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The Things That Matter: An Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry
Gathers religious poetry by Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Brontes, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Stevie Smith
- GenresPoetry
256 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1995
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December 30, 2021
"Out of my sorrow
I´ll build a stair,
And every tomorrow
will climb to me there
with ashes of yesterday
in its hair
My fortune is made
of a stab in the side
my debts are paid
in pennies of pride
Unminted coins
in a heart I hide" Leonora Speyer
This is basically a collection of poetry, mostly about death, by female authors of 19th and 20th century. I liked that with each of them a short introduction about their life was included, but I can´t say I enjoyed all of the poems, especially the religious ones. But some of them I really liked, especially the works of E. Nesbit and Leonora Speyer. They are a bit heavy tho, so I recommend reading only a couple of these poems a day. 3*
I´ll build a stair,
And every tomorrow
will climb to me there
with ashes of yesterday
in its hair
My fortune is made
of a stab in the side
my debts are paid
in pennies of pride
Unminted coins
in a heart I hide" Leonora Speyer
This is basically a collection of poetry, mostly about death, by female authors of 19th and 20th century. I liked that with each of them a short introduction about their life was included, but I can´t say I enjoyed all of the poems, especially the religious ones. But some of them I really liked, especially the works of E. Nesbit and Leonora Speyer. They are a bit heavy tho, so I recommend reading only a couple of these poems a day. 3*
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