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 on my mind?
Yet women's ways are witless ways,
As any sage will tell-
And what am I, that I should love
So wisely and so well?
4 comments:
Nobody says it better than Edna!
Love this poem!
I KNOW, right? I have ordered a collecton of Edna St. Vincent Millay's poems, because I enjoyed them so much in the Caroline Kennedy book!
You are the sweetest woman in the world.
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