Love

The Self-unseeing

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Poems of the Past and the Present

Love

HERE is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin,
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.

She sat here in her chair,
Smiling into the fire;
He who played stood there,
Bowing it higher and higher.

Childlike, I danced in a dream;
Blessings emblazoned that day
Everything glowed with a gleam;
Yet we were looking away!

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “The Self-unseeing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/254/.

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Hardy, Thomas. “The Self-unseeing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/254/.

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