Anna Wickham
Anna Wickham
Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper, a British poet with strong Australian connections. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, though one not able to command sustained critical attention in her lifetime. Many treated her as an eccentric, on the basis of a disorganised lifestyle in later years, while she had a number of very good and notable literary friends...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
suicide mistake profound
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.
brought eve mother poor
Think how poor Mother Eve was brought to being as God's afterthought
life men misused
I have been so misused by chaste men with one wife, that I would live with satyrs all my life
desire sullen virtue
I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.
marriage men order
It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
enemy kinder
Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us
sensual desire longing
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
both
The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
liked listen male mate talked true walked
The true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked