English poetry

PoetsBiographiesPoems by ThemesRandom Poem
The Rating of PoetsThe Rating of Poems

Poem by Thomas Hardy


Her Temple


Dear, think not that they will forget you:
– If craftsmanly art should be mine
I will build up a temple, and set you
Therein as its shrine.

They may say: ‘Why a woman such honour?’
– Be told, ‘O, so sweet was her fame,
That a man heaped this splendour upon her;
None now knows his name.’



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. At the Word ‘Farewell’
  2. The Three Tall Men
  3. The Supplanter
  4. I Found Her Out There
  5. Afternoon Service at Mellstock


Poem to print Print

1328 Views



Last Poems


To Russian version


Ðåéòèíã@Mail.ru

English Poetry. E-mail eng-poetry.ru@yandex.ru