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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOST SEX, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: What, still another woman false
Last Line: One woman true, just one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations
First Line: What, still another woman false
Last Line: One woman true, just one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fidelity; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Faithfulness; Constancy; Male-female Relations
What, still another woman false,
Another honest man betrayed:
Then Heaven is made for only men,
And Hell for women made.
Now, with that false deceitful sex,
Henceforth I have for ever done;
Only one Judas lived a man,
But every woman's one.
Send down, O Lord, ten thousand Christs,
Each one as great as Christ Thy Son;
Not for all men, but just to make
One woman true, just one.
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