The Grave My Little Cottage Is

The Grave My Little Cottage Is - meaning Summary

A Domestic Image of Death

The speaker imagines her grave as a small cottage where she ‘keeps house’ for a beloved, arranging a domestic scene even in death. The poem frames bodily separation as temporary and orderly, anticipating a future reunion in “everlasting life.” It compresses mourning into calm household labor and faith, suggesting death is a pause in intimate companionship rather than a final end.