Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186-, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you weep there, o sweet lady Last Line: - 'madam, I swear your beauty will disarm him!' | ||||||||
'WHY do you weep there, O sweet lady, Why do you weep before that brass? - (I'm a mere student sketching the mediaeval) Is some late death lined there, alas? - Your father's? ... Well, all pay the debt that paid he!' 'Young man, O must I tell! - My husband's! And under His name I set mine, and my death! - Its date left vacant till my heirs should fill it, Stating me faithful till my last breath.' - 'Madam, that you are a widow wakes my wonder!' 'O wait! For last month I - remarried! And now I fear 'twas a deed amiss. We've just come home. And I am sick and saddened At what the new one will say to this; And will he think - think that I should have tarried? 'I may add, surely, - with no wish to harm him - That he's a temper - yes, I fear! And when he comes to church next Sunday morning, And sees that written ... O dear, O dear!' - 'Madam, I swear your beauty will disarm him!' | 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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