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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOMEN'S RIGHTS Matches Found: 1140 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 AGAIN EVERYTHING HAS GONE QUITE WELL, by GABRIELLE WOHMANN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 AMAZONS, SELS., by MARIE-ANNE DU BOCCAGE Poem Source First Line: Theseus: wil you never view us without distrust Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 ANCESTRAL WEIGHT, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: You told me my father never wept Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ANSWER IN VERSE FOR SOMEONE STUDYING IN INGOLSTADT ..., by ARGULA VON GRUMBACH Poem Source First Line: Verses against argula Subject(s): Women's Rights 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-CUPID, by CATHARINA REGINA VON GREIFFENBERG Poem Source First Line: That ruthless little tyrant can trifle, flirt, and fling Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 AS THE BOTANIST, by MARIELLA BETTARINI Poem Source First Line: Bounced from class to class, I hug the walls Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PASSAGE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: Upon the deep ocean a schooner is lying Subject(s): Women's Rights BIRDS NEST IN MY ARMS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 BONFIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: My head Last Line: Wash my %hair Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BUENOS AIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: In this city Last Line: Loving you Subject(s): Women's Rights 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) 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 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 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 CANINE MOTHER, by DACIA MARAINI Poem Source First Line: Canine fingers, mother, wife, ox Subject(s): Women's Rights CARIBE HILTON, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The night, a swirl of city Last Line: Other voice Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 CELEBRATION OF KNIVES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: So unafraid Last Line: Dreams, %desires Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 CHALLENGE, by ADA NEGRI Poem Source First Line: Oh fat world of crafty bourgeois Subject(s): Women's Rights CHANGE OF COLOR, by KATHINKA ZITZ-HALEIN Poem Source First Line: Why do you always dress in gray Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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'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 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 CHOICES, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: I never chose birth Last Line: Let's celebrate %together Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 COLGATE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Some day, we'll end up Last Line: Two colgates Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 COMMON COLD, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: Kiler koolaid on ice Last Line: Blood %on %hands Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights 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 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 CONFESSION, by LOUISE OTTO-PETERS Poem Source First Line: And since I was silent and lived in chaste timidity Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 COOKING THE RICE, by ANGELIKA MECHTEL Poem Source Subject(s): Housewives; Women's Rights 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 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 COUNTRY ZONES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: A hand Last Line: Zone of %silence Subject(s): Women's Rights COUPLETS, by NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Poem Source First Line: You asked me for a love poem Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 DACTYLIC HEART THAT IN ME IS A REBEL, by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 DANCE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Only children believe Last Line: Like the poppies of adonis Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 ROOM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Eager, wicked Last Line: The dark room Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 DEATH OF POETRY, by LIVIA CANDIANI Poem Source First Line: Sweet poems Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights 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 DECISION, by CAMILLE BELOT Poem Source First Line: Having heard the defense and the prosecution ...' Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 DEFICIENCY, by UTE ERB Poem Source First Line: When I am alone, no one tells me who I am Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 DELIVERANCE OF ORGOS, by ADELAIDE-GILLETTE DUFRESNOY Poem Source First Line: In days of old, a woman emulating tyrtheus Subject(s): Women's Rights DESCENT, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: We met two men Last Line: To their wives Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights DESIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Desire, %a gentle Last Line: In the skin Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 DOLL, by MARGARETE BEUTLER Poem Source First Line: Dear doll Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 DRINKING SONG, by LOUISE-GENEVIEVE DE SAINCTONGE Poem Source First Line: Friend, it's your fate to follow love Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 EGO, by ANNIE VIVANTI Poem Source First Line: O world, you old customs officer Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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) 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 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 EVE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: As you dream Last Line: Remorselessly Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 EVERY DAY, by INGEBORG BACHMANN Poem Source First Line: War is no longer declared Subject(s): Women's Rights EVERYTHING IS VERY SIMPLE, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: Everything is very simple much Subject(s): Women's Rights EVILDOER, by GABRIELLE WOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Someone is upset Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 FAMILIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: We burn in the memory Last Line: Single body? Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 FIRES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Like a weave enmeshed Last Line: Into its ashes Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 ODE, by MADELEINE DES ROCHES Poem Source First Line: If my works are not visibly engraved Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 FLIRTATION, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: The wordless voice Last Line: Are worth %the wait Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights 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 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 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 ALL, by LOUISE OTTO-PETERS Poem Source First Line: For all! We hear the words resound Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 THE CHRISTIAN READER, by ANNA OWENA HOYERS Poem Source First Line: This book, by a woman writ Subject(s): Women's Rights FOR WOMEN, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: You judge severely moral values, fehme Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 OUTSIDE COMES THE ADEQUATE CAUSE, by GIULIA NICCOLAI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 FUTURE GENERATIONS, by MARGARETE BEUTLER Poem Source First Line: Under a layer of soot and sand - a playground Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 AND SPENDING, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights; Property; Feminism; Possessions 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 GIRL WARRIOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One fine day an old man Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 GOD, OUR LADY, SELS., by CONCHA MICHEL Poem Source First Line: Woman, mother of man Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 GREAT FEAR, by PIERA OPPEZZO Poem Source First Line: The history of my self Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 HALVES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: You preferred to make Last Line: Half %a city Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WE ARE, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: Here we are mothers in darkness Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 HOLDFAST, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: In the blue light of the box Subject(s): Women's Rights HOMMES A FEMME, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: If a small, homely woman Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I used to have fine buckles Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 MANY TEMPTATIONS I PASS THROUGH, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 HUSBAND, HUSBAND, CEASE YOUR STRIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LAUGH WITH REAL JOY, by ANNA MALFAIERA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I DO NOT RELATE, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: I do not relate to disaster Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 NO SEED TO SCATTER THROUGH THE WORLD, by PATRIZIA CAVALLI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights I MAKE POEMS, GENTLEMAN, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights; Writing And 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 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 THINK ABOUT THE DEAD WOMAN IN A POEM, by MARIE-FRANCOISE PRAGER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 WANT TO BE, MOTHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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'M DOING FINE, by MARGOT SCHROEDER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights I'M THINKING OF YOU, by MARGOT SCHROEDER Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 IN CUENCA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I kiss %your eyelids Last Line: Light to keep Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 ORDER TO SAY IT, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: What sons of so and so Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 SEASON WHEN THE WORLD'S IN LEAF AND FLOWER, by COMPIUTA DONZELLA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 INEFFABLE, by DELMIRA AGUSTINI Poem Source First Line: I die a strange death ... Life does not kill me Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 INTERVIEW WITH MYSELF, by MASCHA KALEKO Poem Source First Line: I was born not too long ago Subject(s): Women's Rights 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'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 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'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 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 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 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 JEWISH GIRLS, by BERTA LASK Poem Source First Line: With her face to the wall Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 DEATH CAME ..., by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Lady death came Last Line: Like %you Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 LEAR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Fond, foolish father Last Line: Call them home Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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) 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 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 ON THE FACTS OF LIFE, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: At times in the course of history Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 LIBERTY, by CHIARA MATRAINI Poem Source First Line: Naught but liberty was ever Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MADRIGAL, by PAULINE DE SIMIANE Poem Source First Line: You kiss me like a sister Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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'S LAMENT, by PERNETTE DE GUILLET Poem Source First Line: I fear to be gainsaid Subject(s): Women's Rights MAKE-OFF, by KARIN KIWUS Poem Source First Line: From another world I appear to myself Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 MANHOOD, by ADELA ZAMUDIO Poem Source First Line: When, parched by the thirst of his soul Subject(s): Women's Rights MANNEQUINS, by MASCHA KALEKO Poem Source First Line: Just smiling and flattering the whole day through Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 MATHEMATICS FOR THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT:, by SIGRID WIEGEL Poem Source First Line: If a woman Subject(s): Women's Rights 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'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 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 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 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 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 MEN PO MEN WITH GLASSES, by THERESE PLANTIER Poem Source Subject(s): Surrealism; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MOTHERS, by ANGELA FIGUERA AYMERICH Poem Source First Line: Mothers of men, prolific wombs Subject(s): Women's Rights MOUNTAINS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She washed his face Last Line: Of %chile Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 MY ANGEL, I KNEW WHAT ANGEL, by AMELIA ROSSELLI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 LANGUAGE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: I, I should sing as wretchedly Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 VOICE, by AMALIA GUGLIELMINETTI Poem Source First Line: My voice had not the roar of the sea Subject(s): Women's Rights MY YOUNG DAYS WERE OPPRESSED WITH CARES, by ANNA LOUISA KARSCH Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights NAKED AND ALONE AND UNWARY YOU CAUGHT ME, by VERONICA FRANCO Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BEFORE, by JULIE FAY Poem Source Last Line: Next day %it was gone Subject(s): Women's Rights NIGHT IN PRISON, by RINA FACCIO Poem Source First Line: There was peace in the cell Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 OF PROPERTY NAUGHT, by MARGARITA HICKEY Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights OH COUNT, WHERE HAS GONE, by GASPARA STAMPA Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fidelity; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 BALANCE, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: All those years Last Line: And sometimes, never Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TOWER, by ANNETTE FREIIN VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF Poem Source First Line: I stand on the tower's high balcony Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PATIENCE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: If patiently %you touch my Last Line: Winking %at you Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 OF A, by CATHY BERNHEIM Poem Source First Line: Human beings Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 PREMONITION, by ANTONIA POZZI Poem Source First Line: The last light lingers Subject(s): Women's Rights PRISMS, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: Eight months since your death Last Line: Through our fingers Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 REBEL, by JUANITA FERNANDEZ MORALES Poem Source First Line: Charon: I shall be a scandal on your ferry Subject(s): Women's Rights RED DRESS AND DEATH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Lady death Last Line: Of my sorrows Subject(s): Women's Rights RED SHOES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: She no longer Last Line: To the %air Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 REFUSAL, by LUCIE DELARUE-MADRUS Poem Source First Line: Shadows; pillows; the garden sloping down Subject(s): Women's Rights REJECTION, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source First Line: They circle around Last Line: Blood flows %from my %vein Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights 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 REMEMBERING, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Remembering wasn't dangerous Last Line: By naming him Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 REQUIEM FOR SYLVIA PLATH, by LUCIANA FREZZA Poem Source First Line: A requiem for you Subject(s): Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Women's Rights RESEMBLANCES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Naked, me Last Line: Of a common blood Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 REVOLT, by ADINE BRABART RIOM Poem Source First Line: You would hear, o lord, woman's lament Subject(s): Women's Rights RING ROAD, by SANDRA MANGINI Poem Source First Line: We shall not forget anything Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 ROSANE, by IDA HAHN-HAHN Poem Source First Line: After you have lost me once ...' Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 ROSES OF SHARON, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: My friends trot in and out of doors Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 SACRED CEREMONY, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: Oh, this day of sacred rites Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 SAINTS, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Who's not attracted Last Line: Lion, inkwell, saint, skull Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SECRET, by RAQUEL JODOROWSKY Poem Source First Line: A century has gone by Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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-JUDGMENT, by BERTA LASK Poem Source First Line: I have helped to kill Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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-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 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 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 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 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 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 SILVANA GOES A-STROLLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SINCE I, BY MY GOOD FORTUNE, RETURN TO LOOK ON, by VERONICA GAMBARA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SINCE YOU HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS OF FINE DESIRE, by ISABELLA MORRA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 SIREN, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: To say no Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 MOTHER, by FRANCA MARIA CATRI Poem Source First Line: Mother what happened in the beginning Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 SKIRTS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Underneath %my skirts Last Line: That give off light Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 SO MUCH SUFFERING, by BERTALICIA PERALTA Poem Source First Line: With so much suffering Subject(s): Women's Rights SO WILY ARE THE WAYS OF LOVE, by FLORENCIA DEL PINAR Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights SOCIALISM, I SAY, by UTE ERB Poem Source First Line: The poet g.B. Says about himself Subject(s): Women's Rights 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) 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 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 SONG, by YANETTE DELETANG-TARDIF Poem Source First Line: I want my dance Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 OF A SILESIAN WEAVER, by LOUISE ASTON Poem Source First Line: When the hills are resting calmly Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 RICE WORKERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh mama dear, come and meet me Subject(s): Women's Rights SONG OF THE VENETIAN SILK-SPINNERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Poor silk-spinners Subject(s): Silk; Women's Rights SONG TO THE NEW DAY, SELS., by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I rise up Subject(s): Women's Rights 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: 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 SONGS OF APOCALYPSE,' SELS., by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: I thought we knew the earth Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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: 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: 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 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 SOUTHWEST HARBOR, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Although it's sunday, the lobster boats Subject(s): Women's Rights SPEAKING OF GABRIEL, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: Like all visitors my son disturbed me Subject(s): Women's Rights SPIRAL STAIRCASE, by LIANA CATRI Poem Source First Line: Shutters closed Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 IN WESTEND, by HELGA NOVAK Poem Source First Line: Evergreen conifers Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 STROKE UNITS, by FREDERIKE FREI Poem Source First Line: That is certainly a sensitive man Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TELLURIAN, by NADYA AISENBERG Poem Source First Line: The hills are ebbing home today Subject(s): Women's Rights 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'M ILL MARRIED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 THERE'S NOBODY, by IDEA VILARINO Poem Source First Line: I am not in Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 RAGE, by SILVIA BATISTI Poem Source First Line: This rage is not aroused Subject(s): Anger; Women's Rights THIS WORLD I'D WISH TO LEAVE AND GOD TO SERVE, by COMPIUTA DONZELLA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 BE BORN MALE, by ADELA ZAMUDIO Poem Source First Line: How she labors without end Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 FEMALE DUTIES CLORINDA SCORNED, by PETRONILLA PAOLINI MASSIMI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 HAVE A CHILD THESE DAYS, by GLORIA FUERTES Poem Source Subject(s): Human Rights; Life; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MOTHER, by GIUSEPPINA TURRISI COLONNA Poem Source First Line: Oh, perhaps your doubt, perhaps anxiety Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 SPEAK I KNOW NOT WHERE, by ANGELE VANNIER Poem Source First Line: I want to live again Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TRAIN TO HELL, by MONIQUE BURI Poem Source First Line: A passenger at times in your trains of vice Subject(s): Women's Rights TRAVELING, by JULIE FAY Poem Source First Line: We have spent this trip Last Line: Hands locked for safety Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 TRIPTYCH, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I got his coffee Last Line: Let everybody see Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 TULUM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: They gathered sacred Last Line: Of the %sea Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 UNBIND YOUR ANGERED TRESSES, SELS., by PETRONILLA PAOLINI MASSIMI Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 V, by CHARLOTTE CALMIS Poem Source First Line: O women Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 VERY SOFTLY, by PIERA OPPEZZO Poem Source First Line: Yes %come and meet Subject(s): Women's Rights VIRGINIA WOOLF, ETC, by CRISTINA PERI ROSSI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights VOICES LIKE FRYING PANS, by NANCY BOUTILIER Poem Source Last Line: And all she wants is the children Subject(s): Homosexuality; Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 URSULA KRECHEL Poem Source First Line: Come down from your heights Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 MUST FREE OURSELVES TODAY, by IDA VALLERUGO Poem Source First Line: The paternal house has collapsed Subject(s): Women's Rights WE WOMEN, by KLARA MULLER-JAHNKE Poem Source First Line: The spring moon it is that brings the buds Subject(s): Women's Rights WEATHER FORECAST, by VIVIAN LAMARQUE Poem Source First Line: Over all regions of italy I predict Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 WHILE YOU, by BESSY REYNA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 SHOULD I BE WITH A HUSBAND BOUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 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 WITNESS, by HELGA OSSWALD Poem Source First Line: I don't see Subject(s): Women's Rights WOMAN, by NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Poem Source First Line: Woman, supple frame Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 MOVING WITH YOU IN COITUS, by VERENA STEFAN Poem Source Subject(s): Sex; Women's Rights 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 UNDISCOVERED, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: I too am a continent Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 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 OF ALL THE AGES, by ANDREE CHEDID Poem Source First Line: Ancestral and still fraternal Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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'S BROADCAST, by MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Poem Source First Line: Someday I'll announce on the radio Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 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 WOODWORM, by ERMINA FUA FUSINATO Poem Source First Line: Two full years went by, and in this room Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 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 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 YES TO THE EARTH, by RINA FACCIO Poem Source First Line: So shines the earth in certain mornings' light Subject(s): Women's Rights YOU ENLARGE ON NEAR AND DISTANT, by BIANCAMARIA FRABOTTA Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights 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 WOULD HAVE ME IMMACULATE, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source Subject(s): Women's Rights |
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