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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Read by Moonlight


I paused to read a letter of hers
By the moon’s cold shine,
Eyeing it in the tenderest way,
And edging it up to catch each ray
Upon her light-penned line.
I did not know what years would flow
Of her life’s span and mine
Ere I read another letter of hers
By the moon’s cold shine!

I chance now on the last of hers,
By the moon’s cold shine;
It is the one remaining page
Out of the many shallow and sage
Whereto she set her sign.
Who could foresee there were to be
Such missives of pain and pine
Ere I should read this last of hers
By the moon’s cold shine!



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. V.R. 1819–1901
  2. Genitrix Laesa
  3. Song from Heine
  4. Over the Coffin
  5. The Forbidden Banns


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