I, Being born a Woman and Distressed
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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Am urged by your propinquity to find
I, being born a woman and distressed
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
I shall remember you with love, or season
To bear your body’s weight upon my breast:
My scorn with pity, —let me make it plain:
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
For conversation when we meet again.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
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