Social Commentaries

Now

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935

From Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911)

Social Commentaries

With God Above—Beneath—Beside—
Without—Within—and Everywhere;
Rising with the resistless tide
Of life, and Sure of Getting There.

Patient with Nature’s long delay,
Proud of our conscious upward swing;
Not sorry for a single day,
And Not Afraid of Anything!

With Motherhood at last awake—
With Power to Do and Light to See—
Women may now begin to Make
The People we are Meant to Be!

MLA

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Now.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/151/.

Chicago

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Now.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/151/.

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