Category: women
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“The Wife-Woman” by Anne Spencer (1882 – 1975)
“I cannot love them; and I feel your glad Chiding from the grave, That my all was only worth at all, what Joy to you it gave.”
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“Translation” by Anne Spencer (1882 – 1975)
Translation BY ANNE SPENCER We trekked into a far country, My friend and I. Our deeper content was never spoken, But each knew all the other said. He told me how calm his soul was laid By the lack of anvil and strife. “The wooing kestrel,” I said, “mutes his mating-note To please the harmony of…
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“Dunbar” by Anne Spencer (1882 – 1975)
Dunbar BY ANNE SPENCER Ah, how poets sing and die! Make one song and Heaven takes it; Have one heart and Beauty breaks it; Chatterton, Shelley, Keats and I— Ah, how poets sing and die!
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“At the Carnival” by Anne Spencer (1882 – 1975)
“…There, too, were games of chance With chances for none; But oh! Girl-of-the-Tank, at last!”
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“Parties: A Hymn of Hate” by Dorothy Parkier (1893 – 1967)
“…Of last season’s tennis clothes, with a wreath around the neck. The hostess introduces a series of clean, home games: Each participant is given a fair chance…”
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“Rondeau Redoublé (and Scarcely Worth the Trouble, at That)” by Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967)
“…In cerements my spirit is bedight; The same to me are sombre days and gay. Though breezes in the rippling grasses play,…”
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“Song in a Minor Key” by Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967)
“…By an old, old gate does the lady wait Her own true love’s returning. But the days go by, and the lilacs die, And trembling birds seek…”
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“I never saw a moor” by Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
“…And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God,…”
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“My life closed twice before its close (96) by Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
“…A third event to me So huge, so hopeless to conceive …”
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“The Soul selects her own Society (303)” by Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)
“…Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat — I’ve known her — from an ample nation — Choose One —…”
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