Elizabeth Barrett Browning--excerpt from A Curse for a Nation.

"Not so," I answered once again.

"To curse, choose men.

For I, a woman, have only known

How the heart melts and the tears run down."

"Therefore," the voice said, "shalt thou write

My curse to-night.

Some women weep and curse, I say

(And no one marvels), night and day.

"And thou shalt take their part to-night,

Weep and write.

A curse from the depths of womanhood

Is very salt, and bitter, and good."

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