How can he know your worth so well As I, who never loved you, Sweet? His love shall bind you, and compel Your heart, his only, to forget Whose word first taught that heart to beat. He is the worthier man ... and yet, How can he know your worth so well? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED by MICHAEL S. HARPER WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SENRYU: BLIND DATE by TIMOTHY LIU DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE BEAST OF BURDEN by MARIANNE MOORE MY MOTHER LEFT ME by KAREN SWENSON |