Love
To a Simple Housewife
From Robert Louis Stevenson: An Elegy, and Other Poems (1895)
Love
Who dough shall knead as for God's sake
Shall fill it with celestial leaven,
And every loaf that she shall bake
Be eaten of the Blest in heaven.
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MLA
Gallienne, Richard Le. “To a Simple Housewife.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/97/.
Chicago
Gallienne, Richard Le. “To a Simple Housewife.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/legallienne/97/.
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