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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When your soft welcomings were said
Last Line: Till I had reached your old abode.
Subject(s): Hair
First Line: When your soft welcomings were said
Last Line: Till I had reached your old abode.
Subject(s): Hair
WHEN your soft welcomings were said,
This curl was waving on your head,
And when we walked where breakers dinned
It sported in the sun and wind,
And when I had won your words of grace
It brushed and clung about my face.
Then, to abate the misery
Of absentness, you gave it me.
Where are its fellows now? Ah, they
For brightest brown have donned a gray,
And gone into a caverned ark,
Ever unopened, always dark!
Yet this one curl, untouched of time,
Beams with live brown as in its prime,
So that it seems I even could now
Restore it to the living brow
By bearing down the western road
Till I had reached your old abode.
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