A Man's Requirements (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

This poem looks like another love poem of the time, but in the end it has a funny twist. 
At the beginning the reader express all the ways men want to be loved. However, in the end she explains that men ask a lot and give little in return. This is also another poem of criticism of society.





"Thus, if thou wilt prove me, Dear, 
    Woman's love no fable. 
I will love thee---- half a year----
    As a man is able."