Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NOW I HAVE LEARNED, by GUY-CHARLES CROS


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NOW I HAVE LEARNED, by                    
First Line: Now I have learned what women mean by love
Last Line: But who at length will crush the head of woman?
Subject(s): Betrayal; Disappointment; Learning; Women


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?





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