WHY was Cupid a boy, And why a boy was he? He should have been a girl, For aught that I can see. For he shoots with his bow, And the girl shoots with her eye, And they both are merry and glad, And laugh when we do cry. Then to make Cupid a boy Was surely a woman's plan, For a boy ne'er learns so much Till he is become a man. And then he's so pierced with cares, And wounded with arrowy smarts, That the whole business of his life Is to pick out the heads of the darts. 'Twas the Greeks' love of war Turned love into a boy, And woman into a statue of stone-- And away fled every joy. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAN TO BE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO-MORROW TO FRESH WOODS AND PASTURES NEW' by AMY LOWELL KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG APOLLO AT LAX by KAREN SWENSON CHILD AND HER STATUE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES by THOMAS WYATT |