Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди))

Why Do I?

Why do I go on doing these things?
Why not cease?
Is it that you are yet in this world of welterings
And unease,
And that, while so, mechanic repetitions please?

When shall I leave off doing these things? –
When I hear
You have dropped your dusty cloak and taken you wondrous wings
To another sphere,
Where no pain is: Then shall I hush this dinning gear.

Thomas Hardy’s other poems:

  1. Yuletide in a Younger World
  2. I Thought, My Heart
  3. The Two Houses
  4. The Nettles
  5. The Inscription




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