Purity
20 poems
Whiteness, innocence, the ideal: poems about purity, also to be read with today's eyes. On Loëly.
For A Grotto
Mark Akenside
A brown girl dead
Countee Cullen
Crown 13
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown 3
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown 4
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown 5
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Crown 9
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
Dasahara
Kashiprasad Ghosh
Love Song
Harriet Monroe
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids
William Cullen Bryant
Sleep
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Sonnet 23: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
John Milton
Sonnet 9 : To a Virtuous young Lady
John Milton
The Lily
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
The Little White Hearse
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Night-Blooming Cereus
Harriet Monroe
The Ocean
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Wild Honey-Suckle
Philip Freneau
The Winter Nosegay
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Written to a Young Lady - On entering a Convent
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan