Something tapped
Thomas Hardy’s poem “Something Tapped” was written in August 1913, following the death of his first wife, Emma Lavinia Gifford, the previous year. The poem was published in Hardy’s 1917 collection “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses”.
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Dorset, England, and he died on 11 January 1928 in Dorset, England, at the age of 87.A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, Hardy was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, he gained fame as the author of novels. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
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Something tapped on the pane of my room When there was never a trace Of wind or rain, and I saw in the gloom My weary Belovéd’s face.
“O I am tired of waiting,” she said, “Night, morn, noon, afternoon; So cold it is in my lonely bed, And I thought you would join me soon!”
I rose and neared the window-glass, But vanished thence had she: Only a pallid moth, alas, Tapped at the pane for me.