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THE FROZEN GREENHOUSE (ST. JULIOT) by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THERE WAS A FROST
Last Line: AND KNOWS IT NOT.
Subject(s): FROST; GREENHOUSES;
"THERE was a frost
Last night!" she said,
"And the stove was forgot
When we went to bed,
And the greenhouse plants
Are frozen dead!"

By the breakfast blaze
Blank-faced spoke she,
Her scared young look
Seeming to be
The very symbol
Of tragedy.

The frost is fiercer
Than then to-day,
As I pass the place
Of her once dismay,
But the greenhouse stands
Warm, tight, and gay,

While she who grieved
At the sad lot
Of her pretty plants --
Cold, iced, forgot --
Herself is colder,
And knows it not.



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