Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVITATION TO A HUSBAND, by ANNETTE PATTON CORNELL


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INVITATION TO A HUSBAND, by                    
First Line: I need to go away with you, my dear
Last Line: And be just lovers for a whole long day!
Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs


I need to go away with you, my dear,
Where all the cares of every day that press
Our love to earth and weight it down with fear
Are merely background for our happiness.
I am a slave to your small tyrant sons!
They fill the heart and soul and life of me,
And yet they are the very guilty ones
Who have destroyed our certain ecstasy.
The woven web of daily life displayed
Too closely to our eyes has lost some charm.
The pattern seems a little dim and frayed --
I view the situation with alarm.

My dear, together, we must go away
And be just lovers for a whole long day!





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