"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
Original Language: English

Sources

"Door-Mats", in Wallace Alvin Briggs (ed.) Great Poems of the English Language (New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927) p. 1355