Did early modern women writers write metaphysical poetry? This entry argues that they did, despite recent arguments to the contrary. Focusing on metaphysical poetry, I argue, is the best way of asking broader questions about the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early modern women’s writing: although since the twentieth century metaphysical poetry has been considered more of an aesthetic category, in the seventeenth century “metaphysical poetry” was understood as a kind of poetry that works just as hard to think, to do philosophy, as it does to woo or elicit other emotions. Returning to historical definitions of what makes poetry metaphysical helps us recognize the women writers writing metaphysical poetry who have been artificially excluded from this category. The entry offers examples of women writers whose verse works through philosophical and natural philosophical ideas, who allow us to expand both the metaphysical canon, and the category of “metaphysical” itself.