I remember reading Tess and thinking 'when is life going to give this poor girl a break??'
Under the Greenwood Tree and The Trumpet Major are less depressing than most. BUT Jude the Obscure is better left in his obscurity.
The Woodlanders - that's a good book,very underrated.
Ah yes. That too. Casterbridge is a good story too but just as depressing as the others.
Thomas Hardy;
When the present has latched it's postern behind my tremulous stay,
And the May month flaps it's glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
'He was a man who used to notice such things'?
If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk comes across the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
One may say, 'He strove that such creatures should come to no harm,
But he could do little for them and now he is gone.'
If when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door,
Watching the full starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
'He was one who had an eye for such mysteries'?
And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom,
And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in it's outrollings,
Till they arise again, as they were a new bell's boom,
'He hears it not now, but used to notice such things'?
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I remember reading Tess and thinking 'when is life going to give this poor girl a break??'
Under the Greenwood Tree and The Trumpet Major are less depressing than most. BUT Jude the Obscure is better left in his obscurity.
The Woodlanders - that's a good book,very underrated.
Ah yes. That too. Casterbridge is a good story too but just as depressing as the others.
Thomas Hardy;
When the present has latched it's postern behind my tremulous stay,
And the May month flaps it's glad green leaves like wings,
Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk, will the neighbours say,
'He was a man who used to notice such things'?
If it be in the dusk when, like an eyelid's soundless blink,
The dewfall-hawk comes across the shades to alight
Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think,
'To him this must have been a familiar sight.'
If I pass during some nocturnal blackness, mothy and warm,
When the hedgehog travels furtively over the lawn,
One may say, 'He strove that such creatures should come to no harm,
But he could do little for them and now he is gone.'
If when hearing that I have been stilled at last, they stand at the door,
Watching the full starred heavens that winter sees,
Will this thought rise on those who will meet my face no more,
'He was one who had an eye for such mysteries'?
And will any say when my bell of quittance is heard in the gloom,
And a crossing breeze cuts a pause in it's outrollings,
Till they arise again, as they were a new bell's boom,
'He hears it not now, but used to notice such things'?