Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

• Poems of Emily Dickinson

In vain you try

To smother my song:

A million children

In chorus sing it

Beneath the sun!

- Gabriel Mistral

Lone in the light of that magical grove,
I felt the stars of the spirits of Love
Gather and gleam round my delicate youth,
And I heard the song of the spirits of Truth;
To quench my longing I bent me low
By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.

- Sarojini Naidu

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

- Maya Angelou

• Female Poets at Poetseers

I watched a rosebud very long

Brought on by dew and sun and shower,

Waiting to see the perfect flower:

Then, when I thought it should be strong,

It opened at the matin hour

And fell at evensong.

- Christina Rossetti

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