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Authors: Susan L. Rattiner
Great Poems by American Women (23 page)
To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
To Solitude
To the First Slave Ship
To Time
To W. S. M.
Transfigured
Trying to open locked doors with a sword, threading
'Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land
'Twas summer, and the spot a cool retreatâ
Tying her bonnet under her chin
Unfortunate Coincidence
Vainly my heart had with thy sorceries striven
Velvet Shoes
Venus Transiens
Very soon the Yankee teachers
Virtuosa
Voice of the Flowers
Washington
Watcher, The
We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone
We, sighing, said, “Our Pan is dead
We took it to the woods, we two
What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
What songs found voice upon those lips
When dreaming kings, at odds with swift-paced time
When I am dead and over me bright April
When I consider Life and its few years
When I go away from you
When I go back to earth
When the grass shall cover me
When the peach ripens to a rosy bloom
When Winter's royal robes of white
Whirl up, sea
White Branches
Who shall declare the joy of the running!
Widow's Wooer, The
Wild nights! Wild nights!
Wild Ride, The
Wild Swans
Wind, The
Winter Ride, A
Winter Sleep
With the Tide
Woman
Women
Women have no wilderness in them
Words, words
World I Am Passing Through, The
Ye have a kind voice, sweet flowers!
Yellow Jessamine
Ye say they all have passed away
Yes, Nightingale, through all the summer-time
You are ice and fire
You do not do, you do not do
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than
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This poem was written the day after Theodore Roosevelt died.