#thomas hardy

[petaltexturedskies]

Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

[formulaic-beam]

This beautiful piece from the talented hands of @sassquatch737 will help tide us all over until Peeta comes into the story.

[apoemaday]

We Are Getting to the End

by Thomas Hardy

We are getting to the end of visioning The impossible within this universe, Such as that better whiles may follow worse, And that our race may mend by reasoning.

We know that even as larks in cages sing Unthoughtful of deliverance from the curse That holds them lifelong in a latticed hearse, We ply spasmodically our pleasuring.

And that when nations set them to lay waste Their neighbours' heritage by foot and horse, And hack their pleasant plains in festering seams, They may again, -- not warily, or from taste, But tickled mad by some demonic force -- Yes. We are getting to the end of dreams!

[fan-a-tink]

| Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

[askyea-poesy]

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Thomas Hardy

[hmshistoricallyinaccurate]

Please have hardy bride Carry Nelson please 🙈

[kindredwhimsy]

"I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die."

Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

[dk-thrive]

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there will be you.

— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd (Cornhill Magazine from January to December 1874) (via Ina de Bree)