Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POSTPONEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY



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First Line: Snowbound in woodland, a mournful word
Last Line: "cheerily mating!"
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word,
Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird,
Reached me on wind-wafts; and thus I heard,
Wearily waiting: --

"I planned her a nest in a leafless tree,
But the passers eyed and twitted me,
And said: 'How reckless a bird is he,
Cheerily mating!'

"Fear-filled, I stayed me till summer-tide,
In lewth of leaves to throne her bride;
But alas! her love for me waned and died,
Wearily waiting.

"Ah, had I been like some I see,
Born to an evergreen nesting-tree,
None had eyed and twitted me,
Cheerily mating!"






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