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Poems by Women

Borrower (A Girl's Songs)

Mary Carolyn Davies

I sing of sorrow,
   I sing of weeping.
I have no sorrow.

I only borrow
From some tomorrow
   Where it lies sleeping,
Enough of sorrow
   To sing of weeping.

From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).

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Author. "Poem Title."  Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon)

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