Love Letter / Carole Gregory
Tam Lin's Lady / Liz Lochhead
If You Want Me To Stay With You / Natalie Barney
Black Woman / Naomi Long Madgett
Sonnet 22 (from the Portugese)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eurydice I, VII / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
From: "What Does Your Color red Look Like?" / Sonja Akesson
Lament For a Husband / Buin Tribe
Ballygrand Widow / Deborah Randell
Pretty I Am, But I Am Wretched / Anon [Provencal]
A Letter to Dafnis April 2nd 1685 / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Zorro Man / Maya Angelou
What Idiots Lovers Are / Judith Kazantzis
I must Sing of That / La Comtesse de Dia
Teaching to Shoot / Valentine Ackland
Labysheedy / Nuala Ni Dhomnaill
Stanzas For the Harp / Anon [Welsh]
Little-Bitty Man / Alfonsina Storni
Magnificat / Michele Roberts
Love Poem Growing Down / Christian McEwen
Love Story? (Part 2) / Marsha Prescod
I Hear That Andromedia / Sappho
The House of the Apple-Trees / Alice Milligan
The Shirt of a Lad / Anon [Welsh]
The Length of an Arm / Melanie Silgardo
Farwell to a Trappist / Lucy Boston
From A Satirical Romance / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
You Loved Me / Marina Tsvetaeva
The Mistress to Her Lover / Jan Montefiore
Adolescence 1 / Ritz Dove
The Jackfruit / Ho Xuan Huong
When My Desire / Ono no Komachi
Dawn Song / Anon [French]
Constantly / Adrienne Greer
Sonnet / Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Love and Friendship / Emily Bronte
Revelation / Edith Sodergran
Are Flowers Whores? / Elizabeth Smart
Alter! When the Hills Do / Emily Dickinson
"Honestly, I Wish I were Dead!" / Sappo
Think Lang / Marion Angus
I Think Table and I Say Chair / Gloria Fuertes
August Night / Sara Teasdale
Signs / Alejandra Pizarnik
To My dear and Loving Husband / Anne Bradstreet
For Me From You / Rita Anyiam St John
The Wedding / Maria Banus
Couple / Fough Farrokhzad
Affections Must Not / Denise Riley
From A Satirical Romance / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
In a Dream / Eleni Fourtouni
Lolotte, Who Attires My Hair / Jessie Redmon Fauset
Little Lion Face / May Swenson
First Born / Katherine Gallagher /
Julian of Norwich / Kathleen Jamie
From Confrontations With the Devil in the Form of Love / Judy Grahn
Me and My Chauffeur Blues / Memphis Minnie
Varick Street / Elizabeth Bishop
That Spring Night I Spent / Lady Suo
To the Fair Clorinda / Aphra Behn
Our Bodies / Denise Levertov
After Love / Manine Kumin
Music / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
To the Sphinx / Silvia Dobson
A Double Standard / Frances E.W. Harper
Love Amidst the War / Jean Binta Breeze
Illiterate / Shadab Vajdi
Invitation / Anon [Cretan]
Fire Roses / Cynthia Fuller
Fog and the Fire-Hose / Nina Solomon
The Weaver-Girl / Medbh Mc Guckian
From Poem of the End / Marina Tsvetaeva
You Thought I Was That Type / Anna Akhmatova
These Several Selves / Joanne Kyger
Light Up Thy Halls! Tis Closing Day / Emily Bronte
The Lion in Love / Marianne Moore
Futility / Helene Johnson
And Sunday Morning / Christian McEwen
Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie / Margaret Walker
A Sweet Thing is Marriage / Christine de Pisan
Echo / Christina Rossetti
Dark Mothers / Anne Cluyseraar
Theme and Variations 2 / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Young Snail / Meena Alexander
The Return / Nika Turbina
Come Back Safely / Sylva Gaboudikan
Beginning With a Stain / Alice Notley
Inanna and the Divine Essences / Enheduanna
Marriage and Death / E.J. Scovell
From The Kiss / Carlyle Reedy
Conversation By the Body's Light / Jane Cooper
On Spadina Avenue / Emily Grosholz
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Ironing Their Clothes / Julia Alvarez
My Car Slides off the Road / Sarah Gorham
Talking to Myself / Kiki Dimoula
Lullaby for My Mother / Blaga Dimitrova
From Crowbar / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rain / Diana Der Hovanessian
Loving My Enemies / Anna Kamienska
Stump Cross-The Long Wait / Geraldine Monk
Out the You of Yesterday / Liliane Lijn
More Astonishing / Khosrovidought Koghnatsi
Expecting the Lord / Anne Griffiths
In Praise of Virginity / Hroswitha
El Beso / Angelina Weld Grimke
Looking at Each Other / Muriel Rukeyser
The Victory / Anna Stevenson
Now That I am Forever With Child / Audre Lorde
Small Splinters From My Cheek / Doina Uricariu
Zoo Keeper's Wife / Sylvia Plath
A Light Left On / May Sarton
Homing Coming / U.A. Fanthorpe
For Our Lady / Sonia Sanchez
From Letter a Far Country / Gillian Clarke
Black Love / Gwendolyn Brooks
How Gentle / Joyce Carol Oates
Long Time Coming / Daphne Marlatt
An Old Man Remembers / Frances Horovitz
All Day the Light is Clear / Tess Gallagher
WinterMusik / Sarah Kirsch
2 Wren Street / Christian McEwen
Mental France / Molly Peacock
Intention to Escape From Him / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Languedocienne / Marilyn Hacker
From Twenty-One Love Poems, II / Adrianne Rich
Traces, Fine Bird Prints / Lilian Mohin
From Love Songs to Joannes / Mina Loy
The Bride's Night in a Strange Village / Helen Dunmore
Visibility / Maura Stanton
Bride: Maidenhood, Maidenhood / Sappho
Dirty No Gooder Blues / Bessie Smith
The Heart of a Woman / Georgia Johnson
At April /Angelina Weld Grimke
Profil Perdu / Elizabeth Spires
From Metamorphopsia / Norma Cole
Tell Me, Love / Ingeborg Bachmann
Wedding, at Aughrim / Catherine Byron
The Rain / Solveig Von Schoultz
Himalayan Balsam / Anne Stevenson
White World / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
Sleeping Beauty / Olga Broumas
A Love Like War / Ruth Asher-Pettipher
Vicious Circle / Marsha Prescod
One Perfect Rose / Dorothy Parker
I Go to Meet Him / Grace Nichols
Monna Innominata, 4 / Christina Rossetti
From Twenty-One Love Poems, III / Adrienne Rich
Under the Sudden Blue / Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sundaysong / Liz Lochhead
A Lovely Song for Jackson / V.R. Lang
Nothing is Sweeter Than Eros / Nossis
Theme and Variations, 1 / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet / Bernadette Mayer
Touche / Jessie Redmon Fauset
Descendant / Elisaveta Bagriana
The Turkish Bakery / [Unknown] Kisaeng
I See, I See the Crescent Moon / Anna Akhmatova
Get It & Feel Good / Ntozake Shange
Eventual Proteus / Margaret Atwood
But I Too, Want to be a Poet / Fanny Howe
Wild Women Blues / Ida Cox
Sisters / Lucille Clifton
From The Lament for Arthur O'Leary / Eibhlin Dhubh ni Chonaill
Poem for Francis Harvey / Madge Herron
A Man's Requirements / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love Note, I Surely / Gwendolyn Brooks
It Is Pleasing / Sulpicia
Don't Fish in My Sea / Ma Rainey
Drawing You, Heavy With Sleep / Sylvia Townsend Warner
On the Road to the Sea / Charlotte Mew
Sisters in Arms / Audre Lorde
From Courtly Love / Micheline Wandor
You Are Alone My Evil and My Good / Louise Labe
The Star Field / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Love is a Wound Within the Body / Marie de France
Did This Happen to Your Mother? / Alice Walker
From You I Have Understood / Eunice de Souza
Chapter 3 / Song of Solomon
From A Sonatina Followed by Another / Gertrude Stein
Finally a Love Has Come / Sulpicia
Meeting You at an Underground Station / Gillian Allnutt
Auld Robin Gray / Lady Anne Lindsay
Extraterrestrail / Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Nervous Prostration / Anna Wickham
Ah, Teneriffe / Emily Dickinson
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown / Louise Labe
On Monsieur's Departure / Elizabeth I
The Unequal Fetters / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
To the Tune 'Red / Huang O
I Cut in Two / Hwang-Chin-i
From Vivre L'orange / Helene Cixous
Light of My Life / Sulpicia
The Sisters / Alexis de Veaux
Though I am Laila of the Persian Romance / Princess Zeb-un-Nissa
Jade, or the Medea Within Us / Patricia Vincinelli
The Lover / Solveig Von Schoultz
The Disappointment / Aphra Behn
An Answer to Another Persuading a Lady yo Marriage / Katherine Philips
Paris Aubade / Susan Ludvigson
Where Does This Tenderness Come From? / Marina Tsvetaeva
To One That Asked Me Why I Loved J.G. / 'Ephelia'
What the Bones Know / Carolyn Kizer
What is Tomorrow? / Edith Sodergram
For the Couttesan Ch'ing Lin / Wu Tsao
Desire / Shushanig Gourghenia
Fragment thirty-six / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
Meanwhile Cesario Dancing / Helen Kidd
He is More Than a Hero / Sappho
Werena My Heart's Light / Lady Grisel Baillie
When I Hear Your Name / Gloria Fuertes
Rose Solitude / Jayne Cortez
To the Spider in the Crevice / Behind the Toilet Door / Janet Sutherland
The Incantation / Sarah Kirsch
Chant for Dark Hours / Emily Dickinson
Lines to a Nasturtium / Anne Spencer
To a Dark Girl / Gwendolyn Bennett
Will Ye No Come Back Again? / Lady Caroline Nairne
Sonnet VI / Caroline Norton
To My excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship / Katherine Philips