– Happy International Woman’s Day!


Poems by Women – BALLAD by Harriet Prescott Spofford [1835-1921]


In the summer even, While yet the dew was hoar, I went plucking purple pansies, Till my love should come to shore. The fishing-lights their dances Were keeping out at sea, And come, I sung, my true love! Come hasten home to me! But the sea, it fell a-moaning, And the white gulls rocked thereon; […]

A Woman’s Shortcomings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1846)


She has laughed as softly as if she sighed, She has counted six, and over, Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried — Oh, each a worthy lover! They “give her time”; for her soul must slip Where the world has set the grooving; She will lie to none with her fair […]

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou


  Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. […]

Women – by Louise Bogan


  Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread. They do not see cattle cropping red winter grass, They do not hear Snow water going down under culverts Shallow and clear. They wait, when they should turn to journeys, They […]

Woman’s Day Poems – Woman by Ella Wheeler Wilcox


  Strange are the ways that her feet have trod Since first she was set in the path of duty, Finished and fair by the hand of God, To carry her message of love and beauty. Delicate creature of light and shade, She gleamed like an opal, on wide worlds under: And earth looked up […]