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

Ah, what is Woman that you forsake her?

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Adam Roberts

Dec 30, 2024

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

The Harp Song of the Dane Women

by Rudyard Kipling

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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…

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Adam Roberts

British writer