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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WET AUGUST, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nine drops of water bead the jessamine Last Line: Were wrought more bright than brightest skies to-day. Subject(s): Rain; Summer | |||
NINE drops of water bead the jessamine, And nine-and-ninety smear the stones and tiles: - 'Twas not so in that August - full-rayed, fine - When we lived out-of-doors, sang songs, strode miles. Or was there then no noted radiancy Of summer? Were dun clouds, a dribbling bough, Gilt over by the light I bore in me, And was the waste world just the same as now? It can have been so: yea, that threatenings Of coming down-drip on the sunless gray, By the then golden chances seen in things Were wrought more bright than brightest skies to-day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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