And Other Poems.
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WOMAN’S RIGHTS.
SOME people think that women should
Compete in life’s swift race
With men, and gain each privilege,
Position, power, and place
Which he enjoys. I can’t agree
With those progressive lights;
I’ll tell you what appears to me
To be fair woman’s rights.
Compete in life’s swift race
With men, and gain each privilege,
Position, power, and place
Which he enjoys. I can’t agree
With those progressive lights;
I’ll tell you what appears to me
To be fair woman’s rights.
When passion’s young ecstatic fire
First kindles in our veins,
’Tis woman’s right to bind our hearts
In Cupid’s rosy chains;
She wields a queenly sceptre then,
Which we must needs obey,
We’re building castles in the night
And dreaming all the day.
First kindles in our veins,
’Tis woman’s right to bind our hearts
In Cupid’s rosy chains;
She wields a queenly sceptre then,
Which we must needs obey,
We’re building castles in the night
And dreaming all the day.
’Tis woman’s right to be caressed
When love is in the spring,
And when affection’s harvest comes,
Her right it is to bring
The garnered fruits of happiness
To cheer man’s dreary way,
To smooth his rougher nature,
And refine his coarser clay.
When love is in the spring,
And when affection’s harvest comes,
Her right it is to bring
The garnered fruits of happiness
To cheer man’s dreary way,
To smooth his rougher nature,
And refine his coarser clay.
’Tis woman’s right to wean us from
Our selfishness and greed,
A counsellor in trouble and
A faithful friend in need.
Our selfishness and greed,
A counsellor in trouble and
A faithful friend in need.
