{"id":941,"date":"2011-04-12T02:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T02:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=941"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:26:12","slug":"hap-by-thomas-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/hap-by-thomas-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hap by Thomas Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hap<\/h1>\n

by Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n

If but some vengeful god would call to me
\nFrom up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,
\nKnow that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
\nThat thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”<\/p>\n

Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die,
\nSteeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
\nHalf-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
\nHad willed and meted me the tears I shed.<\/p>\n

But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,
\nAnd why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
\n– Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
\nAnd dicing Time for gladness casts a moan . . .
\nThese purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
\nBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.<\/p>\n

1866.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hap by Thomas Hardy If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!” Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t