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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: I will have a little house
Last Line: For the children lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood
First Line: I will have a little house
Last Line: For the children lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood
I WILL have a little house
When the children are flown.
The feel of a big house
Would be cold as a stone;
A house full of emptiness
And we two alone.
But in a little house
We could creep to the blaze;
We could warm our cold hearts
With the thought of old days;
Him and me together
When the firelight plays.
There would be hardly room
For the ghosts to come in;
Ghosts of the little children
Who made a merry din,
Long ago and long ago
When I was a queen.
I will have a little garden
Big enough for two,
Where we can walk together
When the skies are blue,
Talking the good days over
And how fast they flew.
The littlest house and garden
For him and me just,
And all the sweet times we had
Withered to dust.
A big house would break my heart
For the children lost.
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