Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE AGEING HOUSE, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: When the walls were red
Last Line: While fiercely girds the wind at the long-limbed sycamore tree!
Subject(s): Houses


WHEN the walls were red
That now are seen
To be overspread
With a mouldy green,
A fresh fair head
Would often lean
From the sunny casement
And scan the scene,
While blithely spoke the wind to the little sycamore tree.

But storms have raged
Those walls about,
And the head has aged
That once looked out;
And zest is suaged
And trust grows doubt,
And slow effacement
Is rife throughout,
While fiercely girds the wind at the long-limbed sycamore tree!





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