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"I Need Not Go" by Thomas Hardy

10/11/2008 10:48:29 PM
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(1840-1928)
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"I Need Not Go"
 
  I need not go
Through sleet and snow
To where I know
She waits for me;
She will wait me there
Till I find it fair,
And have time to spare
From company.

When I've overgot
The world somewhat,
When things cost not
Such stress and strain,
Is soon enough
By cypress sough
To tell my Love
I am come again.

And if some day,
When none cries nay,
I still delay
To seek her side,
(Though ample measure
Of fitting leisure
Await my pleasure)
She will riot chide.

What--not upbraid me
That I delayed me,
Nor ask what stayed me
So long? Ah, no! -
New cares may claim me,
New loves inflame me,
She will not blame me,
But suffer it so.

Thomas Hardy


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Kentucky Refugee (7/12/2008 12:36:00 PM)
You love this poem? ? ? ? I truly hate the entitled assumption that a real, live, fully functioning lover has nothing better to do in her life that to sit around and wait for an unfaithful narcissist to deign to turn her way. If they agreed on 4: 00 and he's not there by 4: 20 ('20 minutes for a full professor') , then, time to move on! If he really felt a passionate, burning, full in the face, soul to soul, truth seeking together LOVE, he could not bear to linger one minute more than necessary to be by her side. I hate to dignify these word toys with the name of 'poetry'.
Edith Oram (2/23/2008 3:45:00 AM)
I love this poem. The style is light but a depth of feeling lies beneath. Edith Oram

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