ONE day lively Sue, at a female tea-drinking, Says, Come tell me girls, for I have been thinking, If we all had our choice to be married tomorrow, What business in life our husbands should follow? Why, I'd have a Doctor, says Sally the witty; And I'd have a Lawyer, says Sophy the pretty; Says Nancy the sober, from both these I pass on, Give me for my husband, the lovely young parson. I am not so high-minded, says sly little Mary, As to raise my ambition to men literary; Those wise learned husbands to you I resign, But give me, O give me, a COOPER for mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PROVING by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO THE MEMORY OF INEZ MILHOLLAND by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE CHANT OF THE VULTURES by EDWIN MARKHAM MY LIGHT WITH YOURS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS CENTRAL PARK AT DUSK by SARA TEASDALE THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 20 by THOMAS CAMPION THE DOG by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |