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I look into my glass, / And view my wasting skin, / And say, “Would God it came to pass / My heart had shrunk as thin!”
—I look into my Glass
Thomas
Hardy
Thomas Hardy
 
1840–1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent. The son of a stonemason, he derived a love of music from his father and a devotion to literature from his mother.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  här´d from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Wessex Poems & Other Verses
Like many of Hardy’s novels, these fifty-one poems are all set against the bleak and forbidding Dorset landscape, whose physical harshness echoes that of an indifferent, if not malevolent, universe.
 
Hardy, Thomas, 26709 to 26818
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