Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MISMET, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was leaning by a face Last Line: While the heritor of the right it would have saved her soul to know! | ||||||||
I HE was leaning by a face, HE was looking into eyes, And he knew a trysting-place, And he heard seductive sighs; But the face, And the eyes, And the place, And the sighs, Were not, alas, the right ones -- the ones meet for him -- Though fine and sweet the features, and the feelings all abrim. II She was looking at a form, She was listening for a tread, She could feel a waft of charm When a certain name was said; But the form, And the tread, And the charm, And name said, Were the wrong ones for her, and ever would be so, While the heritor of the right it would have saved her soul to know! | 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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