Neutral Tones
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
Drag the words to the correct places to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, returning them to the word bank and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks.
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And ______ sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And ______ few leaves lay on the starving sod;
- They ______ fallen from an ash, and were gray.
Your eyes ______ me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles ______ years ago;
And some words played between us to ______ fro
On which lost the more by our love.
______ smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive ______ to have strength to die;
And a grin of ______ swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing -.
Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, ______ shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.