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Poem by Thomas Hardy
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
Thomas Hardy's other poems:- Genitrix Laesa
- Song from Heine
- V.R. 1819–1901
- Paths of Former Time
- Over the Coffin
Poems of the other poets with the same name:
George Byron Epitaph ("Posterity will ne’er survey") January 2, 1820Samuel Coleridge Epitaph ("Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God") Percy Shelley Epitaph ("These are two friends whose lives were undivided") 1822Robert Southey Epitaph ("HERE, in the fruitful vales of Somerset") Walter Scott Epitaph ("AMID these aisles, where once his precepts showed") Abraham Cowley Epitaph ("Underneath this marble stone") Katherine Philips Epitaph ("What on Earth deserves our trust?") Edna Millay Epitaph ("Heap not on this mound") Elinor Wylie Epitaph ("For this she starred her eyes with salt")
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