Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER REPROACH, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Con the dead page as if 'twere live love: press on Last Line: A moment; musing, 'he, too, had his day!' | ||||||||
CON the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! Cold wisdom's words will ease thy track for thee; Aye, go; cast off sweet ways, and leave me wan To biting blasts that are intent on me. But if thy object Fame's far summits be, Whose inclines many a skeleton overlies That missed both dream and substance, stop and see How absence wears these cheeks and dims these eyes! It surely is far sweeter and more wise To water love, than toil to leave anon A name whose glory-gleam will but advise Invidious minds to eclipse it with their own, And over which the kindliest will but stay A moment; musing, 'He, too, had his day!' | 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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