Nature
By Rushy-pond
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Nature
A JANUARY NIGHT
(1879)
THE rain smites more and more,
The east wind snarls and sneezes;
Through the joints of the quivering door
The water wheezes.
The tip of each ivy-shoot
Writhes on its neighbour’s face;
There is some hid dread afoot
That we cannot trace.
Is it the spirit astray
Of the man at the house below
Whose coffin they took in to-day?
We do not know.
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MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “By Rushy-pond.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/303/.
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Hardy, Thomas. “By Rushy-pond.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/303/.
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