Thomas Hardy Biography
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, to his father Thomas and his mother Jemima, at Higher Bockhampton, which was a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England. Hardy's father worked as a stonemason and a local... Continue reading
Thomas Hardy Biography
The Mother Mourns
By Thomas Hardy When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly Came wheeling around me Those phantoms obscure and insistent That shadows unchain. Till airs from the... Continue reading
The Mother Mourns