Women poems

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An Elegy, To an Old Beauty

© Thomas Parnell

In vain, poor Nymph, to please our youthful sight
You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night,
Your face with patches soil, with paint repair,
Dress with gay gowns, and shade with foreign hair.
If truth in spight of manners must be told,
Why, really fifty-five is something old.

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Women's Song Of The Corn

© Amy Lowell

How beautiful are the corn rows,
Stretching to the morning sun,
Stretching to the evening sun.
Very beautiful, the long rows of corn.

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Forest History

© George Meredith

Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.
Heroic who came out; for round them hung
A wavering phantom's red volcano tongue,
With league-long lizard tail and fishy fin:

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The Wind And The Whirlwind

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

I have a thing to say. But how to say it?
I have a cause to plead. But to what ears?
How shall I move a world by lamentation,
A world which heeded not a Nation's tears?

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The Human Tragedy ACT I

© Alfred Austin

Personages:
  Olive-
  Godfrid-
  Gilbert.

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To the Portrait of "A Lady"

© Oliver Wendell Holmes

Well, Miss, I wonder where you live,

I wonder what’s your name,

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Explanation Of An Ancient Woodcut

© Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Soon as the spring-sun meets his view,
Repose begets him labour anew;
He feels that he holds within his brain
A little world, that broods there amain,
And that begins to act and to live,
Which he to others would gladly give.

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Chrismus On The Plantation

© Paul Laurence Dunbar

It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day--
  Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of us was gay;
  Cose you 'll t'ink dat 's mighty funny 'twell I try to mek hit cleah,
  Fu' a da'ky 's allus happy when de holidays is neah.

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A Dilettante

© Augusta Davies Webster

Good friend, be patient: goes the world awry?
well, can you groove it straight with all your pains?
and, sigh or scold, and, argue or intreat,
what have you done but waste your part of life
on impotent fool's battles with the winds,
that will blow as they list in spite of you?

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The House

© Anne Sexton

In dreams

the same bad dream goes on.

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Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 04 - Pre Winter

© Kalidasa

"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops, Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, crops of rice are completely ripened, but now lotuses are on their surcease by far, for the dewdrops are falling… hence, this is the time of pre-winter that drew nigh…

"The busts of flirtatious women that are graced by bosomy bosoms are bedaubed and reddened with the redness of heart-stealing saffrony skincare, called Kashmir kumkum, on which embellished are the white pendants that are in shine with the whiteness of whitish dewdrops, white jasmines, and whitely moon…

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The Ruines of Time

© Edmund Spenser

But whie (vnhappie wight) doo I thus crie,
And grieue that my remembrance quite is raced
Out of the knowledge of posteritie,
And all my antique moniments defaced?
Sith I doo dailie see things highest placed,
So soone as fates their vitall thred haue neuer borne.

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The Lamentations Of Jeremy, For The Most Part According To Tremellus

© John Donne

  I. HOW sits this city, late most populous,
  Thus solitary, and like a widow thus ?
  Amplest of nations, queen of provinces
  She was, who now thus tributary is ?

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"You would have understood me, had you waited"

© Ernest Christopher Dowson

You would have understood me, had you waited;
  I could have loved you, dear! as well as he:
  Had we not been impatient, dear! and fated
  Always to disagree.

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The Old Towers Of Mount Royal, Or Ville Marie

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

On proud Mount Royal’s Eastern side,

In view of St. Lawrence’s silver tide,

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Fragment VI

© James Macpherson

Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,
Prince of men! what tears run down
the cheeks of age? what shades thy
mighty soul?

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Griselda: A Society Novel In Verse - Chapter V

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Griselda's madness lasted forty days,
Forty eternities! Men went their ways,
And suns arose and set, and women smiled,
And tongues wagged lightly in impeachment wild

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The Killing

© Edwin Muir

I was a stranger, could not read these people
Or this outlandish deity. Did a God
Indeed in dying cross my life that day
By chance, he on his road and I on mine?

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An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras To His Lady

© Samuel Butler

I who was once as great as Caesar,

Am now reduc'd to Nebuchadnezzar;

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Male Phoenix Pleads With Female Phoenix

© Ssu-mu Hsiang-ju

Lady phoenix, lady phoenix: come with me and nest,
be supported, breed with me, forever be my wife,
exchange love in the usual way, our hearts harmonious:
at midnight if you follow me who will know?
Our wings together will rise, fluttering as high we fly.
If your are unmoved by my feelings, I will be miserable.