"How Great My Grief" (Triolet)

By Thomas Hardy

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!
- Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Nor memory shaped old times anew,
         Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee
How great my grief, my joys how few,
         Since first it was my fate to know thee?

DayPoems Poem No. 1042
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