"I Travel As A Phantom Now"

________________________________________________
Title:     "I Travel As A Phantom Now"
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

I travel as a phantom now,
For people do not wish to see
In flesh and blood so bare a bough
As Nature makes of me.

And thus I visit bodiless
Strange gloomy households often at odds,
And wonder if Man's consciousness
Was a mistake of God's.

And next I meet you, and I pause,
And think that if mistake it were,
As some have said, O then it was
One that I well can bear!

1915.

[The end]
Thomas Hardy's poem: "I Travel As A Phantom Now"

________________________________________________



GO TO TOP OF SCREEN