ARE you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning ''" I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this fafcade''"this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS AELLA: MINSTREL'S MARRIAGE-SONG by THOMAS CHATTERTON THE HARVEST MOON; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PETIT THE POET by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 23 by OMAR KHAYYAM |