Thomas Hardy

1840-1928 / Male / English
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A Broken AppointmentYou did not come, / And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. / Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
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A Confession To A Friend In TroubleYour troubles shrink not, though I feel them less / Here, far away, than when I tarried near; / I even smile old smiles—with listlessness—
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AfterwardsWhen the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, / And the May month ***** its glad green leaves like wings, / Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
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Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?“Ah, are you digging on my grave, / My loved one?—planting rue?” / —”No: yesterday he went to wed
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An Autumn Rain-SceneThere trudges one to a merry-making / With sturdy swing, / On whom the rain comes down.
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Architectural MasksI / There is a house with ivied walls, / And mullioned windows worn and old,
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A Thunderstorm In Town(A Reminiscence, 1893) / She wore a ‘terra-cotta’ dress, / And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
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At Lulworth Cove A Century BackHad I but lived a hundred years ago / I might have gone, as I have gone this year, / By Warmwell Cross on to a Cove I know,
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At The Railway Station, Upways‘There is not much that I can do, / For I’ve no money that’s quite my own!’ / Spoke up the pitying child—
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A Wife In LondonDecember 1899 / I / She sits in the tawny vapour
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