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| Searching... Subject: SEXISM Matches Found: 22 A FIN DE SIECLE GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She studies henrik ibsen 'to cultivate her mind' Last Line: Of fancy work this modern maid can do Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars;sexism A POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are burning Subject(s): Absence; Beauty; Identity; Sexism; Women; Women's Rights; Separation; Isolation; Feminism A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity; Vestals ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Last Line: Than those who, in their folly not less blind, %trusted the servile womb to breed free men? Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity BARBIE DOLL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This girlchild was born as usual Subject(s): Death; Sexism; Dead, The BARBIE DOLL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This girlchild was born as usual Last Line: Consummation at last. %to every woman a happy ending Subject(s): Death; Sexism CONVERSATION WITH A FIREMAN FROM BROOKLYN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He offers, between planes, / to buy me a drink. I've never talked Last Line: "who want to love you, to love you, / Subject(s): Firefighters; Sexism CONVERSATION WITH A FIREMAN FROM BROOKLYN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He offers, between planes, %to buy me a drink. I've never talked Last Line: Who want to love you, to love you, %love you Subject(s): Firefighters; Sexism HYPATIA, SELECTION, by ELIZABETH TOLLET Poem Text First Line: What cruel laws depress the female kind Last Line: Some senseless idiot curse a lettered bride. Subject(s): Sexism L'ENVOI, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Little wife Last Line: That's for you. Subject(s): Sexism LAWLESS PANTOUM, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, Subject(s): Sexism MOTHER'S TALE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once when I was young, juanito Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Sexism ORLANDO FURIOSO: WOMAN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Discourteous women, nature's fairest ill Last Line: Brought for eternal pestilence to the world. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Sexism; Women PAPER MATCHES, by PAULETTE JILES Poem Source First Line: My aunts washed dishes while the uncles Last Line: Wr come bearing supper %our heads on fire Subject(s): Family Life; Sexism POET RECOGNIZING THE ECHO OF THE VOICE, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source 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 PORTRAIT, by BEVERLY ACUFF MOMOI Poem Source First Line: Hair - shiny black geisha hair Last Line: Please be nice to me Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Sexism SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text 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'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 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 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 TO MY FRIEND MRS. - ON ... EQUALITY OF BOTH THE SEXES, by CLARA REEVE Poem Source First Line: The sacred heliconian spring Last Line: For what in man is most respected, %in woman's form shall be rejected Subject(s): Sexism |
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