Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THIS SUMMER AND LAST, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy summer you / who do not see Last Line: Know what it knew! Subject(s): Summer | ||||||||
UNHAPPY summer you, Who do not see What your yester-summer saw! Never, never will you be Its match to me, Never, never draw Smiles your forerunner drew, Know what it knew! Divine things done and said Illumined it, Whose rays crept into corn-brown curls, Whose breezes heard a humorous wit Of fancy flit. - Still the alert brook purls, Though feet that there would tread Elsewhere have sped. So, bran-new summer, you Will never see All that yester-summer saw! Never, never will you be In memory Its rival, never draw Smiles your forerunner drew, Know what it knew! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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