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A Father of Women

Alice Meynell

Book Overview: 

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's converted to Roman Catholicism and many of the poems in this volume, published just five years before her death, reflect religious themes.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Our father works in us,
The daughters of his manhood.  Not undone
Is he, not wasted, though transmuted thus,
      And though he left no son.

      Therefore on him I cry
To arm me: “For my delicate mind a casque,
A breastplate for my heart, courage to die,
      Of thee, captain, I ask.

      “Nor strengthen only; press
A finger on this violent blood and pale,
Over this rash will let thy tenderness
      A while pause, and prevail.

      “And shepherd-father, thou
Whose staff folded my thoughts before my birth,
Control them now I am of earth, and now
      Thou art no more of earth.

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