Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, OMwas an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important influence. Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 June 1840
afar air blessed cause ecstatic happy knew sound written
So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or nigh around, / That I could think there trembled through / His happy good-night air / Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware.
blinded thou
So zestfully canst thou sing? / And all this indignity, / With God's consent, on thee! / Blinded ere yet a-wing.
devotion english-novelist lover
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
english-novelist good
You was a good man, and did good things.
snow spare till time waits
I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.
listen silence wonderful
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
dawning next passing seemed somebody unknown
Who's in the next room? - who? / I seemed to see / Somebody in the dawning passing through,/ Unknown to me.
voice tree woods
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
change time surprise
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
summer autumn thinking
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
time jobs men
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
single being-single ifs
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
practice principles constitution
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
husband men wife
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession