"Women are door-mats and have been,— The years those mats applaud,— They keep their men from going in With muddy feet to God."
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesPeople from Washington (state)University of California, Berkeley alumniWomen born in the 1880s
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"Door-Mats", in Wallace Alvin Briggs (ed.) Great Poems of the English Language (New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927) p. 1355
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Mary Carolyn Davies
Mary Carolyn Davies (1888 – May 19, 1974) was an American writer from Sprague, Washington.
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