An Anthology of Poetry by Women

Part 1 Love and passion: introduction; sonnets from the Portuguese - nos I, XX and XXXII, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; on Monsieur's departure, Queen Elizabeth I; sonnets XLII and XXXIII, Eleanor Farjeon; cousin Kate, Christina Rossetti; fair, do you not see:, Sylvia Townsend Warner; song - a thousand martyrs I have made, Aphra Behn; sonnet XLI, Edna St. Vincent Millay; an answer to a love letter, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; the lady's yes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; remembrance, Emily Bronte; in June and gentle oven, Anne Wilkinson; sonnets 2, 7 and 11, Christina Rossetti; I love you with my life, Michael Field; drawing you heavy with sleep, Sylvia Townsend Warner. Part 2 Motherhood: introduction; before the birth of one of her children, Anne Bradstreet; Calliope in the labour ward, Elaine Feinstein; Orinda upon little Hector Philips, Katherine Philips; maternity, Alice Meynell; maternal grief, Kathleen Raine; mother and poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; parentage, Alice Meynell; the scholar, Frances Cornford; sonnet XXVIII, Eleanor Farjeon; sonnet XII, Elinor Wylie; the modern mother, ?; sick boy, Ann Ridler; child waking, E.J. Scovell; the first year, E.J. Scovell. Part 3 Relations between the sexes: introduction; the wife's lament, trans. Kemp-Malone; the homecoming, Anna Wickham; to the ladies, Lady Mary Chudleigh; the man with a hammer, Anna Wickham; the emulation, Sarah Fyge Egerton; a clever woman, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge; the witch, Adelaide Crapsey; the farmer's bride, Charlotte Mew; a man's requirements, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Maude Clare, Christina Rossetti; the contract, Emily Dickinson; brother and sister sonnets - nos. 1, 5 and 9, George Eliot; woman's song, Sylvia Townsend Warner; marriage and death, E.J. Scovell; an April epithalamium, Anne Stevenson. Part 4 Faith and religion: introduction; psalm 1xxi, Mary Herbert; contemplations, Anne Bradstreet; the soul's home, Anne Collins; in sleep, Alice Meynell; uphill, Christina Rossetti; no coward soul is mine, Emily Bronte; to a friend with a religious vocation, Elizabeth Jennings; now as then, Anne Ridler; early one morning, Sylvia Townsend Warner; those dying then, Emily Dickinson; faith is a fine invention, Emily Dickinson; sonnet LXVIII, Edna Millay; mother, among the dustbins, Stevie Smith; innocent landscape, Elinor Wylie; because I could not stop for death, Emily Dickinson; hymn for Holy deconsecration, Sylvia Townsend Warner. Part 5 Death: introduction; nature's cook, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; the mummy invokes his soul, Michael Field; I heard a fly buzz when I died, Emily Dickinson; Rembrandt's late self-portraits, Elizabeth Jennings; Castle Wood, Emily Bronte; tropical death, Grace Nichols; first death in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Bishop; memorial to D.C., Edna St. Vincent Millay; a dirge, Christina Rossetti; drowning is not so pitiful, Emily Dickinson; Abbey Tomb, Patricia Beer. (Part contents).