Explore "Birth" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Lord, I am born! / I have built me a body / Whose ways are all open, / Whose currents run free, / From the life that is thine / Flowing ever within me, / To the life that is mine / Flowing outward through me.
I am clothed, and my raiment / Fits smooth to the spirit, / The soul moves unhindered, / The body is free; / And the thought that my body / Falls short of expressing, / In texture and color / Unfoldeth on me.