Time & Brevity
Alike and Unlike
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)
We watched the selfsame scene on that long drive,
Saw the magnificent purples, as one eye,
Of those near mountains; saw the storm arrive;
Laid up the sight in memory, you and I,
As if for joint recallings by and by.
But our eye-records, like in hue and line,
Had superimposed on them, that very day,
Gravings on your side deep, but slight on mine! —
Tending to sever us thenceforth alway;
Mine commonplace; yours tragic, gruesome, gray.
Codex Note
(Great-Orme’s Head)
Cite this poem
MLA
Hardy, Thomas. “Alike and Unlike.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/617/.
Chicago
Hardy, Thomas. “Alike and Unlike.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/617/.
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