Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POSSESSION, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN


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First Line: When soft I lay in the mossy bed
Last Line: "we all belong to the sweet, green woods!"
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Love; New York City - Dutch Period; Woods


When soft I lay in the mossy bed
That swells to the foot of the hemlock-tree,
In the pride of a lover's heart I said,
"The sweet, green woods belong to me!"

But the woodchuck gray and the brown-eyed doe
And the chipmunk, rocked on the hazel stem,
And the hare and the deermouse answered, "No!" --
The sweet, green woods belonged to them!

Then the jack-in-the-pulpits, friends of youth,
Looked archly out from their purpling hoods
With an elfin laugh as they told the truth:
"We all belong to the sweet, green woods!"





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