THE stone that all the sullen centuries,
With sluggish hands and massive fingers rude,
Against the sepulchre of womanhood
Had sternly held, she has thrust back with ease,
And stands, superbly arrogant, the keys
Of knowledge in her hand, won by a mood
Of daring, in her beauty flaunting nude,
Eager to drain life's wine unto the lees.
So she shall tempt and touch and try and taste,
And in the wrestle of the world shall lose
Her dimpled prettiness, her petals bruise;
But moulding ever to a truer type
She shall return to man, no more abased-
His counterpart, a woman, rounded, ripe.
The New Woman
Arthur Henry Adams
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Poem topics: beauty, life, woman, world, knowledge, return, touch, mood, taste, stone, eager, drain, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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