Versos English Alice Duer Miller Warning to Suffragists

English poem

Warning to Suffragists

by (1874–1942)

Listen in the reader

They must sacrifice their beauty Who would do their civic duty, Who the polling booth would enter, Who the ballot box would use; As they drop their ballots in it Men and women in a minute, Lose their charm, the antis tell us, But—the men have less to lose.