< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Among the Gods How close the air of valleys, and how close The teeming little life that harbors there! For me, I will climb mountains. Up and up, Higher and higher, till I pant for breath In that thin clearness. Still? There is no sound Nor memory of […]
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“The Ship” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems The Ship The sunlight is mine! And the sea! And the four wild winds that blow! The winds of heaven that whistle free— They are but slaves to carry me Wherever I choose to go! Fire for a power inside! Air for a pathway free! I traverse the […]
“Waste” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Waste Doth any man consider what we waste Here in God’s garden? While the sea is full, The sunlight smiles, and all the blessed earth Offers her wealth to our intelligence. We waste our food, enough for half the world, In helpless luxury among the rich, In helpless […]
“Finding” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Finding Out of great darkness and wide wastes of silence, Long loneliness, and slow untasted years, Came a slow filling of the empty places, A slow, sweet lighting of forgotten faces, A smiling under tears. A light of dawn that filled the brooding heaven, A warmth that kindled […]
“A Man Must Live” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems A Man Must Live A man must live. We justify Low shift and trick to treason high, A little vote for a little gold To a whole senate bought and sold, By that self-evident reply. But is it so? Pray tell me why Life at such cost you […]
“Step Faster, Please” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Step Faster, Please Of all most aggravating things, If you are hot in haste, Is to have a man in front of you With half a day to waste. There is this one thing that justifies The man in the foremost place: The fact that he is the […]
“Part of the Battle” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Part of the Battle There is a moment when with splendid joy, With flashing blade and roar of thundering guns And colors waving wide where triumph stands, The last redoubt is carried; we have won! This is the battle! We have conquered now! But the long hours of […]
“Fire With Fire” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Fire With Fire There are creeping flames in the near-by grass; There are leaping flames afar; And the wind’s black breath Is hot with death,— The worst of the deaths that are! And north is fire and south is fire, And east and west the same; The sunlight […]
“A Common Inference” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems A Common Inference A night: mysterious, tender, quiet, deep; Heavy with flowers; full of life asleep; Thrilling with insect voices; thick with stars; No cloud between the dewdrops and red Mars; The small earth whirling softly on her way, The moonbeams and the waterfalls at play; A million […]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Library
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems You might know Charlotte Perkins Gilman best as the author of the famous story The Yellow Wall-Paper. But she was also the publisher of The Forerunner, in which she featured her poems, as well as her essays and fiction. Her poems display excellent form and, often, a deep wit. Enjoy reading! […]
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Poets and Poems: Barbara Crooker and “Les Fauves”
“Les Fauves,” the newest collection of poetry by Barbara Crooker, is inspired by the paintings of the Fauvism movement, especially those of Henri Matisse.
“Israfel” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Israfel In Heaven a spirit doth dwell “Whose heart-strings are a lute;” None sing so wildly well As the angel Israfel, And the giddy Stars (so legends tell), Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell Of his voice, all mute. Tottering above In her highest noon, The enamoured Moon […]
“The Valley of Unrest” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems The Valley of Unrest Once it smiled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to the mild-eyed stars, Nightly, from their azure towers, To keep watch above the flowers, In the midst of which all day The red sun-light […]
“To Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought […]
“Tamerlane” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Tamerlane Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme— I will not madly deem that power Of Earth may shrive me of the sin Unearthly pride hath revelled in— I have no time to dote or dream: You call it hope—that fire of […]
“Al-Aaraaf” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Al-Aaraaf O! Nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty’s eye, As in those gardens where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy— O! nothing earthly save the thrill Of melody in woodland rill— Or (music of the passion-hearted) Joy’s voice so peacefully departed […]
“To Science” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems To Science Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in […]
“Hymn” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems Hymn At morn—at noon—at twilight dim— Maria! thou hast heard my hymn! In joy and woe—in good and ill— Mother of God, be with me still! When the Hours flew brightly by, And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace […]
“To Zante” by Edgar Allan Poe
< Return to Edgar Allan Poe Poems To Zante Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take! How many memories of what radiant hours At sight of thee and thine at once awake! How many scenes of what departed bliss! How many thoughts of what entombed […]