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For over 2,000 years women have been writing love poetry. Here is the first anthology of love poems written only by women. Poets from all ages and all parts of the world, expressing love not only for their male and female lovers, but for parents, children, friends, for art, God, nature, and homeland, are collected here, and include the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickenson, Ono no Komachi, Shadab Vajdi, Alice Walker, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and many more.
Love Letter / Carole Gregory -- Tam Lin's Lady / Liz Lochhead -- If You Want Me To Stay With You / Natalie Barney -- Possibly / Leslea Newman -- Black Woman / Naomi Long Madgett -- Sonnet 22 (from the Portugese) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Eurydice I, VII / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] -- From: "What Does Your Color red Look Like?" / Sonja Akesson -- Lament For a Husband / Buin Tribe -- Ballygrand Widow / Deborah Randell -- Pretty I Am, But I Am Wretched / Anon [Provencal] -- A Letter to Dafnis April 2nd 1685 / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Mercury / Naomi Segal -- A Zorro Man / Maya Angelou -- What Idiots Lovers Are / Judith Kazantzis -- I must Sing of That / La Comtesse de Dia -- Teaching to Shoot / Valentine Ackland -- Labysheedy / Nuala Ni Dhomnaill -- Stanzas For the Harp / Anon [Welsh] -- Little-Bitty Man / Alfonsina Storni -- Magnificat / Michele Roberts -- Love Poem Growing Down / Christian McEwen -- Song / Eavan Bolnad -- The Ram / Selima Hill -- Love Story? (Part 2) / Marsha Prescod -- I Hear That Andromedia / Sappho -- The House of the Apple-Trees / Alice Milligan -- The Shirt of a Lad / Anon [Welsh] -- Supper / Alison Fell -- The Length of an Arm / Melanie Silgardo -- Farwell to a Trappist / Lucy Boston -- From A Satirical Romance / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- You Loved Me / Marina Tsvetaeva -- The Mistress to Her Lover / Jan Montefiore -- Adolescence 1 / Ritz Dove -- The Jackfruit / Ho Xuan Huong -- When My Desire / Ono no Komachi -- Dawn Song / Anon [French] -- Constantly / Adrienne Greer -- Sonnet / Veronica Forrest-Thomson -- Love and Friendship / Emily Bronte -- Revelation / Edith Sodergran -- Are Flowers Whores? / Elizabeth Smart -- Alter! When the Hills Do / Emily Dickinson -- "Honestly, I Wish I were Dead!" / Sappo -- Think Lang / Marion Angus -- I Think Table and I Say Chair / Gloria Fuertes -- August Night / Sara Teasdale -- Signs / Alejandra Pizarnik -- To My dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet -- For Me From You / Rita Anyiam St John -- The Wedding / Maria Banus -- Couple / Fough Farrokhzad -- Affections Must Not / Denise Riley -- From A Satirical Romance / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- In a Dream / Eleni Fourtouni -- Lolotte, Who Attires My Hair / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Little Lion Face / May Swenson -- First Born / Katherine Gallagher / -- Julian of Norwich / Kathleen Jamie -- From Confrontations With the Devil in the Form of Love / Judy Grahn -- Passion / Diane Ward -- Passion / Jelena Lengold -- Me and My Chauffeur Blues / Memphis Minnie -- Varick Street / Elizabeth Bishop -- That Spring Night I Spent / Lady Suo -- To the Fair Clorinda / Aphra Behn -- Our Bodies / Denise Levertov -- After Love / Manine Kumin -- It's No Secret / Medakse -- Hope Chest / Elaine Equi -- Music / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- To the Sphinx / Silvia Dobson -- A Double Standard / Frances E.W. Harper -- Love Amidst the War / Jean Binta Breeze -- Untitled / Grace Lake -- Illiterate / Shadab Vajdi -- Invitation / Anon [Cretan] -- Nine Below / Joy Harjo -- Fire Roses / Cynthia Fuller -- Fog and the Fire-Hose / Nina Solomon -- The Weaver-Girl / Medbh Mc Guckian -- From Poem of the End / Marina Tsvetaeva -- You Thought I Was That Type / Anna Akhmatova -- These Several Selves / Joanne Kyger -- Light Up Thy Halls! Tis Closing Day / Emily Bronte -- Survival / Robin Morgan -- The Lion in Love / Marianne Moore -- Futility / Helene Johnson -- And Sunday Morning / Christian McEwen -- Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie / Margaret Walker -- A Sweet Thing is Marriage / Christine de Pisan -- Echo / Christina Rossetti -- Moon Poem / Rosie Orr -- Sleep, Darling / Sappho -- Dark Mothers / Anne Cluyseraar -- Theme and Variations 2 / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Young Snail / Meena Alexander -- The Return / Nika Turbina -- Come Back Safely / Sylva Gaboudikan -- Beginning With a Stain / Alice Notley -- Inanna and the Divine Essences / Enheduanna -- Marriage and Death / E.J. Scovell -- From The Kiss / Carlyle Reedy -- Conversation By the Body's Light / Jane Cooper -- On Spadina Avenue / Emily Grosholz -- From A Sarical Romance -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Comment / Dorothy Parker -- Ironing Their Clothes / Julia Alvarez -- My Car Slides off the Road / Sarah Gorham -- Untitled / Janet Gray -- Talking to Myself / Kiki Dimoula -- Lullaby for My Mother / Blaga Dimitrova -- From Crowbar / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Dear / Erica Hunt -- Rain / Diana Der Hovanessian -- Loving My Enemies / Anna Kamienska -- Home / Elaine Feinstein -- Stump Cross-The Long Wait / Geraldine Monk -- Out the You of Yesterday / Liliane Lijn -- More Astonishing / Khosrovidought Koghnatsi -- Expecting the Lord / Anne Griffiths -- In Praise of Virginity / Hroswitha -- El Beso / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Looking at Each Other / Muriel Rukeyser -- The Victory / Anna Stevenson -- Now That I am Forever With Child / Audre Lorde -- Small Splinters From My Cheek / Doina Uricariu -- Zoo Keeper's Wife / Sylvia Plath -- A Light Left On / May Sarton -- Homing Coming / U.A. Fanthorpe -- For Our Lady / Sonia Sanchez -- From Letter a Far Country / Gillian Clarke -- Black Love / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How Gentle / Joyce Carol Oates -- Long Time Coming / Daphne Marlatt -- An Old Man Remembers / Frances Horovitz -- All Day the Light is Clear / Tess Gallagher -- WinterMusik / Sarah Kirsch -- 2 Wren Street / Christian McEwen -- Mental France / Molly Peacock -- Song / Aphra Behn -- Theory / Dorothy Parker -- Intention to Escape From Him / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Languedocienne / Marilyn Hacker -- From Twenty-One Love Poems, II / Adrianne Rich -- Traces, Fine Bird Prints / Lilian Mohin -- This Life / Rita Dove -- Mornings / Alice Notley -- From Love Songs to Joannes / Mina Loy -- The Bride's Night in a Strange Village / Helen Dunmore -- Visibility / Maura Stanton -- Bride: Maidenhood, Maidenhood / Sappho -- Poem / Helene Johnson -- Dirty No Gooder Blues / Bessie Smith -- The Heart of a Woman / Georgia Johnson -- At April /Angelina Weld Grimke -- Profil Perdu / Elizabeth Spires -- Untitled / Janet Gray -- From Metamorphopsia / Norma Cole -- Tell Me, Love / Ingeborg Bachmann -- Wedding, at Aughrim / Catherine Byron -- Loop / Kate Ruse-Glason -- The Rain / Solveig Von Schoultz -- Himalayan Balsam / Anne Stevenson -- White World / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] -- Changes / Sally Cline -- Judith 2 / Patti Smith -- Sleeping Beauty / Olga Broumas -- A Love Like War / Ruth Asher-Pettipher -- Vicious Circle / Marsha Prescod -- One Perfect Rose / Dorothy Parker -- I Go to Meet Him / Grace Nichols -- Beloved / Iyamide Hazely -- Watercourse / Ruth Padel -- Monna Innominata, 4 / Christina Rossetti -- From Twenty-One Love Poems, III / Adrienne Rich -- Under the Sudden Blue / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Sundaysong / Liz Lochhead -- A Lovely Song for Jackson / V.R. Lang -- Nothing is Sweeter Than Eros / Nossis -- Theme and Variations, 1 / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Sonnet / Bernadette Mayer -- Touche / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Descendant / Elisaveta Bagriana -- The Turkish Bakery / [Unknown] Kisaeng -- I See, I See the Crescent Moon / Anna Akhmatova -- Get It & Feel Good / Ntozake Shange -- Eventual Proteus / Margaret Atwood -- Loveact / Grace Nichols -- But I Too, Want to be a Poet / Fanny Howe -- At School / Stevie Smith -- Wild Women Blues / Ida Cox -- Sisters / Lucille Clifton -- From The Lament for Arthur O'Leary / Eibhlin Dhubh ni Chonaill -- Poem for Francis Harvey / Madge Herron -- A Man's Requirements / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Love Note, I Surely / Gwendolyn Brooks -- It Is Pleasing / Sulpicia -- Don't Fish in My Sea / Ma Rainey -- Drawing You, Heavy With Sleep / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Sun / Gill Vickers -- On the Road to the Sea / Charlotte Mew -- Accident / Nina Cassian -- Sisters in Arms / Audre Lorde -- From Courtly Love / Micheline Wandor -- You Are Alone My Evil and My Good / Louise Labe -- The Star Field / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- Love is a Wound Within the Body / Marie de France -- Physics / Chase Twichell -- Did This Happen to Your Mother? / Alice Walker -- From You I Have Understood / Eunice de Souza -- Chapter 3 / Song of Solomon -- From A Sonatina Followed by Another / Gertrude Stein -- Finally a Love Has Come / Sulpicia -- Meeting You at an Underground Station / Gillian Allnutt -- Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay -- Extraterrestrail / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Nervous Prostration / Anna Wickham -- Ah, Teneriffe / Emily Dickinson -- I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown / Louise Labe -- On Monsieur's Departure / Elizabeth I -- The Unequal Fetters / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- To the Tune 'Red / Huang O -- I Cut in Two / Hwang-Chin-i -- From Vivre L'orange / Helene Cixous -- Light of My Life / Sulpicia -- The Sisters / Alexis de Veaux -- Though I am Laila of the Persian Romance / Princess Zeb-un-Nissa -- Jade, or the Medea Within Us / Patricia Vincinelli -- The Lover / Solveig Von Schoultz -- The Disappointment / Aphra Behn -- An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady yo Marriage / Katherine Philips -- Paris Aubade / Susan Ludvigson -- Where Does This Tenderness Come From? / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Prayer / Nina Cassian -- To One That Asked Me Why I Loved J.G. / 'Ephelia' -- What the Bones Know / Carolyn Kizer -- What is Tomorrow? / Edith Sodergram -- For the Couttesan Ch'ing Lin / Wu Tsao -- Desire / Shushanig Gourghenia -- Fragment thirty-six / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] -- Meanwhile Cesario Dancing / Helen Kidd -- He is More Than a Hero / Sappho -- Werena My Heart's Light / Lady Grisel Baillie -- When I Hear Your Name / Gloria Fuertes -- Rose Solitude / Jayne Cortez -- To the Spider in the Crevice / Behind the Toilet Door / Janet Sutherland -- Alibi / Eunice de Souza -- The Incantation / Sarah Kirsch -- Chant for Dark Hours / Emily Dickinson -- Lines to a Nasturtium / Anne Spencer -- To a Dark Girl / Gwendolyn Bennett -- Will Ye No Come Back Again? / Lady Caroline Nairne -- Sonnet VI / Caroline Norton -- To My excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship / Katherine Philips -- Love.
edited by Wendy Mulford with Helen Kidd, Julia Mishkin, Sandi Russell.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.
Originally published: London : Virago, 1991, under title: Virago book of love poetry.