“Why Did I Sketch”

Thomas Hardy * Track #62 On Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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Thomas Hardy

1917

"Why Did I Sketch" by Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy

“Why Did I Sketch” Annotated

Why did I sketch an upland green,
And put the figure in
Of one on the spot with me? -
For now that one has ceased to be seen
The picture waxes akin
To a wordless irony.

If you go drawing on down or cliff
Let no soft curves intrude
Of a woman's silhouette,
But show the escarpments stark and stiff
As in utter solitude;
So shall you half forget.

Let me sooner pass from sight of the sky
Than again on a thoughtless day
Limn, laugh, and sing, and rhyme
With a woman sitting near, whom I
Paint in for love, and who may
Be called hence in my time!

From an old note.

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