Winged Words: An Anthology of Victorian Women's Poetry and VerseCatherine W. Reilly Enitharmon, 1994 - 174 pages Victorian women poets have been constantly overshadowed by their male counterparts, but now Catherine Reilly has redressed the balance with this meticulously researched and richly varied anthology of poems by sixty-eight Victorian women. Alongside such famous names as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti are dozens of fine but unfamiliar poets whose work touches on birth and death, love and friendship, family relationships, work and leisure, peace and war, nature and the seasons, the country and the town. |
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Page 44
... soul life's shadows pass , Girl in the glass . Girl in the glass , an April day had ! Looks not more tearful , looks not more gay Than your rose - flushed face with the wistful mouth . For your soul seeks Love as a swallow flies south ...
... soul life's shadows pass , Girl in the glass . Girl in the glass , an April day had ! Looks not more tearful , looks not more gay Than your rose - flushed face with the wistful mouth . For your soul seeks Love as a swallow flies south ...
Page 65
... soul . Then like a milky way of many stars , The manifold pale fires are brought to birth , And men grope blindly against iron bars , And pain and disappointment walk the earth . The Weaver I was the child that passed long hours away ...
... soul . Then like a milky way of many stars , The manifold pale fires are brought to birth , And men grope blindly against iron bars , And pain and disappointment walk the earth . The Weaver I was the child that passed long hours away ...
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... soul that grieves , And I shall shield thine eyes , With glossy fans of magnolia leaves , From starlight in the skies , While all the cares of the angry hosts That stalk thy soul by day Between the trees , like wandering ghosts , Shall ...
... soul that grieves , And I shall shield thine eyes , With glossy fans of magnolia leaves , From starlight in the skies , While all the cares of the angry hosts That stalk thy soul by day Between the trees , like wandering ghosts , Shall ...
Contents
Introduction by Catherine Reilly | 1 |
LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON | 7 |
Often Rebukeď | 14 |
Copyright | |
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