As mother, wife, and authoress-
Thank God, I am content with less!
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Some men break your heart in two,
Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.
Let another cross his way-
Little need I fear he’ll straySince I have his heart in keeping-Let another hail him dear-Little chance that he’ll forget me!Only need I curse and fearHer he loved before he met me.
I never see that prettiest thing-
But what I think, ‘How gay ‘twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.’
Half across the world from me
I, whose longing lives and diesWhere a ship has sailed away;I, that never close my eyesBut to look upon Cathay.Things I may not know nor tellWait, where older waters swell;Ways that flowered at Sappho’s tread,Winds that sighed in Homer’s strings,Vibrant with the singing dead,Golden with the dust of wings.Under deeper skies than mine,Quiet valleys dip…
Go I must along my ways
Dripping bitter through the days,Festering, and jagged.Smile I must at every twinge,Kiss, to time its throbbing;He that tears a heart to fringeHates the noise of sobbing.Weep, my love, till Heaven hears;Curse and moan and languish.While I wash your wound with tears,Ease aloud your anguish.Bellow of the pit in HellWhere you’re made to linger.There and there…
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
So long as I have yesterday,Go take your damned tomorrow!