tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117147882024-03-07T15:53:16.137+00:00Thomas HardyHardy's works take place in Wessex (named after the Anglo-Saxon kingdom which existed in the area). One of his distinctive achievements is to have captured the cultural atmosphere of rural Wessex in the golden epoch that existed just before the coming of the railways and the agricultural and industrial revolutions that were to change the English countryside for ever.
His works are often deeply pessimistic and full of bitter irony, in sharp contrast to the prevalent Victorian optimism.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-32331783679450882242013-06-20T08:16:00.001+01:002013-06-20T08:16:23.119+01:00"I was not He"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I was not
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who used to pilgrim to your gate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At whose smart step you grew elate,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> And rosed, as
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> For a brief
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It was not I who
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beside the keys you touched so true</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With note-bent eyes, as if with you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> It counted not
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The voice
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Yet though my
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was to miss your early sweet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You still, when turned to you my feet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> A prize for
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Crisply-cropping sheep;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Under boughs of brushwood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a shade of lushwood,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That outshut the sunlight,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a foggy dun light,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where the footstep falls</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With a pit-pat wearisome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where in wild-winged crowds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blown birds show their whiteness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Monday night I closed my door,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">And thought you were not as heretofore,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">And little cared if we met no more.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">I seemed on Tuesday night to trace</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Something beyond mere commonplace</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In your ideas, and heart, and face.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Wednesday I did not opine</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Your life would ever be one with mine,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Though if it were we should well combine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Thursday noon I liked you well,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">And fondly felt that we must dwell</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Not far apart, whatever befell.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Friday it was with a thrill</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In gazing towards your distant vill</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">I owned you were my dear one still.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">I saw you wholly to my mind</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Saturday--even one who shrined</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">All that was best of womankind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">As wing-clipt sea-gull for the sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On Sunday night I longed for thee,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Without whom life were waste to me!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-11543850308612219992013-06-02T06:03:00.001+01:002013-06-02T06:03:51.107+01:00The Minute before Meeting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Seemed hopeless hills my strength must faint to climb,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">But they are gone; and now I would detain</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">The few clock-beats that part us; rein back Time,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">And live in close expectance never closed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">In change for far expectance closed at last,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">So harshly has expectance been imposed</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">On my long need while these slow blank months passed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">And knowing that what is now about to be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Will all HAVE BEEN in O, so short a space!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">I read beyond it my despondency</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">When more dividing months shall take its place,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">Thereby denying to this hour of grace</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">A full-up measure of felicity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">1871.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-69533132499233805202013-05-27T09:05:00.003+01:002013-05-27T09:05:56.087+01:00More Love Lyrics - 1967<div class="MsoPlainText">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-19442973156543349332013-04-08T16:14:00.000+01:002013-04-08T16:14:42.783+01:00Why be at Pains<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-30282071728259264302013-02-21T08:43:00.000+00:002013-02-21T08:43:03.517+00:00A House with a History<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-49889511233364556992013-02-14T08:22:00.001+00:002013-02-14T08:22:27.854+00:00Just the Same<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-70227936181599911952013-02-06T08:42:00.000+00:002013-02-06T08:42:27.651+00:00Growth in May<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-86015913362560612552013-01-30T08:00:00.000+00:002013-02-06T08:42:47.847+00:00If it's ever Spring again (Song)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I shall go where went I when</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-7320009643990085732013-01-11T15:01:00.000+00:002013-01-11T15:01:50.333+00:00The Roman Road<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-87764916330152745132013-01-03T08:52:00.000+00:002013-01-03T08:53:06.397+00:00A January Night (1879)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-83119153495161858722012-12-24T11:33:00.001+00:002012-12-24T11:33:38.560+00:00The Oxen<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-60039196407411994762012-12-19T07:00:00.000+00:002012-12-19T07:00:42.154+00:00I knew a Lady (Club Song)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-57723325796270202882012-12-11T12:46:00.000+00:002012-12-19T07:02:15.010+00:00The Sergeant's Song (1803)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-58011320256148383272012-12-04T05:24:00.001+00:002012-12-24T11:35:03.964+00:00A Two-Years' Idyll<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-64251063092302396312012-11-26T07:56:00.001+00:002012-11-26T07:56:51.170+00:00The Unborn<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Into the world they had so desired</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-48236081991469702452012-11-22T06:18:00.001+00:002012-11-22T06:19:34.143+00:00"I was the Midmost"<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was the midmost of my world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> On Earth's
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11714788.post-50438345769439665882012-11-12T07:20:00.001+00:002012-11-12T07:20:43.063+00:00The Wedding Morning<br />
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feminine shape!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Veering unbid into my view</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Whether I near
Death's mew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Or Life's top
cyme!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I do not wish to win your vow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">To take me soon or late as bride,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">And lift me from the nook where now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">I tarry your farings to my side.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">I am blissful ever to abide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">In this green labyrinth--let all be,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">If but, whatever may betide,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">You do not leave off loving me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">Your comet-comings I will wait</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">With patience time shall not wear
through;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">The yellowing years will not abate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">My largened love and truth to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">Nor drive me to complaint undue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">Of absence, much as I may pine,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">If never another 'twixt us two</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-center;">Shall come, and you stand wholly
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