To Don Juan by Angela Manalang-Gloria
To Don Juan
Angela Manalang-GloriaIt was not love-why should I love you?-
It was not folly, for I was wise,
Yet when you looked at me, your looking
Opened a kingdom to my eyes,It was not love, it was not folly,
I have no name to know it by,
I only know one shining instant
You held my earth, you held my sky.
MARGINALIA
Written by Angela Manalang-Gloria on 17 November 1935.
ABOUT ANGELA MANALANG-GLORIA
Angela Manalang-Gloria, born Angela Marie Legaspi Manalang on August 24, 1907, in Guagua, Pampanga, the Republic of the Philippines, was one of the major Filipina poets of the early twentieth century. The author of Poems (Self-published, 1940), she was well-known by her peers, especially for her controversial poem “Revolt of the Hymen” which protested marital rape. She died on August 19, 1995. (Source)
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