<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519035" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Childless Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... <br>I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. <br>I wonder if you’d loathe my pity, if you knew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you shall know. I’ve carried in my heart too long <br>This secret burden. Has not silence wrought your wrong— <br>Brought you to dumb and wintry middle-age, with grey <br>Unfruitful withering?—Ah, the pitiless things I say... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What do you ask your God for, at the end of day, <br>Kneeling beside your bed with bowed and hopeless head? <br>What mercy can He give you?—Dreams of the unborn <br>Children that haunt your soul like loving words unsaid— <br>Dreams, as a song half-heard through sleep in early morn? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I see you in the chapel, where you bend before <br>The enhaloed calm of everlasting Motherhood <br>That wounds your life; I see you humbled to adore <br>The painted miracle you’ve never understood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tender, and bitter-sweet, and shy, I’ve watched you holding <br>Another’s child. O childless woman, was it then <br>That, with an instant’s cry, your heart, made young again, <br>Was crucified for ever—those poor arms enfolding <br>The life, the consummation that had been denied you? <br>I too have longed for children. Ah, but you must not weep. <br>Something I have to whisper as I kneel beside you... <br>And you must pray for me before you fall asleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Siegfried+Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</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=519035" data-title="To a Childless Woman de Siegfried Sassoon" data-description="You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. I wonder if you’d loathe my pity, if you knew. But you shall know. I’ve carried in my heart too long This secret burden. Has not silence w..."></div> </div> </div>

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