Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BRIDEGROOM, by ANNA WICKHAM


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BRIDEGROOM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man I shall beget tomorrow
Last Line: Can I then be free?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hepburn, Patrick, Mrs.
Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism


Man I shall beget tomorrow
Where is he?
Life be a load, the load a sorrow,
Better not to be.
Man I shall beget tomorrow
Non-existent -- where is he?

He is spread in fields of wheat,
Low in grass that cows shall eat.
There are fragments of himself
High upon some warehouse shelf.
Any atom he may be
Any atom may he be.

She the focus will control,
The new body; but the Soul?
That is free.
The husk is made of any meat,
Any grass or any wheat.
But man has personality,
He alone is he;
The man is, I get tomorrow,
Whole in destiny.

Can I then be free?





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