A Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew and a request

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A Quoi Bon Dire
by Charlotte Mew

Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old
But you.

And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.

Unrelated Request: I'm looking for poems that are critical of or satirical about cultural or societal expectations or stereotypes for female beauty. I've got Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and "Slip of the Tongue" by Adriel Luis, but I'd like a few more examples.

Comments

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Try anything by Carol Ann Duffy - particularly from The World's Wife.