I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer," in a poem where God says "It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet, (if indeed I ever do.)
This man wrote about a dog forgetting that a mistress was buried in a place where he will bury a bone in his "Ah, Are you Digging My Grave?" This author wrote about "All Nations striving strong to make red war yet redder," and how a man says "Instead of preaching forty year...I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer," in a poem where God says "It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet, (if indeed I ever do.)"  Another work sees "the ancient pulse of germ and birth," and how "strings of broken lyres … all mankind that haunted nigh had sought their household fires." That poem was written on the last day of the nineteeth century, and imagines "So Little cause for carolings," and begins by noting "I leant upon a coppice gate." For ten points, name this poet of "Channel Firing" and "The Darkling Thrush."
This man wrote about a dog forgetting that a mistress was buried in a place where he will bury a bone in his "Ah, Are you Digging My Grave?"
Thomas {Hardy}