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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ORPHANED OLD MAID, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to marry, but father said, 'no Last Line: And nobody flings me a thought or a care. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids | |||
I WANTED to marry, but father said, 'No - 'Tis weakness in women to give themselves so; If you care for your freedom you'll listen to me, Make a spouse in your pocket, and let the men be.' I spake on't again and again: father cried, 'Why - if you go husbanding, where shall I bide? For never a home's for me elsewhere than here!' And I yielded; for father had ever been dear. But now father's gone, and I feel growing old, And I'm lonely and poor in this house on the wold, And my sweetheart that was found a partner elsewhere, And nobody flings me a thought or a care. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF A SPINSTER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM SOME FOREIGN LETTERS by ANNE SEXTON PASSPORT BLUES by MALCOLM COWLEY A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY MY AUNT by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES MEZZO CAMMIN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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