Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Poems (1901). III. MaternityKatharine Tynan Hinkson (1861–1931)
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Yields him his precious milk and good.
No body of death but life, see then
The sacred body of Motherhood!
Hath room for all earth’s hapless brood.
Yea, wounds for all earth’s hurt children,
The broken heart of Motherhood!