There's Wisdom In Women
“Oh love is fair, and love is rare;” my dear one she said,
“But love goes lightly over.” I bowed her foolish head,
And kissed her hair and laughed at her. Such a child was she;
So new to love, so true to love, and she spoke so bitterly.
But there’s wisdom in women, of more than they have known,
And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own,
Or how should my dear one, being ignorant and young,
Have cried on love so bitterly, with so true a tongue?
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Related poetry:
- Wisdom (Proverbs, viii. 22-31) “Ere God had built the mountains, Or raised the fruitful hills; Before he fill’d the fountains That […]...
- Fortune And Wisdom Enraged against a quondam friend, To Wisdom once proud Fortune said “I’ll give thee treasures without end, If thou wilt […]...
- Wisdom The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeller; […]...
- Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom Men loved wholly beyond wisdom Have the staff without the banner. Like a fire in a dry thicket Rising within […]...
- Elusive wisdom thoth (who became hermes who became mercury) Who was both moon and wisdom to the egyptians Manifested himself mainly as […]...
- Wisdom And Prudence Wouldst thou, my friend, mount up to the highest summit of wisdom, Be not deterred by the fear, prudence thy […]...
- Wisdom When Wisdom tells me that the world’s a speck Lost on the shoreless blue of God’s To-Day… I smile, and […]...
- Wisdom of Hafiz: the Philosopher Takes to Racing My son, if you go to the races to battle with Ikey and Mo, Remember, it’s seldom the pigeon can […]...
- The Song of the Women How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How […]...
- The Oldest Song “These were never your true love’s eyes. Why do you feign that you love them? You that broke from their […]...
- The One Before the Last I dreamt I was in love again With the One Before the Last, And smiled to greet the pleasant pain […]...
- Take Back the Virgin Page Written on Returning a Blank Book Take back the virgin page, White and unwritten still; Some hand, more calm and […]...
- Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday So let me have the rouge again, And comb my hair the curly way. The poor young men, the dear […]...
- Ducks and wisdom [from a motif by Jean Dunand (1877-1942)] Seven lacqueur ducks on a silver pond Their rippling held in a moveless […]...
- Sonnet XXII: With Fools and Children To Folly With fools and children, good discretion bears; Then, honest people, bear with Love and me, Nor older yet, […]...
- Women’s Rights You cannot rob us of the rights we cherish, Nor turn our thoughts away From the bright picture of a […]...
- Spanish Women The Spanish women don’t wear slacks Because their hips are too enormous. ‘Tis true each bulbous bosom lacks No inspiration […]...
- Mary, Pity Women! You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An’ Leave me, as you can, My certain shame […]...
- Women And Roses I. I dream of a red-rose tree. And which of its roses three Is the dearest rose to me? II. […]...
- PUBLISHERS And then they pretend like owls With marble eyes and wizened stupidity I do not know why they cannot perceive […]...
- Wisdom This I say, and this I know: Love has seen the last of me. Love’s a trodden lane to woe, […]...
- After Long Silence Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade, […]...
- My Boy Jack 1914-18 Have you news of my boy Jack?” Not this tide. “When d’you think that he’ll come back?” Not with […]...
- EPISTLE II: TO A LADY (Of the Characters of Women) NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, “Most Women have no Characters at all.” Matter too soft a […]...
- 386. The Rights of Women-Spoken by Miss Fontenelle WHILE Europe’s eye is fix’d on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of […]...
- NO FAULT IN WOMEN No fault in women, to refuse The offer which they most would chuse. No fault: in women, to confess How […]...
- The Owners Of The Little Box Line the inside of the little box With your precious skin And make yourself cozy Just as you would in […]...
- Theory Into love and out again, Thus I went, and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen- Well […]...
- The Bargain MY true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one for another given: I hold his […]...
- The Laughter Of Women The laughter of women sets fire To the Halls of Injustice And the false evidence burns To a beautiful white […]...
- The Old Women They pass upon their old, tremulous feet, Creeping with little satchels down the street, And they remember, many years ago, […]...
- The Dawn I would be ignorant as the dawn That has looked down On that old queen measuring a town With the […]...
- 233. Song-O were I on Parnassus Hill O, WERE I on Parnassus hill, Or had o’ Helicon my fill, That I might catch poetic skill, To sing […]...
- Sonnet (Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now) Women have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past- Of Irish waters by […]...
- Age-old debate when the old man said I know everything The young girl replied What is everything When the old man said […]...
- Busy Heart, The Now that we’ve done our best and worst, and parted, I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not […]...
- Ballad of women i love Prudence Mears hath an old blue plate Hid away in an oaken chest, And a Franklin platter of ancient date […]...
- A Form Of Women I have come far enough From where I was not before To have seen the things Looking in at me […]...
- Sonnet III THe souerayne beauty which I doo admyre, Witnesse the world how worthy to be prayzed: The light wherof hath kindled […]...
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise, richly compiled, Reserve their character with golden […]...