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A WOMAN’S THOUGHT.[¹]

From “Five Books of Song” (1894).

AM a woman—therefore I may not

Call him, cry to him,

Fly to him,

Bid him delay not!

And when he comes to me, I must sit quiet;

Still as a stone—

All silent and cold.