<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339735" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Maid's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every wild she- bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather,<br>But a captive woman, made for love — nor nest, nor mate has she.<br>In the spring of young desire, young men and maids are wed together,<br>And the happy mothers flaunt their bliss for all the world to see.<br>Life's great sacramental feast for them — an empty board for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, a young maid once, an old maid now, deposed, despised, forgotten —<br>I, like them, have thrilled with passion and have dreamed of nuptial rest,<br>Of the trembling life within me of my baby unbegotten,<br>Of the breathing new- born body to my yearning bosom prest <br>Of the rapture of its little soft mouth drinking at my breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">3.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time, that heals so many sorrows, keeps mine ever freshly aching,<br>Though my face is growing furrowed and my brown hair turning white.<br>Still I mourn my irremidiable loss, asleep or waking —<br>Still I hear my child's voice calling “Mother” in the dead of night,<br>And am haunted by those sweet eyes that will never see the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">4.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O my baby that I might have had! My darling, lost for ever!<br>O the goodly years that might have been — now desolate and bare!<br>O malignant God or Fate, what have I done that I should never<br>Take my birthright like the others, take the crown that women wear,<br>And possess the common heritage to which all flesh is heir?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ada+Cambridge">Ada Cambridge</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339735" data-title="An Old Maid's Lament de Ada Cambridge" data-description="1. Every wild she- bird has nest and mate in the warm April weather, But a captive woman, made for love — nor nest, nor mate has she. In the spring of young desire, young men and maids are wed together, And the happy mothers flaunt their bliss ..."></div> </div> </div>

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