10. Her Initials. Hardy, Thomas. 1898. Wessex Poems and Other Verses

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928). Wessex Poems and Other Verses. 1898.

10. Her Initials


UPON a poet’s page I wrote
Of old two letters of her name;
Part seemed she of the effulgent thought
Whence that high singer’s rapture came.
—When now I turn the leaf the same	5
Immortal light illumes the lay
But from the letters of her name
The radiance has died away. 1869.