Great Regulars: The verse is so tuneful,

the sounds of words so seductively strummed across the sentences, it hardly matters that these opening lines are conventional. The sentence ends, however, with a turn that goes beyond the conventional: "As for her inside, he'd have it/Only of wantonness and wit." As a definition of what Raleigh desires in a perfect lover, this is both droll and, I think, lightly self-mocking, since "her inside" is sort of an afterthought as well as a climax. As a description of what the ideal lover should have as inner qualities, "wantonness and wit" is both apt and funny.

from Robert Pinsky: Going Somewhere

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