All women born are so perverse

All women born are so perverse
No man need boast their love possessing.
If naught seem better, nothing's worse:
All women born are so perverse.
From Adam's wife, that proved a curse,
Though God had made her for a blessing,
All women born are so perverse
No man need boast their love possessing.

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Authorship

• by Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930), "Triolet", appears in Poems, first published 1873 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941), "So perverse", published 1916. [voice and piano] [
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