Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house Last Line: Where we may live and lovewith nothing more to learn! Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance | ||||||||
OH! let us go and live in a perfectly new house Pretty as paint and clean, so cleanwhere all the doors Move softly on their hinges and no broom could rouse The least faint speck of dust from off the polished floors. A little house built cheerfully without much skill, The sort we might have made ourselves, and let Golden nasturtiums tumble from each window-sill Over a box, thick-sown with peas and mignonette. And when old ghosts come clamouring, as well they may For long acquaintance sake, importunate and thin, Politely we'll throw wide the doors and bid them stay, Knowing they'll leave again as soon as they come in! Because there's not a corner where a ghost could live, Nor secret room or nook. But when annoyed they go Quite, quite away, safely at last, we'll make-believe, For fun, that we're as sad as other folk we know. And then we'll gaily kiss beside our new-laid fire, Where roasting chestnuts crackle and green fir-cones burn, Knowing that we have found the House of Heart's Desire Where we may live and lovewith nothing more to learn! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ZOOMING; FOR TOM RAWORTH by ANSELM HOLLO ROMANCE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A MADE-FOR-TV ROMANCE by PETER JOHNSON CONFUSION OF THE SENSES by KENNETH REXROTH HIGH PROVENCE by KENNETH REXROTH THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 12 by KENNETH REXROTH THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 23 by KENNETH REXROTH |
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