Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VII. Descriptive: Narrative. 1904. | | | | Descriptive Poems: I. Personal: Great Writers | | George Sand | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) |
| | | TRUE genius, but true woman! dost deny | |
| Thy woman’s nature with a manly scorn, | |
| And break away the gauds and armlets worn | |
| By weaker women in captivity? | |
| Ah, vain denial! that revolted cry | 5 |
| Is sobbed in by a woman’s voice forlorn; | |
| Thy woman’s hair, my sister, all unshorn, | |
| Floats back dishevelled strength in agony, | |
| Disproving thy man’s name; and while before | |
| The world thou burnest in a poet-fire, | 10 |
| We see thy woman-heart beat evermore | |
| Through the large flame. Beat purer, heart, and higher, | |
| Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore, | |
| Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire. | | | | |
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