Poems from the Public Domain
In addition to sharing my original poems, sharing poems from the public domain is a vital part of my broader project. Here’s why:
Here are the public domain poems I’ve shared here thus far (in descending order by date shared), many of which are by queer poets. Love, 💜thepoetmiranda📚
“Bury Me in a Free Land” by Francis E.W. Harper
“Not They Who Soar” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“In the Heart of a Rose” by George Marion McClellan
“A Valentine” by Priscilla Jane Thompson
“The Radical” by Waring Cuney
“Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas” by Gwendolyn Bennett
“As I Grew Older” by Langston Hughes
“The Witch” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
“[Dear March—Come In—]” by Emily Dickinson
“Why We Oppose Pockets for Women” by Alice Duer Miller
“A Song On Grief” by Anne Finch
“Reveille” by Lola Ridge
“On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792” by Anna Barbauld
“[plants don’t talk, people say]” by Rosalia de Castro (translated by Doris Earnshaw)
“El Beso” by Angelina Weld Grimké
“Escape” by Rufino Blanco Fombona
“The Pedler” by Charlotte Mew
“[Song of Myself]” [1]-[2] by Walt Whitman