Poems

Works by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
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 Edith Wharton's Verses Alphabetically Arranged

Poems included in Verses (1878) (not online; available in Edith Wharton: Selected Poems, ed. Louis Auchincloss)

Sonnets
            I. Le Viol d’Amour
            II. Vespers
            III. Bettine to Goethe
Spring Song
Prophecies of Summer
Song (“O Love, where are the hours fled”)
Heaven
“Maiden, Arise”
Spring
May Marian
Opportunities
“The Last Token”
Raffaele to the Fornarina
Chriemhild of Burgundy
Some Woman to Some Man
Lines on Chaucer
What We Shall Say Fifty Years Hence, of Our Fancy-Dress Quadrille
Nothing More
June and December
October
A woman I know
Daisies
Impromptu
Notre Dame des Fleurs
Translations from the German (Three Songs from the German of Emanuel Geibel)
Longing (From the German of Schiller)
A Song (From the German of Ruckert)


Aeropagus."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Mar. 1880): 335.
"All Souls." Scribner's Magazine 45 (Jan. 1909): 22-23.
"Artemis to Actaeon." Scribner's Magazine 31 (June 1902): 661-62.
"An Autumn Sunset" Scribner's Magazine 16 (Oct. 1894): 419. An Autumn Sunset
"Battle Sleep." Century Magazine 90 (Sept. 1915): 736.
"Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre." Scribner's Magazine 9 (Jan. 1891): 74.Botticelli's Madonna In The Louvre
"The Bread of Angels." Harper's Magazine 105 (Sept. 1902): 583-85.
"Chartres" Scribner's Magazine 14 (Sept. 1893): 287.Chartres
"The Comrade." Atlantic Monthly 106 (Dec. 1910): 785-87. 
"Euryalus."Atlantic Monthly 64 (Dec. 1889): 761.Euryalus
"Experience." Scribner's Magazine 13 (Jan. 1893): 91.Experience (MOA)
"A Failure" Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 464-65.
"Happiness" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Dec. 1889): 715.Happiness 
"Jade" Century Magazine 49 (Jan. 1895): 391.Jade (MOA)
"The Last Giustianini" Scribner's Magazine 6 (Oct. 1889): 405-06. The Last Giustiniani 
"Life"Scribner's Magazine 15 (June 1894): 739. Life (MOA)
"Life" Atlantic Monthly 102 (Oct. 1908): 501-04. 
"Moonrise Over Tyringham." Century Magazine 76 (July 1908): 356-57.
"Mould and Vase." Atlantic Monthly 88 (Sept. 1901): 343.
"Ogrin the Hermit." Atlantic Monthly 104 (Dec. 1909): 844-48
"The Old Pole Star." Scribner's Magazine 43 (Jan. 1908): 68.
"'On Active Service'; American Expeditionary Force (R. S., August 12, 1918)." Scribner's Magazine 64 (Nov. 1918): 619.
"The One Grief." Scribner's Magazine 24 (July 1898): 90.
"The Parting Day."Atlantic Monthly 45 (Feb. 1880): 194.
"The Parting Day" (MOA) 
"Patience"Atlantic Monthly 45 (April 1880): 548-49.
"Phaedra"Scribner's Magazine 23 (Jan. 1898): 68.
"Pomegranate Seed." Scribner's Magazine 51 (Mar. 1912): p284-91
"The Sonnet."Century Magazine 43 (Nov. 1891): 113.The Sonnet 
"Summer Afternoon (Bodiam Castle, Sussex)." Scribner's Magazine 49 (Mar. 1911): 277-78.
"Terminus"
"The Tomb of Ilaria Giunigi."Scribner's Magazine 9 (Feb. 1891): 156 The Tomb Of Ilaria Giunigi 
"A Torchbearer." Scribner's Magazine 33 (April 1903): 504-05. 
"Two Backgrounds" (LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR. and MONA LISA) Scribner's Magazine 12 (Nov. 1892): 550. Two Backgrounds (MOA)
"Uses." Scribner's Magazine 31 (Feb. 1902): 180.
"Vesalius in Zante. (1564)" North American Review 175 (Nov. 1902): 625-31.
"You and You; to the American private in the great war." Scribner's Magazine 65 (Feb. 1919): 152-153.
"Wants"Atlantic Monthly 45 (May 1880): 599.
"With the Tide." Saturday Evening Post 191, 29 Mar. 1919: 8. 
"The Hymn of the Lusitania."New York Herald, 7 May 1915: 1. New icon
"The Great Blue Tent." New York Times, 25 Aug. 1915: 10.

  • Verses (1878)
  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909)
  • Artemis to Actaeon page images of the first edition at Google Books
  • Contents: Part I -- 
     

    ARTEMIS TO ACTAEON 3
    LIFE 7
    VESALIUS IN ZANTE 14
    MARGARET OF CORTONA 24
    A TORCHBEARER 32

    Part II -- 

    THE MORTAL LEASE 37
    EXPERIENCE 45
    GRIEF 47
    CHARTRES 49
    TWO BACKGROUNDS 51
    THE TOMB OF ILARIA GIUNIGI 53
    THE ONE GRIEF 54
    THE EUMENIDES 55

    Part III -- 

    ORPHEUS 59
    AN AUTUMN SUNSET 66
    MOONRISE OVER TYRINGHAM 68
    ALL SOULS 72
    ALL SAINTS 76
    THE OLD POLE STAR 79
    A GRAVE 81
    NON DOLET! 83
    A HUNTING-SONG 85
    SURVIVAL 87
    USES 88
    A MEETING 89

     

    Contents of Twelve Poems (1926) (not online except "With the Tide"; available in Edith Wharton: Selected Poems, ed. Louis Auchincloss)

    Nightingales in Provence
    Mistral in the Maquis
    Les Salettes
    Dieu d’Amour
    Segesta
    The Tryst
    Battle Sleep
    Elegy
    With the Tide
    La folle du logis
    The First Year
    Alternative Epitaphs

    Uncollected Poems 1879-1938 (online as listed above; most available only in Edith Wharton: Selected Poems, ed. Louis Auchincloss)

    Uncollected poems (in Auchincloss)
    Only a Child
    The Parting Day
    Areopagus
    Euralus
    Happiness
    Botticelli’s Madonna in the Louvre
    The Sonnet
    The Last Giustiniani
    Life
    Jade
    Phaedra
    Mould and Vase
    The Bread of Angels
     Ogrin the Hermit
    Summer Afternoon
    High Pasture
    Belgium
    The Hymn of the Lusitania
    The Great Blue Tent
    “On Active Service”
    You and You
    Lyrical Epigrams
    Garden Valedictory
    Had I Been Only
    Treasure

    Manuscript Poems 1881-1915
    Intense Love’s Utterance
    Song (“Mirth of life’s blooming time”)
    Gifts
    October in Newport
    Cynthia
    “O Love, let the world for once go by”
    “When I am gone, recall my hair”
    Senlis
    The Coming of the God
    Terminus
    “She said to me: ‘Nay, take my body and eat’”
    Ex Tenebrae
    Restoration
    The Room
    Ramboullet
    “You come between me & the night”
    Beumetz, February 23, 1915