From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first grea... Read More
From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first grea... Read More
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From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first great black woman poet. Selections also include more than a dozen beloved works by Emily Dickinson as well as masterly verses by Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and numerous lesser-known authors. A superb introduction to America's women poets, this engaging collection offers an inexpensive and rewarding resource for students, teachers, and all lovers of fine poetry.
Dover Original.
Details
Price: $11.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 21st January 1998
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486401645
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies POETRY / American / General POETRY / Women Authors
Table of Contents
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
From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. "To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first great black woman poet. Selections also include more than a dozen beloved works by Emily Dickinson as well as masterly verses by Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and numerous lesser-known authors. A superb introduction to America's women poets, this engaging collection offers an inexpensive and rewarding resource for students, teachers, and all lovers of fine poetry.
Dover Original.
Price: $11.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 21st January 1998
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486401645
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies POETRY / American / General POETRY / Women Authors
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
