0%
A Woman's Shortcomings

A Woman's Shortcomings

No other is soft in the rhythm;
Oh, never call it loving!
Glance lightly, on their removing;
A Womans Shortcomings
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
But love seeks truer loving.
Go, lady! lean to the night-guitar,
But her silence says - what she 九*九*藏*書never will swear -
Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
At the voice of an in-door singer.
Unless you can think, when the song is done,
Unless you can die when the dream is past -
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
Oh, fear to call it loving!
She tremblhttps://read.99csw•comes her fan in a sweetness dumb,
Oh, each a worthy lover!
And drop a smile to the bringer;
She will lie to none with her fair red lip:
Through behoving and unbehoving;
That all men else go with him;
They "give her time"; for her soul must slip
Wihttps://read•99csw.comth a glance for one, and a glance for some,
Then smile as sweetly, when he is far,
And join new vows to old perjuries -
Unless you can swear "For life, for death!" -
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Unless you can know, when unpraised by his brread.99csw.comeath,
But dare not call it loving!
From her eyelids rising and falling;
Of a purse well filled, and a heart well tried -
On the absent face that fixed you;
Bask tenderly beneath tender eyes;
Unless you can feel, when left by One,
She has counted six, and over,
Hears bold words, 九-九-藏-書unreproving;
As her thoughts were beyond recalling;
Where the world has set the grooving;
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Speaks common words with a blushful air,
That your beauty itself wants proving;
And love seeks better loving.