Social Commentaries

She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935

From In This Our World (1893; 5th ed. 1914)

Social Commentaries

She walketh veiled and sleeping,
For she knoweth not her power;
She obeyeth but the pleading
Of her heart, and the high leading
Of her soul, unto this hour.
Slow advancing, halting, creeping,
Comes the Woman to the hour!—
She walketh veiled and sleeping,
For she knoweth not her power.

MLA

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/97/.

Chicago

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/gilman/97/.

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