Social Commentaries
A Question
From Suffrage Songs and Verses (1911)
Social Commentaries
Why is it, God, that mother’s hearts are made
So very deep and wide?
How does it help the world that we should hold
Such welling floods of pain till we are old,
Because when we were young one grave was laid—
One baby died?
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MLA
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “A Question.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/154/.
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “A Question.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/154/.
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