Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


TO MISS -- by THOMAS MOORE

First Line: WITH WOMAN'S FORM AND WOMAN'S TRICKS
Last Line: THE THING'S NOT WORTH INQUIRING!

With woman's form and woman's tricks
So much of man you seem to mix,
One knows not where to take you;
I pray you, if 'tis not too far,
Go, ask of Nature WHICH you are,
Or what she meant to make you.


Yet stay--you need not take the pains
With neither beauty, youth, nor brains,
For man or maid's desiring:
Pert as female, fool as male,
As boy too green, as girl too stale
The thing's not worth inquiring!




Home: PoetryExplorer.net