Verse Contradictions
A very long time ago, a friend of the family's named Dorothy Brady introduced us to the game of finding pairs of proverbs with opposite meanings, such as "He who hesitates is lost"/"Look before you leap." More recently it occurred to me that one might do the same thing with pairs of poems, ideally both by the same poet. My one example so far—my wife thinks she pointed it out to me twenty-some years ago—is a pair of sonnets by Millay.
Part of the argument of "Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow" is summed up in the line "Were you not lovely I would leave you now."
While the argument of "Love is not blind" is
"Well I know
What is this beauty men are babbling of;
I only wonder why they prize it so."
Which reminds me of a quote that I thought was by Heine but now cannot find a source for:
"Why should I be always of my own opinion?"
Can anyone offer other such pairs of poems? A source for my quote?