A Married State
by Katherine Philips
This poem, A Married State by Katherine Philips, is quite shocking for its time period. Philips lived in the seventeenth
Dialogue of Friendship Multiply’d
by Katherine Philips
‘Dialogue of Friendship Multiply’d’ by Katherine Philips contains the dialogue between two women, one of whom wishes to begin a friendship with the other.
Orinda to Lucasia
by Katherine Philips
‘Orinda to Lucasia’ by Katherine Philips describes the importance and intensity of the relationship she holds with her close friend, Anne Owens.
OBSERVE the weary birds ere night be done,
How they would fain call up the tardy sun,
With feathers hung with dew,
And trembling voices too.
To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship
by Katherine Philips
‘To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship’ by Katherine Philips describes the relationship that existed between the poet and her friend Anne Owens.
I did not live until this time
Crowned my felicity,
When I could say without a crime,
I am not thine, but thee.
