Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FLOWER'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bedchamber window, near the glass Last Line: Of the flower's fate; nor it of her own. | ||||||||
IN the bedchamber window, near the glass, Stood the little flower in the little vase, Unnoticed quite For a whole fortnight, And withered for lack of watering To a skeleton mere -- a mummied thing. But it was not much, mid a world of teen, That a flower should waste in a nook unseen! One needed no thought to ascertain How it happened; that when she went in the rain To return here not, She was mindless what She had left here to perish. -- Ah, well: for an hour I wished I had not found the flower! Yet it was not much. And she never had known Of the flower's fate; nor it of her own. | 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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