Introduction This poem was probably written when Wharton was in her early thirties, but never […]

Introduction Wharton wrote this poem in the spring of 1892, when she was thirty years […]

Introduction Everyone loves a love poem, and Wharton wrote many of them. This sonnet from […]

Introduction This meditation on beauty was occasioned by Wharton’s 1926 travel to Cyprus and Saint […]

Introduction Wharton valued imagination highly, especially in poetry. She also appreciated the sonnet form with […]

Introduction So many of Wharton’s poems are called “song.”  Musicality in verse was important to […]