Beginning "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," FTP, name this most famous poem of Thomas Gray.
The title probably refers to Stoke Poges where the author saw his mother and later envisioned himself.  One famous stanza makes reference to an enemy of Charles I's, "the little tyrant of his fields," known as Hampden.  That stanza goes on to mention "Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood" and the "mute inglorious Milton."  One can surmise that Thomas Hardy probably read the stanza that includes the line "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."  Beginning "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day," FTP, name this most famous poem of Thomas Gray.
The title probably refers to Stoke Poges where the author saw his mother and later envisioned himself.  
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"