Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove Over tedious riddles of years ago; And some words played ... And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Note: this poem is included for reference purposes ...

When he was 16, Thomas Hardy was articled to a Dorchester architect. Not until eleven years later ... he returned to poetry, but not with the weak dilettantism of a used-up writer who wished ...

On 16th January 1928 the ashes of the poet and writer Thomas Hardy were buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, immediately to the north of the grave of Charles Dickens. But his heart is buried ...

Thomas Hardy faced many disappointments in ... written in 1867 but not published until over twenty years later in the collection Wessex Poems. This lends an even greater degree of distance to ...