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 you are, that you should be The one man in 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? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO W.P.: 1 by GEORGE SANTAYANA A LILLIPUTIAN ODE ON THEIR MAJESTIES' ACCESSION by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE RUSH OF THE OREGON by ARTHUR GUITERMAN SONNET: 27 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |