1438. I Fear No Power a Woman Wields by Ernest McGaffey. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1438. I Fear No Power a Woman Wields

By Ernest McGaffey


I FEAR no power a woman wields
While I can have the woods and fields,
With comradeship alone of gun,
Gray marsh-wastes and the burning sun.

For aye the heart’s most poignant pain	5
Will wear away ’neath hail and rain,
And rush of winds through branches bare
With something still to do and dare,

The lonely watch beside the shore,
The wild-fowl’s cry, the sweep of oar,	10
And paths of virgin sky to scan
Untrod, and so uncursed by man.

Gramercy, for thy haunting face,
Thy charm of voice and lissome grace,
I fear no power a woman wields	15
While I can have the woods and fields.