Poetry Archives

(”Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that
property which is the result of the husband’s earnings and
the wife’s savings becomes their joint property…. In this
most important of all partnerships there is no partnership
property.”—Recent decision of the New York Supreme
Court.)


Lady, lovely lady, come and share
    All my care;
Oh how gladly I will hurry
To confide my every worry
(And they’re very dark and drear)
    In your ear.

Lady, share the praise I obtain
    Now and again;
Though I’m shy, it doesn’t matter,
I will tell you how they flatter:
Every compliment I’ll share
    Fair and square.

Lady, I my toil will divide
    At your side;
I outside the home, you within;
You shall wash and cook and spin,
I’ll provide the flax and food,
        If you’re good.

Partners, lady, we shall be,
        You and me,
Partners in the highest sense
Looking for no recompense,
For, the savings that we make,
        I shall take.