857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, / Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk.

On Thursday noon I liked you well, / And fondly felt that we must dwell / Not far apart, whatever befell.

These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry / Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome /Whereof each arch, entablature, and dom /Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy.

On Wednesday I did not opine / Your life would ever be one with mine, / Though if it were we should well combine.

It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.

I saw you wholly to my mind / On Saturday - even one who shrined / All that was best of womankind.

That one true heart was left behind!What feeling do we ever findTo equal among human kindA dog's fidelity!

Where the lantern-light showed 'em arrived.

Welcome home to my native place bent upon returning bosom all day burning.