Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POSSESSION, by BARBARA FROST



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First Line: They say I own the cottage on the hill
Last Line: So little and so stubborn and so still.
Subject(s): Comfort; Idleness; Property; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Possessions


They say I own the cottage on the hill.
But it ain't so.
The cottage owns me, though,
That's how it really is. It ain't my will
To just keep staying on, year after year.
I've often thought I'd get away from here.

Just half way up -- guess you can see it now --
Faded and brown,
It kind of snuggles down.
The trees bend over it, you notice how?
Protecting-like, and whispering so low
It's quieter than anything I know.

My married sister wrote and sent for me.
And I did try --
She couldn't figure why
I never came. Queer, how a house can be --
The house they say I own, up on the hill --
So little and so stubborn and so still.





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