Great Poems by American Women An Anthology
, by Rattiner, Susan L.
- ISBN: 9780486401645 | 0486401642
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/21/1998
More than 200 inspiring poems offer a superb introduction to the women poets of America, from the colonial-era works of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the modern poetry of Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. Other authors include Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and more.
Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue
The Author to Her Book
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Mercy Otis Warren
To an Amiable Friend Mourning the Death of an Excellent Father
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Return to Tomhanick
An Evening Prospect
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
"To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
On Imagination
On the Death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield-1770
An Hymn to the Evening
Sarah Wentworth Morton
The African Chief
Susanna Haswell Rowson
"America, Commerce, and Freedom"
To Time
Song
Emma Hart Willard
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Sarah Josepha Hale
The Watcher
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Indian Names
To the First Slave Ship
The Indidan's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
Lines
The Bell of the Wreck
Maria Gowen Brooks
Stanzas
Song
Lydia Maria Child
The World I am Passing Through
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
Sarah Helen Whitman
To Edgar Allan Poe
To -
Sonnet V
The Morning-Glory
Emma C. Embury
The Widow's Wooer
Love Unsought
A Portrait
Elizabeth Oakes-Smith
Ode to Sappho
The Drowned Mariner
Lucretia Davidson
On the Birth of Her Sister Margaret
America
Margaret Fuller
Flaxman
Instrumental Music
Elizabeth Clementine Kinney
A Dream
Frances Sargent Osgood
Ellen Learning to Walk
A Dancing Girl
Ah! Woman Still
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Other World
Mary E. Hewitt
Imitation of Sappho
Harold the Valiant
Julia Ward Howe
Battle Hymn of the Republic
My Last Dance
Woman
The Burial of Schlesinger
Alice Cary
The Sea-Side Cave
To Solitude
Fanny Crosby
Voice of the Flowers
The Dead Child
Phoebe Cary
Nearer Home
Advice Gratis to Certain Women
Lucy Larcom
Plant a Tree
A Strip of Blue
Frances E. W. Harper
Learning to Read
The Slave Mother
The Slave Auction
A Double Standard
She's Free!
Ethel Lynn Beers
"All quiet along the Potomac"
Rose Terry Cooke
Bluebeard's Closet
Segovia and Madrid
Helen Hunt Jackson
My Lighthouses
Poppies on the Wheat
Emily Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest"
"Wild nights! Wild nights!"
"A wounded deer leaps highest"
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
"There's a certain slant of light"
"I felt a funeral in my brain"
"I'm nobody! Who are you?"
"He fumbles at your spirit"
"A bird came down the walk"
"This is my letter to the world"
"I heard a fly buzz when I died"
"Because I could not stop for Death"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking"
"A narrow fellow in the grass"
"I never saw a moor"
"There is no frigate like a book"
"My life closed twice before its close"
Nora Perry
The Love-Knot
Louisa May Alcott
Thoreau's Flute
Mary Ashley Townsend
Creed
Virtuosa
Her Horoscope
A Georgia Volunteer
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Rock Me to Sleep
Celia Thaxter
Seaward
The Sandpiper
Louise Chandler Moulton
To-Night
Louisa May Alcott
A Painted Fan
Augusta Cooper Bristol
Night
The Crime of the Ages
Sarah Morgan Piatt
Giving Back the Flower
My Babes in the Wood
Transfigured
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
Poem
A Parting Hymn
Mary Mapes Dodge
The Minuet
Now the Noisy Winds Are Still
Emerson
Margaret E. Sangster
A Song for Our Flag
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Love Unexpressed
Yellow Jessamine
Ina Donna Coolbrith
When the Grass Shall Cover Me
Helen Hunt Jackson
Fruitionless
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
1492
Echoes
The South
Gifts
The New Ezekiel
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Caged Bird
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Individuality
Friendship After Love
Delilah
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
A Song Before Grief
Kate Nichols Trask
Sorrow
Aidenn
Edith M. Thomas
The Mother Who Died Too
Winter Sleep
Lizette Woodworth Reese
One Night
Tears
Spicewood
Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Common Inference
The Beds of Fleur-de-lys
A Conservative
Harriet Monroe
To W. S. M.
A Farewell
Love Song
Washington
Lincoln
Democracy
Louise Imogen Guiney
The Wild Ride
At a Symphony
Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson
Any Woman to a Soldier
Edith Wharton
The Last Giustiniani
Life
With the Tide
Willa Cather
"Grandmither, think not I forget"
A Likeness
Jospehine Preston Peabody
Prelude
Rubric
The Nightingale Unheard
Amy Lowell
The Letter
Venus Transiens
The Garden by Moonlight
The Taxi
Patterns
A Winter Ride
Opal
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Sonnet
I Sit and Sew
Anna Hempstead Branch
"Grieve Not, Ladies"
Songs for My Mother
Sara Teasdale
Barter
The Look
The Kiss
I Shall Not Care
The Wind
The Answer
Appraisal
The Solitary
Sappho
Elinor Wylie
Beauty
The Eagle and the Mole
Velvet Shoes
Let No Charitable Hope
Pretty Words
Hazel Hall
White Branches
Instruction
Hilda Doolittle
Oread
Sea Poppies
Sheltered Garden
Heat
Helen
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart of a Woman
Marianne Moore
Poetry
Sojourn in the Whale
Roses Only
To a Steam Roller
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Renascence
God's World
Wild Swans
Pity Me Not
"Into the golden vessel of great song"
"I, being born a woman and distressed"
"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare"
"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
Dorothy Parker
One Perfect Rose
Unfortunate Coincidence
Genevieve Taggard
For Eager Lovers
Louise Bogan
Medusa
Women
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jessie Mitchell's Mother
Sylvia Plath
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Alphabetical List of Poets
Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
The Prologue
The Author to Her Book
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Mercy Otis Warren
To an Amiable Friend Mourning the Death of an Excellent Father
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Return to Tomhanick
An Evening Prospect
Phillis Wheatley
On Being Brought from Africa to America
"To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works"
On Imagination
On the Death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield-1770
An Hymn to the Evening
Sarah Wentworth Morton
The African Chief
Susanna Haswell Rowson
"America, Commerce, and Freedom"
To Time
Song
Emma Hart Willard
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
Sarah Josepha Hale
The Watcher
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Indian Names
To the First Slave Ship
The Indidan's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
Lines
The Bell of the Wreck
Maria Gowen Brooks
Stanzas
Song
Lydia Maria Child
The World I am Passing Through
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
Sarah Helen Whitman
To Edgar Allan Poe
To -
Sonnet V
The Morning-Glory
Emma C. Embury
The Widow's Wooer
Love Unsought
A Portrait
Elizabeth Oakes-Smith
Ode to Sappho
The Drowned Mariner
Lucretia Davidson
On the Birth of Her Sister Margaret
America
Margaret Fuller
Flaxman
Instrumental Music
Elizabeth Clementine Kinney
A Dream
Frances Sargent Osgood
Ellen Learning to Walk
A Dancing Girl
Ah! Woman Still
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Other World
Mary E. Hewitt
Imitation of Sappho
Harold the Valiant
Julia Ward Howe
Battle Hymn of the Republic
My Last Dance
Woman
The Burial of Schlesinger
Alice Cary
The Sea-Side Cave
To Solitude
Fanny Crosby
Voice of the Flowers
The Dead Child
Phoebe Cary
Nearer Home
Advice Gratis to Certain Women
Lucy Larcom
Plant a Tree
A Strip of Blue
Frances E. W. Harper
Learning to Read
The Slave Mother
The Slave Auction
A Double Standard
She's Free!
Ethel Lynn Beers
"All quiet along the Potomac"
Rose Terry Cooke
Bluebeard's Closet
Segovia and Madrid
Helen Hunt Jackson
My Lighthouses
Poppies on the Wheat
Emily Dickinson
"Success is counted sweetest"
"Wild nights! Wild nights!"
"A wounded deer leaps highest"
"Hope is the thing with feathers"
"There's a certain slant of light"
"I felt a funeral in my brain"
"I'm nobody! Who are you?"
"He fumbles at your spirit"
"A bird came down the walk"
"This is my letter to the world"
"I heard a fly buzz when I died"
"Because I could not stop for Death"
"If I can stop one heart from breaking"
"A narrow fellow in the grass"
"I never saw a moor"
"There is no frigate like a book"
"My life closed twice before its close"
Nora Perry
The Love-Knot
Louisa May Alcott
Thoreau's Flute
Mary Ashley Townsend
Creed
Virtuosa
Her Horoscope
A Georgia Volunteer
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Rock Me to Sleep
Celia Thaxter
Seaward
The Sandpiper
Louise Chandler Moulton
To-Night
Louisa May Alcott
A Painted Fan
Augusta Cooper Bristol
Night
The Crime of the Ages
Sarah Morgan Piatt
Giving Back the Flower
My Babes in the Wood
Transfigured
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké
Poem
A Parting Hymn
Mary Mapes Dodge
The Minuet
Now the Noisy Winds Are Still
Emerson
Margaret E. Sangster
A Song for Our Flag
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Love Unexpressed
Yellow Jessamine
Ina Donna Coolbrith
When the Grass Shall Cover Me
Helen Hunt Jackson
Fruitionless
Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus
1492
Echoes
The South
Gifts
The New Ezekiel
Sarah Orne Jewett
A Caged Bird
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude
Individuality
Friendship After Love
Delilah
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
A Song Before Grief
Kate Nichols Trask
Sorrow
Aidenn
Edith M. Thomas
The Mother Who Died Too
Winter Sleep
Lizette Woodworth Reese
One Night
Tears
Spicewood
Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Common Inference
The Beds of Fleur-de-lys
A Conservative
Harriet Monroe
To W. S. M.
A Farewell
Love Song
Washington
Lincoln
Democracy
Louise Imogen Guiney
The Wild Ride
At a Symphony
Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson
Any Woman to a Soldier
Edith Wharton
The Last Giustiniani
Life
With the Tide
Willa Cather
"Grandmither, think not I forget"
A Likeness
Jospehine Preston Peabody
Prelude
Rubric
The Nightingale Unheard
Amy Lowell
The Letter
Venus Transiens
The Garden by Moonlight
The Taxi
Patterns
A Winter Ride
Opal
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Sonnet
I Sit and Sew
Anna Hempstead Branch
"Grieve Not, Ladies"
Songs for My Mother
Sara Teasdale
Barter
The Look
The Kiss
I Shall Not Care
The Wind
The Answer
Appraisal
The Solitary
Sappho
Elinor Wylie
Beauty
The Eagle and the Mole
Velvet Shoes
Let No Charitable Hope
Pretty Words
Hazel Hall
White Branches
Instruction
Hilda Doolittle
Oread
Sea Poppies
Sheltered Garden
Heat
Helen
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Heart of a Woman
Marianne Moore
Poetry
Sojourn in the Whale
Roses Only
To a Steam Roller
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Renascence
God's World
Wild Swans
Pity Me Not
"Into the golden vessel of great song"
"I, being born a woman and distressed"
"Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare"
"What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why"
Dorothy Parker
One Perfect Rose
Unfortunate Coincidence
Genevieve Taggard
For Eager Lovers
Louise Bogan
Medusa
Women
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jessie Mitchell's Mother
Sylvia Plath
Daddy
Lady Lazarus
Alphabetical List of Poets
Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
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