Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone
Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.
Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE kettle descants in a cosy drone,
And the young wife looks in her husband's face,
And then at her guest's, and shows in her own
Her sense that she fills an envied place;
And the visiting lady is all abloom,
And says there was never so sweet a room.

And the happy young housewife does not know
That the woman beside her was first his choice,
Till the fates ordained it could not be so....
Betraying nothing in look or voice
The guest sits smiling and sips her tea,
And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.





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