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HER INITIALS by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: UPON A POET'S PAGE I WROTE
Last Line: THE RADIANCE HAS DIED AWAY.
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

UPON a poet's page I wrote
Of old two letters of her name;
Part seemed she of the effulgent thought
Whence that high singer's rapture came.
-- When now I turn the leaf the same
Immortal light illumes the lay
But from the letters of her name
The radiance has died away.




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