They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,
The houses in the busy streets where life is never still,
The pleasures of the city, and the friends they cherished best:
For love they faced the wilderness -the Women...
Third day, third month festival, and the air fresh with spring;beside Serpentine Lake in Chang'an, many lovely women stroll
Their appearance is elegant, their thoughts lofty and refined,their complexions delicate, figures in perfect proportio...
I
I dream of a red-rose tree
And which of its roses
Is the dearest rose to me
Women Or they should be should be pedestals little horses moving those wooden pedestals sweet moving oldfashioned to the painted motions rocking of men horses the gladdest things in the toyroom The feelingly pegs and then of their unfeelingly ears...
Women have no wilderness in them,
They are provident instead,
Content in the tight hot cell of their
To eat dusty bread
Mary didn't give birth to God
Mary isn't the mother of God
Mary is one mother among many mothers
Mary gave birth to a son,a son among many sons
They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,
Creeping with little satchels down the street,
And they remember, many years ago,
Passing that way in silks
You love us when we're heroes, home on leave,
Or wounded in a mentionable place
You worship decorations; you believe That chivalry redeems the war's disgrace
You make us shells
"Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said,"But love goes lightly over
" I bowed her foolish head,
And kissed her hair and laughed at her
Such a child was she;
To the solemn sea the old women come With their shawls knotted around their necks With their fragile feet cracking
They sit down alone on the shore Without moving their eyes or their hands Without changing the clouds or the silence
The o...
Give me women, wine, and snuff Until I cry out "hold, enough
" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection;
For bless my beard they aye shall be My beloved Trinity
It always comes, and when it comes they know
To will it is enough to bring them there
The knack is this, to fasten and not let go
Their limbs are charmed; they cannot stay or go