#thomas hardy

[petaltexturedskies]

Thomas Hardy, from “The Hand of Ethelberta” wr. c. 1876

[flowerytale]

Thomas Hardy, from Far From the Madding Crowd

[rosepompadour]

She has too much poetry in her.

Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

[lovely-abeille]

Hello! Could I perhaps request a web weaving? I really love the poetry of web weaving, and saving my favorite lines away 💜 If I could request… a weaving about love and longing? Longing for love, longing for the person you love, loving a person for all eternity even if you have to wait for the person you love. Thank you so much, and have a good day 💜

? // wishbone, richard siken // i must be living twice, eileen myles // the door, margaret atwood // trista mateer // far from the madding crowd, thomas hardy

[theseavoices]

I leant upon a coppice gate,

When Frost was spectre-gray,

And Winter's dregs made desolate

The weakening eye of day.

[todayontumblr]

[adaptationsdaily]

So why don't you? Ask me.

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (2015)

[novlr]

“While many things are too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.” — Thomas Hardy

[ofallingstar]

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)

[sophsicle]

"but nobody did come, because nobody does" because nobody does you think "this is the moment. this is the moment when the hero appears and I am saved" you think "this is the moment when the music swells" someone will pull me out of the fire. out of the crashing waves. out from under the knife.

and you wait. and you wait. but life has no narrative. it holds no morals. it needs no heroes. “and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error, Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.”

[dabiconcordia]

"The Darkling Thrush"

I leant upon a coppice gate     When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate     The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky     Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh     Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be     The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy,     The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth     Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth     Seemed fervorless as I.

At once a voice arose among     The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong     Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small     In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul     Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings     Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things     Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through     His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew     And I was unaware. By Thomas Hardy

[disease]

"AVEBURY" | circa 1944 BILL BRANDT aft. THOMAS HARDY [gelatin silver print | 13 1/4 × 11 1/4"]

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

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, Far From The Madding Crowd

[rosepompadour]

She was a sort of celestial person, who owed her being to poetry.

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

[derangedrhythms]

The trees overhead deepened the gloom of the hour, and they dripped sadly upon him, impressing him with forebodings - illogical forebodings; for though he knew that he loved her he also knew that he could not be more to her than he was.

Thomas Hardy, from 'Jude the Obscure'

[abybweisse]

Book haul at HPB

First, here's a pic of everything.

Here, you can see each of the P. G. Wodehouse titles I got. Never bought Jeeves and Wooster books before, but this should be a great read. The BBC series was hilarious, what I recall seeing when I was a kid. Always adored Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry; in fact, I already have books written by them, too. Also got a couple Jane Austen titles and a Fyodor Dostoevsky that are part of a special edition series.

Then I got a bunch of books in this gorgeous special edition collection by Chiltern Publishing. I already had Jane Eyre and a couple other titles in this series, so I hope I don't have any extra copies of anything. I don't think so, but I'll have to unbox my books to find out for sure. I'm a bit worried that I might already have a copy of Wuthering Heights....

And then these books that are more random. I already had books 1 and 2 of Parasyte, so now I also have book 3. Then I already had Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis, but this is a signed copy! The Philip Pullman book is a collection of his essays about the writing process. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is considered by some to be one of the 100 greatest masterpieces of American literature. And then Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the one book I actually went there for. 😅 Too bad they didn't have a pretty copy, but that's ok. Maybe Chiltern will release one later. 🤔