Woman's Voice

by Unknown

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(From “Aurora Leigh.”)

I call you hard

To a general suffering. Here’s the world half blind

With intellectual light, half brutalized

With civilization, having caught the plague

In silks from Tarsus, shrieking East and West

Along a thousand railroads, mad with pain

And sin too!.... does one woman of you all,

(You who weep easily) grow pale to see