Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TEN YEARS SINCE, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: Tis ten years since / I saw her on the stairs
Last Line: Those ten years since!
Subject(s): Time


'TIS ten years since
I saw her on the stairs,
Heard her in house-affairs,
And listened to her cares;
And the trees are ten feet taller,
And the sunny spaces smaller
Whose bloomage would enthrall her;
And the piano wires are rustier,
The smell of bindings mustier,
And lofts and lumber dustier
Than when, with casual look
And ear, light note I took
Of what shut like a book
Those ten years since!





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