Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 206

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CCVI A CLEVER WOMAN
You thought I had the strength of men, Because with men I dared to speak,And courted Science now and then, And studied Latin for a week;But woman's woman, even when She reads her Ethics in the Greek.
You thought me wiser than my kind; You thought me "more than common tall;"You thought because I had a mind, That I could have no heart at all;But woman's woman you will find, Whether she be great or small.
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And then you needs must die—ah, well! I knew you not, you loved not me.'Twas not because that darkness fell, You saw not what there was to see.But I that saw and could not tell— O evil Angel, set me free!

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