This poet asked "why should this flower delay so long to show its tremulous plumes?" in "TheLast Chrysanthemum."
This poet asked "why should this flower delay so long to show its tremulous plumes?" in "TheLast Chrysanthemum." Another of his poems ends when "the Spinner of the Years said 'Now!'" andthe title event "jars two hemispheres." He wrote of "tangled bine-stems" which "scored the sky likestrings of broken lyres" in a poem written on the dawn of the twentieth century. One of his poemsconcerns the disturbance of "Stourton Tower, and Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge" when (*) "thatnight your great guns, unawares, shook all our coffins as we lay." This poet wrote about the Titanic in "TheConvergence of the Twain" and the inexplicably joyfull call of the title bird in a poem which begins "I leantupon a coppice gate." For 10 points, name this author of "Channel-Firing" and "The Darkling Thrush," whoalso wrote novels like The Mayor of Casterbridge.
This poet asked "why should this flower delay so long to show its tremulous plumes?" in "TheLast Chrysanthemum."
Thomas Hardy