We waited for the sun To break its cloudy prison (For day was not yet done, And night still unbegun) Leaning by the dial. After many a trial— We all silent there— It burst as new-arisen, Throwing a shade to where Time travelled at that minute. Little saw we in it, But this much I know, Of lookers on that shade, Her towards whom it made Soonest had to go.

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Poems by This Author

Afterwards by Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy A shaded lamp and a waving blind At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy Our songs went up and out the chimney At the Piano by Thomas Hardy A Woman was playing Channel Firing by Thomas Hardy That night your great guns, unawares, During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy They sing their dearest songs Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me How Great My Grief by Thomas Hardy How great my grief, my joys how few I Found Her Out There by Thomas Hardy I found her out there The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy In a solitude of the sea The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate The Glimpse by Thomas Hardy She sped through the door The Going by Thomas Hardy Why did you give no hint that night The Interloper by Thomas Hardy There are three folk driving in a quaint old chaise The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy "Had he and I but met The Oxen by Thomas Hardy Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock The Ruined Maid by Thomas Hardy "O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! The Subalterns by Thomas Hardy The Voice by Thomas Hardy Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy How do you know that the pilgrim track To A Sea-Cliff by Thomas Hardy

Further Reading

Poems about Gardens Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden] by Major Jackson Angel of Duluth [excerpt] by Madelon Sprengnether Bulb Planting Time by Edgar Guest Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine by Amy E. King Done With by Ann Stanford Garden Homage by Medbh McGuckian Garden of Bees by Matthew Rohrer Herb Garden by Timothy Steele Loneliness by Trumbull Stickney Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters My Garden with Walls by William Brooks October (section I) by Louise Glück osculation for easter flower by Sandra Miller Telling the Bees by Deborah Digges The Garden by Andrew Marvell The Garden Year by Sara Coleridge The Mower Against Gardens by Andrew Marvell The Public Garden by Robert Lowell They'll spend the summer by Joshua Beckman This Compost by Walt Whitman Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence