One may use the Old Man of the Sea,
For a partner or patron,
But helpless and hapless is he
Who is ridden, inextricably,
By a fond old mer-matron.
Chapter II - An Unnatural Daughter
Chapter VII - Heresy and Schism
Chapter XI - The Power of the Screw
Chapter XII - Like a Banyan Tree
Chapter XIV - And Heaven Beside
Return to the Charlotte Perkins Gilman library.