Studies: Joint Memories

Margaret Schuyler Sternbergh wrote these poems over the course of her life. Written at a time when women were meant to be docile and submissive, they reveal a vital and passionate spirit.
They touch on the death of a child, on the joy of love, and the pain of unrequited love, on the wonder of man, and despair at his destructiveness.
They reveal a life-long struggle for justice and goodness.
Not discovered until after her death, the poems are remarkable for their lyrical beauty and intensity of feeling.
They are presented here as a remembrance of her indomitable spirit.