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Sappho (ca. 620 BCE - ca. 550 BCE)

Greece Love Poetry

Leonidas of Tarentum (ca. 300 BC)

Greece Poetry

Birthday Poem to James Weber Linn, May 11, 1926

Addams writes a poem to mark James Weber Linn's 50th birthday.

Family Poetry Tributes

With My Love as of Old, 1918

A poem about friendship.

Friends Poetry

"Jane Addams," October 8, 1923

Holbrook's poem praises Addams.

Poetry Praise

Sophie Schlarbaum Gibling to Edith Ernestine Longstreth Boyer, December 4, 1923

Gibling sends Boyer copies of a poem about Jane Addams.

Peace Poetry Tributes

Jane Addams to Katharine Lee Bates, May 9, 1922

Addams thanks Bates for sending her poetry book, Yellow Clover: a Book of Remembrance, dedicated to Katharine Coman.

Books Poetry Praise

Jane Addams, August 21, 1915

Bynner published a sonnet in praise of Addams in Harper's Weekly.

Poetry Praise

Whittier Burnet to Jane Addams, February 9, 1920

Burnet sends Addams a poem he wrote after hearing her speak.

Lectures Praise

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Angela Morgan, August 6, 1918

Karsten thanks Morgan for her book of poems that she will keep until Addams returns from her travels.

Poetry Travels

The Colored Preacher On The Wiles of Satan, ca. October 1918

A poem warning about the temptation to avoid work in the summer months.

Morality Poetry Religion

Jane Addams to Harriet Monroe, October 30, 1918

Addams sends a poem to Monroe that she might find interesting.

Poetry

The Passing of the King, November 15, 1915

Culbertson's poem argues that the result of the war will be the passing of monarchy in favor of rule by the people.

Peace Poetry Politics War

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Thomas Curtis Clark, August 2, 1917

Karsten tells Clark that she will pass his poem to Addams on her return.

Poetry

Thomas Curtis Clark to Jane Addams, August 1, 1917

Clark sends Addams a poem inspired by her work at Hull-House.

Charity Poetry Religion

Jane Addams, July 1, 1917

A Müller poem used to describe Jane Addams

Peace Poetry Praise World War I

Vachel Lindsay to Jane Addams, June 26, 1917

Lindsay tells Addams that he has issued a series of war poems and discusses his conflicted thought on it.

Germany Poetry World War I

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to William W. Thompson, April 6, 1917

Karsten thanks Thompson for his letter but returns his poem as they have no capacity to publish it.

Poetry Requests

William W. Thompson to Jane Addams, April 6, 1917

Thompson sends Addams an anti-war poem for publication.

Peace Poetry Requests War

Secretary to Jane Addams to Susie Alice Richardson Radley, May 5, 1917

Jane Addams's secretary sends Radley peace literature and invites her to a meeting of the Chicago branch of the Woman's Peace Party.

Peace Poetry

James Woodburn Hamilton to Jane Addams, November 29, 1916

Woodburn writes to Addams describing a poem written by multiple people and an event involving children of all nationalities in the hopes of promoting world peace.

Internationalism Peace Poetry

A Mother's Heart, 1881

Richepin's ballad centers around a young man and his misguided love.

Love Poetry

Mothers of Men, 1916

An poem that argues against war and its costs and rallies mothers to rise up and stop it.

Internationalism Peace Poetry World War I

Mabel L. Hyers to George Davis Lee, January 26, 1916

Hyers suggests that Lee publish his poems in the Christian Work or Advocate of Peace.

Peace Poetry Requests

Mabel L. Hyers to Caroline Sargent Walter, February 1, 1916

Addams returns a poem to Walter because they do not publish poems.

Peace Poetry

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