Now I have learned what women mean by love: A false game that they play, and know the cheats thereof. I have learned their love is decked in hatred's hues, Where man has naught to find and self to lose. But woman needs her age-old enemy To crowd the desert of her ennui; Two eyes and a smile are all she needs for men ... It's an old, old story—why tell it all again? Somewhere in the Bible it is said That woman at last will crush the serpent's head.— But who at length will crush the head of woman? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...COMFORT by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852 by ALFRED TENNYSON PSALM 15 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE IDYLL 6. CLEODAMUS AND MYRSON by BION ABER STATIONS: STATIO SEXTA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ON CREECH THE BOOKSELLER by ROBERT BURNS FRAGMENT WRITTEN SHORTLY AFTER THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CHAWORTH by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |