Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, at Upper Bockhampton in Dorset. After several years as an apprentice in architecture, he began writing fiction and, over a thirty-year period, produced fourteen novels and a

Darkling Thrush, The

by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

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I leant upon a coppice gate

When Frost was specter-gray,

And Winter's dregs made desolate

The weakening eye of day.

The tangled bine-stems scored the sky

Like strings of broken lyres,

And all mankind that haunted nigh

Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be

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January 11

Thomas Hardy died, 1928

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What poem was the source of the title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

Answer

Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) "Eloisa to Abelard." ("How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot; / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.")

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