The Shadow
1573-1637
FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you;
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
At morn and even, shades are longest;
At noon they are or short or none:
So men at weakest, they are strongest,
But grant us perfect, they're not known.
Say, are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
DayPoems Poem No. 188
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/188.html">The Shadow by Ben Jonson</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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