Suffrage Songs and Verses

Chapter 5: Now

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A collection of poems and songs that urge women's political enfranchisement and social reform, blending moral argument, satire, and lyrical reflection. Several pieces reframe motherhood and domestic labor as public responsibilities, converting private care into a reason for civic participation; others mock anti-suffrage rationales and challenge female passivity. The verse alternates earnest exhortation, vivid domestic scenes, and rallying refrains to encourage collective action, education, and self-recognition. Overall it presents suffrage as necessary for family welfare and social progress, urging women to move from seclusion to engaged public life.

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With God Above—Beneath—Beside—

Without—Within—and Everywhere;

Rising with the resistless tide

Of life, and Sure of Getting There.

Patient with Nature’s long delay,

Proud of our conscious upward swing;

Not sorry for a single day,

And Not Afraid of Anything!

With Motherhood at last awake—

With Power to Do and Light to See—

Women may now begin to Make

The People we are Meant to Be!