The Woman's Mind
Knowledge, to me, is wearisome from books, I learn so readily from words and looks. Give me yourself as free as air and rain. I'll drink, I'll think, and send you flowers again.
Anna Wickham
Knowledge, to me, is wearisome from books, I learn so readily from words and looks. Give me yourself as free as air and rain. I'll drink, I'll think, and send you flowers again.
Anna Wickham’s speaker has little patience for book learning. Knowledge from books, she says, wearies her; she learns far more readily from words and looks. She asks someone to give themselves to her as freely as air and rain—unguarded, natural, available.
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