WHEN, soul in soul reflected, <br /> We breathed an æthered air, <br /> When we neglected <br /> All things elsewhere, <br /> And left the friendly friendless <br /> To keep our love aglow, <br /> We deemed it endless... <br /> --We did not know! <br /> <br /> When, by mad passion goaded, <br /> We planned to hie away, <br /> But, unforeboded, <br /> The storm-shafts gray <br /> So heavily down-pattered <br /> That none could forthward go, <br /> Our lives seemed shattered... <br /> --We did not know! <br /> <br /> When I found you, helpless lying, <br /> And you waived my deep misprise, <br /> And swore me, dying, <br /> In phantom-guise <br /> To wing to me when grieving, <br /> And touch away my woe, <br /> We kissed, believing... <br /> --We did not know! <br /> <br /> But though, your powers outreckoning, <br /> You hold you dead and dumb, <br /> Or scorn my beckoning, <br /> And will not come; <br /> And I say, "'Twere mood ungainly <br /> To store her memory so:" <br /> I say it vainly-- <br /> I feel and know!<br /><br />Thomas Hardy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unknowing/
