WorkBenjamin 'Ben' Jonson

“To Lucy, Countess of Bedford" (Epigram LXXXIV), in Epigrams, published in The Works of Ben Jonson”

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“I meant the day-star should not brighter rise, / Nor lend like influence from its lucent seat; / I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet, / Free from that solemn vice of greatness, pride / I meant each softest virtue there should meet, / Fit in that softer bosom to reside / Only a (heavenward and instructed) soul / I purposed her, that should, with evea powers, / The rock, the spindle, and the shears control / Of destiny, and spin her own free hours.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.