Time & Brevity

Lying awake

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

Time & Brevity

You, Morningtide Star, now are steady-eyed, over the east,
I know it as if I saw you;
You, Beeches, engrave on the sky your thin twigs, even the least;
Had I paper and pencil I’d draw you.

You, Meadow, are white with your counterpane cover of dew,
I see it as if I were there;
You, Churchyard, are lightening faint from the shade of the yew,
The names creeping out everywhere.

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “Lying awake.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/697/.

Chicago

Hardy, Thomas. “Lying awake.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/697/.

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