Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


SONG OF HOPE by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: O SWEET TO-MORROW!
Last Line: SHINES SOON!
Subject(s): HOPE; OPTIMISM;

O SWEET To-morrow! -
After to-day
There will away
This sense of sorrow.
Then let us borrow
Hope, for a gleaming
Soon will be streaming,
Dimmed by no gray -
No gray!

While the winds wing us
Sighs from The Gone,
Nearer to dawn
Minute-beats bring us;
When there will sing us
Larks, of a glory
Waiting our story
Further anon -
Anon!

Doff the black token,
Don the red shoon,
Right and retune
Viol-strings broken:
Null the words spoken
In speeches of rueing,
The night cloud is hueing,
To-morrow shines soon -
Shines soon!



Home: PoetryExplorer.net