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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHERHOOD, by JOSEPH MORRIS
First Line: No woman can except by motherhood
Last Line: But when they fade they have left nothing there.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: No woman can except by motherhood
Last Line: But when they fade they have left nothing there.
Subject(s): Mothers
NO woman can except by motherhood
Be beautiful; the others may in face
Be fair or pretty and in form may trace
An idle pleasure to the eye, but should
One look for full attaining of the good
That comes from having filled the destined place
That mothers shall bear children for the race,
Then is her inner beauty understood.
Here is a soul that's purified by pain;
She knows that mothers close to death have trod;
She has a courage warriors ne'er attain--
Her love becomes akin to that of God.
All others are like roses that are fair
But when they fade they have left nothing there.
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