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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUT I DON'T KNOW, by DELOVA DURNFORD First Line: Women, they say, are lonelier than men Last Line: Of friendly talk, over too soon, too soon. Subject(s): Conversation | |||
Women, they say, are lonelier than men, But I don't know ... today I saw again The same bright hunger in an old man's eyes, And knobby hands hold fast, as if a prize Too great for measuring, the simple boon Of friendly talk, over too soon, too soon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY by CHARLES BERNSTEIN WORDS THE DREAMER SPOKE TO MY FATHER IN MAINE by ROBERT BLY A CONVERSATION WITH MONICA WILSON by AIME CESAIRE TWO WOMEN ON THE POTOMAC HIGHWAY by NORMAN DUBIE IT JUST SO HAPPENS by JAMES GALVIN DRIFTERS: BELLA COOLA TO WILLIAMS LAKE by KAREN SWENSON THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND; A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE by SIDNEY LANIER |
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