Time & Brevity

A Placid Man’s Epitaph

by Thomas Hardy 1840–1928

From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

Time & Brevity

As for my life, I’ve led it
With fair content and credit:
It said: “Take this.” I took it.
Said: “Leave.” And I forsook it.
If I had done without it
None would have cared about it,
Or said: “One has refused it
Who might have meetly used it.”

MLA

Hardy, Thomas. “A Placid Man’s Epitaph.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/743/.

Chicago

Hardy, Thomas. “A Placid Man’s Epitaph.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hardy/743/.

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