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Free (A Girl's Songs)
Over and over
I tell the
sky:
I am free -- I!
Over and over I tell the sea:
-- I am free!
Over and over I tell my lover
I am free,
free!
Over and over.
But when the night comes black and cold,
I who am young, with fear grow
old;
And I know, when the world is clear of sound,
I am bound --
bound.
From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
