History & Politics
A Famine Cry
From The Inalienable Heritage, and Other Poems (1914)
History & Politics
Oh skeleton with the hungry jaw,
Corpse-snatcher, armed with tooth and claw,
Not satiate yet? Thy lustful maw?
Eiré, to you our love we gave,
Our mother-mistress, now our grave,
Be pitiful for once, and save!
My heart hath grown a very clod,
Stone-bound, unfruitful as this sod;
I ask and ask--“Is there a God?”
Eiré, to you our love we gave
Our mother-mistress, now our grave,
Be pitiful for once and save!
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Lawless, Emily. “A Famine Cry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawless/26/.
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Lawless, Emily. “A Famine Cry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawless/26/.
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