English poem
Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XI In The Restaurant
by Thomas Hardy
"But hear. If you stay, and the child be born, It will pass as your husband's with the rest, While, if we fly, the teeth of scorn Will be gleaming at us from east to west; And the child will come as a life despised; I feel an elopement is ill-advised!" "O you realize not what it is, my dear, To a woman! Daily and hourly alarms Lest the truth should out. How can I stay here, And nightly take him into my arms! Come to the child no name or fame, Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame."
More by Thomas Hardy
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VI In The Cemetery
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VII Outside The Window
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VIII In The Study
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - X In The Nuptial Chamber
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XII At The Draper's
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIII On The Death-Bed
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIV Over The Coffin
- Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XV In The Moonlight