The world split open: four centuries of women poets in England and America, 1552-1950

The doubt of future foes; On Monsieur's departure / Queen Elizabeth I

Psalm lii, lvii, lix, lx, lxvii, lxxi, lxxii; The dolefull lay of Clorinda / Mary Sidney Herbert

Orinda upon Little Hector Philips; Orinda to Lucasia; To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship; Parting with Lucasia: a song; Against love; An answer to another persuading a lady to marriage; Upon the double murther of King Charles I, in answer to a libellous copy of rimes by Vavasor Powell / Katherine Philips

Song (I); The soul's home; Song (II) / Anne Collins

The cabal at Nickey Nackeys; Song: Love arm'd; Song: A thousand martyrs I have made; To Alexis in answer to his poem against fruition; The disappointment; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagin'd more than woman; Song: The willing mistriss / Aphra Behn

Upon the saying that my verses were made by another / Anne Killigrew.

A nocturnal reverie; Adam pos'd; Melinda on an insippid beauty; The answer; Ardelia's answer to Ephelia / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Verses addressed to the imitator of the first satire of the second book of Horace; An answer to a love-letter; In answer to a lady who advised retirement / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

I saw thee, child, one summer's day; Light up thy halls! 'Tis closing day; Upon her soothing breast; There let thy bleeding branch atone; To imagination; Remembrance; Death, that struck when I was most confiding; No coward soul is mine; Stanzas / Emily Bronte

Evening solace / Charlotte Bronte

A true dream; Sonnets from the Portuguese: I, V, XXII; To George Sand; The curse; A man's requirements; The cry of the children; Hiram Powers' "Greek slave" / Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Song; Echo; In an artist's studio; The world; Monna innominata: A sonnet of sonnets; A better resurrection; Introspective; Is this the end? / Christina Rossetti

The other side of a mirror; Mortal combat; Eyes; The witch; Regina; Horror / Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Parentage; Saint Catherine of Siena; Maternity; Easter night; A father of women: Ad Sororem E.B.; The Sunderland children; In time of war; To conscripts / Alice Meynell

Art and women / Rachel Annand Taylor

Poems from Holloway Prison

The mothers; In lofty scorn / Sylvia Pankhurst

Gift to a jade; Divorce; Nervous prostration; The economist; Inspiration / Anna Wickham.

Fame; Domus Caedet Arborem; Here lies a prisoner; Again;Rooms / Charlotte Mew

Anne Boleyn's song; Mary Stuart to James Bothwell / Edith Sitwell

Demeter in Sicily / Dorothy Wellesley

Avowal; "In dejection near Naples"; Not an apology / Virginia Moore

Song: Ah, this is not enough, I cry

; You must break through old thought; Children of wealth in your warm nursery; This is the sword / Elizabeth Daryush

The old woman; To J.S. Collis; The sparrow's skull; The Irish patriarch; Maternal love triumphant / Ruth Pitter

Leda; Helen meditates before her portrait as a woman; A shepherd's coat / Lilian Bowes Lyon

I do not want to be your weeping woman / Alison Boodson.

Invocation; Maternal grief; The transit of the gods; Storm; The pythoness; The clue / Kathleen Raine

A dream observed / Anne Ridler

Lament for a dictator / Juanita Peirse

The refugee / Margorie Battcock

The prologue; The flesh and the spirit; Before the birth of one of her children; Some verses upon the burning of our house July 10th, 1966; In honour of that high and mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of happy memory / Anne Bradstreet

On being brought from Africa to America; To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth / Phyllis Wheatley

Weaving / Lucy Larcom

An opium fantasy / Maria White Lowell

No rack can torture me

; He fumbles at your soul; I'm ceded

I've stoppd being their's

; Title divine

is mine!; Witchcraft was hung, in history; I think I was enchanted; Her

"last poems

; I went to thank her

; Publication

is the auction / Emily Dickinson.

Danger; Emigravit / Helen Hunt Jackson

A double standard; The slave mother; Let the light enter / Frances E.W. Harper

The battle hymn of the republic; Furthermore / Julia Ward Howe

Venus of the louvre; The new colossus; Echoes / Emma Lazarus

Solitude / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A flower of mullein; The second wife; I never talk of hunger / Lizette Woodworth Reese

She walketh veiled and sleeping; The anti-suffragists; The prophets / Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Venus transiens; Witch-woman / Amy Lowell

From Patriarchal poetry / Gertrude Stein

The monk in the kitchen; Sonets from a lock box: XIV, XXV, XXXI / Anna Hempstead Branch

Cinquains; Triad; Trapped; Susanna and the elders; Niagara; Expenses; The witch; The lonely death; Blossoming plum and cherry; (Cinquain) To an unfaithful lover / Adelaide Crapsey

The ladder; Salome; Witch! / Leonora Speyer

Palestine; Spires; Amy Lowell; Russian women / Lola Ridge.

Parturition; Love songs: IV, V, VI; Crab-angel / Mina Loy

I sit and sew / Alice Dunbar Nelson

Tenebris; At April; A winter twilight / Angelina Weld Grimke

The heart of a woman; The suppliant; A paradox; Celibacy; Cosmopolite / Georgia Douglas Johnson

Letter to my sister; At the carnival / Anne Spencer

Helen; Eurydice; The walls do not fall: I, XLIII / H.D.

Don't fish in my sea; Sweet rough man / Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

Dirty no gooder blues; Young woman's blues / Bessie Smith

Wild women blues / Ida Cox

Me and my chauffeur blues / Memphis Minnie

Effigy of a nun; Strange victory; Central park at dusk / Sara Teasdale

Prophecy; Sonnet XII; Let no charitable hope; False prophet / Elinor Wylie.

Sonnet xxxi: Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!; Sonnet xli: I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Everyday Alchemy; Image; With child / Genevieve Taggard

Petrograd; Lioness asleep; Nike at the metropolitan; A bull; Epistle to Prometheus, VIII / Babette Deutsch

Helen grown old; Helen, the sad queen; Girl help / Janet Lewis

Hard times cotton mill girls; Hard times in the mill; The lowell factory girl / Anonymous

I am a union woman / Aunt Molly Jackson

I hate the company bosses; Dreadful memories; Old southern town / Sarah Ogan Gunning

All around the jailhouse; The mill mother's lament / Ella May Wiggins

Marriage / Marianne Moore

Denial; Players; Government injunction restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co. / Josephine Miles.

Except ye become; Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end; Ocean fable / Dilys Bennett Laing

Lineage; Dark blood / Margaret Walker

The mother; The birth in a narrow room; Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks

Ann Burlak / Muriel Rukeyser.