Poems (Millay)/The Philosopher
The Philosopher
And what are you that, wanting you, I should be kept awakeAs many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawlI should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man And twenty men as kind,And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind?
Yet women's ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,—And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?