Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB STORY), by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I waited at home all the while they were boating together Last Line: "and it's just the same thing, don't you see." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of | ||||||||
I WAITED at home all the while they were boating together -- My wife and my near neighbour's wife: Till there entered a woman I loved more than life, And we sat and sat on, and beheld the uprising dark weather, With a sense that some mischief was rife. Tidings came that the boat had capsized, and that one of the ladies Was drowned -- which of them was unknown: And I marvelled -- my friend's wife? -- or was it my own Who had gone in such wise to the land where the sun as the shade is? -- We learnt it was his had so gone. Then I cried in unrest: "He is free! But no good is releasing To him as it would be to me!" "-- But it is," said the woman I loved, quietly. "How?" I asked her. "-- Because he has long loved me too without ceasing, And it's just the same thing, don't you see." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RESCUE THE DEAD by DAVID IGNATOW BUTTERFLIES UNDER PERSIMMON by MARK JARMAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 27 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 30 by JAMES JOYCE HE WHO KNOWS LOVE by ELSA BARKER LOVE'S HUMBLENESS by ELSA BARKER SONG (IN THE LUCKY CHANCE) by APHRA BEHN AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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