Produced by MWS, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber’s Note In this text version of “Suffrage Songs and Verses”: words in italics are marked with _underscores_, and words in small capitals are shown in UPPERCASE. Variant spelling, and inconsistent hyphenation are retained. A very few tangible printing errors have been corrected. Suffrage Songs and Verses By CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN [Illustration: Winged torch] 10 Cents [Illustration: International Allied Printing Trades Council label 11 New York 1911] THE CHARLTON COMPANY 67 Wall Street, New York 1911 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Another Star 23 Anti-Suffragists. The 17 Anti and the Fly. The 19 Boys Will Be Boys 5 Coming 3 For Fear 5 Females 10 Girls of To-day 12 Housewife. The 8 Locked Inside 3 Mother to Child 6 Malingerer. The 17 Now 4 Question. A 8 Reassurance 15 She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping 1 She Who Is To Come 24 Socialist and the Suffragist. The 16 Song for Equal Suffrage 22 To the Indifferent Women 19 Women of To-day 4 Women to Men 13 Women Do Not Want It 21 Wedded Bliss 9 We As Women 11 NOTE--The poems marked * are from _In This Our World_ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Copyright, 1898, by Small, Maynard and Co., and are reprinted by the kind permission of the publishers. Those marked † are from the _Woman’s Journal_, and those marked _f_ are from THE FORERUNNER. SHE WALKETH VEILED AND SLEEPING * She walketh veiled and sleeping, For she knoweth not her power; She obeyeth but the pleading Of her heart, and the high leading Of her soul, unto this hour. Slow advancing, halting, creeping, Comes the Woman to the hour!-- She walketh veiled and sleeping, For she knoweth not her power. COMING f Because the time is ripe, the age is ready, Because the world her woman’s help demands, Out of the long subjection and seclusion Come to our field of warfare and confusion The mother’s heart and hands.