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When our day was fair.(VALENTINES)(Thomas Hardy )

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From: Poetry
Date: 20070201
Author:O'Rourke, Meghan

Thomas Hardy is not a poet likely to come to mind during the first flush of romance: his best love poems concern his stricken remorse at the death of his first wife, Emma Gifford, from whom he had been estranged for years. They slept in separate rooms; she lived mostly in the attic. But her loss had a surprising effect on Hardy, filling him with a compunction he pinpointed with marvelous accuracy. The poems he wrote about her--among them "The Voice," "The Walk," "Your Last Drive," and "The Going"--are among the most moving love lyrics in the English language. "Woman much missed, ...

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