The Poetry Corner

Sapphic Fragment

By Thomas Hardy

"Thou shalt be - Nothing." - OMAR KHAYYAM. "Tombless, with no remembrance." - W. SHAKESPEARE. Dead shalt thou lie; and nought Be told of thee or thought, For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree: And even in Hades' halls Amidst thy fellow-thralls No friendly shade thy shade shall company!