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HER SECRET by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THAT LOVE'S DULL SMART DISTRESSED MY HEART
Last Line: DID HE DREAM OF FOLLOWING ME!
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF; SECRETS;

THAT love's dull smart distressed my heart
He shrewdly learnt to see,
But that I was in love with a dead man
Never suspected he.

He searched for the trace of a pictured face,
He watched each missive come,
And a sheet that seemed like a love-line
Wrought his look lurid and numb.

He dogged my feet to the city street,
He followed me to the sea,
But not to the nigh, still churchyard
Did he dream of following me!



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