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Lola Ridge

December 12, 1873 - May 19, 1941

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Poem Title	First Lines	Period	# Lines	# Reads
1: A Memory	I remember		19	86
2: A Toast	Not your martyrs anointed of heaven		28	88
3: A Worn Rose	Where to-day would a dainty buyer		16	90
4: After Storm	Was there a wind?		31	81
5: Altitude	I wonder		11	88
6: An Old Workman	Warped... gland-dry..		6	71
7: Art And Life	When Art goes bounding, lean,		14	97
8: Babel	Oh, God did cunningly, there at Babel		4	100
9: Bowery Afternoon	Drab discoloration		16	83
10: Broadway	Light!		47	91
11: Brooklyn Bridge	Pythoness body - arching			62
12: Cactus Seed	Radiant notes		48	100
13: Comrades	Life		4	85
14: Dawn Wind	Wind, just arisen		23	77
15: Debris	I love those spirits		7	91
16: Dedication	I would be a torch unto your hand,		19	72
17: Dedication (To my Mother)	Let me cradle myself back		11	76
18: Dispossessed	Tender and tremulous green of leaves		20	73
19: Dreams	Men die...		9	86
20: East River	Dour river		7	91
21: Electricity	Out of fiery contacts...		8	80
22: Emma Goldman	How should they appraise you,		8	69
23: Faces	A late snow beats		45	110
24: Flotsam	Crass rays streaming from the vestibules;		78	72
25: Frank Little At Calvary	He walked under the shadow of the Hill		100	74
26: Fuel	What of the silence of the keys		12	76
27: In Harness	The foreman's head		61	80
28: Interim	The earth is motionless		8	69
29: Iron Wine	The ore in the crucible is pungent, smelling like acrid wine,		12	81
30: Jaguar	Nasal intonations of light		29	78
31: Lullaby	Rock-a-by baby, woolly and brown...		32	83
32: Manhattan	Out of the night you burn, Manhattan,		29	72
33: Mother	Your love was like moonlight		52	118
34: Nocturne	Indigo bulb of darkness		17	87
35: North Wind	I love you, malcontent		19	67
36: Palestine	Old plant of Asia		7	72
37: Potpourri	Do you remember		9	81
38: Promenade	Undulant rustlings,		29	91
39: Reveille	Come forth, you workers!		49	115
40: Scandal	Aren't there bigger things to talk about		12	80
41: Secrets	Secrets		18	245
42: Skyscrapers	Skyscrapers... remote, unpartisan...		8	69
43: Sons Of Belial	We are old,		78	74
44: Spires	Spires of Grace Church,		7	85
45: Spring	A spring wind on the Bowery,		41	99
46: Submerged	I have known only my own shallows		13	69
47: Sun-Up	Shadows over a cradle...		900	78
48: Thaw	Blow through me wind		10	87
49: The Destroyer	I am of the wind...		13	80
50: The Dream	I have a dream		17	83
51: The Edge	I thought to die that night in the solitude where they would never find me...		37	68
52: The Everlasting Return	It is dark... so dark, I remember the sun on Chios		82	62
53: The Fiddler	In a little Hungarian cafe		13	65
54: The Fire	The old men of the world have made a fire		16	77
55: The Fog	Out of the lamp-bestarred and clouded dusk -		11	70
56: The Foundling	Snow wraiths circle us		22	91
57: The Garden	Bountiful Givers,		29	75
58: The Ghetto	Cool, inaccessible air		1031	70
59: The Legion Of Iron	They pass through the great iron gates		31	69
60: The Song	That day, in the slipping of torsos and straining flanks on the bloodied ooze of fields plowed by the iron		19	69
61: The Song Of Iron	Not yet hast Thou sounded		125	75
62: The Star	Last night		4	79
63: The Tidings (Easter 1916)	Censored lies that mimic truth...		12	71
64: The Woman With Jewels	The woman with jewels sits in the cafe,		21	76
65: Time-Stone	Hallo, Metropolitan		17	77
66: To Alexander Berkman	Can you see me, Sasha?		36	70
67: To Larkin	Is it you I see go by the window, Jim Larkin		8	75
68: To The American People	Will you feast with me, American People?		7	77
69: To The Others	I see you, refulgent ones,		19	88
70: Train Window	Small towns		17	72
71: Under-Song	There is music in the strong		32	101
72: Wall Street At Night	Long vast shapes... cooled and flushed through with darkness....		8	87
73: Wild Duck	That was a great night we spied upon		37	78
74: Wind Rising In The Alleys	Wind rising in the alleys		9	92

About:
Lola Ridge was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences. She, along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, has been coming under increasing critical scrutiny at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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