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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy Poems
| 321. | "Between Us Now" | 1/4/2003 |
| 322. | The Darkling Thrush | 12/31/2002 |
| 323. | "How Great My Grief" (Triolet) | 1/4/2003 |
| 324. | I Need Not Go | 1/4/2003 |
| 325. | A Broken Appointment | 1/3/2003 |
| 326. | "I Said To Love" | 1/4/2003 |
"I Said To Love"
I said to Love,
"It is not now as in old days
When men adored thee and thy ways
All else above;
Named thee the Boy, the Bright, the One
Who spread a heaven beneath the sun,"
I said to Love.
I said to him,
"We now know more of thee than then;
We were but weak in judgment when,
With hearts abrim,
We clamoured thee that thou would'st please
Inflict on us thine agonies,"
I said to him.
I said to Love,
"Thou art not young, ...
The Dream-Follower
A dream of mine flew over the mead
To the halls where my old Love reigns;
And it drew me on to follow its lead:
And I stood at her window-panes;
And I saw but a thing of flesh and bone
Speeding on to its cleft in the clay;
And my dream was scared, and expired on a moan,
And I whitely hastened away.
