The Curtains Now Are Drawn
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
I
The curtains now are drawn,
And the spindrift strikes the glass,
Blown up the jagged pass
By the surly salt sou'-west,
And the sneering glare is gone
Behind the yonder crest,
While she sings to me:
'O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.'
II
I stand here in the rain,
With its smite upon her stone,
And the grasses that have grown
Over women, children, men,
And their texts that 'Life is vain';
But I hear the notes as when
Once she sang to me:
'O the dream that thou art my Love, be it thine,
And the dream that I am thy Love, be it mine,
And death may come, but loving is divine.'
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 144 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
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