Time & Brevity
Once at Swanage
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
Time & Brevity
The spray sprang up across the cusps of the moon,
And all its light loomed green
As a witch-flame’s weirdsome sheen
At the minute of an incantation scene;
And it greened our gaze — that night at demilune.
Roaring high and roaring low was the sea
Behind the headland shores:
It symboled the slamming of doors,
Or a regiment hurrying over hollow floors...
And there we two stood, hands clasped; I and she!
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Hardy, Thomas. “Once at Swanage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/608/.
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Hardy, Thomas. “Once at Swanage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/608/.
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