Can anyone plz interpret what this poetry means writte byAnnie Louisa Walker?

AND HOW DOES THIS POEM RELATE TO WOMEN IN 19TH CENTURY?( i'll realy apreciate it)





You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish,


Nor turn our thoughts away


From the bright picture of a "Woman's Mission"


Our hearts portray.





We claim to dwell, in quiet and seclusion,


Beneath the household roof,--


From the great world's harsh strife, and jarring voices,


To stand aloof;--





Not in a dreamy and inane abstraction


To sleep our life away,


But, gathering up the brightness of home sunshine,


To deck our way.





As humble plants by country hedgerows growing,


That treasure up the rain,


And yield in odours, ere the day's declining,


The gift again;





So let us, unobtrusive and unnoticed,


But happy none the less,


Be privileged to fill the air around us


With happiness;





To live, unknown beyond the cherished circle,


Which we can bless and aid;


To die, and not a heart that does not love us


Know where we're laid.

Can anyone plz interpret what this poetry means writte byAnnie Louisa Walker?
It means that women should be happy to stay home and spend their time trying to make the family happy, to live such quiet lives that when they die, no-one except the family will even know or care where they were buried. (Or that they lived at all). It fits in perfectly with the popular Victorian ideal of the woman as 'Angel of the Hearth', making home a warm, comforting place, devoting her life to serving her family. Like purdah without the veil.



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