"The Philosopher"
And what are you that, wanting you,
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there days
With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, missing you,
As many days as crawl
I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man
And twenty men as kind,
And what are you, that you should be
The one man in my mind?
Yet women's ways are witless ways,
As any sage will tell,-
And what am I, that I should love
So wisely and so well?
1 of the best short poems ever:
"First Fig"
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!