Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | IV. Wooing and Winning | | Love’s Logic | | Anonymous |
| | I. HER RESPECTABLE PAPA’S “MY dear, be sensible! Upon my word | |
| This—for a woman even—is absurd; | |
| His income ’s not a hundred pounds, I know. | |
| He ’s not worth loving.”—“But I love him so!” | |
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II. HER MOTHER’S “You silly child, he is well made and tall; | 5 |
| But looks are far from being all in all. | |
| His social standing ’s low, his family ’s low. | |
| He ’s not worth loving.”—“And I love him so!” | |
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III. HER ETERNAL FRIEND’S “Is that he picking up the fallen fan? | |
| My dear! he ’s such an awkward, ugly man! | 10 |
| You must be certain, pet, to answer ‘No.’ | |
| He ’s not worth loving.”—“And I love him so!” | |
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IV. HER BROTHER’S “By Jove! were I a girl—through horrid hap— | |
| I wouldn’t have a milk-and-water chap. | |
| The man has not a single spark of ‘go.’ | 15 |
| He ’s not worth loving.”—“Yet I love him so!” | |
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V. HER OWN “And were he everything to which I ’ve listened: | |
| Though he were ugly, awkward (and he isn’t), | |
| Poor, low-born, and destitute of ‘go,’ | |
| He is worth loving, for I love him so.” | 20 | | | |
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