Time & Brevity

The Caged Goldfinch

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

Time & Brevity

WITHIN a churchyard, on a recent grave,
I saw a little cage
That jailed a goldfinch. All was silence save
Its hops from stage to stage.

There was inquiry in its wistful eye,
And once it tried to sing;
Of him or her who placed it there, and why,
No one knew anything.

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “The Caged Goldfinch.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/335/.

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Hardy, Thomas. “The Caged Goldfinch.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/335/.

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