Poem of the Week - Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?

After giving up writing fiction, Thomas Hardy brought out a first group of Wessex poems, some of which had been composed 30 years before. During the remainder of his life, Hardy continued to publish several collections of poems. Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature wrote of him: “Hardy, in fact, was the ideal poet of a generation. He was the most passionate and the most learned of them all. He had the luck, singular in poets, of being able to achieve a competence other than by poetry and then devote the ending years of his life to his beloved verses.”