Time & Brevity

A Wish for Unconsciousness

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

Time & Brevity

If I could but abide
As a tablet on a wall,
Or a hillock daisy-pied,
Or a picture in a hall,
And as nothing else at all,
I should feel no doleful achings,
I should hear no judgment-call,
Have no evil dreams or wakings,
No uncouth or grisly care;
In a word, no cross to bear.

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Hardy, Thomas. “A Wish for Unconsciousness.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/675/.

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Hardy, Thomas. “A Wish for Unconsciousness.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/675/.

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