The Philosopher
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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And what are you that, wanting you,
I should kept awake
As many nights as there are days
weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, you,
As many days as crawl
I should be to the wind
And looking at the wall?
I a man that’s a braver man
And twenty men kind,
And what are you, that you should be
one man in my mind?
Yet women’s ways are ways,
As any sage will tell,—
And what I, that I should love
So wisely and so well?
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