“O lonely workman, standing there
In a dream, why do you stare and stare
At her grave, as no other grave where there?”
“If your great gaunt eyes so importune
Her soul by the shine of this corpse-cold moon,
Maybe you'll raise her phantom soon!”
“Why, fool, it is what I would rather see
Than all the living folk there be;
But alas, there is no such joy for me!”
“Ah-she was one you loved, no doubt,
Through good and evil, through rain and drought,
And when she passed, all your sun went out?”
“Nay: she was the woman I did not love,
Whom all the other were ranked above,
Whom during her life I thought nothing of.”
In The Moonlight
Thomas Hardy
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Poem topics: I love you, dream, evil, joy, life, lonely, moon, rain, sun, woman, soul, raise, good, great, cold, doubt, fool, shine, thought, love, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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