My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is the melancholy Neutral Tones by a writer more renowned for his novels, Thomas Hardy, whose birthday is on June 2nd..
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We stood by the — that winter day And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
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pond
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lake
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And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; – They had fallen from an —, and were gray.
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ash
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elm
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Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious — of years ago;
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riddles
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questions
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And some — played between us to and fro On which lost the more by our love.
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words
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thoughts
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The smile on your mouth was the — thing Alive enough to have strength to die;
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deadest
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saddest
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And a grin of bitterness — thereby Like an ominous bird a-wing
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swept
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flew
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Since then, — lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
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keen
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harsh
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Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with — leaves.
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grayish
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dying
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