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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SELF-UNSEEING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the ancient floor
Last Line: Yet we were looking away!
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
First Line: Here is the ancient floor
Last Line: Yet we were looking away!
Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives
HERE is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.
She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.
Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day;
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!
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