[AnAmericanMother]

Shropshire Lad is A.E. Housman. Similar, but I really enjoy Housman because there's a ray of hope back of his romantic enjoyment of sorrow, even though he refused to acknowledge it. He was a grouch, not a nihilist.

Hardy is just depressing. Although you should read this little short story. It cracked me up:

Absent-mindedness in a parish choir"

I tell everybody that singing trashy pop music in a Catholic Mass is going to lead to EXACTLY such a mixup some day. Not that anybody would notice.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, right. Hardy is the novelist.

Channel firing is in my World War I poetry collection.

[Tax-chick]

Cute story. It reminded me of “Midsomer Murders,” only nobody had died ... yet.