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Poem by Thomas Hardy


Epitaph on a Pessimist


I’m Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
        I’ve lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and would to God
        My Dad had done the same.



Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy's other poems:
  1. The Aërolite
  2. Genitrix Laesa
  3. Song from Heine
  4. Timing Her
  5. Life and Death at Sunrise


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