Her Initials
Upon a poet’s page I wrote
Of old two letters of her name;
Part seemed she of the effulgent thought
Whence that high singer’s rapture came.
—When now I turn the leaf the same
Immortal light illumes the lay,
But from the letters of her name
The radiance has waned away!
Credit
This poem is in the public domain.
About this Poem
This poem appeared in Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Macmillan, 1916).
Author
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, whose books include Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, was one of the most influential novelists and poets of England’s Victorian era. He died on January 11, 1928.
Date Published
09/26/2018