Outstanding Poems

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Poet Index

Female Poets

Allen, Paula Gunn:		Hoop Dance
Angelou, Maya:		I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Men Refusal	On the Pulse of Morning     (The Rock Cries Out to Us) Still I Rise Touched By an Angel
Atwood, Margaret:		Bored In the Secular Night Night Poem	Postcards The Rest Variations on the Word "Sleep"
Barbauld, Anna L.:		The Caterpillar An Inventory of the Furniture      in Dr.Priestley's Study
Belin, Esther:		Spirit in Me
Bishop, Elizabeth:		At the Fishhouses The Bight In the Waiting Room Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore
Boland, Eavan:		Mise Éire The Oral Tradition
Brooks, Gwendolyn :		The Ballad of Rudolph Reed Corners on the Curving Sky The Sonnet  –  Ballad A Sunset Of The City
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett:		The First Time How Do I Love Thee If Thou Must Love Me A Musical Instrument
Chasin, Helen:	– –	Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe
Chudleigh, Mary, Lady:	– –	To the Ladies
Clampitt, Amy:		Beach Glass Fog Stacking the Straw The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews
Clifton, Lucille:		Admonitions Good Times Memory	Seeker of Visions There is a Girl Inside the thirty eighth year
deSouza, Eunice:		Marriages are Made Meeting Poets
Dickinson, Emily:		After great pain, a formal feeling comes As imperceptibly as Grief Because I could not stop for Death A Bird came down the Walk A Cemetery The First Day's Night Had Come I felt a Funeral, in my Brain If You Were Coming in the Fall	I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed It was not Death, for I stood up Much Madness is Divinest Sense The Soul has Bandaged moments The Soul Selects Her Own Society There Came a Wind like a Bugle There's a certain slant of Light
Doolittle, Hilda ("H.D."):		Helen Oread Pursuit Sheltered Garden
Dove, Rita:		The Bistro Styx Golden Oldie My Mother Enters the Work Force Parsley	Rosa Sunday Greens Uncle Millet
Endrezze, Anita:		Song-Maker This is a Poem About Indians We Came This Way
Fauset, Jessie Redmon:		La Vie C'est la Vie Noblesse Oblige
Francisco, Nia:		Navajo Inn Onion and Fried Potatoes
Gorman, Amanda:		The Hill We Climb
"H.D"	– –	(See "Doolittle, Hilda")
Hirshfield, Jane:		The Poet A Story
Iglesias, Holly:		Conceptual Art Kindling The Meek in Death Shall Bleed Sermonette	Swan Boat Gondolier Thursday Afternoon: Life is Sweet
Johnson, Emily Pauline:		Shadow River When George Was King
Johnson, Georgia Douglas:		Autumn Black Woman Love Come and Gone Old Black Men
Joseph, Jenny:		Warning
Lazard, Naomi:		Ordinance On Arrival
Lazarus, Emma:		The New Colossus
Levertov, Denise:		Contraband In Mind
Lowell, Amy:		The Allies A Blockhead The Dinner Party	Patterns La Ronde du Diable
Madgett, Naomi Long:		Alabama Centennial Midway Phillis
McGinley, Phyllis:		A Ballad of Anthologists The Conquerors Daniel at Breakfast Reactionary Essay on Applied Science
Merriam, Eve:		How To Eat a Poem Reply to the Question:   "How Can You Become a Poet?"
Millay, Edna St.Vincent:		Ashes of Life The Buck in the Snow Dirge Without Music God's World Inland I Shall Forget You	I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines Love is not All: It is not Meat nor Drink On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven The Penitent To Jesus On His Birthday What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Moore, Marianne:		Poetry Silence Spenser's Ireland
Nichols, Grace:		The Body Reclining
Ostriker, Alicia:		Everywoman Her Own Theology psalm
Page, P.K.:		After Rain On Educating the Natives
Parker, Dorothy:		A Certain Lady Comment Epitaph for a Darling Lady One Perfect Rose	Resumé Song of Perfect Propriety Unfortunate Coincidence
Plath, Sylvia:		Child The Colossus I am Vertical Lady Lazarus Love Letter	The Moon and the Yew Tree Mushrooms Soliloquy of the Solipsist Winter Landscape, With Rocks
Pugh, Sheenagh:		The Beautiful Lie The Movement of Bodies Stalemate Toast
Roberts, Lynette:		Green Madrigal [I] He alone could get me out of this Lamentation Love is an Outlaw	Low Tide Poem from Llanybri The Shadow Remains The Temple Road
Robinson, Mary:		The Camp January 1795 London's Summer Morning
Tapahonso, Luci:		Hard to Take
Teasdale, Sara:		Central Park at Dusk The Old Maid Spring in War-Time
Tekahionwake:	– –	See: E.Pauline Johnson
Trethewey, Natasha:		Flounder Storyville Diary
Truth, Sojourner:		Ain't I a Woman?
Tso, Agnes:	– –	Male rain, Female rain, Awakening
Walker, Alice:		Burial Expect Nothing I Said to Poetry	The Old Men Used to Sing We Alone Can Devalue Gold
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler:		Advice Momus, God of Laughter The Optimist	The Tavern of Last Times To Marry or not to Marry? Uncontrolled
Wylie, Elinor:		Atavism The Eagle and the Mole Ophelia	Quarrel Velvet Shoes Wild Peaches
Zepeda, Ofelia:		Rain We are Papago