Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER, by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: It was what you bore with you, woman
Last Line: Of the winnowing-fan.


IT was what you bore with you, Woman,
Not inly were,
That throned you from all else human,
However fair!

It was that strange freshness you carried
Into a soul
Whereon no thought of yours tarried
Two moments at all.

And out from his spirit flew death,
And bale, and ban,
Like the corn-chaff under the breath
Of the winnowing-fan.





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