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Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928 / Dorchester / England)
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249 poems of Thomas Hardy
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Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications wh...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Return of the Native, book first, ch. I (1878).
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He had been a lad of whom something was expected. Beyond this all had been chaos. That he would be successful in an original way, or that he would go to the dogs in an original way, seemed equally pro...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Return of the Native, book third, ch. I (1878).
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The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; ...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Return of the Native, book first, ch. 34 (1878).
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''The Roman Road runs straight and bare
As the pale parting-line in hair
Across the heath.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Roman Road (l. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macmil...
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''Uprises there
A mother's form upon my ken,
Guiding my infant steps, as when
We walked that ancient, thoroughfare,
The Roman Road.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Roman Road (l. 11-15). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macm...
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—'I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown,
And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!'—
'My dear—a raw country girl, such as you be,
Cannot quite expect that. Y...
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Ruined Maid (l. 21-24). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Mac...
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''whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?'—
'O didn't you know I'd been ruined?' said she.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Ruined Maid (l. 3-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macmi...
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''Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin
Here was the former door
Where the dead feet walked in.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Self-Unseeing (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Mac...
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''"Come hither, Son," I heard Death say;
"I did not will a grave
Should end thy pilgrimage today,
But I, too, am a slave!"''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. The Subalterns (l. 13-16). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Macm...
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''bring me here again!
I am just the same as when
Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers.''
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. After a Journey (l. 30-32). . .
The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy. James Gibson, ed. (1978) Mac...
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