Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHE HEARS THE STORM, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time in former years Last Line: Which earth grants all her kind. Subject(s): Storms | ||||||||
THERE was a time in former years - While my roof-tree was his - When I should have been distressed by fears At such a night as this! I should have murmured anxiously, 'The pricking rain strikes cold; His road is bare of hedge or tree, And he is getting old.' But now the fitful chimney-roar, The drone of Thornocombe trees, The Froom in flood upon the moor, The mud of Mellstock Leaze, The candle slanting sooty-wick'd, The thuds upon the thatch, The eaves-drops on the window flicked, The clacking garden-hatch, And what they mean to wayfarers, I scarcely heed or mind; He has won that storm-tight roof of hers Which Earth grants all her kind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STORM AT HOPTIME by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THERE IS A SOLEMN WIND TONIGHT by KATHERINE MANSFIELD DEWEY AND DANCER by JOSEPHINE MILES MICHAEL IS AFRAID OF THE STORM by GWENDOLYN BROOKS BREACHING THE ROCK by MADELINE DEFREES THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE OCEAN by STEPHEN DOBYNS OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE TREMENDOUS WIND AND RAIN by ANSELM HOLLO AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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