Poetry Codex

American

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1860–1935

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was an American writer and lecturer on women’s rights and social reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut.

She is best known for Women and Economics (1898) and the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper”, and she also published satirical verse in In This Our World (1893).

Poems (163)

  1. A Conservative
  2. Birth
  3. Nature’s Answer
  4. The Commonplace
  5. Homes—A Sestina
  6. A Common Inference
  7. The Rock and the Sea
  8. The Lion Path
  9. Reinforcements
  10. Heroism
  11. Fire with Fire
  12. The Shield
  13. To the Preacher
  14. A Type
  15. Compromise
  16. Part of the Battle
  17. Step Faster, Please
  18. A New Year’s Reminder
  19. Out of Place
  20. Little Cell
  21. The Child Speaks
  22. To a Good Many
  23. How Would You?
  24. A Man Must Live
  25. In Duty Bound
  26. Desire
  27. Why Not?
  28. Out of the Gate
  29. The Modern Skeleton
  30. The Lesson of Death—To S. T. D.
  31. For Us
  32. Thanksgiving
  33. Christmas Hymn
  34. Christmas
  35. The Living God
  36. A Prayer
  37. Give Way!
  38. Thanksgiving Hymn—For California
  39. Christmas Carol—For Los Angeles
  40. New Duty
  41. Seeking
  42. Finding
  43. Too Much
  44. The Cup
  45. What Then?
  46. Our Loneliness
  47. The Keeper of the Light
  48. Immortality
  49. Waste
  50. Wings
  51. The Heart of the Water
  52. The Ship
  53. Among the Gods
  54. Songs
  55. Heaven
  56. Ballad of the Summer Sun
  57. Pioneers
  58. Exiles
  59. A Nevada Desert
  60. Tree Feelings
  61. Monotony—From California
  62. The Beds of Fleur-de-Lys
  63. It Is Good to Be Alive
  64. The Changeless Year—Southern California
  65. Where Memory Sleeps—Rondeau
  66. California Car Windows
  67. Limits
  68. Powell Street
  69. From Russian Hill
  70. An Unusual Rain
  71. The Hills
  72. City’s Beauty
  73. Two Skies—From England
  74. Winds and Leaves—From England
  75. On the Pawtuxet
  76. A Moonrise
  77. Their Grass!—A Protest from California
  78. The Prophets
  79. Similar Cases
  80. An Obstacle
  81. The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
  82. The Sweet Uses of Adversity
  83. Connoisseurs
  84. Technique
  85. The Pastellette
  86. The Pig and the Pearl
  87. Poor Human Nature
  88. Our San Francisco Climate
  89. Criticism
  90. Another Creed
  91. The Little Lion
  92. A Misfit
  93. On New Year’s Day
  94. Our East
  95. Unmentionable
  96. An Invitation from California
  97. Resolve
  98. She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping
  99. To Man
  100. Women of To-day
  101. To the Young Wife
  102. False Play
  103. Motherhood
  104. Six Hours a Day
  105. An Old Proverb
  106. Reassurance
  107. Mother to Child
  108. Services
  109. In Mother-Time
  110. She Who Is to Come
  111. Girls of To-day
  112. We, as Women
  113. If Mother Knew
  114. The Anti-Suffragists
  115. Women Do Not Want It
  116. Wedded Bliss
  117. The Holy Stove
  118. The Mother’s Charge
  119. A Brood Mare
  120. Feminine Vanity
  121. The Modest Maid
  122. Unsexed
  123. Females
  124. A Mother’s Soliloquy
  125. They Wandered Forth
  126. Baby Love
  127. The Wolf at the Door
  128. The Lost Game
  129. The Looker-On
  130. The Old-Time Wail
  131. Free Land Is Not Enough
  132. Who Is to Blame?
  133. If a Man May Not Eat Neither Can He Work
  134. His Own Labor
  135. As Flew the Cross
  136. To Labor
  137. Hardly a Pleasure
  138. Nationalism
  139. The King Is Dead! Long Live the King!
  140. How Many Poor!
  141. The Dead Level
  142. The Cart Before the Horse
  143. The Amœboid Cell
  144. The Survival of the Fittest
  145. Division of Property
  146. Christian Virtues
  147. What’s That?
  148. An Economist
  149. Charity
  150. Coming
  151. Locked Inside
  152. Now
  153. Boys Will Be Boys
  154. For Fear
  155. A Question
  156. The Housewife
  157. Women to Men
  158. The Socialist and the Suffragist
  159. The Malingerer
  160. The “Anti” and the Fly
  161. To the Indifferent Women
  162. Song for Equal Suffrage
  163. Another Star

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