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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEUTRAL TONES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by a pond that winter day Last Line: And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Winter | |||
WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod, -- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray. Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles solved years ago; And some words played between us to and fro -- On which lost the more by our love. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die; And a grin of bitterness swept thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing.... Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with grayish leaves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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