Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUBJUNCTIVE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose marie antoinette had come to wiscasset Last Line: And herself going milking with a silver milking pail. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Maine (state); Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France | ||||||||
(There is a tradition in Wiscasset, Maine, that a house was bought there as a refuge for Marie Antoinette.) Suppose Marie Antoinette had come to Wiscasset, Escaped from Paris, escaped from violence, escaped from fear, Would she have lived soberly and quietly, Talking to the women in the square white houses here? Where they saw gray water, she would have seen steel flashing, Where they saw autumn leaves, blood she would have seen. The shivering white birches would have seemed like frightened ladies, Where the Wiscasset eyes found only moving green. And when she saw the women go out into the barnyards Then she would have felt her tired heart fail, Remembering the Trianon and a dress of flowered satin, And herself going milking with a silver milking pail. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARIE ANTOINETTIE; OCTOBER 16, 1893 by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) ON THE TOILET TABLE OF QUEEN MARIE-ANTIONETTE by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAMENTATION, IN HER PRISON OF THE TEMPLE by MARY DARBY ROBINSON ALL GOATS by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH THE MOUSE by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH A LADY COMES TO AN INN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH ANNOUNCEMENT by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH BIRTH OF HENRI QUATRE by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH COUNTERS by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH |
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