Impotens
Read 'Impotens' by 'Amy Levy' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
If I were a woman of old,
What prayers I would pray for you, dear;
My pitiful tribute behold--
Not a prayer, but a tear.
The pitiless order of things,
Whose laws we may change not nor break,
Alone I could face it--it wrings
My heart for your sake.
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