Meme: If you read this, post a poem in your journal.
Friday, March 12th, 2010 12:56 pmPerspectives
Mary Somerville 1780-1872
The strain of abstract thought, her father feared,
might injure her tender female frame. It did not.
It was more the needlework, the pianoforte
at Miss Primrose’s Boarding School for Girls
in dreary Musselburgh which fettered her spirit.
When she left, she said she felt like
a wild animal escaped out of a cage.
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- Brian McCabe.
Mary Somerville 1780-1872
The strain of abstract thought, her father feared,
might injure her tender female frame. It did not.
It was more the needlework, the pianoforte
at Miss Primrose’s Boarding School for Girls
in dreary Musselburgh which fettered her spirit.
When she left, she said she felt like
a wild animal escaped out of a cage.
( Read more... )
- Brian McCabe.