One fine morning, in a land full of mild-mannered folk, a man and woman, majestic in their bearing, stood on the public square. The man said, "Friends, I want her to be queen!" And the woman said, "I want to be queen!" She laughed and trembled. And the man told his friends of a revelation, of a test completed. Then they swooned into each other's arms, enraptured. And for one whole morning, as the draperies hung rubycolored from the houses, and for one whole afternoon, as they walked toward the garden of palms, they were truly kings. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN QUEST by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MAGDALEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ON THE PROPOSAL TO ERECT A MONUMENT IN ENGLAND TO LORD BYRON by EMMA LAZARUS THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM by AMY LOWELL TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES by AMY LOWELL |