Nobody Comes
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Nobody Comes by Thomas Hardy
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Typical of Hardy’s poetry in later life, the poem is based on an actual event in his life. His second wife, thirty years younger than Hardy, had to have a tumor removed in London. Hardy’s younger brother picked her up and brought to their home. This poem refers to Hardy waiting for their return.
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TREE-LEAVES labour up and down,
And through them the fainting light
Succumbs to the crawl of night.
Outside in the road the telegraph wire
To the town from the darkening land
Intones to travelers like a spectral lyre
Swept by a spectral hand.
A car comes up, with lamps full-glare,
That flash upon a tree:
It has nothing to do with me,
And whangs along in a world of its own,
Leaving a blacker air;
And mute by the gate I stand again alone,
And nobody pulls up there.
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When did Thomas-hardy release Nobody Comes?
Thomas-hardy released Nobody Comes on Thu Oct 09 1924.