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Poems

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    Note on poems: These texts are from the University of Virginia Text Center; they have been alphabetically arranged and copied at this site so that they will be searchable using the search box above.  Links in bold  are page images at the Making of America project.

    Edith Wharton's Verse, 1879-1919, From Various Journals, ed. Judy Boss at the University of Virginia Text Center.
     Edith Wharton's Verses Alphabetically Arranged

    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.
    "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. (text not available)
  •  "The Great Blue Tent." New York Times, 25 Aug. 1915: 10. (text not available)
  • Verses (1878)
  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (1909). HTML at Virginia.
  • Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse (searchable at EWS site)
    • 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