Men And Women.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
It is not that I love you — nay! and yet
Had I a lover, he would have your eyes,
Your lips, and be in all like you. Sir, see
This is a rose the winds have harried. Oh!
Here is a violet marred, a lily there.
Poor girls, their love or lover was too cruel;
And we are like them — we you men call flowers;
We, too, like these, are hurt with love, and lie
On the sweet earth so forsaken.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 85 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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