As a passionate lover.

THE WOMAN'S SIDE

How long will you hold back, belov'd? How long

Leave the supreme, the final word unspoken?

The barrier of silence hold unbroken?

Men—you, too, being a man—have called you strong,

A doer of big deeds, great acts. But they are wrong.

You lack in courage. I, being woman, know

How often woman shapes man's enterprises,

Cloaking her work in manifold disguises