<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410477" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Young Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Naked before the glass she said, <br>“I see my body as no man has, <br>Nor any shall unless I wed <br>And naked in a stranger’s house <br>Stand timid beside his bed. <br>There is no pity in the flesh.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>“Or else I shall grow old,” she said, <br>“Alone, and change my likeliness <br>For a vile, slack shape, a head <br>Shriveled with thinking wickedness <br>Against the day I must be dead <br>And eaten by my crabbed wish.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>“One or the other way,” she said, <br>“How shall I know the difference, <br>When wrinkles come, to spinster or bride? <br>Whether to marry or burn is bless- <br>ed best, O stranger to my bed, <br>There is no pity in the flesh.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410477" data-title="Young Woman de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Naked before the glass she said, “I see my body as no man has, Nor any shall unless I wed And naked in a stranger’s house Stand timid beside his bed. There is no pity in the flesh.” “Or else I shall grow old,” she said, “Alone..."></div> </div> </div>

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