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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHARING WITH GOD, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poet's Biography
First Line: I love,' she said, with her faint, sweet smile
Last Line: "to share with god in a human soul?"
Variant Title(s): A Woman
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: I love,' she said, with her faint, sweet smile
Last Line: "to share with god in a human soul?"
Variant Title(s): A Woman
Subject(s): Mothers
"I LOVE," she said, with her faint, sweet smile,
"But I shall not narrow this life of mine;
Or bid my spirit its thirst beguile
With the joys that women still count divine.
Why, I am a soul! I am part of God!
I doubt, and question,--have wings to mount;
Do you think I shall only moil and plod,
And fill my cup at the common fount?"
That was only a year and a day--
Last night her fingers were softly pressed
On the downy head of a babe, that lay
With warm, wet mouth at her gracious breast.
"Do you think," she said, "there is rarer bliss
Where the long bright cycles of heaven unroll?
Or any wonder more deep than this,
To share with God in a human soul?"
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