The farmer's bride

• "three summers since I chose a maid"
• "out 'mong the sheep, let her be, they said"
• "we chased her, flying like a hare"
• "we caught her, fetched her"
• " 'not near, not near!' her eyes beseech"
• "her eyes, her hair, her hair!"
• "I hardly heard her speak at all"
• "to her wild self. but what to me?"
• "what's Christmas time without there be some others in the house than we!"
• published in 1916 by Charlotte Mew
• written in the perspective of a man
• Mew was very depressed, and committed suicide in 1928
• She was thought to be homosexual