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- Tags: Poem
Bread and Roses
AS WE COME MARCHING, MARCHING, WE BRING THE
GREATER DAYS –
THE RISING OF THE WOMEN MEANS THE RISING OF
THE RACE –
NO MORE THE DRUDGE AND IDLER – TEN THAT TOIL
WHERE ONE REPOSES –
BUT A SHARING OF LIFE'S…
Where are you going, my Suffragette?
I'm going to Washington, sir; she said.
What will you do there, my Suffragette?
Ask for the Ballot, sir; she said.
What will you do next, my Suffragette?
See to our country, sir; she said.
What will the men…
The Anti Suffragist!
"I do not want to fly," said she
"I only want to squirm!"
She drooped her wings dejectedly
But still her voice was firm
"I do not want to be a fly
I want to be a worm!"
O yesterday of unknown lack!
To-day of unknown…
Tags: ANIMAL, Anti-suffragist, British, Butterfly, C.P. Stetson, Chrysalis, Ernestine Mills, Flowers, NON-HUMAN, PLANT, Poem, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Quotation, SYMBOLISM, Woman
The Awakening
SHE'S AWAKENED,
SHE IS ANSWERING
TO THE CALL OF ALL
MANKIND;
THEN ANNUL THE LAWS
THAT BIND HER,
AND THE CUSTOMS
THAT RESTRICT HER,
DENY HER NOT
THE GREATER SERVICE,
FOR THE CHILD
THE HOME, THE STATE.
Copyright 1912, and…
Woman's Rights.
Tags: American, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Children, Florey, Gender Roles, Glasses, Hat, Masculinized woman, Middle class, Motherhood, Older woman, Poem, Spectacles, Tie, Umbrella, Woman, Women's rights
Valentine Greetings Vegetables
The suffragettes can rule, they say,
And splendid they may be,
But the girl who can rule the kitchen,
Oh, that's the girl
for me.
[Image: In the bottom left and right corners are three vegetables with arms, legs and…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Bean, Carrot, COURTSHIP, Girl, Heart, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Kitchen, NON-HUMAN, Onion, Poem, PRIVATE, Strawberry, Suffragette, Valentine, Vegetables, Woman
Your Valentine
Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights
And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul
You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal
As a really…
Tags: ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Coal, HOLIDAYS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, MARRIAGE, Masculinized woman, Poem, Quotation, Rights, Silhouette, Valentine, Wife, Woman, Women's rights