Poem for Any Woman (verse)
Widdemer, Margaret
'Poem for Any Woman Now that all possible chance Of all you ever asked is gone from you, What then?—Why, go and dance, Love your bright-flowered shawl, your scarlet shoe, But first make smooth...
...For when all jocund days Have been danced down, one breath will be last breath, And you may let mirth fall from you (your ways Freed in that gravity allowed to death...
...And let your lips set straight, and for reward, Press close, in that one blessed hour, this sword...
...Margaret Widdemer...
...Poem for Any Woman Now that all possible chance Of all you ever asked is gone from you, What then?—Why, go and dance, Love your bright-flowered shawl, your scarlet shoe, But first make smooth the ashes of this fire Lest anyone should see them and enquire...
...Build little pageantries Of these long years that you have yet to live, And make your life of these, Finding bright tiny toys to take and give, But leave no space in close-inhabited hours To turn your eyes back to these broken towers...
Vol. 12 • September 1930 • No. 18
