Lola Ridge

2 Lola Ridge Poems

Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge, was an Irish poet who studied painting in her youth. She began writing poetry when she was at the Sydney Art School Julien Ashton. Her work was often related to the working classes, and she was politically active in New York.

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A Memory

‘A Memory’ by Lola Ridge describes a speaker’s memories of a specific emotional night she spent with the listener on the shore of a tropic sea.

I remember

The crackle of the palm trees

Over the mooned white roofs of the town…

The shining town…

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The Dream

‘The Dream’ by Ridge starkly depicts nature’s loss to pollution, with industrial smog overshadowing the sun and silencing the sea.

I have a dream

to fill the golden sheath

of a remembered day . . . .

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