Why did I sketch an upland green,
And put the figure in
Of one on the spot with me? -
For now that one has ceased to be seen
The picture waxes akin
To a wordless irony.
If you go drawing on down or cliff
Let no soft curves intrude
Of a woman's silhouette,
But show the escarpments stark and stiff
As in utter solitude;
So shall you half forget.
Let me sooner pass from sight of the sky
Than again on a thoughtless day
Limn, laugh, and sing, and rhyme
With a woman sitting near, whom I
Paint in for love, and who may
Be called hence in my time!
From an old note.
Why Did I Sketch
Thomas Hardy
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Poem topics: I love you, green, irony, sky, solitude, time, laugh, forget, picture, soft, rhyme, Valentine's Day, love, woman, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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