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Wessex Poems & Other Verses
If but some vengeful god would call to me / From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, / Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, / That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”
—“Hap
Thomas
Hardy

Wessex Poems & Other Verses

Thomas Hardy

Hardy’s verse is spare, unadorned, and unromantic, and its pervasive theme is man’s futile struggle against cosmic forces. Like many of his novels, these 51 poems are set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape, whose physical harshness echoes that of an indifferent, if not malevolent, universe.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: HARPER, 1898
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

Contents
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines