< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems It is Good to Be Alive It is good to be alive when the trees shine green, And the steep red hills stand up against the sky; Big sky, blue sky, with flying clouds between— It is good to be alive and see the clouds drive by! It […]
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“Tree Feelings” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Tree Feelings I wonder if they like it—being trees? I suppose they do…. It must feel good to have the ground so flat, And feel yourself stand right straight up like that— So stiff in the middle—and then branch at ease, Big boughs that arch, small ones that […]
List of The Yellow Wallpaper Articles
This is a list of critical essays and articles for The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that you can read online. The Yellow Wallpaper Characters, or The Yellow Wallpaper Summary. Or, maybe you’d like to read about How to Do Literary Analysis: An Experimental Reflection Based On The Yellow Wall-Paper. “Sara’s stunning, heartbreaking, and […]
“Among the Gods” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< 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 […]
“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 […]
“Our Loneliness” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Our Loneliness There is no deeper grief than loneliness. Our sharpest anguish at the death of friends Is loneliness. Our agony of heart When love has gone from us is loneliness. The crying of a little child at night In the big dark is crowding loneliness. Slow death […]
“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 […]
“Seeking” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Seeking I went to look for Love among the roses, the roses, The pretty wingèd boy with the arrow and the bow; In the fair and fragrant places, ’Mid the Muses and the Graces, At the feet of Aphrodite, with the roses all aglow. Then I sought among […]
“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 […]
A New Year’s Reminder by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Photo by Special Collections Toronto Public Library on flickr. Public domain. A New Year’s Reminder Better have a tender conscience for the record of your house, And your own share in the work which they have done, Though your private conscience aches With your personal mistakes, And 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 […]
“A Type” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems A Type I am too little, said the Wretch, For any one to see. Among the million men who do This thing that I am doing too, Why should they notice me? My sin is common as to breathe; It rests on every back. And surely I am […]
“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 […]
“Heroism” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Heroism It takes great strength to train To modern service your ancestral brain; To lift the weight of the unnumbered years Of dead men’s habits, methods, and ideas; To hold that back with one hand, and support With the other the weak steps of a new thought. It […]
“The Commonplace” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems The Commonplace Life is so weary commonplace! Too fair Were those young visions of the poet and seer. Nothing exciting ever happens here. Just eat and drink, and dress and chat; Life is so tedious, slow, and flat, And every day alike in everywhere! Birth comes. Birth— The […]
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! […]
“Birth,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
< Return to Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Birth Lord, I am born! I have built me a body Whose ways are all open, Whose currents run free, From the life that is thine Flowing ever within me, To the life that is mine Flowing outward through me. I am clothed, and my raiment Fits smooth […]
✨ Every Day Poems Guidelines
Dear Poet, Welcome to Every Day Poems, the in-box delivery that seeks to inspire readers with daily insight, wisdom, beauty, peace, or hope! Each month, in addition to poems on various topics, we offer about 8-10 poems on a particular theme. It’s not necessary for your poetry submission to fit with our themes, but occasionally […]