Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and an advocate of free love. This collection of poems published in 1927 explores women’s position in society, parenthood, bereavement and religious belief. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)
Chapters
1 The Pale Woman 2 min 2 To the Soul 1 min 3 Comet Motion 1 min 4 Man Fears Wise Women 1 min 5 Resolve 1 min 6 Could You Not Watch with Me One Little Hour? 1 min 7 Bird of Prey 1 min 8 Mary Magdalene to Her Unborn Child 5 min 9 The Passing 2 min 10 Woman in Black 1 min 11 Load 1 min 12 Challenge to a Modernist 1 min 13 The Apple 1 min 14 Search 2 min 15 Had We Not Clutched Love Flying by 2 min 16 Song 1 min 17 Relativity 1 min 18 Regiven 3 min 19 Sorcery 1 min 20 Not Dante Only 1 min 21 Lovers 2 min 22 Spinster 1 min 23 A Quiet Soul 2 min 24 Successful Pessimist 1 min 25 Lisa 2 min 26 Poets' Child 2 min 27 Quaker Pagan 1 min 28 Kay 2 min 29 Crescendo 4 min 30 The Great Gift 2 min 31 Riddle 1 min 32 The Icy One 2 min 33 Entities 1 min 34 The Windy Hour 2 min 35 Never to Know 1 min 36 We Whom the Dead Have Not Forgiven 2 min 37 Systole! Diastole! 1 min 38 Wind and Water 1 min 39 Church Yards 1 min 40 Sum 1 min 41 Invisible Motion 1 min 42 Pegasus 1 min 43 To a Freed Martyr 1 min 44 But Beauty Endures 1 min 45 Mother and Child 1 min 46 Revelation 1 min 47 My City 1 min 48 Toward Space 1 min
