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