I am Poem
By: Susan B. Anthony
I am brave and fearless
I wonder if women will ever vote
I hear men arguing with me
I see a world of equal rights
I want women to vote
I am brave and fearless
I pretend I am equal righted
I feel the sense of women
I touch my rights
I worry if I will ever vote
I cry if I will not succeed in this task
I am brave and fearless
I understand how women feel
I say failure is impossible
I dream of the world becoming equal
I try my best to think I am equal
I hope one day women can vote
I am brave and fearless
by: William Allingham, 1824-1889.
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
I went to the window to see the sight;
All the Dead that ever I knew
Going one by one and two by two.
On they pass'd, and on they pass'd;
Townsfellows all, from first to last;
Born in the moonlight of the lane,
Quench'd in the heavy shadow again.
Schoolmates, marching as when we play'd
At soldiers once—but now more staid;
Those were the strangest sight to me
Who were drown'd, I knew, in the awful sea.
Straight and handsome folk; bent and weak, too;
Some that I loved, and gasp'd to speak to;
Some but a day in their churchyard bed;
Some that I had not known were dead.
[11]A long, long crowd—where each seem'd lonely,
Yet of them all there was one, one only,
Raised a head or look'd my way:
She linger'd a moment—she might not stay.
How long since I saw that fair pale face!
Ah! Mother dear! might I only place
My head on thy breast, a moment to rest,
While thy hand on my tearful cheek were prest!
On, on, a moving bridge they made
Across the moon-stream, from shade to shade,
Young and old, women and men;
Many long-forgot, but remember'd then.
And first there came a bitter laughter;
A sound of tears the moment after;
And then a music so lofty and gay,
That every morning, day by day,
I strive to recall it if I may.
By: Susan B. Anthony
I am brave and fearless
I wonder if women will ever vote
I hear men arguing with me
I see a world of equal rights
I want women to vote
I am brave and fearless
I pretend I am equal righted
I feel the sense of women
I touch my rights
I worry if I will ever vote
I cry if I will not succeed in this task
I am brave and fearless
I understand how women feel
I say failure is impossible
I dream of the world becoming equal
I try my best to think I am equal
I hope one day women can vote
I am brave and fearless
by: William Allingham, 1824-1889.
I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
I went to the window to see the sight;
All the Dead that ever I knew
Going one by one and two by two.
On they pass'd, and on they pass'd;
Townsfellows all, from first to last;
Born in the moonlight of the lane,
Quench'd in the heavy shadow again.
Schoolmates, marching as when we play'd
At soldiers once—but now more staid;
Those were the strangest sight to me
Who were drown'd, I knew, in the awful sea.
Straight and handsome folk; bent and weak, too;
Some that I loved, and gasp'd to speak to;
Some but a day in their churchyard bed;
Some that I had not known were dead.
[11]A long, long crowd—where each seem'd lonely,
Yet of them all there was one, one only,
Raised a head or look'd my way:
She linger'd a moment—she might not stay.
How long since I saw that fair pale face!
Ah! Mother dear! might I only place
My head on thy breast, a moment to rest,
While thy hand on my tearful cheek were prest!
On, on, a moving bridge they made
Across the moon-stream, from shade to shade,
Young and old, women and men;
Many long-forgot, but remember'd then.
And first there came a bitter laughter;
A sound of tears the moment after;
And then a music so lofty and gay,
That every morning, day by day,
I strive to recall it if I may.