| Anne Bradstreet |
| The Prologue |
| The Author to Her Book |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband |
| Before the Birth of One of Her Children |
| Mercy Otis Warren |
| To an Amiable Friend Mourning the Death of an Excellent Father |
| Ann Eliza Bleecker |
| Return to Tomhanick |
| An Evening Prospect |
| Phillis Wheatley |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America |
| "To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works" |
| On Imagination |
| On the Death of the Rev. Mr George Whitefield-1770 |
| An Hymn to the Evening |
| Sarah Wentworth Morton |
| The African Chief |
| Susanna Haswell Rowson |
| "America, Commerce, and Freedom" |
| To Time |
| Song |
| Emma Hart Willard |
| Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep |
| Sarah Josepha Hale |
| The Watcher |
| Lydia Huntley Sigourney |
| Indian Names |
| To the First Slave Ship |
| The Indidan's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers |
| Lines |
| The Bell of the Wreck |
| Maria Gowen Brooks |
| Stanzas |
| Song |
| Lydia Maria Child |
| The World I am Passing Through |
| The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day |
| Sarah Helen Whitman |
| To Edgar Allan Poe |
| To - |
| Sonnet V |
| The Morning-Glory |
| Emma C. Embury |
| The Widow's Wooer |
| Love Unsought |
| A Portrait |
| Elizabeth Oakes-Smith |
| Ode to Sappho |
| The Drowned Mariner |
| Lucretia Davidson |
| On the Birth of Her Sister Margaret |
| America |
| Margaret Fuller |
| Flaxman |
| Instrumental Music |
| Elizabeth Clementine Kinney |
| A Dream |
| Frances Sargent Osgood |
| Ellen Learning to Walk |
| A Dancing Girl |
| Ah! Woman Still |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The Other World |
| Mary E. Hewitt |
| Imitation of Sappho |
| Harold the Valiant |
| Julia Ward Howe |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic |
| My Last Dance |
| Woman |
| The Burial of Schlesinger |
| Alice Cary |
| The Sea-Side Cave |
| To Solitude |
| Fanny Crosby |
| Voice of the Flowers |
| The Dead Child |
| Phoebe Cary |
| Nearer Home |
| Advice Gratis to Certain Women |
| Lucy Larcom |
| Plant a |
| A Strip of Blue |
| Frances E. W. Harper |
| Learning to Read |
| The Slave Mother |
| The Slave Auction |
| A Double Standard |
| She's Free! |
| Ethel Lynn Beers |
| "All quiet along the Potomac" |
| Rose Terry Cooke |
| Bluebeard's Closet |
| Segovia and Madrid |
| Helen Hunt Jackson |
| My Lighthouses |
| Poppies on the Wheat |
| Emily Dickinson |
| "Success is counted sweetest" |
| "Wild nights! Wild nights!" |
| "A wounded deer leaps highest" |
| "Hope is the thing with feathers" |
| "There's a certain slant of light" |
| "I felt a funeral in my brain" |
| "I'm nobody! Who are you?" |
| "He fumbles at your spirit" |
| "A bird came down the walk" |
| "This is my letter to the world" |
| "I heard a fly buzz when I died" |
| "Because I could not stop for Death" |
| "If I can stop one heart from breaking" |
| "A narrow fellow in the grass" |
| "I never saw a moor" |
| "There is no frigate like a book" |
| "My life closed twice before its close" |
| Nora Perry |
| The Love-Knot |
| Louisa May Alcott |
| Thoreau's Flute |
| Mary Ashley Townsend |
| Creed |
| Virtuosa |
| Her Horoscope |
| A Georgia Volunteer |
| Elizabeth Akers Allen |
| Rock Me to Sleep |
| Celia Thaxter |
| Seaward |
| The Sandpiper |
| Louise Chandler Moulton |
| To-Night |
| Louisa May Alcott |
| A Painted Fan |
| Augusta Cooper Bristol |
| Night |
| The Crime of the Ages |
| Sarah Morgan Piatt |
| Giving Back the Flower |
| My Babes in the Wood |
| Transfigured |
| Charlotte L. Forten Grimké |
| Poem |
| A Parting Hymn |
| Mary Mapes Dodge |
| The Minuet |
| Now the Noisy Winds Are Still |
| Emerson |
| Margaret E. Sangster |
| A Song for Our Flag |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson |
| Love Unexpressed |
| Yellow Jessamine |
| Ina Donna Coolbrith |
| When the Grass Shall Cover Me |
| Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Fruitionless |
| Emma Lazarus |
| The New Colossus |
| 1492 |
| Echoes |
| The South |
| Gifts |
| The New Ezekiel |
| Sarah Orne Jewett |
| A Caged |
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| Solitude |
| Individuality |
| Friendship After Love |
| Delilah |
| Rose Hartwick Thorpe |
| Curfew Must Not Ring To-Night |
| Rose Hawthorne Lathrop |
| A Song Before Grief |
| Kate Nichols Trask |
| Sorrow |
| Aidenn |
| Edith M. Thomas |
| The Mother Who Died Too |
| Winter Sleep |
| Lizette Woodworth Reese |
| One Night |
| Tears |
| Spicewood |
| Katharine Lee Bates |
| America the Beautiful |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| A Common Inference |
| The Beds of Fleur-de-lys |
| A Conservative |
| Harriet Monroe |
| To W. S. M. |
| A Farewell |
| Love Song |
| Washington |
| Lincoln |
| Democracy |
| Louise Imogen Guiney |
| The Wild Ride |
| At a Symphony |
| Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson |
| Any Woman to a Soldier |
| Edith Wharton |
| The Last Giustiniani |
| Life |
| With the Tide |
| Willa Cather |
| "Grandmither, think not I forget" |
| A Likeness |
| Jospehine Preston Peabody |
| Prelude |
| Rubric |
| The Nightingale Unheard |
| Amy Lowell |
| The Letter |
| Venus Transiens |
| The Garden by Moonlight |
| The Taxi |
| Patterns |
| A Winter Ride |
| Opal |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson |
| Sonnet |
| I Sit and Sew |
| Anna Hempstead Branch |
| "Grieve Not, Ladies" |
| Songs for My Mother |
| Sara Teasdale |
| Barter |
| The Look |
| The Kiss |
| I Shall Not Care |
| The Wind |
| The Answer |
| Appraisal |
| The Solitary |
| Sappho |
| Elinor Wylie |
| Beauty |
| The Eagle and the Mole |
| Velvet Shoes |
| Let No Charitable Hope |
| Pretty Words |
| Hazel Hall |
| White Branches |
| Instruction |
| Hilda Doolittle |
| Oread |
| Sea Poppies |
| Sheltered Garden |
| Heat |
| Helen |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson |
| The Heart of a Woman |
| Marianne Moore |
| Poetry |
| Sojourn in the Whale |
| Roses |
| To a Steam Roller |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| First Fig |
| Renascence |
| God's World |
| Wild Swans |
| Pity Me Not |
| "Into the golden vessel of great song" |
| "I, being born a woman and distressed" |
| "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" |
| "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" |
| Dorothy Parker |
| One Perfect Rose |
| Unfortunate Coincidence |
| Genevieve Taggard |
| For Eager Lovers |
| Louise Bogan |
| Medusa |
| Women |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Jessie Mitchell's Mother |
| Sylvia Plath |
| Daddy |
| Lady Lazarus |
| Alphabetical List of Poets |
| Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines |