Blanche Taylor Dickinson, "Fortitude" (1927)
By BLANCHE TAYLOR DICKINSON
She screamed but no one heard her. . .
Her body was a silencer.
She cried and never moved a tear…
Her heart was broken, tears dripped there.
Silent, she seemed content to lay
Her soul awhile in fresh red clay.
Proud to stand, all grief defying . . .
We knew that she was all but dying.
Published in Opportunity, February 1927