Social Commentaries
On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner
From Demeter and Other Poems (1889)
Social Commentaries
WHILE man and woman still are incomplete,
I prize that soul where man and woman meet,
Which types all Nature's male and female plan,
But, friend, man-woman is not woman-man.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/433/.
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. “On One Who Affected an Effeminate Manner.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tennyson/433/.
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