Time & Brevity

The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Poems of the Past and the Present

Time & Brevity

I

IT bends far over Yell’ham Plain,
And we, from Yell’ham Height,
Stand and regard its fiery train,
So soon to swim from sight.

II

It will return long years hence, when
As now its strange swift shine
Will fall on Yell’ham; but not then
On that sweet form of thine.

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/795/.

Chicago

Hardy, Thomas. “The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/795/.

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