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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS IMMORTALITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a dead man's finer part Last Line: Dying amid the dark. Subject(s): Immortality | |||
I I SAW a dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I: 'This must be His immortality.' II I looked there as the seasons wore, And still his soul continuously bore A life in theirs. But less its shine excelled Than when I first beheld. III His fellow-yearsmen passed, and then In later hearts I looked for him again; And found him - shrunk, alas! into a thin And spectral mannikin. IV Lastly I ask - now old and chill - If aught of him remain unperished still; And find, in me alone, a feeble spark, Dying amid the dark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY by GEORGE SANTAYANA AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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