Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HER LATE HUSBAND, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No - not where I shall make my own Last Line: "in our sight up above!""'" Subject(s): Widows & Widowers | ||||||||
(King's Hintock, 182-) 'No - not where I shall make my own; But dig his grave just by The woman's with the initialed stone - As near as he can lie - After whose death he seemed to ail, Though none considered why. 'And when I also claim a nook, And your feet tread me in, Bestow me, in my maiden name, Among my kith and kin, That strangers gazing may not dream I did a husband win.' 'Widow, your wish shall be obeyed: Though, thought I, certainly You'd lay him where your folk are laid, And your grave, too, will be, As custom hath it; you to right, And on the left hand he.' 'Aye, sexton; such the Hintock rule, And none has said it nay; But now you find a native here Eschews that ancient way ... And it may be, some Christmas night, When angels walk, they'll say: '"O strange interment! Civilized lands Afford few types thereof; Here is a man who takes his rest Beside his very Love, Beside the one who was his wife In our sight up above!"' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A WIDOW SPEAKS TO THE AURORA'S OF A DECEMBER NIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA by NORMAN DUBIE POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 5; FOR R.P. BLACKMUR by NORMAN DUBIE THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT by NORMAN DUBIE DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WIDOW IN A STONE HOUSE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER GETTING TO KNOW YOU by RUTH STONE AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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