At Moonrise And Onwards

Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)



I thought you a fire
On Heron-Plantation Hill,
Dealing out mischief the most dire
To the chattels of men of hire
There in their vill.

But by and by
You turned a yellow-green,
Like a large glow-worm in the sky;
And then I could descry
Your mood and mien.

How well I know
Your furtive feminine shape!
As if reluctantly you show
You nude of cloud, and but by favour throw
Aside its drape . . .

-How many a year
Have you kept pace with me,
Wan Woman of the waste up there,
Behind a hedge, or the bare
Bough of a tree!

No novelty are you,
O Lady of all my time,
Veering unbid into my view
Whether I near Death's mew,
Or Life's top cyme!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXAB CDCAD EFEEF XGHHG IXIIG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 615
Words 127
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5, 5

Thomas Hardy

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