Be natural, wise as you can be, my daughter, Let my name be in you flesh I gave you in the act of loving your mother, all your days, her ways, the woman in you brought for sensuality's measure, no other, there was no thought of it but such pleasure all women must be in her, as you. But not wiser, not more of nature than her hair, the eyes she gives you. There will not be another woman such as you are. Remember your mother, the way you came, the days of waiting. Be natural, daughter, wise as you can be, all my daughters, be women for men when that time comes. Let the rhetoric stay with me your father. Let me talk about it, saving you such vicious self- exposure, let you pass it on in you. I cannot be more than the man who watches. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG by ROBERT BURNS THE IMAGE IN LAVA by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS CEREMONIAL ODE; INTENDED FOR A UNIVERSITY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG by WILLIAM BARNES SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 by THOMAS CAMPION KENTUCKY POEMS: PROLOGUE by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN MUSHROOM SONG by HILDA CONKLING |