Category: Poetry

The Freeman, and Other Poems

Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945· 2 chapters· 4,238 words

The clankless chains that bound me I have rent No more a slave to hope I cringe or cry; Captives to Fate, men rear their prison walls, But free am I.

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1. Part 1

The clankless chains that bound me I have rent No more a slave to hope I cringe or cry; Captives to Fate, men rear their prison walls, But free am I.

2. Part 2

From her fleshless lips I have felt her kiss (The room is small, but the world is wide). What matter the honours that I shall miss, When I find her lying against my side? From t...