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Born in 1840 / Died in 1928 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Thomas Hardy

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Her Immortality

... "Think, I am but a Shade!"A Shade but in its mindful ones ...

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A Christmas Ghost Story.

... By whom and when the All-Earth-gladdening Law ...

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Revulsion

... Out of the night there looms a sense 'twere better ...

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To Life

... And thy too-forced pleasantry! I know what thou would'st tell ...

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The Last Chrysanthemum

... Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall, ...

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The Well-Beloved

... If what thou say'st be true!" She, proudly, thinning in the gloom: ...

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From Victor Hugo

... For a glance from you! Love, were I God, the earth and its heaving airs, ...

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The Rambler

... The whirr that shakes the nighthawk's throat ...

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In The Vaulted Way

... Do you cleave to me after that light-tongued blow ...

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The Ivy-Wife

... .. Such was my love: ha-ha!By this I gained his strength and height ...

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A Wasted Illness

... . . And yet Those backward steps through pain I cannot view ...

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His Immortality

... III His fellow-yearsmen passed, and then ...

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Song of the Soldier's Wifes.

... But quicken it to prime! II Now all the town shall ring to them, ...

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To Flowers From Italy in Winter

... Frail luckless exiles hither brought! ...

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The Coquette, and After (Triolets)

... That your free heart should ache for me! II At last one pays the penalty - ...