best effects to be in you. Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Planets; Women; Zodiac URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE THIRD CANTO, OR FULL MOON, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How great and comprehendles is the minde Last Line: The session broke and the whole senat' rose. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women V, by CHARLOTTE CALMIS Poem Source First Line: O women Subject(s): Women's Rights V.A.D. SCULLERY-MAID'S SONG, by M. WINIFRED WEDGWOOD Poem Source First Line: Washing up the dishes Last Line: Which everybody hates Subject(s): Women; World War I VACATION, 1969, by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers rolling around in the big back seat Last Line: Lashed to the wheel, %america, by god, filling the car windows Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women VALLEY OF SHADOWS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: In the valley %of lengthening shadows Last Line: Risen from a new translation Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women VALOR OF VASHTI, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: What else was vashti the queen supposed to wear Last Line: Or denigrate her beautiful integrity. %he could not terminate her majesty Subject(s): Women - Bible VANCOUVER ISLAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: That dark form lies in a cumulus tower Subject(s): Fairy Tales; Rape; Women VANISHING POINT, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Who will remember after I'm dead? Last Line: And one or two scrubby hills %more rock than grass Subject(s): Old Age; Women VANISHING POINT, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: In the long line of her memory Last Line: Carry her out %into april Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VARIATION ON BELLOC'S 'FATIGUE', by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hardly ever tire of love or rhyme Last Line: That's why I'm poor and have a rotten time Subject(s): Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights VARIATIONS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Death squeals bleed %through her dreams Last Line: Harping to herself the same verse Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 33, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maids, not to you my mind doth change Last Line: My weary bosom fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VARIATIONS ON SAPPHO: 35, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gorgo, put the rug in place Last Line: Thy pride upon a ring? Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Variant Title(s): Long Ago: 35 Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Pride; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Self-esteem; Self-respect VASE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: I dream of a vase of humble and simple clay Last Line: And I'll cover you only with my endless gaze! Subject(s): Hearts; Love Affairs; Women VASES OF WOMBS, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: For a long time, %I've thought about this body of mine Last Line: I'm melted into earth and planted as a garden Subject(s): Bodies; Man-woman Relationships; Women VASHTI, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She leaned her head upon her hand Last Line: But would not bow to shame. Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights; Feminism VEGETABLE QUEEN, by BENNIE LEE SINCLAIR Poem Source First Line: Her breasts swinging Last Line: I harvest my way down the rows-- %the chill %merely her fear I dream %growing old, growing cold; %wi Subject(s): Appalachia; Women VEINS ALL DRIED UP, by FATMA KANDIL Poem Source First Line: Like any seagull in old tales I left...Alone...While friends clung to Last Line: Human pictures fell, and little by little the water's gaze widened %and widened Subject(s): Arabs - Women VENERIS DIES, by JEAN PELLERIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of sorrow and shame Last Line: Tonight ... For me. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness VENITE ADOREMUS, by MARGERY CANNON Poem Source First Line: She was the human chalice Last Line: He was the flame eternal, %he was the light Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VENUS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: I stand waist-deep in the grass, holding my infant son in my arms Last Line: As an offering, as something to shine %and give back Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children - Lost; Heaven; Mothers; Pregnancy; Women VENUS - AGHIA SOPHIA, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: Above the waves Last Line: To the universal heart of the fire Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion VENUS TRANSIENS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me / was venus more beautiful Last Line: The sands at my feet. Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Gays & Lesbians; Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men VERIFICATION OF THE POETIC TALENTS OF YOUNG MAIDENS, by SUSANNA ELIZABETH ZEIDLER Poem Source First Line: The rhapsodist cannot believe that maidens can make verse Subject(s): Women's Rights VERMONT, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Much has happened since you left Last Line: This endless night together Subject(s): Women's Rights VERONA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We plunged desires down Last Line: That still did not exist Subject(s): Women's Rights VERSES, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Madam, / since anna visited the muses' seat Last Line: What margaret tudor was, is harriet harley now. Subject(s): Muses; Oxford, England; Women; Writing & Writers VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In two large columns, on thy motley page Last Line: Wander like him, accursed through the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): A Reply To Alexander Pope Subject(s): Hate; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism VERSES FOR ALFEO FAGGI'S STATIONS OF THE CROSS: 4TH STATION, by PADRAIC COLUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus his mother meets Last Line: By us, too, be it won, %the grace that brings us revelation Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VERSES LEFT ON A LADY'S TOILETTE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will young flavia, all-accomplisht fair Last Line: Who tire with gems and silks the dazled eyes. Subject(s): Beauty; Grace; Simplicity; Vanity; Women VERSES TO MY HEART'S-SISTER, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've traveled long together Last Line: Forever and for aye! Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Women VERSES WRITTEN UNDER A PRINT, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See represented here, in light and shade Last Line: The birth of jesus in the human soul. Variant Title(s): The Salutation Of The Blessed Virgin Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary VERSES, INTRODUCED INTO AN ANSWER ... SOPHMORE CLASS DINNER, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day shall come when little's shall reveal Last Line: One the head and one the heart Subject(s): Women VERY HARD THING TO UNDERSTAND: A BLOODY HUSBAND, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: So hagar left and things calmed down. Hashem called her back. She Last Line: Let me just say that this is a very hard thing %for me to understand Subject(s): Women VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States VERY SOFTLY, by PIERA OPPEZZO Poem Source First Line: Yes %come and meet Subject(s): Women's Rights VIA SATELLITE, by MARIE W. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Half a world away I hear Last Line: Her voice again, hear her soft hello Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers VICTIM, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Then the last being fell away from my face into the blindness %of shadow Last Line: The struggle, the long cut, %not knowing why I am here Subject(s): Rape; Women VICTORIA, by RUTH MASON RICE Poem Text First Line: An oval, placid woman who assuaged men's lives Last Line: In broideries and tea. Subject(s): Women VIERGE MODERNE, by EDITH SODERGRAN Poem Source First Line: I am no woman. I am a neuter Last Line: I am fire and water, honestly combined, on free terms Subject(s): Women VIETNAM BIRTHDAY LOTTERY, 1970, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not winter still, but not Last Line: And the saved, by moonlight or streetlight %I can't remember which Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women VIGIL OF THE ASSUMPTION, by GERTRUDE VON LE FORT Poem Source First Line: The angel of the lord came in unto mary, and brought her the Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VIGIL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sword of silver cuts the fields asunder Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VIII TO PRISCILLA, by CATHERINE A. SALMONS Poem Source First Line: Priscilla, my virtuoso beautician, so skilled your hands Last Line: Of how many times we made love, and in what ways Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women VIOLET SHEEHY, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: High heat met dry timber! Fire out of control! Last Line: Stumbled onto the train that churned through the blaze Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While young john runs to greet Last Line: And had read all the sovran schemes and divine riddles there Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): Lines On A [celebrated] Picture By Leonard Subject(s): Art And Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible VIRGIN'S SMILE, by RAFAEL MARIA DE MENDIVE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Purer than the early breeze Last Line: With thy virgin smile Subject(s): Love; Smiles; Women VIRGINIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First they took off one breast Last Line: The more multiples there are. Subject(s): Death; Surgery; Women; Dead, The VIRGINIA WOOLF, ETC, by CRISTINA PERI ROSSI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights VIRGINITIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Jewell of jewells, richer far Last Line: All creatures come in virgin puritie. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virginity; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Vestals VIRIDIAN DAYS, by IRENE MCKINNEY Poem Source First Line: I was an ordinary woman, and so Last Line: Then digging in the parsley-shaggy, pungent, green Subject(s): Appalachia; Women VIRTUAL REALITY, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Then %I wore paisley Last Line: The truth, that has nothing to do %with any of this Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women VISIBLE LIE, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: Time is a visible lie Last Line: She'll swallow an egg whole, %common as a moan Subject(s): Lies; Time; Women VISIBLE WOMAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Was her name -- %that plastic model of anatomy Last Line: Thumb-pinkie-index-fore meld to raise you like wings Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Women VISION OF ST. BERNARD, by M. WHITCOMB HESS Poem Source First Line: Bernard reads late, alone; and twilight falls Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VISION: MARY CASSATT IN HER LAST YEARS, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: The pond at beaufresne in early summer holds Last Line: The staid resonances of philadelphia Subject(s): Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Old Age; Paintings And Painters; Women VISIT, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Now is the time for coyotes Last Line: But in the code of stitches %my fingers read her will %to cover all she loved, and I am covered Subject(s): Women VISIT, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS Poem Source First Line: The woman in the old-age home remembers Last Line: The daughter has nothing to say Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISIT FROM HER SON, by JULIA ERIN NUNNALLY DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: She leans over her oil heater Last Line: When them that have no business to talk %keep on talking just the same Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISIT TO BABCIA, by JOSEPH JOHN KELLY Poem Source First Line: The home where grandmothers come to rave Last Line: She's down there alive with my wife and son Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISITATION, by CALVIN LE COMPTE Poem Source First Line: To elizabeth she came Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VISITING CABBAGE EARS, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Mae jean showed me how to fake being sick. After the buses leave, you tell Last Line: Rest and an envelope full of little white pills which we threw away as soon as %we got back Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans - Women; Schools; Sickness VISITING THE NATION'S CAPITAL, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Each day I visit the mary cassatt Last Line: Of our arms, to use the hands of mothers %when our hands touch anything Subject(s): Women VISITING THE WEST BANK, by S. V. ATALLA Poem Source First Line: Once a year up the long road from jericho. Hot summer. Mothballs Last Line: In each suitcase a sachet of sorrow never unpacked Subject(s): Arabs - Women VISITOR, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: In a life narrowed to beans and rice Last Line: On a first date Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina VITAL SIGNS: BLOOD PRESSURE, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: If both arms are broken, bruised or dislocated Last Line: Laugh or chuckle or step into the hall and cry: %this patient is going to live Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women VITAL SIGNS: BOWEL MOVEMENTS, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Ask the patient if he%she has had a bowel movement Last Line: They will, of course, pick whichever is hardest for you Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women VITAL SIGNS: PULSE, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Say, 'good morning, I need your vital signs.' Last Line: For everyone to jog down to the allegheny %for a nice brisk swim before breakfast Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women VITAL SIGNS: RESPIRATIONS, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Count the number of times the chest of abdomen %rises and falls Last Line: From 1 am until 3 am, and self-hatred is scheduled %on monday mornings between 12 and 12:01 am Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women VITAL SIGNS: TEMPERATURE, by SUSAN JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Wait for the beep-beep of the probe to go off Last Line: Is to make you so miserable that you go home %and that this hospital is the best in the city Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women VOICE, by MAY MUZAFFAR Poem Source First Line: Nothing but a resonance %of your distant voice remains for me Last Line: To cross the space in the twinkling of an eye Subject(s): Arabs - Women VOICE, by LINA TIBI Poem Source First Line: Leave me to the night Last Line: Gently, bringing me closer to itself Subject(s): Arabs - Women VOICES, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon the haunted plain Last Line: The voice of opportunity. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Women VOICES, by SUMAIYA EL- SOUSY Poem Source First Line: One day, I decided to postpone believing the tale until the school bell rings Last Line: You, the other with no stories- %can we escape? Subject(s): Arabs - Women VOICES LIKE FRYING PANS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source Last Line: And all she wants is the children Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights VOIR DIRE, by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: When he phoned the next morning from another state Last Line: Could serve only those waiting %for the sentence to be handed down in the end Subject(s): Women VOLUNTEER, by HELEN PARRY EDEN Poem Source First Line: He had no heart for war, its ways and means Last Line: Should look 'you did not shield us!' as they wended across his window when the war was ended Subject(s): Women; World War I VOLUPTE, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of endless charm, whose youth is green Last Line: And goodly death. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Women; Theology VOTIVE ODE, by DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Poem Source First Line: Hail, jesus' virgin-mother ever blest Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VOTIVE TABLETS: FORUM OF WOMEN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman -- to judge man rightly -- do not scan Last Line: Each separate act; — pass judgment on the man! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Women VOW TO HEAVENLY VENUS, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We that with like hearts love,we lovers twain Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible VOX CIVITATIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what news, my neighbours of the riming trade?" Last Line: "I in my glorious sons, you in your mother. / licenced. R.L.E'strange" Subject(s): London Fire (1666);old Age;women; Great Fire Of 1666 VOYAGE, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: It is true Subject(s): Rape; Women VOYAGER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Digging my claws in sand, I crawled ashore Last Line: And know no more than he what victory was. Subject(s): Despair; Heroism; Homecoming; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WAIL OF HEIGHTS, by WAFAA' LAMRANI Poem Source First Line: I ride the heathen sea to my ache crouching in the heights; some of Last Line: My face has exhausted the treachery of day Subject(s): Arabs - Women WAIT FOR HEAVEN, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: The windows are clear because the congregation is poor Subject(s): Rape; Women WAITING, by LEONA GOM Poem Source First Line: After the meeting the women go to lunch Last Line: Is there anything more that we want Subject(s): Women's Rights WAITING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A strange old woman on the wayside sate Last Line: Then shook her head and sighed. Subject(s): Women WAITING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore dwell so sad and lonely Last Line: "waiting, watching, hoping, still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Love; Waiting; Women WAITING FOR THE BUS, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The older you get %the more deja vu there is in this world Last Line: I would have asked her more but the bus came Subject(s): Homeless; Women WAITING FOR THE NEWS OF DEATH, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: She is dying in a tiny village Last Line: Will have inched closer to the scythe Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WAITING ROOM, by MICHELLE GRANGAUD Poem Source Last Line: He picks up an apple, %a banana, and a sprig of mint Subject(s): Women - Writers WAITING ROOM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ladies in the waiting room of the atchley pavilion Last Line: Tropical design on sleeves) has lit a cigarette Subject(s): Medicine; Women WAITING ROOMS: BOSTON LYING-IN, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here women, frightened, bring their sex Last Line: Our bottoms betray us and beg for the light Subject(s): Hospitals; Women; Sex WAITING WITH NANA, by MARIE ANNE CARTIER Poem Source First Line: Now nana talks to people who are not there Last Line: I tell her she will be home for christmas %I tell her lies Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WAITRESS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever with the compasses of his eyes Subject(s): Restaurants; Waiters & Waitresses; Women; Cafes; Diners WAKING, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: Begin with a man, walking Last Line: It made out of morning Subject(s): Women WALK ON THE WATER, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chafed ocean, a chadored moon Last Line: Song without skin to hold. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Healing; Mythology - Classical; Peace; Sea; Sickness; Women's Rights; Cures; Ocean; Illness; Feminism WALKERS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that she can keep with ease Last Line: And does not know. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Women; Childhood WALKING A LOBSTER WITH BLAKE ALONG SPEEDWAY, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Goldbarth says, two hundred years earlier, blake wrote Last Line: I heard it was a langouste, but what matter %the man was unbalanced Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALKING BACK UP DEPOT STREET, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood, california (she'd been told), women travel Last Line: Without, send money, call home long distance about the heat Subject(s): Women WALKING FLOWERS AT BERLIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Under the lindens, my dear friend Last Line: Each neck, how swanlike it seems! Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Flowers; Women WALKING THROUGH A CORNFIELD IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, I STUMBLE ..., by BARBARA HARR Poem Source First Line: Blue toads are dying all over minnesota Last Line: Blazing into magazines under my feet Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WALLPAPERING TO PATSY CLINE, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: We're here to cover the cracks Last Line: Think of them as pyramids, homes to hold us %forever, a woman at each angle Subject(s): Women WALLS, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: There's nothing beyond my windows! Last Line: It all, as I grow old Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WALT WHITMAN ENCOUNTERS THE COSMOS WITH THE CATS OF NEW YORK, by GAIL WHITE Poem Source First Line: The cats of morning awaken, sultry and feral Last Line: Because my people are watching Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Women's Rights WANDA GAG, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: When father died, the neighbors told her Last Line: Supported by her artist's pen Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WANT, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source First Line: I want to take down with my hands Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WANT, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wants a house full of cups and the ghosts Subject(s): Relationships; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WANT OF YOU, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hint of gold where the moon will be Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WANTING TO AIR HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT AND PROVE HIS RESPECT ..., by H. E. WEICHMANN Poem Source First Line: What miracle is this! I almost blush, I know it Subject(s): Women's Rights; Writing And Writers WANTING TO ANSWER MR. DARMANN'S UNDESERVED CIVILITY, by H. E. WEICHMANN Poem Source First Line: What miracle is this! What! I should blush, I know it Subject(s): Women's Rights; Writing And Writers WANTS, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We women want too many things Last Line: And only ask for rest. Subject(s): Desire; Women WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WAR CRY: TO MARY, by LEO XIII Poem Source First Line: When warfare blusters at high lucifer's command Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WAR FILM, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw, %with a catch of the breath and the heart's uplifting Last Line: He thought it was a game %and laughed, and laughed Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Women; World War I WAR GIRLS, by JESSIE POPE Poem Source First Line: There's the girl who clips your ticket for the train Last Line: Till the khaki soldier boys come marching back Subject(s): Women; World War I WAR OF 1793, by DIODATA SALUZZO Poem Source First Line: Dark, dark is the night, now it wholly Subject(s): Women's Rights WARDROBES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: He insists on Last Line: With no language Subject(s): Women's Rights WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Full Text First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women WARNING, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: When I am an old woman I shall wear purple Last Line: So people who know me are too shocked and surprised %when suddenly I am old and start to wear purple Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Aging; Time; Women WARNING, by URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Come down from your heights Subject(s): Women's Rights WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WARNING, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: She sits in my lap Last Line: Is truly the scary part? Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WARSAW CAROUSEL, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Just outside the ghetto wall Last Line: Inside the wall, our children die %outside the music plays Subject(s): Jews - Women WARTS, by LESLIE ADRIENNE MILLER Poem Source First Line: I grew a big one on my thumb. At first Last Line: Or girl enough to be loved %could ever grew Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women WAS HE HENPECKED?, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what it is, my dear Last Line: Said mrs. Dorking wisely. Subject(s): Marriage; Men; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WAS IT, by JUDITH HALL Poem Source First Line: Because of too much sun Last Line: How regressive these desires Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Mothers And Daughters; Women Patients WASTE LAND LIMERICKS: 5, by WENDY COPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No water. Dry rocks and dry throats Last Line: I hope you'll make sense of the notes Subject(s): Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives WATCHING A CHILD WATCHING A WITCH, by JENNIFER JOSEPH Poem Source First Line: Don't think it won't come to you Alternate Author Name(s): Coles, Tony, Mrs.; Joseph, Jenny Subject(s): Women WATCHING THE STUFF ON THE NEWS, by EDITH RYLANDER Poem Source First Line: Watching the stuff on the news Last Line: Something will make it Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WATER SONGS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A disconnected connection Last Line: And everything is alright Variant Title(s): March Water Songs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Grief; Reality; Singing And Singers; Tears WATERLILY TRADITION, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: The women are singing in the patisserie Last Line: It is my waterlily tradition Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WAXING AND WANING, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Because the moon's breath rustles leaves Last Line: She lies awake at night wondering which nova is her child Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WAY I WAS, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: You who seemed my enemy Last Line: When I %gave up on you Subject(s): Women - Bible WAY IT IS, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: At all times, in all parts of the world Last Line: And for the lovesick one, the one overcome by lust Subject(s): Women WAY IT IS, by GLORIA CATHERINE ODEN Poem Source First Line: I have always known Last Line: I am so pleased with myself Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Children WAY IT WAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mornings %I got up early Last Line: Not touching %trying to be white Subject(s): African Americans - Women WE ALL STOOD TOGETHER, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: My brother and I were at sinai Last Line: If we remember it together %we could recreate holy time %sparks flying Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ALSO DIED,' SAYS NANA, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Bare as nana's palms lined only with her bad fortune Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WE ARE, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: We are not tintypes of %great-grandmothers Last Line: Jewish women %not yet ourselves Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ARE MANY, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Who have a home Last Line: Who never light the dazzling candle of our lives Subject(s): Women's Rights WE AS WOMEN, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a cry in the air about us Last Line: We shall lift the world indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism WE MOTHERS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rock into the heart of the world %the melody of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WE MUST FREE OURSELVES TODAY, by IDA VALLERUGO Poem Source First Line: The paternal house has collapsed Subject(s): Women's Rights WE TALKED AS GIRLS DO, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before another night Variant Title(s): Poem: 586; Poem: 39 Subject(s): Women WE WOMEN, by KLARA MULLER-JAHNKE Poem Source First Line: The spring moon it is that brings the buds Subject(s): Women's Rights WEANING TIME, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: She rides with the men as morning sun Last Line: Beginning to fill the empty corral Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WEATHER, by CECILIA WOLOCH Poem Source First Line: There is this thread which is really nothing Last Line: You can't move forward, %some death has your heart Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Women WEATHER FORECAST, by VIVIAN LAMARQUE Poem Source First Line: Over all regions of italy I predict Subject(s): Women's Rights WEAVING, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stands before her loom Last Line: "thy sister's keeper know thou art!" Subject(s): Life; Nature; Weaving & Weavers; Women WEDDASE MARYAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now we will write the praises of our lady, and mother Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WEDDED BLISS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come and be my mate!' said the eagle to the hen Last Line: And the clam sucked, the salmon swam, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism WEDDING VOWS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Driving home for the wedding Last Line: Long after the braid was gone Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WEEKENDS AT THE WHITE HOUSE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The president is spending Last Line: And the childmind has easy choices Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WEEPER (2), by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, sister springs! Last Line: Crown'd heads are toyes. We goe to meet %a worthy object, our lord's feet Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible WEEPING PLACE, by DARCY GOTTLIEB Poem Source First Line: Her self Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women WEIGHT, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: A naked body hangs by its fists from a meathook Last Line: Someone rigs the torchposts %flares them up Subject(s): Women's Rights WELCOME THE GUEST AND HER FAMILY!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHA FE CALL I', by VALERIE BLOOM Poem Source First Line: Miss ivy, tell me supmn Subject(s): Women WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO, by JOSEPH HEITHAUS Poem Source First Line: You can see her, hair down, sipping a coke Last Line: Their legs loose and lifeless in air Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WHAT A NURSE TOLD ME, by JACK T. LEDBETTER Poem Source First Line: On tuesdays my mother woke early Last Line: And smelled the hot grain frying %in the sun Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WHAT ARE BIG GIRLS MADE OF?, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The construction of a woman: Subject(s): Women WHAT BLISS, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Now close under a vanishing ceiling Subject(s): Women - Writers WHAT COMES OF WINTER, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: Mornings, breaking one last Last Line: That comes of winter mornings, breaking Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women WHAT COULD HAPPEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noon. A stale saturday. The hills Last Line: Beyond that shadowy nest of red madrones. Subject(s): Decay; Driving & Drivers; Towns; Women; Rot; Decadence WHAT DO I CARE FOR MORNING, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Night is here, yielding and tender- %what do I care for dawn! Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WHAT DO I SEE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very little snail Last Line: Listen to them frfom here Subject(s): Women; Language; Nature WHAT DO I SEE, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A very little snail Last Line: You did not have an answer. %here. %yes Subject(s): Women WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT?, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We read the same books as children - kipling Last Line: Line, gathering my way before the salty wind. Subject(s): Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Travel; Women; Journeys; Trips WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little boys are able Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Women WHAT GRANDPA SAW, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Every fourth of july Last Line: How to see inside my mark Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHAT HAPPY WOMEN FEEL, by S. X. ROSENSTOCK Poem Source First Line: I now pull down, from off my collarbones Last Line: And I do suffer this virginity %as old souls enter fetuses, finally Subject(s): Reproductive System; Women WHAT I HEARD, by JUNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: You have bid me speak Last Line: Oh, you'd be surprised what I heard Subject(s): Lowell, Robert (1917-1977); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT I KNOW, WHAT I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO KNOW, by BARBARA LAU Poem Source First Line: If I could hide in the folds of your skirt, just listening Last Line: First on your neck, then mine Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women WHAT I LEARNED IN GIRL SCOUTS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: A clove hitch will hold Last Line: And a noose Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT IF?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if we hadn't women's clothes to laugh at? Last Line: Absurd, divine, kaleidoscopic woman! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women WHAT INTEREST HAVE YOU, WORLD, IN PERSECUTING ME, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Love; Women's Rights WHAT IS A SYMBOL?, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird is flying north across the white sky Last Line: Sit down Subject(s): Fear; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pregnancy; Women WHAT IS A WOMAN LIKE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A woman is like to - but stay Subject(s): Flies;love;women WHAT IS IT MAKES ONE GIRL, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More lovely than all others Last Line: And shines the light of love Subject(s): Women WHAT IS NOT MINE, by HAMDA KHAMEES Poem Source First Line: Whatever exists is now %is not mine Last Line: The splendor %and this universe %are mine! Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHAT IS THE USE?, by STOKELY S. FISHER Poem Text First Line: Why ask her to choose between morals and style? Last Line: With prudish contentions why vex her? Subject(s): Women WHAT IS THERE, by DIANE SEUSS-BRAKEMAN Poem Source First Line: What is there to remember? Last Line: All summer, hard-assed %and full of poison? Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women WHAT IS THERE FOR US?, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source Last Line: Today is our own Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Daughters WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE FOR CERTAIN WIVES TO READ THEIR WELL-KNOWN HUSBAN, by YVETTE CARBEAUX Poem Source First Line: A man lusts after his wife's young cousin Last Line: Any raw material that good Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WHAT KEEPS US ALIVE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Is someone who knew you Last Line: I'll see you again Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ancestors And Ancestry; Family Life; Memory WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT NOW?, by SANDRA KOHLER Poem Source First Line: The season is changing Last Line: And the long cadences of morning %release me? Subject(s): Women WHAT REWARD?, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave your life, boy Last Line: O god, for such a sacrifice %say, what reward for him? Subject(s): Insanity; Women; World War I WHAT SOFT, CHERUBIC CREATURES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be so — ashamed of thee Subject(s): Women WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT THE MEN TALK ABOUT WHEN THE WOMEN LEAVE THE ROOM: STIEGLITZ, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The room itself. The women. The absence of women Last Line: Each dream is an afterimage of a woman leaving Subject(s): Stieglitz, Alfred (1864-1946); Women WHAT THE MEN TALK ABOUT WHEN WOMEN LEAVE THE ROOM: SCOTT FITZGERALD, by DIONISIO D. MARTINEZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night he was talking about living Last Line: A woman who talks to the dead in her sleep Subject(s): Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940); Women WHAT THE MIRROR SAID, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, / you a wonder Last Line: Damn / body! Subject(s): Self; Women WHAT THE MIRROR SAID, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, %you a wonder Last Line: Damn %body! Subject(s): Self; Women WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT TO WEAR, by ANGELA BALL Poem Source First Line: Wear some things over darkness Last Line: Wear something worn first %by a wolf Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Women WHAT WAS IN A NAME, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thomas love peacock! Thomas love peacock! Last Line: I hail the three-in-one, the one-in-three. Subject(s): Names; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism WHAT WAS NOT CONCEIVABLE, by FATIMA MAHMOUD Poem Source First Line: In harmony %we entered the climate of water %in harmony with the law Last Line: Blood is %our secret ink, %blood %our aged fire Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND, by ELMAZ ABINADER Poem Source First Line: Winter pushes into my room. I waken Last Line: I leave thumbprint and palm, and the map %to my destiny in their stead Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHAT WE LEAVE OUR CHILDREN WE GIVE THEM NOW, by NORLA CHEE Poem Source First Line: We talk our women's stories for awhile by the fire Last Line: For awhile just let it be like that Subject(s): Children; Women WHAT WE SAID THE LIGHT SAID, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mystery moves in god-like ways Subject(s): God; Mystery; Saxophones; Women WHAT WOMEN WANT, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More women have done this than you can imagine Last Line: I have kissed, whose legs I have parted %in search of who I could taste, love Subject(s): Women WHAT WOULD I DO WHITE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That would be enough Subject(s): African American - Women WHAT'LL THE NEIGHBOURS SAY? (SONG), by SANDRA KERR Poem Source First Line: Once I loved a sailor, who often enjoyed my charms Subject(s): Women WHAT'S A NICE GIRL DOING?, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Do you come here often? Last Line: What's a nice girl doing? Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHAT'S LEFT AFTER A GOOD WOMAN DIES?, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: After her death, the silence chills Last Line: This dream of relief. These icicles %nothing in this house warms Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WHEEL OF FORTUNE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Wheel of time flashing %back to jitterbug toes Last Line: Best sorghum in spring hollow Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women WHEN COWBOYS CRY, by JUDY BLUNT Poem Source First Line: In a nearly shadowed corner Last Line: For chrissake, among friends, then where Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN FAT WOMEN FEAR FAMINE, by BRENDA J. MOOSSY Poem Source First Line: When fat women fear famine %they arrange their canned goods Last Line: They know the pain of the gnawing heart, %the ache of the hollow bone Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHEN I DIE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, I want only to handle me in the chevra kadisha Last Line: On my life, that's what I want in my death, in my life, on my life Subject(s): Women WHEN I DRINK I BECOME THE JOY OF FAGGOTS, by DOROTHY ALLISON Poet's Biography First Line: When I drink I become Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHEN I HIRED A TEACHER TO INSTRUCT THE GIRLS, SOMEONE RIDICULED ME ..., by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: Since first the primal forces were discrete Last Line: Take your complaint to the worthy men of old Subject(s): Women WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I TOUCHED HER LONG FEET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I quit eating Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Admiration; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Women WHEN I WAS AN EGGSHELL, by SUZANNE OWENS Poem Source First Line: The garden earth too hard to dig Last Line: And watched me eat from a bowl on the floor Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Justice; Murder; Prisons And Prisoners; Trials; Women - Captives WHEN I WAS AT MY MOST BEAUTIFUL, by IBARAKI NORIKO Poem Source Last Line: Who painted his most beautiful works in his old age %if I could Subject(s): Women WHEN I WAS TEN, AT NIGHT, by MARY ANN WATERS Poem Source First Line: While the family slept, unable to stay with them inside Last Line: Thing inside the bottle, and for my unaccountable thirst Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women WHEN MAMA CAME HERE AS A GOLD PANNER, by JANA HARRIS Poem Source Last Line: Spread so thin she felt like glass Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women WHEN MEMORY IS A GARDENIA IN YOUR STEPMOTHER'S HAIR, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: You'd like to hear her voice again, sympathetic Last Line: Is the first and last stepflower on earth Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women WHEN ON YOUR WAY, MESSENGER, by UNKNOWN+171 Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN ONE GETS THERE, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: The piece keeps on sliding. One is inside Subject(s): Women - Writers WHEN THE GROOM APPEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing glorified and adorned songs Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN THE WONEN HUDDLE, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Seated amid the unmarrieds Last Line: We let it fall %between Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHEN VAN MORRISON SANG, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Tupelo honey %wouldn't we all turn to satin inside Last Line: Make a man sing like that? Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Morrison, Van (b. 1945); Women WHEN WORDS FIRST SPOKE TO ME, by PEGGY SIMSON CURRY Poem Source First Line: When words first spoke to me -- Last Line: Hemorrhagic septicemia hemorrhagic septicemia Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE FOR A LONG TIME, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: He has planned this road trip for no reason Last Line: When she lives, utterly complete, without him Subject(s): Women WHEN YOU PLAY IN THE UNDERTOW, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: At orr's beach after the farthest rock Subject(s): Rape; Women WHEN YOU READ THIS POEM, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The earth turns %like a rainbow Subject(s): African Americans - Women WHEN YOU THOUGHT ME POOR, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Poverty; Success WHERE DO I LOVE YOU, LOVELY MAID?, by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP Poem Source Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WHERE I AM NOW, SELS, by BARBARA SMITH Poem Source First Line: I would rather be with you again Last Line: And I would be there, waiting Subject(s): Appalachia; Women WHERE I'VE BEEN ALL MY LIFE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sirs, in our youth you love the sight of us Last Line: Come die with me in the mosques of rotterdam. Subject(s): China; Ethnic Identity; Identity; Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Self-consciousness; Travel; Women; Women's Rights; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips; Feminism WHERE WILL YOU BE?, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Full Text First Line: Boots are being polished Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Gays & Lesbians; Women's Rights; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Feminism WHERE WILL YOU BE?, by PATRICIA PARKER Poem Source First Line: Boots are being polished Last Line: And where will you be %when they come? Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Pat Subject(s): African American Lesbians; African Americans - Women; Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHERE YOU ARE: 1, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flung to your salt parameters in all that wide gleam Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 2. EVERYWHERE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I'd lost you. But you said I'm inbued Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHERE YOU ARE: 3. VAN GOGH, FLOWERING ROSEBUSHES: 1889, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A billow of attention Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WHILE YOU, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights WHISPER, by MONA FAYAD Poem Source First Line: A whisper is a sibilant thing %sliding from the throat Last Line: Is echo's words. %this time, they are heard Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHISTLE, DAUGHTER, WHISTLE (SONG), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother, I long to get married Last Line: Of my virginity Subject(s): Women WHITE HORSES, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: I'm surprised to see the woman of too many days %reading the paper Last Line: Just a funny thought that crossed her mind Subject(s): Homeless; Women WHITE IRIS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: When my lord condemned her to death Last Line: Women are braver creatures now. Subject(s): Courage; Daughters; Pain; Women; Valor; Bravery; Suffering; Misery WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lies I could tell Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lies I could tell Last Line: Thinking they'd work %from the inside out Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping WHITE NIGHTS, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: All afternoon in a kind of exile Last Line: Release its haunted score Subject(s): Women's Rights WHITE RAYS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: See how the tapering tops of birches Last Line: In ourselves, studying the tops of birches Subject(s): Women's Rights WHITE STEPS, by MARY MOSES MUNDT Poem Text First Line: At night old women sit on their white steps Last Line: But now you sit—perhaps god meant it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Mundt, Mrs. Karl E. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Women; Youth WHITE WHALE SPEAKS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Whatever gave that hollow-faced fisherman Last Line: On the points they hone for others Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights WHITE, PILLARED NECK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White, pillared neck; a brow to make men quake Last Line: All—save her soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Soul; Women WHITE-HOT BLIZZARD, by IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA Poem Source Subject(s): Women WHITENESS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Fragrance of spikenard Last Line: In the dark corridors Subject(s): Women WHO IS MY BROTHER?, by PINKIE GORDON LANE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, your face %is showing Last Line: Go wipe your feet in ashes %the sun has always been red Subject(s): African Americans - Women WHO LOOKS AFTER YOUR KIDS, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT Poem Source First Line: Who looks after your kids while you work Last Line: My senile old grandmother. The wicked witch %of the west Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Women WHO SAID IT WAS SIMPLE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are so many roots to the tree of anger Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WHO SEPARATED ME?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHO YOU LOVE? WHO YOU LOVE?, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: How even what I loved belongs to me Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WHOLE SELF, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I think of the long history of the self Last Line: And I was there, waving, and I would be there at the other end Subject(s): Arabs - Women WHOLING, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Everyday we practice warfare Last Line: I bleed new futures Subject(s): African Americans - Women WHOM THE NEW MOON MOCKS, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: The sky unfolds a starry cover Last Line: Above the young leaf and the lover. Subject(s): Moon; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible WHOSE HAND RESTRAIN?, by LINDA BARNES BRYAN Poem Text First Line: Is there no memory hidden deep Last Line: Whose hand restrain the coiling whips? Subject(s): Women WHOSO LIST TO HUNT, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: I will not live for you and so I die Last Line: Draw closer in, a noose of yellow eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542) WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE A POET?, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: My mouth jammed %full of peanut butter Last Line: And a cigarette in the morning Subject(s): Identity; Women WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL HESTER PRYNNE?, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity him up to his waist in middle age Last Line: "gabriel told me to." Subject(s): Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary WHY DO WE LOVE THESE THINGS WHICH WE CALL WOMEN, by BENJAMIN RUDYERD Poem Source Last Line: And if he did, for those I truly mourn, %because they died b wefore that I was born Subject(s): Women WHY DO YOU FEEL DIFFERENTLY, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you feel differently about a very little snail and a big one Subject(s): Women WHY DO YOU FEEL DIFFERENTLY, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you feel differently about a very little snail and a big one Last Line: To be pleased and to please Subject(s): Women WHY DON'T THE MEN PROPOSE?, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't the men propose, mamma? Last Line: Why won't the men propose? Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHY I DO NOT CARE, by BETH PIRSCH Poem Text First Line: My outside self is just as homely Last Line: To show my happiness. Subject(s): Indifference; Simplicity; Women WHY I LIKE MOVIES, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: I like movies because %people get to mug their faces in movies Last Line: Time turns away %a revolution terrified of the dark Subject(s): African Americans - Women WHY I UNDERSTAND WORLD LITERATURE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Nipple-length %tresses %auburn-dyed Last Line: He-she does spin Subject(s): Jews - Women WHY I'M NOT SOMEONE ELSE, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: This is an old story Last Line: You going up in the elevator, %while I'm going down Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Women WHY PEOPLE MOVE, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Harriet lived next door to my mother Last Line: Much more than anyone would ever ask him to Subject(s): Women WHY SHE WANTS TO BE SAND, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: Sand keeps the sun, each grain a tiny oven Last Line: On a new shape every time the sea changes tides. %he will not know me Subject(s): Rape; Women WHY SHOULD I BE WITH A HUSBAND BOUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights WHY WE NEED A SINGLES CAR POOL NETWORK, by SAM PEABODY Poem Source First Line: It took over an hour to drive home tonight and still Last Line: Her smooth leg resting on mine at night, or the spring pruning %of my unchecked privacy Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Relationships; Traffic; Women WHY?, by MELBA JOYCE BOYD Poem Source First Line: Katherine %is warm Last Line: And why %do teardrops %dry in %the pockets %of my %cracked %smile? Subject(s): African Americans - Women WIDOW, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: They lived happily ever after Last Line: I've been preparing for years Subject(s): Women's Rights WIDOW, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Death is not a striding reaper Last Line: Now let my day begin! Subject(s): Jews - Women WIDOW, by ALYCE PICKELSIMER NADEAU Poem Source First Line: The old dear had fished all his life Last Line: Then...That's it for today!' Subject(s): Family Life - North Carolina; Women - North Carolina WIDOW BEDOTT TO ELDER SNIFFLER, by FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER Poem Text First Line: O reverend sir, I do declare Last Line: Priscilla pool bedott. Subject(s): Sickness; Women; Illness WIDOW MALONE, by CHARLES JAMES LEVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the widow malone Last Line: O, they're all like sweet mistress malone! Subject(s): Courtship; Widows & Widowers; Women WIDOW OLSON, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: So we passed this neat little ranch Last Line: A day's ride ahead Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS Poem Source First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me? Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare? Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War WIFE OF LOT, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: The wife of lot turned into a pillar of salt Last Line: And enslaved %and also, locked out Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights WIFE OF NOAH COMFORTS THE YOUNG BRIDE OF THEIR SON, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Come to the corner where it's warm. We'll chat Last Line: We'll be the reason for everything after the rain Subject(s): Women WIFE OF THE MAN OF MANY WILES, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Believe what you want to. Believe that I wove Last Line: That never arrived. Kill all the damn suitors %if you think it will make you feel better Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights WILD ONE GOES, by JENNIFER OLDS Poem Source First Line: A spavined mare limps out Last Line: Though, christ, the skies are clear Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers WILD ROSES, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: What! Roses growing in a meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WILD ROSES AND MYRRH, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie ocean rolled away Last Line: To line the manger bed. Subject(s): Convents; Nuns; Religion; Sisters; Women; Theology WILDFLOWERS, by PAMELA MARIE USCHUK Poem Source First Line: I arrange cornflowers, brown-eyed susans Last Line: I'll see you again in the clouds %when the wind stops Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WILDSISTERS BAR, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: How do you operate a jackhammer if Last Line: The face greeting us at the door %falling off its hinges Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Music, Rock; Women's Rights WILDWOOD FLOWER, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I hoe thawed ground %with a vengeance. Winter has left Last Line: To be grateful for whatever comes to me Subject(s): Appalachia; Women WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: I went to the last Last Line: Dead last Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dancing And Dancers; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Labor And Laborers; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers WILLOWS, by JOANNA RAWSON Poem Source First Line: We go by the eddying place in beachwear Last Line: To devour their weight in leaves Subject(s): Women's Rights WILMA RUDOLPH, by ANN WHITFORD PAUL Poem Source First Line: One leg was bent; her foot turned in Last Line: She ran %and ran %and ran Subject(s): Courage; Girls; Heroism; Women - Heroes WIMIN'S WORK, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She wan't like ede er kate er them Last Line: Up ter the day she died. Subject(s): African Americans - Women WIND AND WOMEN, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adam and eve in the garden Last Line: "a ...Cross..." Subject(s): Wind; Women WIND BLOWS, by MAE V. COWDERY Poem Source Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women WIND ON THE DOWNS, by MARIAN ALLEN Poem Source First Line: I like to think of you as brown and tall Last Line: And when I leave the meadow, almosty wait %that you should open first the wooden gate Subject(s): Women; World War I WINDOW, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Women; Dead, The WINDOW, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Last Line: To let the darkness pour in Subject(s): Death; Mothers; Women WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 / until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madrid, 1934 %until a shepherd boy from orihuela Last Line: Had not heard a nightingale Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales; Wings; Women WING TEE WEE, by J. P. DENISON Poem Text First Line: Oh, wing tee wee / was a sweet chinee Last Line: And the maids are false, -- as everywhere. Subject(s): China; Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming & Swimmers; United States - Race Relations WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Last Line: Under the company symbol, a white foot %sprouting two small wings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming; U.s. - Race Relations WINGS FOR HER HORSES, by LINDA KAY Poem Source First Line: Feet, quickly now! Don't hesitate! Last Line: Where can an old woman find wings for her horses? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WINNING ON THE BLACK, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silence is so complete he can hear Subject(s): Memory; Women WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Full Text First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism WINNING THE PRIZE, by PENNY CAGAN Poem Source First Line: There he is one morning when I open my door Last Line: A soft voice in the ear asking what it would be like Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WINTER GARDEN, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: The day you gave birth Last Line: On my way home Subject(s): Women's Rights WINTER IN THE PLAZA DE MAYO, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As if in a prism Last Line: Plaza de mayo Subject(s): Women's Rights WINTER ON THE BEACHES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You come, alarmed and naked Last Line: Sick %child Subject(s): Women's Rights WINTER SONG, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I go on, tediously on and on... Last Line: Who made the days and years seem worth enduring. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Loss; Love; Solitude; Women; Women's Rights; Loneliness; Feminism WISDOM, by APOCRYPHA BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For she is a vapour %of the power of god Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WISDOM: EULOGY OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy Last Line: And she governs the whole world for its good Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISDOM: SOLOMON'S LOVE FOR WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth Last Line: What is more wealthy than wisdom whose work is everywhere? Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISE WOMAN OF TEKOA OFFERS PEACE PROPOSAL TO KING DAVID, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Why let the vicious circle still revolve - Last Line: You who would spare my son for god's sake %spare yours and make this a peaceable kingdom Subject(s): Women - Bible WISH, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: Feeling dark and exotic Last Line: Wan face, the first star %make a wish Subject(s): Women WISHES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes; Negroes; American Blacks WISHES, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of pacing the petty round of the ring of the thing Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Wishes WIT AND WISDOM OF MIDWIVES, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The story of exodus and liberation Last Line: Of enabling his persecuted people %to steal away Subject(s): Women - Bible WITCH, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: I shall see justice done Last Line: By the light of my long burning %I shall see justice done Subject(s): Women WITCH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a girl by nilus stream Last Line: Who judged - the wench knows far too much - %and hanged her on the salem green? Subject(s): Women WITCH, by JEAN TEPPERMAN Poem Source First Line: They told me Subject(s): Women WITCH WIFE AND I, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: When the moon has poured her light Last Line: Day has brought you back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITCH!, by IRENE K. WILSON Poem Source Last Line: Banging her door Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WITH ALL THY GIFTS AMERICA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mothers fit for thee? Subject(s): United States; Women WITH CHAOS IN EACH KISS, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outside your door, an ocean Subject(s): Love; Music & Musicians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITH CHILD, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Pregnancy; Women WITH CHILD, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun Last Line: Defiant even now, it tugs and moans %to be untangled from these mother's bones Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Pregnancy; Women WITH ELEANOR NEAR THE END OF A MINUS TIDE, by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: The moon has allowed %us this walk Last Line: Where we were %and where the water will be Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WITH MARTHA AT GIG HARBOR, by SHEILA BENDER Poem Source First Line: God gives every woman just one sister really Last Line: Like our friendship shaking itself dry, %putting the air back in its wings Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Women WITH NO IMMEDIATE CAUSE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every 3 minutes a woman is beaten Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Subject(s): Women - Abused; Wife Beating WITH RESPECT FOR DISTANCE, by GAILMARIE PAHMEIER Poem Source First Line: Before I pull into the parking lot Last Line: He was a quiet man who could make things run Subject(s): Women WITH THE PEAR, by JOSEE LAPEYERE Poem Source Last Line: Air its whiteness turns reddish Subject(s): Women - Writers WITHERED WOMAN, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: A withered woman on our street Last Line: Made holy by the silent weeping for half-forgotten things. Subject(s): Old Age; Women WITHIN A BUDDING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich %in %expletive %surprise Last Line: Pent up for inking %the windswept ruin Subject(s): Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989); Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Women - Writers WITNESS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gathers quiet around her Last Line: The truths we know Subject(s): Women; Truth WITNESS, by HELGA OSSWALD Poem Source First Line: I don't see Subject(s): Women's Rights WIVES OF WATERGATE: A CAUTION: KATHARINE GRAHAM, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: How did I get my power, such as it is? Last Line: It's not a moral business, not political Subject(s): Women WIVES OF WATERGATE: SAVING HISTORY: ROSE MARY WOODS, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Secretaries need their sleep as much Last Line: I swear. It's gone - what I tried to save Subject(s): Women WIVES OF WATERGATE: SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING: TRICIA NIXON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I do not unnecessarily smile Last Line: Would win. To grow up is a real disaster Subject(s): Women WIVES OF WATERGATE: THE ACCOUNT: MARTHA MITCHELL, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: No, I didn't want to go to town Last Line: No more. I'm signing off. I don't need it Subject(s): Women WIVES OF WATERGATE: THE PLAY'S THE THING: PAT NIXON, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: I met richard nixon at a play Last Line: The play has dulled me. But I still go on Subject(s): Women WIZARD, by MARY I. CUFFE Poem Source First Line: The hobbler is always saying %how he's fed up with the system Last Line: But he's just an old fool with a broom %who can't find his shoes Subject(s): Homeless; Women WO/MEN, by CHIQUI VICIOSO Poem Source First Line: Wo/men draped in black Last Line: Iron women, rock women Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Farm Life; Women WOMAN, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Where her house stood, she goes on living Last Line: To the fire of her breast Subject(s): Absence; Solitude; Women WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When eve brought woe to all mankind Last Line: The women are so full of whims / that men pronounce them 'wimmen!' Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by HIRA BANSODE Poem Source First Line: She, the river Last Line: And merging %with me Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Poem Source First Line: Woman, supple frame Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN, by JANE CHAMBERS Poem Source First Line: I am caught up in her Last Line: Acorss the room Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: We're but the shadows of these women suns Last Line: We'll find our certain master in a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What highest prize hath woman won Last Line: Her advent yet to come? Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: If I were a man, in what a wealth of moon Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: If I were a man, I'd have all the moonlight Last Line: How deeply I resent I am I woman! Subject(s): Wanderers And Wandering; Women WOMAN, by FU HSUAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sad it is to be a woman Last Line: Than they whose parting is like ts'an and ch'en. Alternate Author Name(s): Hsiu-i; Fu Xuan Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Women WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood WOMAN, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest and loveliest of created things Last Line: As thine original glory was more bright! Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unselfish, silent potently Last Line: Into another's entity! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by VALENTE NGWENYA MALANGATANA Poem Source First Line: In the cool waters of the river Last Line: And woman's glance shall watch me %as I go up to heaven Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by RAFAEL POMBO Poem Source First Line: Happy he that has succeeded in finding his womanly Last Line: And your mother, and if I am lost-alas for you!' Subject(s): Love; Women WOMAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall she come down and on our level stand Last Line: Forever bend above us as we rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So beautiful - god himself qualied Last Line: With their desire, and you shall bleed for them in return Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Women WOMAN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give us that grand word 'woman' once again Last Line: And leave the lesser word for lesser praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Language; Women; Words; Vocabulary WOMAN, by VIRGINIA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Woman: %descendant of gaea Last Line: The joy of revealing the magic %of living with love Subject(s): Love; Women WOMAN, by YOSHIHARA SACHIKO Poem Source First Line: White darkness Subject(s): Women WOMAN ALL CAUSE RUE, by PALLADAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Woman all %cause rue Last Line: In bed %& dead Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Women WOMAN AND FAME, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast a charmed cup, o fame Last Line: Not unto thee, oh! Not to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Fame; Women; Reputation WOMAN AND LEOPARD, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although she was beautiful Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Leopards; Zoos WOMAN AT FORTY, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Are burning as they retreat Subject(s): Women WOMAN BATHING, REMBRANDT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Freed from shelling peas and shucking oysters Last Line: Is all I've wanted, all I'll ever need Subject(s): Love - Marital; Women WOMAN BEHIND YOU, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: I start with each part removed Last Line: Don't know where water ends, sky begins Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, by JOHN THE EVANGELIST Poem Source First Line: And a great sign appeared in heaven Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WOMAN DREAMING OF ESCAPE', by ELISE PASCHEN Poem Source First Line: The 22-year-old-italian Last Line: Of stars, I shoot through exit doors Subject(s): Women WOMAN FROM THE LUMBEE TRIBE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: The indian woman sits in her chair Last Line: I don't know who I am Subject(s): Women WOMAN FROM THE NORTH, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: See: these are tokens of mountains Last Line: The gnarled %and beautiful %feet Subject(s): Women WOMAN HOLDING A FOX, by DAVID YEZZI Poem Source First Line: Buried inside, page three, below the fold Last Line: Up to a time when memories of these no longer serve Subject(s): Foxes; Women WOMAN IN FRONT OF POSTER OF HERSELF, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said I shouldn't. Subject(s): Women; Self; Faces; Love WOMAN IN LOVE 1, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: It's easy to be a slave Last Line: From soul searching Subject(s): Identity; Women WOMAN IN LOVE 2, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: She was my shelter Last Line: Is that too much to ask for Subject(s): Identity; Women WOMAN INTO MAN, by SUSAN WALLBANK Poem Source First Line: I who have bred only daughters Subject(s): Women WOMAN IS OF MAN THE BEST, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That sometimes cures, and sometimes kills Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints; Women WOMAN LOCKED IN A MEMORIAL MUSEUM, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her lips remain sealed as the walled south face Last Line: Comes finally to rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Women - Captives WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate / rumor of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN ME, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your smile, delicate %rumor of peace Last Line: A stomp of feet, a bevy of swift hands Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN MOVING WITH YOU IN COITUS, by VERENA STEFAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sex; Women's Rights WOMAN OF PARTS, by BONNIE JACOBSON Poem Source First Line: Cher %is famous for her hair Last Line: And voice and brains and legs and hips Subject(s): Stars; Women WOMAN OF VALOR, WHO CAN FIND?, by RENEE ALFANDARY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time in concord, california, there lived a woman of valor with Last Line: A man of valor, who can find? Subject(s): Jews - Women WOMAN ON THE DANCE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The woman the woman the woman on the dance Last Line: Nothing to sustain %them nothing Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Hips; Women WOMAN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle and lovely form Last Line: Pours on the dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Women WOMAN PLANTING SWEET POTATOES, by BETHANY REID Poem Source First Line: At eleven, I worried Last Line: And over her shoulder, the new moon %rocking the ghost of the old in her arms Subject(s): Birth; Children; Memory; Women WOMAN POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see, my whole life %is tied up %to happiness Last Line: For real thing %I %know Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN POET, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy - washing out poems Subject(s): Women; Women's Rights WOMAN POET, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: You hold me now like a frightened little bird Last Line: You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel? Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights WOMAN PRIDE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of his life she will go quietly Last Line: So softly she will go—in woman pride! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMAN SITTING AT THE MACHINE, THINKING, SELS., by KAREN BRODINE Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Printing And Printers; Women WOMAN STOPS AT NOTHING, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: A woman stops at nothing, when she wears Last Line: Is it a face, ursidius, or a sore? Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Women WOMAN THING, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hunters are back from beating the winter's face Last Line: Meanwhile the womanthing my mother taught me %bakes off its covering of snow %like a rising blackeni Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers & Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO CHILD, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who were darkness warmed my flesh Last Line: I am the stem that fed the fruit, %the link that joins you to the night Subject(s): Life Change Events; Mothers And Daughters; Pregnancy; Women WOMAN TO LOVER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fire / stilled to water Last Line: I am the way to die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares WOMAN UNDISCOVERED, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: I too am a continent Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN WALKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An oblique cloud of purple smoke Last Line: I might well see you oftener. Subject(s): Country Life; Women; Desire WOMAN WHO FLEW, by ANN BECKERMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm fodder for tabloid, talk show, a weirdo Last Line: I flew in circles inside my room Subject(s): Flight; Women WOMAN WHO PLANNED YEARS AHEAD, by PAULA ADAMS NELSON Poem Source First Line: The letter explained nothing Last Line: The notes that said she loved them Subject(s): Letters; Women WOMAN WHO THINKS SHE'S IN LOVE WITH MY HUSBAND, by AMBER COVERDALE SUMRALL Poem Source First Line: She whispers %into the black Last Line: What I'm missing Subject(s): Absence; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Women WOMAN WITH A FULL TANK, by THOM WARD Poem Source First Line: Of super unleaded cares little Last Line: Can't predict her next move Subject(s): Automobiles; Gasoline; Women WOMAN WITH LIGHTS IN HER HEAD, by BETTY BEDELL Poem Source First Line: Did not learn to cook %as a young girl Last Line: To the lights in my head. %they let her go Subject(s): Light; Women WOMAN WITH THE EMPTY BOWL, by MONIKA LEE Poem Source First Line: She has an empty bowl Last Line: That hands are empty bowls %even as they clasp Subject(s): Bowls; Women WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women; Work; Workers WOMAN WORK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the children to tend Last Line: You're all that I can call my own Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WOMAN WRAPPED IN SILENCE, by JOHN W. LYNCH Poem Source First Line: A little girl Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible WOMAN!, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Place the white man on afric's coast Last Line: And care they soothe and age they cheer. Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S BARTER, by TAMMY MAE CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: The doctor gave her Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women WOMAN'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now thou hast loved me one whole day Last Line: For by tomorrow, I may think so too. Variant Title(s): He Ironizes About Woman's Constancy Subject(s): Fidelity; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy WOMAN'S CONSTANCY, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There never yet was woman made Last Line: Till all their sweets are gone, and all again refuse them. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Women; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WOMAN'S FAITH, FR. THE BETROTHED, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman's faith, and woman's trust Last Line: And I believed them again ere night. Variant Title(s): Faith In Unfaithfulness Subject(s): Faith; Love; Trust; Women; Belief; Creed WOMAN'S FUTURE, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Complacent they tell us, hard hearts and derisive Last Line: The poets, the sages, the seers of the land Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN'S HARD FATE, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: How wretched is a woman's fate Last Line: "to a slave's fetters add a slavish mind, / that I may cheerfully your will obey" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism WOMAN'S HOME, by FAYE MOSKOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Spring has come to the baptist home Last Line: Forgive this fumbling guest %who tenderly disturbs your dust%to buy herself a past Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WOMAN'S HONOUR, by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love bade me hope, and I obeyed Last Line: In women, mean distrustful shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S ISSUE, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman in the spiked device Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S LABOUR. EPISTLE TO MR. STEPHEN DUCK, by MARY COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Immortal bard! Thou fav'rite of the nine! Last Line: Their sordid owners already reap the gains, %and poorly recompense their toils and pains Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN'S LOVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: They told me of her history - her love Last Line: Was as a home. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Women; Sorrow; Sadness WOMAN'S RIGHTS, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is her right, to bind with warmest ties Last Line: That that which god ordains is surely right Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN'S SHADOW, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: What you implanted in my marrow I translate into a language Last Line: I know my home will be there, where you mark off the wild garden Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Women WOMAN'S SONG, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: The land is cold and its men gather earth for no reason Last Line: I am diamonane, beloved %daughter, bird child of obsidian and serpent. I am the %egg, the sperm Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMAN'S SONG, by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Kind kettle on my hearth Last Line: In eternity's solitude, %pray for me Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S STRENGTH, by ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: You ought to be stronger than I, dear Last Line: My strength, do you see? If you touched me, %might melt into tears Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S WAY, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Aye, that's our woman's way. We lean our faith Last Line: Well, I'm a woman—and we're very weak ... Subject(s): Women WOMAN'S WILL, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men dying make their wills - but wives Last Line: The gentle dames have had? Subject(s): Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOMAN, SONG AND SEASON, by WALTER L. ROOSA Poem Text First Line: No more songs of summer to me! Last Line: And run its way. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Mothers; Women; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning after the crucifixion Subject(s): Women WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU WEEPING?, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning after the crucifixion Last Line: Of the black oarsman on the oars Subject(s): Women WOMAN, YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE FOREST, by MARIA WINE Poem Source Last Line: You are afraid of yourself Subject(s): Women WOMAN-BY-THE-DAY, by BERENICE RICE Poem Text First Line: Kneel, woman, with brush in your hand Last Line: Your children need bread. Subject(s): Women WOMAN; A FRAGMENT, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a frame, more glorious than the gem Last Line: Why let the docile darling have -- her way! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Subject(s): Freedom; Love; Memory; Truth; Women; Liberty WOMAN; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a bold theme have I in hand Last Line: Else what a case were his, and thine, and mine? Subject(s): Women WOMAN; WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF AN UNKNOWN LADY, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, although we have not met Last Line: A poet's immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Women WOMANHOOD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMANHOOD, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By airs aeolian wooed, so softly sweet Last Line: Holds something sacred, from the world apart. Subject(s): Hearts; Women WOMANKIND, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear things! We would not have you learn too much Last Line: Sure aid to blind obedience and devotion Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Subject(s): Women WOMANLY SONG OF GOD, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: I am the woman dancing the world alive Last Line: Why cannot one of them be %woman singing? Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion WOMANSPLACE, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed Last Line: I laugh %and know how much I %won't be seen. %that's %what I dreamed Subject(s): Native Americans - Women WOMANWORK, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some make potteries %some weave and spin Last Line: For bowls %for food growing %for bodies %eating %at drink %thank her Subject(s): Native Americans - Women WOMB, by GABRIEL FERRATER Poem Source First Line: She's been here several hours now Last Line: The boundaries of my land Subject(s): Boundaries; Women WOMB SONG, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: This is the most ridiculous womb! Last Line: And a voice saying, not that case, %take this Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Women have no wilderness in them Last Line: They should let it go by. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sad truth, yet 'tis a truth Last Line: Her heart asks love that's human! Subject(s): Love; Women WOMEN, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How dreary and lone Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How dreary and how lone Last Line: Woman, - sweet woman, - let none say %nay! Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: When goldin first arrived at elmhurst, the women had Last Line: His eyes Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Women WOMEN, by ZAKIYYA MALALLAH Poem Source First Line: She picks me %and reconstitutes my colors Last Line: Do not give birth today; %sterility is becoming such a giant Subject(s): Arabs - Women WOMEN, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a girlie (if one I needs must meet) Last Line: Is to enjoy their ashes, or their fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: If you take them to the ball game Last Line: The contradictory fish! Subject(s): Baseball; Contrariness; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Women; Male-female Relations WOMEN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some women herd such little things - a box Last Line: They plunge and leap, yet somehow miss the dark. Subject(s): Love; Women WOMEN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My three sisters are sitting Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My three sisters are sitting Last Line: Her stockings are torn but she is beautiful Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women should be pedestals Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women should be pedestals Last Line: Women %should be %pedestals %to men Subject(s): Women WOMEN, by CARLO VILLA Poem Source First Line: My ideal woman %must not have women friends or confidants Subject(s): Women WOMEN (3), by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were women then Variant Title(s): Women Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMEN (3), by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They were women then Last Line: Of it %themselves Variant Title(s): Wome Subject(s): African Americans - Women WOMEN AGE-MATES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The new pot asked the old Last Line: They are all age-mates, alas! Subject(s): Igede (african People); Innocence; Women WOMEN AND DOG, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: In bonnard's miniature oil painting, 16 x 12 inches Last Line: You can go anywhere in, that make you feel good Subject(s): Animals; Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947); Dogs; Paintings And Painters; Women WOMEN AND ORCHARDS, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: An orchard in the valley Last Line: Comforted -- like me. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Orchards; Women WOMEN AT FORTY, by KATHLEEN BOGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at forty %have learned to open Last Line: Raising no hope %of a miraculous return Subject(s): Justice, Donald (b. 1925); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights WOMEN AT MUNITION MAKING, by MARY GABRIELLE COLLINS Poem Source First Line: Their hands should minister unto the flame of life Last Line: Must it anew be sacrificed on earth? Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN AT THE GYM, by SIOBHAN REAGAN Poem Source First Line: Women at the gym, you are beautiful Last Line: And leave politely pendant in a neutral shroud Subject(s): Beauty; Women WOMEN AT THIRTY; A THEME AFTER DONALD JUSTICE, by MICHELE WOLF Poem Source First Line: Women at thirty %have been long familiar Last Line: The way it comes and then it goes %like the tick of a clock Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WOMEN DO NOT WANT IT, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the woman suffrage argument first stood upon its legs Last Line: When he himself admits the right of what we ask today? Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism WOMEN IN LABOR, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Women who lie alone at midnight Subject(s): Women WOMEN IN THE SAUNA, by CAROL ANN RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Lie renoir's 'large bathers' they are Last Line: As the women move %close enough to take turns %pinning up their dampened hair Subject(s): Renoir, Jean (1894-19979); Saunas; Women WOMEN LAUGHING, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gurges, genderless Last Line: Hooting grossly, without explanation Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Women WOMEN MEN'S SHADOWS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Follow a shadow, it still flies you Last Line: Styled but the shadows of us men! Variant Title(s): Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows;the Shadow Subject(s): Courtship; Shadows; Women WOMEN OF ALL THE AGES, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: Ancestral and still fraternal Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMEN OF DAN DANCE WITH SWORDS IN THEIR HANDS ..., by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not fall from the sky Last Line: What is already dead Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Africa; Women WOMEN OF RUBENS, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giantesses, female fauna Last Line: Mount rides into the seething alcove Subject(s): Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Women WOMEN OF SULI, by THEONI DRACOPOULU Poem Source First Line: Ah! You who wakened in my child's soul Last Line: But on the peak there blooms a single lily to honor %the last suli woman, foam of your fragrance Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Women WOMEN OF THE BATHS, by JOYCE ODAM Poem Source First Line: These women are not to be trusted Last Line: Other than how, for awhile, you may amuse them Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Women WOMEN OF TODAY, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You women of today who fear so much Last Line: The thing you are! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism WOMEN OF WAR, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Women, who lust for blood and harbor hate Last Line: Pity the fruit of your unhallowed seed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Women; Dead, The WOMEN ON THE ROAD TO PINE GAP, by WENDY POUSSARD Poem Source First Line: Australia's best-kept dead-end road Subject(s): Women WOMEN ON TRAINS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving the known [or my sisters] for another city Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Women WOMEN ON TRAINS, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving the known [or my sisters] for another city Last Line: Both you and I %are free to go Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Women WOMEN PLANTING CORN, by JUDY RAY Poem Source First Line: Against brown hills in buttock curve Last Line: The basket-loads, the pegs, the shaking out Subject(s): Corn; Women WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women; Half-brothers WOMEN THEY COULD KILL FOR, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers laughing about it now Last Line: Clawing on a beer-wet linoleum floor Subject(s): Brothers; Fights; Jealousy; Women WOMEN TO MEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: God bless you, lads! Subject(s): Women; World War I WOMEN USELESSE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What need we marry women, when Last Line: Have we of women or their seed? Subject(s): Women WOMEN WHO ARE POETS IN MY LAND, by BLAGA DIMITROVA Poem Source First Line: When I think of them Last Line: Centuries of silence %crying to come out Subject(s): Clams; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights WOMEN WHO DREAM OF MEN, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: When I was leaving my first husband Last Line: Bringing nothing to the surface %on its sharp tooth Subject(s): Women WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOOD, MEN WHOSE LIVES ARE MONEY, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-morning monday she is staring Last Line: Simple, terrible, routine %at peace Variant Title(s): Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Mone Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Women WOMEN WILL KNOW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My tears ran down Last Line: But women will know the answer well! Subject(s): Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect WOMEN WITH GARDENIA, by PAMELA WHITE HADAS Poem Source First Line: Breda, as usual, has struck a tricky pose Last Line: She hands her languid gardenia to me Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S AEROBICS CLASS, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: I say I exercise %to keep my heart in shape Last Line: The mound that love, %departed, left Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S BROADCAST, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: Someday I'll announce on the radio Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMEN'S COMMITTEE, by LEONA GOM Poem Source First Line: Two men come to our meeting Last Line: Papers, the flat hunger %of type Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S DAY SONG, by UNKNOWN+289 Poem Source First Line: Celebrate our women in campaigns Last Line: To celebrate freedom %and to honour women's day Subject(s): South Africa - Anti-apartheid Movement; Women WOMEN'S DEATH, by MODESTA DAL POZZO Poem Source First Line: Women in every age by nature were Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMEN'S DEGREES, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A tangled web indeed we weave %when adam grants degrees to eve Last Line: And much I doubt, had eve first had 'em, %if she'd have done as much for adam Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S LONGING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what is that only thing Last Line: For they know not how to use it. Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S LOVELINESS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women's loveliness, their frailty, and those pale hands Last Line: And what in truth, remains, when death has come our way? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Love WOMEN'S PROGRAM, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: I give a talk on the radio Last Line: Don't be too sure %that god loves you Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMEN'S ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: Covered with rags and cardboard and nothing Last Line: Carrying away its cargo of men Subject(s): Homeless; Lavatories; Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Women WOMEN'S SUPERSTITION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or I'm a very dunce, or woman-kinde Last Line: The hearts of men they sacrifice. Subject(s): Women WOMEN'S TALK, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The women go one by one aliyah Last Line: Skipping with your syllables %down the centuries of womne Subject(s): Jews - Women WOMEN'S TIME, FR. CASSANDRA, by FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Poem Source First Line: Yet I would spare no pang Last Line: The earlier it will bless Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Women And Religion; Women's Rights WOMEN'S WAR THOUGHTS, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake, o woman! Last Line: Made this war, I wonder! Subject(s): Mothers; War; Women WOMEN'S WARD, by GENOA MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In ordered groups they sit Last Line: "lost!" Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Women; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long. Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism WON'T YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: And has failed Subject(s): African American – Women; Racism; Perseverance WONDROUS THE MERGE, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had my soul tottered off to sleep Subject(s): Desire; Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WOODCUTTING ON LOST MOUNTAIN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father is three months dead Last Line: Is where you are Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women; Southwest; Pacific States WOODCUTTING ON LOST MOUNTAIN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our father is three months dead Last Line: Here, walk for yourself. We're home' Subject(s): West (u.s.); Women WOODS, by PAMELA SNEED Poem Source First Line: Too far to turn back Last Line: Far from where I was Subject(s): Identity; Women WOODWORM, by ERMINA FUA FUSINATO Poem Source First Line: Two full years went by, and in this room Subject(s): Women's Rights WOOLWORTH LUNCH, by DENISE BERGMAN Poem Source First Line: Liver & onions & eggs Last Line: No weather and certainly %no news Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WORD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You called it screwing, what we did nights Last Line: To each other-a thin cry, unwinding Subject(s): Love; Women WORD FROM MRS. WALLACE STEVENS, by SIMA RABINOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Nothing grotesque or accidental as the day begins Last Line: And an eager needle plucked the plump white flesh of my thumb Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Women's Rights WORD MADE FLESH, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I looked up the words Last Line: In his corazon and my body Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women WORD TO THE WIVES, by MAUREEN CANNON Poem Source First Line: For better, worse, but not for lunch' Last Line: May go elsewhere for their dinners Subject(s): Food And Eating; Women WORDS FOR A SONG, by HELEN NEVILLE Poem Source First Line: I do not mind Last Line: In a language I cannot hope to understand %and all the beautiful marble columns broken Subject(s): Jews - Women WORDS FOR ALICE AFTER HER DEATH, by ANGELA PECKENPAUGH Poem Source First Line: It came by surpise Last Line: The touch is %weak but gentle, and full of apology Subject(s): Women WORDS FOR DELMIRA AGUSTINI, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: You are dead and your body, beneath a uruguayan cloak Subject(s): Women's Rights WORDS FOR JAZZ PERHAPS: TO BESSIE SMITH, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bring from chattanooga tennessee Last Line: Each longed-for holiday, each terminal Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) WORDS FOR THE UNKNOW MAKERS: A BLESSING OF WOMEN, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless zeruah higley guernsey of castleton Last Line: Hubbub jubilantly turning to greet one another the tumult %of sister Subject(s): Women WORDS NEVER SPOKEN, by DORIS VANDERLIPP MANLEY Poem Source First Line: Walking through the city I saw the young girls Last Line: With the effort of making a soul Subject(s): Women WORK OF HER THAT WENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By fires of the sun Variant Title(s): Poem: 1143; Poem: 115 Subject(s): Mothers; Mothers And Daughters; Women WORKAHOLIC, by NADIA HAZBOUN REIMER Poem Source First Line: My hands are smooth, the grooves- %just wrinkles from age, thin skin veils Last Line: Some day by victims of haste, %just like I once used to be Subject(s): Arabs - Women WORKING IN THE GARDEN, by ELIZABETH COX GILLILAND Poem Source First Line: I crosshatch the shadow of bud Last Line: And dying has been arranged for retreat %from the larger world of cities and cars Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WORKING THE CLAY, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: She is demonstrating an ancient way to make pots Last Line: By sunrise the embers are grey, the jar done Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women WORKING-CLASS WOMAN, by LOUISE COLET Poem Source First Line: A tribune on the public square harangued Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Women's Rights WORLD IS A WEDDING, by ADELE NE JAME Poem Source First Line: After a supper of roasted lamb and eggplant, %fish baked with tahini and lemon Last Line: 10-foot blowups of movie stars %heroes on the marquee, the crowd passing by Subject(s): Arabs - Women WORLD'S BLISS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men & women sang & played Subject(s): Women Writers; Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The WORRY DOLLS FROM THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: From among sharks' teeth, dinosaurs Last Line: Let them whisper %to their matchstick dolls. %let the telling be enough Subject(s): Women WORSE THINGS THAN DIVORCE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: I was helping dancey lift his wife april by her ears into the sky Last Line: Just as if dancey were here, saying, 'lo, it is I...Everything is ok.' Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WOULD YOU LIKE A TOMATO, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: Would you like a tomato Last Line: Would you like a tomato Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged WRAPPED SONGS, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The wind sings in a smaller Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women WRINKLES, by JUDITH MICKEL SORNBERGER Poem Source First Line: On a line under one eye Last Line: That, at twenty, I never could have heard Subject(s): Aging; Women; Wrinkles WRINKLY LADY DANCER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to be an old wrinkly lady dancer Last Line: The afternoon! I danced! Naked with you! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Women; Wrinkles WRINKLY LADY DANCER, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to be an old wrinkly lady dancer Last Line: The afternoon! I danced! Naked with you! Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Women; Wrinkles WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM AT CLIFTON, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I racked my brains for rhymes to please Last Line: Forgive, and shut these pages up for ever. Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Longing; Poetry & Poets; Story-telling; Travel; Women; Reading; Clemency; Journeys; Trips WYKHAMIST, by NORA GRIFFITHS Poem Source First Line: In the wake of the yellow sunset one pale star Last Line: Pass with the others down the twilit street Subject(s): Women; World War I Y.M.C.A., by C. A. L. T. Poem Source First Line: Oh monday night's the night for me! Last Line: Oh tommy atkins! Brave and true - %I humbly thank god for you Subject(s): Women; World War I YARD, ONE'S GOT TO CROSS IT, by LESLIE KAPLAN Poem Source Last Line: Ah yes those were the days Subject(s): Women - Writers YELLOW CLOVER, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must I, who walk alone Last Line: Only white cover blossoms on your grave. Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YELLOW DOT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God does what she wants. She has very large Last Line: A rembrandt drawing if you put it down Subject(s): God; Women YELLOW FLOWERS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: For the tombs %of the nameless Subject(s): Death; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Flowers; Graves; Human Rights - Argentina; Solitude; Women YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and / governments? Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and %governments? Last Line: Part of the difference between floating and going down Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors And Authorship; Poetry And Poets YES TO THE EARTH, by RINA FACCIO Poem Source First Line: So shines the earth in certain mornings' light Subject(s): Women's Rights YES, I AM AN AFRICAN WOMAN, by NILENE O. A. FOXWORTH Poem Source Subject(s): Women YES, I KNOW, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I know I am not Last Line: Like / this one Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Poetry & Poets YES, IT WAS MY GRANDMOTHER, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source Last Line: Grandma, and it is wild and untrained Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers YET STILL, by RASHIDAH ISMAILI Poem Source First Line: I have been encouraged to wait %outside the door Last Line: Your door opens slowly %I am waiting Subject(s): Women YIDDISH, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: On the second anniversary of liberation Last Line: Lithuanian learned from my father %it didn't matter Subject(s): Jews - Women; Lithuania; Yiddish YIN 87, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dangarees and silk Last Line: In them braids, too healthy for me Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Girls YOLANDA OF CYPRUS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the balm, the balm Last Line: Pity should be as strong as love or death Subject(s): Castles; Death; Love; Marriage; Plays And Playwrights; Women YORKSHIRE WIFE'S SAGA, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: War was her life, with want and the wild air Last Line: Sit by the fire and cuddle little lass Subject(s): Women YOSOM, by BLU GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: Yeshiva handsome: %a hooked nose Last Line: Straightened his hat Subject(s): Jews - Women YOU ARE LIKE AN EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP, by LAUREL O. HOYE Poem Source Last Line: You are like you and I love you Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women YOU ASK, by LISA QUINLAN Poem Source First Line: If I was lonely %as a little girl Last Line: Full of invisible tea Subject(s): Ranch Life; Women - Writers YOU DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS ETERNAL? THERE', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her faint heart flowers, an anemone Subject(s): Future Life; Women YOU ENLARGE ON NEAR AND DISTANT, by BIANCAMARIA FRABOTTA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights YOU HAVE SWORN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?', by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was shy and tender as a 10 year old kid, you know what I'm saying? Last Line: She was nice to me a scared gay kid at eastside high , you know what I'm saying? / allen ginsberg Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU LOVE, YOU WONDER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You love a woman and you wonder where she goes all night Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love - Nature Of; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOU MADE IT RAIN, LADY, by RUBY C. SAUNDERS Poem Source Last Line: Because of you, madame moon %it rains Subject(s): African Americans - Women YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States YOU OPENED A DOOR, by MARIANNA FIORE Poem Source First Line: I don't know how to say why Subject(s): Women's Rights YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR ART, by ANNE PORTUGAL Poem Source Last Line: You really know your art you Subject(s): Women - Writers YOU REMEMBER THE DEFINITIONS, NOT THE WORDS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the first grand month of passion %and wild hope Last Line: The poems of our trying %to talk ourselves in love Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; Women YOU REMEMBER, ALYOSHA, THE ROADS OF SMOLENSK PROVINCE, by KONSTANTIN SIMENOV Poem Source Last Line: And proud that russian women farewelled us rpudly %with threefold kisses, in the russian way Subject(s): Russia; Women; World War Ii YOU SAY AT YOUR FEET I WEPT IN DESPAIR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and not yet concluded! Have conscience, my dear!" Subject(s): Women YOU SING A LITTLE SONG OR TWO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "ain't that a hell of an evening / for a great big, healthy man!" Subject(s): Women YOU WERE A STRANGER, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: Whethr from justice or from kindnes let Last Line: Lest you in your own luxury forget %you were a stranger you were in distres Subject(s): Women - Bible YOU WILL BE HEARING FROM US SHORTLY, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You feel adequate to the demands of this position? Last Line: So glad we agree Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Prejudice; Women YOU WOMEN, by STEFAN FRA HVITADAL Poem Source Subject(s): Women YOU WOULD HAVE ME IMMACULATE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights YOU, RUTH, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: You, ruth, who knew you could not stand to stay Last Line: Encounter compassion in some foreign face, %by god's grace gain an inheritance as did ruth? Subject(s): Women - Bible YOU. THEREFORE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are like me, you will die too, but not today: Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mortality; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men YOUNG CHILD ASKS / 'ARE YOU AN OLD LADY?', by GERI BARTON Poem Source Last Line: Autumn nightfall Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women YOUNG MARY, by CELIA HOMESLEY Poem Source First Line: A woman in wait in her garden Last Line: Summer will bring the child Subject(s): Children; Gardens And Gardening; Women YOUNG WOMAN, A TREE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life spills over, some days Last Line: Cold slime, %as deep as that Subject(s): Trees; Women; Youth YOUNG WOMEN LEAVE HOME, by RIFKA FINGERHUT Poem Source First Line: When young women leave home Last Line: Young ones loving one another with the skills their mothers taught them Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUR HANDS, by JOAN SWIFT Poem Source First Line: I was grass you fell upon %that morning, quick as a storm Last Line: Still unmapped, the palm's fate %curving along my face Subject(s): Rape; Women YOUR IMAGE IS LIKE A TENDER BRANCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUR SOUL, by ALEJANDRO GUANES Poem Source First Line: If the eye is a mirror that reflects the soul, then the women Last Line: Let me, in delirium, see your soul in a kiss! Subject(s): Deception; Ethnic Identity; Paraguay; Women YOUR WORLD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your world is as big as you make it Last Line: With rapture, with power, with ease! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women YULE, by PENELOPE DIANE SHUTTLE Poem Source First Line: On the tall green tree we have hung Last Line: Here is your tree, here are your children, reine soleil, %give us your gifts Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women - Middle Aged Z IS FOR ZANY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Why does a woman change her moods? Last Line: This woman's love is now my rod! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Women ZAPHNA OF BATUSHKOFF, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The storm is over; from the rifting blue Last Line: The stream will sweep no more with foam and blare. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Love; Women ZEN LAUNDRY, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: Mornings, pulled earthward, I approach Last Line: Go now and wash your socks Subject(s): Appalachia; Women ZEPPELINS, by NANCY CUNARD Poem Source First Line: I saw the people climbing up the street Last Line: But in the morning men began again %to mock death following in bitter pain Subject(s): Women; World War I ZIP-DOOR JOHNNY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He'd stand out in the Last Line: His sometimes %pissass %ways Subject(s): Jews - Women ZODIAC, by PHYLLIS HOGE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: The sun's in cancer when the woman comes Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Women ZOOOOOOOM; A FAMILIAR STORY: DROP-OFF/PICK-UP PANIC, by DEB CASEY Poem Source First Line: Zooom: morning frenzy, the held-breath beginning each work day Last Line: Car and belted and grinning, or grumbling (whatever), drive.Sing. (what's in the fridge?) shift Subject(s): Women ZULU GIRL, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her breasts %naked, the soft Last Line: Deeply - she stands %in the wild grasses Subject(s): Women; Zulus ZULU GIRL (TO F.C. SLATER), by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When in the sun the hot red acres smoulder Last Line: Or the first cloud so terrible and still %that bears the coming harvest in its breast Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Life Change Events; Women; Zulus |
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