Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO SERENADES: 1. ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late on christmas eve, in the street alone Last Line: She did not come. Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Complaints; Nativity, The | ||||||||
LATE on Christmas Eve, in the street alone, Outside a house, on the pavement-stone, I sang to her, as we'd sung together On former eves ere I felt her tether. -- Above the door of green by me Was she, her casement seen by me; But she would not heed What I melodied In my soul's sore need -- She would not heed. Cassiopeia overhead, And the Seven of the Wain, heard what I said As I bent me there, and voiced, and fingered Upon the strings. . . . Long, long I lingered: Only the curtains hid from her One whom caprice had bid from her; But she did not come, And my heart grew numb And dull my strum; She did not come. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DIFFERENT VIEWS; A CHRISMAS DUET by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS by AMBROSE BIERCE CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER CHRISTMAS TREE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ISAIAH'S COAL by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.. by MARVIN BELL AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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