A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to NowAliki Barnstone, Willis Barnstone When it was originally published in 1980, A Book of Women Poets was hailed by Time as a "splendid, pioneering collection". This generous selection of poetry by women--spanning 4,000 years--is now revised and updated, with an expanded selection of American women poets. |
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... Garden We got this idea To plant our hands in the garden . Branches of ten fingers Saplings of bones Cherished rock garden . All day long We waited for the red bird And the fresh leaves Of our polished nails . No bird Nor spring Was ...
... Garden We got this idea To plant our hands in the garden . Branches of ten fingers Saplings of bones Cherished rock garden . All day long We waited for the red bird And the fresh leaves Of our polished nails . No bird Nor spring Was ...
Page 251
... garden I will die . Among the rose bushes they will kill me . I was on my way , mother , to cut some roses ; there in the flower garden I found my love . There in the flower garden they will kill me . Come at dawn , good friend , come ...
... garden I will die . Among the rose bushes they will kill me . I was on my way , mother , to cut some roses ; there in the flower garden I found my love . There in the flower garden they will kill me . Come at dawn , good friend , come ...
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... garden with my love , 100 I want to be with my love in a garden , 101 I wanted this morning to bring you a gift of roses , 217 I wanted to see you , 301 I was born in a time of peace , 118 I was born with a song in my tongue - but would ...
... garden with my love , 100 I want to be with my love in a garden , 101 I wanted this morning to bring you a gift of roses , 217 I wanted to see you , 301 I was born in a time of peace , 118 I was born with a song in my tongue - but would ...
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A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now Aliki Barnstone,Willis Barnstone No preview available - 1980 |
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A. K. Ramanujan Anonymous Anthony Thwaite Arthur Waley Ballad beauty bird blood blossoms blue Born breasts breath burn century clouds cold color dark daughter dawn dead death dream dust earth Edith Bruck Etsuko Terasaki eyes face fire flowers garden Geoffrey Waters girl hair hands hear heart Ikuko Atsumi Irma Brandeis Julia de Burgos Kenneth Rexroth kiss Kumin Lady Lady Ise leaves light Ling Chung live look Lord lover Mary Ellen Solt Maxine Kumin Monique Laederach moon morning mother mountain mouth never night pain poems poetry published rain down rain Reprinted by permission Rexroth and Ling Reza Baraheni river rose Rosemarie Waldrop shadow sing sleep song sorrow soul Spanish spring star sweet tears Terasaki with Irma translation Copyright tree voice W. S. Merwin WB WB Willis Barnstone wind window wings woman