English Poetry. Thomas Hardy. Epitaph. Томас Гарди (Харди).

Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди))

Epitaph

I never cared for Life: Life cared for me,
And hence I owed it some fidelity.
It now says, ‘Cease; at length thou hast learnt to grind
Sufficient toll for an unwilling mind,
And I dismiss thee – not without regard
That thou didst ask no ill-advised reward,
Nor sought in me much more than thou couldst find.’

Thomas Hardy’s other poems:

1. I Thought, My Heart
2. The Two Houses
3. The Nettles
4. The Inscription
5. The Weary Walker

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) Epitaph (“Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God”)

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Epitaph (“These are two friends whose lives were undivided”) 1822

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Epitaph (“Underneath this marble stone”)

Katherine Philips (Кэтрин Филипс) Epitaph (“What on Earth deserves our trust?”)

Edna Millay (Эдна Миллей) Epitaph (“Heap not on this mound”)

Elinor Wylie (Элинор Уайли) Epitaph (“For this she starred her eyes with salt”)

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