English poem
Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IV In The Room Of The Bride-Elect
by Thomas Hardy
"Would it had been the man of our wish!" Sighs her mother. To whom with vehemence she In the wedding-dress—the wife to be - "Then why were you so mollyish As not to insist on him for me!" The mother, amazed: "Why, dearest one, Because you pleaded for this or none!" "But Father and you should have stood out strong! Since then, to my cost, I have lived to find That you were right and that I was wrong; This man is a dolt to the one declined . . . Ah!—here he comes with his button-hole rose. Good God—I must marry him I suppose!"
More by Thomas Hardy
- Sapphic Fragment
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - I At Tea
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - II In Church
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - III By Her Aunt's Grave
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IX At The Altar-Rail
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - V At A Watering-Place
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VI In The Cemetery
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VII Outside The Window