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- To beauty such as this
- No woman could give birth;
- The quivering lightning flash
- Is not a child of earth.
- Although she does not speak to me,
- She listens while I speak;
- Her eyes turn not to see my face,
- But nothing else they seek.
- Her sweetly trembling lip
- With virgin invitation
- Provokes my soul to sip
- Delighted fascination.
- Be brave, and check the rising tears
- That dim your lovely eyes;
- Your feet are stumbling on the path
- That so uneven lies.
- A noble husband's honourable wife,
- You are to spend a busy, useful life
- In the world's eye; and soon, as eastern skies
- Bring forth the sun, from you there shall arise
- A child, a blessing and a comfort strong
- You will not miss me, dearest daughter, long.
- The mind of age is like a lamp
- Whose oil is running thin;
- One moment it is shining bright,
- Then darkness closes in.
- The world you daily guard and bless,
- Not heeding pain or weariness;
- Thus is your nature made.
- A tree will brave the noonday, when
- The sun is fierce, that weary men
- May rest beneath its shade.
- Friends come to all whose wealth is sure,
- But you, alike to rich and poor,
- Are friend both strong and tender.
- You are the best of worthy men, they say;
- And she, I know, Good Works personified;
- The Creator wrought for ever and a day,
- In wedding such a virtuous groom and bride.
- Leave her or take her, as you will;
- She is your wife;
- Husbands have power for good or ill
- O'er woman's life.
- I cannot sleep at night
- And mmet her dreaming;
- I cannot see the sketch
- While tears are streaming.
- Could I forsake the virtuous wife
- Who held my best, my future life
- And cherished it for glorious birth,
- As does the seed-receiving earth?
- I dare not hope for what I pray;
- Why thrill - in vain?
- For heavenly bliss once thrown away
- Turns into pain.
- It makes me thrill to touch the boy,
- The stranger's son, to me unknown;
- What measureless content must fill
- The man who calls the child his own!
- In glittering palaces they dwell
- While men, and rule the country well;
- Then make the grove their home in age,
- And die in austere hermitage.
- No means No
- Millennia ago, early men assigned
- Specific work to women designed
- To ease the burden of everyday life
- Like care-taking and making knives.
- Why does segregation still exist?
- Even though we did it all to resist
- The inequality between children of god.
- But all society did was nod.
- You can't go to work, you're a woman;
- Your life is destined for the oven.
- Men are superior in the eyes of society;
- I ask, where's the morality?
- Is this why we are looked as objects;
- Just a body for men to inject
- There's a simple solution, they state
- Stay inside your home after eight.
- Did she deserved to be groped?
- 'Oh, let her be safe,' her mother hoped,
- But so little did she know
- Immoral men didn't let her go.
- Teach your daughters to dress
- They said, without realising the mess
- That was created by their son
- For a simple reason: 'just for fun'.
- 'No means no, let me go,' she said.
- Slapped her and pushed her on the bed
- For they were tied with a marital bond
- Which meant he did no wrong!
- 'Stop it, please,' she screamed.
- But rather, he vigorously leaned
- Into her exposed breasts.
- Ah well, you know the rest.
- Do not worry, for I am 'pure'
- I'm just worried that there's no cure
- To quench the thirst of men's desires
- Who are disguised in various attire.
- - Amrusha Muralidharan
- The eight parts of speech of English grammer
- Every name is called a [noun],
- As [field] and [fountain], [street] and [town].
- In place of noun the [pronoun] stands,
- As [he] and [she] can clap their hands.
- The [adjective] describes a thing,
- As [magic] wand or [bridal] ring.
- Most [verbs] mean action, something done,
- To [read] and [write], to [jump] and [run].
- How things are done the [adverbs] tell,
- As [quickly], [slowly], [badly], [well].
- The [preposition] shows relation,
- As [in] the street or [at] the station.
- [Conjunctions] join, in many ways,
- Sentences, words, [or] phrase [and] phrase.
- The [interjection] cries out, ["Heed!]
- An exclamation point must follow me!"
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