11 September 2013

From My Big Orange Book: Edna St. Vincent Millay

 
The Philosopher
 
And what are you that, wanting you,
     I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
     With weeping for your sake?
 
And what are you that, missing you,
     As many days as crawl
I should be listening to the wind
     And looking at the wall?
 
I know a man that's a braver man
     And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
     The one man in my mind?
 
Yet women's ways are artless ways,
     As any sage will tell,—
And what am I, that I should love
     So wisely and so well?

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