Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POSSESSION, by BARBARA FROST 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ODE; CHAMBER AND SOUL by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE by KAREN SWENSON GETTING AND SPENDING by LINDA GREGERSON LEGAL FICTION by WILLIAM EMPSON |
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