Category: women

20th century, African-American, American, American Poetry, Lucille Clifton, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 11, 2018

“It Was a Dream” by Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010)

“…whirling in a gyre of rage at what my days had come to. what, i pleaded with her, could i do, oh what could i have done?”
20th century, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 10, 2018

“Life” by Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)

“nd one, to wake the mirth in Lesbia’s gaze, Carves it apace in toys fantastical. But least is he who, with enchanted eyes Filled with high visions of fair shapes to be, Muses which god he shall immortalize…”
19th century, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 9, 2018

“The Watcher” by SARAH JOSEPHA HALE (1788 – 1879)

The Watcher BY SARAH JOSEPHA HALE The night was dark and fearful, The blast swept wailing by; A Watcher, pale and tearful, Look’d forth with anxious eye; How wistfully she gazes– No gleam of morn is there! And then her heart upraises Its agony of prayer! Within that dwelling lonely, Where want and darkness reign,…
19th century, Alfonsia Storni, Hispanic, Latin America, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“I Am Going To Sleep” by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“…so you’ll forget . . . Thank you. Oh, one request: if he telephones again tell him not to keep trying for I have left . . . ”
20th century, Alfonsia Storni, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

A Eros (To Eros) by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“…y vi en el suelo tu floreal corona. Como a un muñeco destripé tu vientre y examiné sus ruedas engañosas y muy envuelta en sus poleas de oro…”
20th century, Alfonsia Storni, Hispanic, Latin America, Poetry, Spanish, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“They’ve Come” by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“My mother smiled as those who understand souls tend to do; She placed two hands on my shoulders. She’s staring at me . . .”
20th century, Alfonsia Storni, Latin America, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“Little Little Man” by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“I am that canary, little little man, leave me to fly. I was in your cage, little little man…”
20th century, Alfonsia Storni, Poetry, Spanish, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“Lighthouse in the Night” by ALFONSIA STORNI (1892 – 1938)

“when the mortal heart looks for me in the chest? Look at the black rock where it is nailed down…”
20th century, African-American, America, American, American Poetry, Native American, Poetry, Uncategorized, women, women poets

March 8, 2018

“Regret” by OLIVIA WARD BUSH-BANKS (1869 – 1944)

“Then, what a bitter fate was mine; No language could my grief define; Tears of deep regret could not unsay…”
19th century, America, American, American Poetry, Poetry, Uncategorized, United States, women, women poets

March 7, 2018

“Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” BY EMMA HART WILLARD (1787 – 1870)

“When in the dead of night I lie And gaze upon the trackless sky, The star-bespangled heavenly scroll, The boundless waters…”