Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVERY WOMAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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First Line: Every woman is a wild, free thing
Last Line: Far and wide!
Subject(s): Women


EVERY woman is a wild, free thing—
Deep inside!
Every woman hears the spaces sing,
Every woman would go wandering—
Far and wide!

Every woman, when the wild geese cry,
In the Fall,
Watches, with a furtive, wistful eye,
Their swift arrow winging in the sky—
Hears the call!

There are women who can never bide
Safe at home!
They are restless as the tameless tide,
They are drawn to where the great ships ride—
They must roam!

There are women who can never go
Far away!
Strange, new places they can never know,
But they listen when the might winds blow—
They must stay!

Every day they make their kettles gleam,
Shine them bright;
Everyday they sew a faithful seam,
But—they stir and start in troubled dream
In the night!

If you ask them, they will never tell!
They will say:
"Leave the hearth and home I love so well?
Leave the place where all my loved ones dwell?
Ah, but nay!"

But when ships go out ... when sea-gulls rise ...
When winds blow ...
When the crying arrow southward flies ...
If you watch them—if you watch their eyes—
You will know!

Every woman is a wild, free thing
Deep inside!
Every woman hears the spaces sing,
Every woman would go wandering—
Far and wide!





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