Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DIVISION, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rain on the windows, creaking doors Last Line: And longer than the years! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
RAIN on the windows, creaking doors, With blasts that besom the green, And I am here, and you are there, And a hundred miles between! O were it but the weather, Dear, O were it but the miles That summed up all our severance, There might be room for smiles. But that thwart thing betwixt us twain, Which nothing cleaves or clears, Is more than distance, Dear, or rain, And longer than the years! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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