Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN TENEBRIS: 1, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Wintertime nighs
Last Line: Waits in unhope.
Variant Title(s): De Profundis 1


Wintertime nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.

Flower-petals flee,
But, since it once hath been,
No more that severing scene
Can harrow me.

Birds faint in dread:
I shall not lose old strength
In the lone frost's black length:
Strength since long fled!

Leaves freeze to dun;
But friends can not turn cold
This season as of old
For him with none.

Tempests may scathe;
But love can not make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.

Black is night's cope;
But death will not appall
One who, past doubtings all,
Waits in unhope.





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