THE very fall my sister Nancy Knapp Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he had got her in a family way; And to let the child be born Would not do. Well, how about me with eight children, And one coming, and the farm Mortgaged to Thomas Rhodes? And when I got home that night, (After listening to the story of the buggy ride, And the finding of Zora in the ditch,) The first thing I saw, right there by the steps, Where the boys had hacked for angle worms, Was the hatchet! And just as I entered there was my wife, Standing before me, big with child. She started the talk of the mortgaged farm, And I killed her. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S COMPLAINT by MARY (CUMBERLAND) ALCOCK TIMID THINGS by JOHN HAMPTON ATKINSON THE BURIED FLOWER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN CHARACTERS: WILLIAM ENFIELD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SLUMBER FAIRIES by KATHARINE LEE BATES JOB 14. JOB'S ENTREATY by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE A CHILD'S FANCY by MATHILDE BLIND |