What if we hadn't women's clothes to laugh at? What if the ladies all wore coats and derbies, And all wore trousers of the self-same pattern, And sheet-iron shirts and collars coldly formal, And looked all just alike, the way we men do? What if? It wouldn't be an hour, a minute, Before the women would do something to them, Poke in the derby, give the shirt a ruffle, Discover new alignments for the collar, Invert the trousers and create them graceful! Because, you know, it's not with clothes we're dealing, Not fashion-plates nor fabrics nor cosmetics, But, back of all, and just the same without them, Mysterious, adorable, perplexing, Absurd, divine, kaleidoscopic Woman! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FOREFATHER by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON EXTRACTS FROM AN OPERA: 2. DAISY'S SONG by JOHN KEATS SONNET: WRITTEN ON THE DAY THAT MR. LEIGH HUNT LEFT PRISON by JOHN KEATS FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE by MATTHEW PRIOR THE BAREFOOT BOY by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SOUL AND BODY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE |