[414] Epitaph on a pessimist

Title : Epitaph on a pessimist
Poet : Thomas Hardy
Date : 01 May 2000
1stLine: I'm Smith of Stoke a...
Length : 4 Text-only version  
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Guest poem submitted by Smitha Rao, <smithajrao@>:

Epitaph on a pessimist
I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same.

	-- Thomas Hardy

Just loved this piece of terse verse. It very deftly manages to portray an
incurable die-hard pessimist. (Also because I'm in love with Hardy).

	-- Smitha Rao
From: amitc <amitc@>

Just one word: Brilliant!
Oh, another word -- you're not really in love with the guy who wrote
THIS poem, are you now?

- Amit
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~amitc