Social Commentaries
The Old Women
From Gypsy Verses (1907)
Social Commentaries
We are very, very old,
We have had our day,
So we bend above our work
While the others play.
Do they call us women, we
Gaunt and grey and grim,
Hideous and sexless things
Weak of brain and limb?
Beauty ended, love long past,
Yet, when all else flees,
We are women, for we still
Have our memories.
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MLA
Whitney, Helen Hay. “The Old Women.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitney_hh/131/.
Chicago
Whitney, Helen Hay. “The Old Women.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitney_hh/131/.
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