Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEEN BY THE WAITS, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Through snowy woods and shady
Last Line: We thought, but never said.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Widows & Widowers


THROUGH snowy woods and shady
We went to play a tune
To the lonely manor-lady
By the light of the Christmas moon.

We violed till, upward glancing
To where a mirror leaned,
It showed her airily dancing,
Deeming her movements screened;

Dancing alone in the room there,
Thin-draped in her robe of night;
Her postures, glassed in the gloom there,
Were a strange phantasmal sight.

She had learnt (we heard when homing)
That her roving spouse was dead:
Why she had danced in the gloaming
We thought, but never said.





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