Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SUGGESTION, by MARGARET SACKVILLE


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A SUGGESTION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Let us go and live in a perfectly new / house
Last Line: Where we may live and love—with nothing more to learn!
Subject(s): Hearts; Houses; Love; Romance


OH! let us go and live in a perfectly new house—
Pretty as paint and clean, so clean—where all the doors
Move softly on their hinges and no broom could rouse
The least faint speck of dust from off the polished floors.

A little house built cheerfully without much skill,
The sort we might have made ourselves, and let
Golden nasturtiums tumble from each window-sill
Over a box, thick-sown with peas and mignonette.

And when old ghosts come clamouring, as well they may
For long acquaintance sake, importunate and thin,
Politely we'll throw wide the doors and bid them stay,
Knowing they'll leave again as soon as they come in!

Because there's not a corner where a ghost could live,
Nor secret room or nook. But when annoyed they go
Quite, quite away, safely at last, we'll make-believe,
For fun, that we're as sad as other folk we know.

And then we'll gaily kiss beside our new-laid fire,
Where roasting chestnuts crackle and green fir-cones burn,
Knowing that we have found the House of Heart's Desire
Where we may live and love—with nothing more to learn!





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