Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EQUALITY, by PHOEBE CARY


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First Line: Most favored lady in the land
Last Line: "I love you,"" I have known it all!"
Subject(s): Women; Equality; Love – Nature Of


MOST favored lady in the land,
I well can bear your scorn or pride;
For in all truest wealth, to-day,
I stand an equal by your side!

No better parentage have you, --
One is our Father, one our Friend;
The same inheritance awaits
Our claiming, at the journey's end.

No broader flight your thought can take, --
Faith on no firmer basis rest;
Nor can the dreams of fancy wake
A sweeter tumult in your breast.

Life may to you bring every good,
Which from a Father's hand can fall;
But if true lips have said to me,
"I love you," I have known it all!





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