A star looks down at me,
And says: “Here I and you
Stand each in our degree:
What do you mean to do,-

Mean to do?”

I say: “For all I know,
Wait, and let Time go by,
Till my change come.”-”Just so,”
The star says: “So mean I:-
So mean I.”

(C) Thomas Hardy
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Thomas Hardy

• Without Ceremony
• Fragment
• The Colour
• First Or Last (song)
• The Riddle
• Her Dilemma
• Heredity
• The Contretemps
• In A Cathedral City
• A Confession To A Friend In Trouble
• On The Tune Called The Old-hundred-and-fourth
• I Thought, My Heart
• Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - Xiii On The Death-bed
• The Child And The Sage
• Jezreel
• A Broken Appointment
• The Dawn After The Dance
• Imaginings
• Her Song
• Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?
• Her Love-birds