Today’s Poem: A Light Snow-Fall After Frost

Thomas Hardy on the unreliability of vision

A Man Walking in the Snow (Wikimedia Commons)

Today’s poem by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)  is taken from the 1925 Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles, the last book Hardy would publish in his lifetime. If this poem represents Hardy’s late-life work, it’s worth noting that all Hardy’s poetry represents late-life work. He was fifty-eight when his …