The Lament of the Looking-glass

Thomas Hardy * Track #111 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1922

The Lament of the Looking-glass by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Lament of the Looking-glass Annotated

Words from the mirror softly pass
&nbsp To the curtains with a sigh:
“Why should I trouble again to glass
&nbsp These smileless things hard by,
Since she I pleasured once, alas,
&nbsp Is now no longer nigh!”

“I’ve imaged shadows of coursing cloud,
&nbsp And of the plying limb
On the pensive pine when the air is loud
&nbsp With its aerial hymn;
But never do they make me proud
&nbsp To catch them within my rim!

“I flash back phantoms of the night
&nbsp That sometimes flit by me,
I echo roses red and white -
&nbsp The loveliest blooms that be -
But now I never hold to sight
&nbsp So sweet a flower as she.”

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