Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO AN ACTRESS, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read your name when you were strange to me Last Line: To springs that then were sealed up utterly? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses | ||||||||
I READ your name when you were strange to me, Where it stood blazoned bold with many more; I passed it vacantly, and did not see Any great glory in the shape it wore. O cruelty, the insight barred me then! Why did I not possess me with its sound, And in its cadence catch and catch again Your nature's essence floating therearound? Could that man be this I, unknowing you, When now the knowing you is all of me, And the old world of then is now a new, And purpose no more what it used to be - A thing of formal journeywork, but due To springs that then were sealed up utterly? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MOVIE STAR IN THE PROJECTION ROOM by EVE MERRIAM DO YOU WANT TO BE EXCELLENT AN ACTRESS NO NOT THAT EITHER by ALICE NOTLEY HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (1) by LYNN EMANUEL HOMAGE TO SHARON STONE (2) by LYNN EMANUEL POST-MODERNISM by JAMES GALVIN FILM AND FLESH by CLARENCE MAJOR MOVIE STAR PETER AT THE SUPPER FOR STREET PEOPLE by DAVID FERRY BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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