<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529043" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Knew a Woman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, <br>When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; <br>Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: <br>The shapes a bright container can contain! <br>Of her choice virtues only gods should speak, <br>Or English poets who grew up on Greek <br>(I'd have them sing in a chorus, cheek to cheek). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin, <br>She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand; <br>She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin; <br>I nibbled meekly from her proferred hand; <br>She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake, <br>Coming behind her for her pretty sake <br>(But what prodigious mowing we did make). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love likes a gander, and adores a goose: <br>Her full lips pursed, the errant notes to sieze; <br>She played it quick, she played it light and loose; <br>My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees; <br>Her several parts could keep a pure repose, <br>Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose <br>(She moved in circles, and those circles moved). </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay: <br>I'm martyr to a motion not my own; <br>What's freedom for? To know eternity. <br>I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. <br>But who would count eternity in days? <br>These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: <br>(I measure time by how a body sways).</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theodore+Roethke">Theodore Roethke</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=529043" data-title="I Knew a Woman de Theodore Roethke" data-description="I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain! Of her choice virtues only gods should speak, Or English p..."></div> </div> </div>

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