Today’s Poem: The Harp Song of the Dane Women

Ah, what is Woman that you forsake her?

Oscar Wergeland, The Norwegians Land in Iceland in the Year 872, 1877 (Wikimedia Commons)

The Harp Song of the Dane Women

by Rudyard Kipling

What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

She has no house to lay a guest in
But one chill bed for all to rest in,
That the pale suns and the st…