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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A QUESTION, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is it, god, that mother's hearts are made
Last Line: One baby died?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: Why is it, god, that mother's hearts are made
Last Line: One baby died?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Mothers
Why is it, God, that mother's hearts are made
So very deep and wide?
How does it help the world that we should hold
Such swelling floods of pain till we are old,
Because when we were young one grave was laid-
One baby died?
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