Nature

A Night in November

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Nature

I MARKED when the weather changed,
And the panes began to quake,
And the winds rose up and ranged,
That night, lying half-awake.

Dead leaves blew into my room,
And alighted upon my bed,
And a tree declared to the gloom
Its sorrow that they were shed.

One leaf of them touched my hand,
And I thought that it was you
There stood as you used to stand,
And saying at last you knew!

(?) 1913.

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “A Night in November.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/424/.

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Hardy, Thomas. “A Night in November.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/424/.

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