Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VAGG HOLLOW, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you see in vagg hollow Last Line: "but I'm not afraid at all!" Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes | ||||||||
"WHAT do you see in Vagg Hollow, Little boy, when you go In the morning at five on your lonely drive?" "-- I see men's souls, who follow Till we've passed where the road lies low, When they vanish at our creaking! "They are like white faces speaking Beside and behind the waggon -- One just as father's was when here. The waggoner drinks from his flagon, (Or he'd flinch when the Hollow is near) But he does not give me any. "Sometimes the faces are many; But I walk along by the horses, He asleep on the straw as we jog; And I hear the loud water-courses, And the drops from the trees in the fog, And watch till the day is breaking, "And the wind out by Tintinhull waking; I hear in it father's call As he called when I saw him dying, And he sat by the fire last Fall, And mother stood by sighing; But I'm not afraid at all!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HANDSOME SWAMP by THOMAS LUX BOGLAND; FOR T.P. FLANAGAN by SEAMUS HEANEY HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: MARSH SONG - AT SUNSET by SIDNEY LANIER HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: SUNRISE by SIDNEY LANIER HYMNS OF THE MARSHES: THE MARSHES OF GLYNN by SIDNEY LANIER MARSH MUSIC by KENNETH SLADE ALLING IN A JON BOAT DURING A FLORIDA DAWN by DAVID BOTTOMS AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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