Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOUR FOOTPRINTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the tracks upon the sand Last Line: For they have resumed their honeymoon tour. Subject(s): Footprints | ||||||||
HERE are the tracks upon the sand Where stood last evening she and I - Pressed heart to heart and hand to hand; The morning sun has baked them dry. I kissed her wet face - wet with rain, For arid grief had burnt up tears, While reached us as in sleeping pain The distant gurgling of the weirs. 'I have married him - yes; feel that ring; 'Tis a week ago that he put it on.... A dutiful daughter does this thing, And resignation succeeds anon! 'But that I body and soul was yours Ere he'd possession, he'll never know. He's a confident man. "The husband scores," He says, "in the long run" ... Now, Dear, go!' I went. And to-day I pass the spot; It is only a smart the more to endure; And she whom I held is as though she were not, For they have resumed their honeymoon tour. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TURN OF THE ROAD by JANE BARLOW FOOT-PRINTS by ANNE MILLAY BREMER THE PILGRIM MAIDEN by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH HIS FOOTSTEP by KATHARINE TYNAN THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK JOGGING INTO DAY AT COCO BEACH by KURT J. FICKERT EXCEPT FOR A FEW FOOTPRINTS by PATRICIA GOEDICKE WAY OUT IN THE LOCAL WILDERNESS by JAMES HARRISON AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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