History & Politics

To Carrey Clavel

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

History & Politics

YOU turn your back, you turn your back,
And never your face to me,
Alone you take your homeward track,
And scorn my company.

What will you do when Charley’s seen
Dewbeating down this way?
—You’ll turn your back as now, you mean?
Nay, Carrey Clavel, nay!

You’ll see none’s looking; put your lip
Up like a tulip, so;
And he will coll you, bend, and sip:
Yes, Carrey, yes; I know!

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “To Carrey Clavel.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/115/.

Chicago

Hardy, Thomas. “To Carrey Clavel.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/115/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Thomas Hardy