Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER HAUNTING-GROUND, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be so? It must be so Last Line: And, save for others, knew no gloom? | ||||||||
CAN it be so? It must be so, That visions have not ceased to be In this the chiefest sanctuary Of her whose form we used to know. -- Nay, but her dust is far away, And "where her dust is, shapes her shade, If spirit clings to flesh," they say: Yet here her life-parts most were played! Her voice explored this atmosphere, Her foot impressed this turf around, Her shadow swept this slope and mound, Her fingers fondled blossoms here; And so, I ask, why, why should she Haunt elsewhere, by a slighted tomb, When here she flourished sorrow-free, And, save for others, knew no gloom? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) by THOMAS HARDY A BROKEN APPOINTMENT by THOMAS HARDY A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899 by THOMAS HARDY A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS HARDY A WIFE IN LONDON by THOMAS HARDY ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY |
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