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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN SPEAKS, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poet's Biography
First Line: You held me as the harbor holds the tide
Last Line: But no man's body binds a woman's soul.
Subject(s): Freedom; Women; Liberty
First Line: You held me as the harbor holds the tide
Last Line: But no man's body binds a woman's soul.
Subject(s): Freedom; Women; Liberty
You held me as the harbor holds the tide
Whose vagrant silver nestles in the grasp
Of the gray rocks an hour, then slips in pride
Back through the barrier shoal's detaining clasp.
You held me as the earth the unborn flower
Imprisoned with a miser's jealous care,
Before the valiant sun's redeeming power
Sets free its hidden beauty to the air.
You held me as the nest the fledgling bird,
But twigs and twisted grasses are not home.
How had the rapture of my voice been heard
Unless I sought the far sky's beckoning dome?
There was a way to keep me and control,
But no man's body binds a woman's soul.
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