Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN TROUBLE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT


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IN TROUBLE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's all for nothing: I've lost him now
Last Line: And if he sleeps sound o' nights.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Socialism


IT'S all for nothing: I've lost him now.
I suppose it had to be:
But oh I never thought it of him,
Nor e never thought it of me.
And all for a kiss on your evening out
An a field where the grass was down . . .
And e as gone to God-knows-where,
And I may go on the town.
The worst of all was the thing he said
The night that he went away:
He said he'd a married me right enough
If I hadn't a been so gay.
Me, gay! When I'd cried, and I'd asked him not,
But he said he loved me so;
An whatever he wanted seemed right to me . . .
An how was a girl to know?
Well, the river is deep, and drowned folk sleep sound,
An it might be the best to do;
But when he made me a light-o-love
He made me a mother too.
I've had enough sin to last my time,
If twas sin as I got it by,
But it aint no sin to stand by his kid
An work for it till I die.
But oh the long days and the death-long nights
When I feel it move and turn,
And cry alone in my single bed
And count what a girl can earn
To buy the baby the bits of things
He ought to a bought, by rights;
And wonder whether he thinks of Us . . .
And if he sleeps sound o' nights.







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