Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAR, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plodded to fairmile hill-top, where Last Line: To make her understand. | ||||||||
I PLODDED to Fairmile Hill-top, where A maiden one fain would guard From every hazard and every care Advanced on the roadside sward. I wondered how succeeding suns Would shape her wayfarings, And wished some Power might take such ones Under Its warding wings. The busy breeze came up the hill And smartened her cheek to red, And frizzled her hair to a haze. With a will 'Good-morning, my Dear!' I said. She glanced from me to the far-off gray, And, with proud severity, 'Good-morning to you - though I may say I am not your Dear,' quoth she: 'For I am the Dear of one not here - One far from his native land!' - And she passed me by; and I did not try To make her understand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) by THOMAS HARDY A BROKEN APPOINTMENT by THOMAS HARDY A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899 by THOMAS HARDY A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY by THOMAS HARDY A WIFE IN LONDON by THOMAS HARDY ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY |
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