When Frost was spectre-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 ...

keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Note: this poem is included for ...

Paula Byrne’s hefty biography, “Hardy Women,” considers the British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928 ... which he poured into elegiac love poems that pained Florence and triggered ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets ... Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's first major novel and made him famous. Many other novels, poems and ...

keen lessons that love deceives, And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree, And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Note: this poem is included for ...

The speaker reflects back to a particular moment in their life when they realised that the love had died ... Sheers discuss the poems ‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Winter Swans ...

Theme (Loss of) Love: far from being a conventional love poem, 'Neutral Tones' deals with the death of love and feelings of loss. The memory is placed first and takes up three of the four stanzas.

be careful to include only details that reveal something about the poem. Thomas Hardy faced many disappointments in his personal relationships, but it is unclear if this poem is about a specific ...