<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lady Geraldine's Hardship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">E.B. Browning</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I turned -- Heaven knows we women turn too much<br>To broken reeds, mistaken so for pine<br>That shame forbids confession -- a handle I turned<br>(The wrong one, said the agent afterwards)<br>And so flung clean across your English street<br>Through the shrill-tinkling glass of the shop-front-paused,<br>Artemis mazed 'mid gauds to catch a man,<br>And piteous baby-caps and christening-gowns,<br>The worse for being worn on the radiator.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">. . . . . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My cousin Romney judged me from the bench:<br>Propounding one sleek forty-shillinged law<br>That takes no count of the Woman's oversoul.<br>I should have entered, purred he, by the door --<br>The man's retort -- the open obvious door --<br>And since I chose not, he -- not he -- could change<br>The man's rule, not the Woman's, for the case.<br>Ten pounds or seven days... Just that... I paid!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510807" data-title="Lady Geraldine's Hardship de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="E.B. Browning I turned -- Heaven knows we women turn too much To broken reeds, mistaken so for pine That shame forbids confession -- a handle I turned (The wrong one, said the agent afterwards) And so flung clean across your English street Throu..."></div> </div> </div>

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