Social Commentaries
Resolve
From In This Our World (1893; 5th ed. 1914)
Social Commentaries
To keep my health!
To do my work!
To live!
To see to it I grow and gain and give!
Never to look behind me for an hour!
To wait in weakness, and to walk in power;
But always fronting onward to the light,
Always and always facing toward the right.
Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray—
On, with what strength I have!
Back to the way!
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MLA
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Resolve.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/96/.
Chicago
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “Resolve.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/96/.
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