Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Last Line: Quite so emphatically! Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives | ||||||||
Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Would catch the world's keen eyes so! How the men look at me! My radiant rareness I deemed not they would prize so! That I was a peach for any man's posession Why did not some one say Before I leased myself in an hour's obsession To this dull mate for aye! His days are mine. I am one who cannot steal her Ahead of his plodding pace: As he is, so am I. One doomed to feel her A wasted form and face! I was so blind! It did sometimes just strike me All girls were not as I, But, dwelling much alone, how few were like me I could not well descry; Till, at this Grand Hotel, all looks bend on me In homage as I pass To take my seat at breakfast, dinner, -- cone me As poorly spoused, alas! I was too young. I dwelt too much on duty: If I had guessed my powers Where might have sailed this cargo of choice beauty In its unanchored hours! Well, husband, poor plain man; I've lost life's battle! -- Come - let them look at me. O damn, don't show in your looks that I'm your chattel Quite so emphatically! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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