The Rejected Member’s Wife

Thomas Hardy * Track #10 On Time’s Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1909

The Rejected Member's Wife by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

The Rejected Member’s Wife Annotated

We shall see her no more
&nbsp On the balcony,
Smiling, while hurt, at the roar
&nbsp As of surging sea
From the stormy sturdy band
&nbsp Who have doomed her lord's cause,

Though she waves her little hand
&nbsp As it were applause.
Here will be candidates yet,
&nbsp And candidates' wives,
Fervid with zeal to set
&nbsp Their ideals on our lives:

Here will come market-men
&nbsp On the market-days,
Here will clash now and then
&nbsp More such party assays.
And the balcony will fill
&nbsp When such times are renewed,

And the throng in the street will thrill
&nbsp With to-day's mettled mood;
But she will no more stand
&nbsp In the sunshine there,
With that wave of her white-gloved hand,
&nbsp And that chestnut hair.

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