(@3To a Lucy Stoner@1) Stay by yourself and be my love! We will not ape the turtledove And live within one tiny cot As is the common married lot. Such humdrum ways we view amiss, We seek a freer sort of bliss. You keep your flat and I'll keep mine Save that together we will dine Say once a week. But otherwise Our quondam freedom we will prize. Upon your time I'll make no claim, You'll keep your job, your maiden name, And folks who come around to call Will never know we're wed at all. Stay by yourself and be my bride, And our expenses we'll divide, Retaining all our love's resplendence Through Economic Independence. And should a baby come to us (It has been known to happen thus), We'll shake the dice or match to see Whether it's named for you or me. And thus we'll live our whole lives through Two hearts and souls—remaining two! If with this plan you coincide, Stay by yourself and be my bride! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM AT HIS FIRST PUTTING ON BREECHES by MARY BARBER AMERICAN NAMES by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET A PRAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE FALL; A GREAT FAVORIT BEHEADED by LUIS DE GONGORA PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR. GARRICK AT ... THEATRE ROYALE, 1747 by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES by SIEGFRIED SASSOON |