A TRUE WOMAN by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 25, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 25.

A TRUE WOMAN.

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

SHE never found fault with you, never implied You wrong by her right: and yet men at her side Grew nobler, girls purer, as, thro the whole town, The children were gladder that pulled at her gown, The weak and the gentle, the ribald and rude. She took as she found them, and did them all good. None knelt at her feet, confessed lovers in thrall, They knelt more to God than they used—that was all. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning.