Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: A day is drawing to its fall
Last Line: Has been a common day.


A DAY is drawing to its fall
I had not dreamed to see;
The first of many to enthrall
My spirit, will it be?
Or is this eve the end of all
Such new delight for me?

I journey home: the pattern grows
Of moonshades on the way:
'Soon the first quarter, I suppose,'
Sky-glancing travellers say;
I realize that it, for those,
Has been a common day.





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