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THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONE WITHOUT LOOKS IN TONIGHT
Last Line: FOURFOOTED, TIPTOE.
Subject(s): DEER;

One without looks in tonight
Through the curtain-chink
From the sheet of glistening white;
One without looks in tonight
As we sit and think
By the fender-brink.

We do not discern those eyes
Watching in the snow;
Lit by lamps of rosy dyes
We do not discern those eyes
Wondering, aglow,
Fourfooted, tiptoe.





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