|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEXES, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poet's Biography
First Line: As the man beholds the woman
Last Line: Like the subtle serpent, steals.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Sex Role
First Line: As the man beholds the woman
Last Line: Like the subtle serpent, steals.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Sex Role
As the man beholds the woman,
As the woman sees the man,
Curiously they note each other,
As each other only can.
Never can the man divest her
Of that wondrous charm of sex;
Ever must she, dreaming of him,
The same mystic charm annex.
Strange, inborn, profound attraction!
Not the Poet's range of soul,
Learning, Science, sexless Virtue,
Can the gazer's thought control.
But, thro' every nerve and fancy
Which the inmost heart reveals,
Twined, ingrained, the Sense of difference,
Like the subtle serpent, steals.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FIRST CANTO, OR NEW MOON by WILLIAM BASSE
URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE SECOND CANTO, OR FIRST QUARTER by WILLIAM BASSE
STUPID MEDITATION ON PEACE by ROBERT PINSKY
OVID, MEET A METAMORPHODITE by JONATHAN WILLIAMS
THE MUFFLED DRUMS by PERCY MACKAYE
A QUESTION OF GENDER by PALLADAS
THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN by ROBERT SOUTHEY
ON ONE WHO AFFECTED AN EFFEMINATE MANNER by ALFRED TENNYSON
SELDOM-NOTED SEX DIFFERENCE by RICHARD MOORE
A PETITION TO TIME by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER