# Rizpah — Poetry character guide

> Rizpah in Poetry by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0079-rizpah-the-daughter-of-ai

## Who they are

Biblical figure who guards the bodies of her sons, a symbol of maternal grief.

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