Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 15, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Let woman fear to teach and bear to learn
Last Line: His frailer self, and saves without her will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Women


Let woman fear to teach and bear to learn,
Remembering the first woman's first mistake.
Eve had for pupil the inquiring snake,
Whose doubts she answered on a great concern;
But he the tables so contrived to turn,
It next was his to give and her's to take;
Till man deemed poison sweet for her sweet sake,
And fired a train by which the world must burn.
Did Adam love his Eve from first to last?
I think so; as we love who works us ill,
And wounds us to the quick, yet loves us still.
Love pardons the unpardonable past:
Love in a dominant embrace holds fast
His frailer self, and saves without her will.





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