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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A CATHEDRAL CITY, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These people have not heard your name Last Line: The spot's unconsciousness of you! Subject(s): Churches; Love; Cathedrals | |||
THESE people have not heard your name; No loungers in this placid place Have helped to bruit your beauty's fame. The grey Cathedral, towards whose face Bend eyes untold, has met not yours; Your shade has never swept its base, Your form has never darked its doors, Nor have your faultless feet once thrown A pensive pit-pat on its floors. Along the street to maids well known Blithe lovers hum their tender airs, But in your praise voice not a tone.... - Since nought bespeaks you here, or bears, As I, your imprint through and through, Here might I rest, till my heart shares The spot's unconsciousness of you! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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