Anna Wickham. My Lady Surrenders. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

My Lady Surrenders

By Anna Wickham


HOW did She abdicate?
Was it with soft sighs,
And pretty feignings of a lover’s state?
Or was it solemn-wise,
With altar offerings and rapt vows?	5
Oh, no!—when Love himself was there
Most housewifely she bound her hair,
And was off across the fields to milk the cows.