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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FEMINISM Matches Found: 272 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 GETTING AND SPENDING, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women's Rights; Property; Feminism; Possessions 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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! HEY! IT IS NON LES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I dar not seyn quan che seyght 'pes!' Subject(s): Anti-feminism; Marriage 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,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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SWAN, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He calls it their stage Subject(s): 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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