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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JANE ADDAMS, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember botticelli's fortitude
Last Line: "are, ""what is that to thee?"" and ""feed my sheep!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Reform And Reformers
First Line: Remember botticelli's fortitude
Last Line: "are, ""what is that to thee?"" and ""feed my sheep!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs.
Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Reform And Reformers
Remember Botticelli's Fortitude
In the Uffizi? -- The worn, waiting face;
The pale, fine-fibred hands upon the mace;
The brow's serenity, the lips that brood,
The vigilant, tired patience of her mood?
There was a certain likeness I could trace
The day I heard her in a country place,
Talking to knitting women about Food.
Through cool statistics glowed the steady gleam
Of that still undismayed, interned desire;
But -- strength and stay, and deeper than the dream --
The two commands that she is pledged to keep
In the red welter of a world on fire,
Are, "What is that to thee?" and "Feed my sheep!"
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