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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Winter in Durnover Field



SCENE. – A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about thereon, and wistfully eyeing the surface. Wind keen from north-east: sky a dull grey. 

(Triolet)

Rook. – Throughout the field I find no grain;
The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!
Starling. – Aye: patient pecking now is vain
Throughout the field, I find... 
Rook. – No grain!
Pigeon. – Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,
Or genial thawings loose the lorn land
Throughout the field.
Rook. – I find no grain:
The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. An Expostulation
  2. Her Love-Birds
  3. The Collector Cleans His Picture
  4. The Aërolite
  5. The Harvest-Supper


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