AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT
I
A SHADED lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a floor:
On this scene enter--winged, horned, and spined--
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
While 'mid my page there idly stands
A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands .
I
A SHADED lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a floor:
On this scene enter--winged, horned, and spined--
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore;
While 'mid my page there idly stands
A sleepy fly, that rubs its hands .
Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present
