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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529702" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Well-Beloved</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wayed by star and planet shine <br> Towards the dear one's home <br>At Kingsbere, there to make her mine <br> When the next sun upclomb. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I edged the ancient hill and wood <br> Beside the Ikling Way, <br>Nigh where the Pagan temple stood <br> In the world's earlier day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as I quick and quicker walked <br> On gravel and on green, <br>I sang to sky, and tree, or talked <br> Of her I called my queen. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- "O faultless is her dainty form, <br> And luminous her mind; <br>She is the God-created norm <br> Of perfect womankind!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A shape whereon one star-blink gleamed <br> Glode softly by my side, <br>A woman's; and her motion seemed <br> The motion of my bride. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet methought she'd drawn erstwhile <br> Adown the ancient leaze, <br>Where once were pile and peristyle <br> For men's idolatries. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- "O maiden lithe and lone, what may <br> Thy name and lineage be, <br>Who so resemblest by this ray <br> My darling?--Art thou she?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Shape: "Thy bride remains within <br> Her father's grange and grove." <br>- "Thou speakest rightly," I broke in, <br> "Thou art not she I love." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- "Nay: though thy bride remains inside <br> Her father's walls," said she, <br>"The one most dear is with thee here, <br> For thou dost love but me." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I: "But she, my only choice, <br> Is now at Kingsbere Grove?" <br>Again her soft mysterious voice: <br> "I am thy only Love." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus still she vouched, and still I said, <br> "O sprite, that cannot be!" . . . <br>It was as if my bosom bled, <br> So much she troubled me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sprite resumed: "Thou hast transferred <br> To her dull form awhile <br>My beauty, fame, and deed, and word, <br> My gestures and my smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O fatuous man, this truth infer, <br> Brides are not what they seem; <br>Thou lovest what thou dreamest her; <br> I am thy very dream!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- "O then," I answered miserably, <br> Speaking as scarce I knew, <br>"My loved one, I must wed with thee <br> If what thou say'st be true!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She, proudly, thinning in the gloom: <br> "Though, since troth-plight began, <br>I've ever stood as bride to groom, <br> I wed no mortal man!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thereat she vanished by the Cross <br> That, entering Kingsbere town, <br>The two long lanes form, near the fosse <br> Below the faneless Down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- When I arrived and met my bride, <br> Her look was pinched and thin, <br>As if her soul had shrunk and died, <br> And left a waste within.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529702" data-title="The Well-Beloved de Thomas Hardy" data-description="I wayed by star and planet shine Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine When the next sun upclomb. I edged the ancient hill and wood Beside the Ikling Way, Nigh..."></div> </div> </div>
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