Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AS ONE HAVING A GREAT INHERITANCE, by ZELDA F. MELTON First Line: I said to my soul I would take Last Line: Perhaps it's elizabeth ...? Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession | ||||||||
I said to my Soul I would take Nor question the whence nor how, I scorned the Parson's Heaven and Hell; I would live Here and Now. I mocked at Life, and I scoffed at Love (Love passing, scars left deep) I said 'twere better to laugh and die Than to live long and weep. But I had not reckoned the blood that fed The poor, bruised heart of me, Nor visioned the strength of that crimson thread That could live for a century. I had not counted my mother, Elois, As pure as a lily's breath; Nor my grandmother, Constance, stately and good; Nor the one named Elizabeth; Nor the one who had mothered a bishop son, Whose blood flows in my veins. How could I know that the virtue of them Bound me with forged chains? How could I know that their dear, dead hands Would reach and draw me back Their childin spite of the grave itself Into the beaten track? I'm teaching the "Corner" school again And I sing in the Methodist choir, And I'm stroking a cat with topaz eyes As I sit and write by my fire. Yet, if "Teacher" is good (as the children say) Freely I here confess, It is not I who am good at all Perhaps it's Elizabeth ...? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INHERITANCE by THOMAS MCGRATH INHERITANCE by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN THE FIRSTBORN by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR THE IMPERIAL PRAYERS by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR MY WILL by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER THE INHERITOR by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME THE PLANTED HEEL by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH INHERITANCE by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON INHERITANCE by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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