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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

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WESSEX POEMS
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POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
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[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]
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SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES
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MOMENTS OF VISION
  
MOMENTS OF VISION
  
THE VOICE OF THINGS
  
“WHY BE AT PAINS?”
  
“WE SAT AT THE WINDOW”
  
AFTERNOON SERVICE AT MELLSTOCK
  
AT THE WICKET-GATE
  
IN A MUSEUM
  
APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE
  
AT THE WORD “FAREWELL”
  
FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER
  
THE RIVAL
  
HEREDITY
  
“YOU WERE THE SORT THAT MEN FORGET”
  
SHE, I, AND THEY
  
NEAR LANIVET, 1872
  
JOYS OF MEMORY
  
TO THE MOON
  
COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER
  
TO SHAKESPEARE
  
QUID HIC AGIS?
  
ON A MIDSUMMER EVE
  
TIMING HER
  
BEFORE KNOWLEDGE
  
THE BLINDED BIRD
  
“THE WIND BLEW WORDS”
  
THE FADED FACE
  
THE RIDDLE
  
THE DUEL
  
AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS
  
TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN
  
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
  
THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE
  
THE CHANGE
  
SITTING ON THE BRIDGE
  
THE YOUNG CHURCHWARDEN
  
“I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW”
  
LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART'S E-FLAT SYMPHONY
  
“IN THE SEVENTIES”
  
THE PEDIGREE
  
HIS HEART
  
WHERE THEY LIVED
  
THE OCCULTATION
  
LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD
  
THE PEACE-OFFERING
  
“SOMETHING TAPPED”
  
THE WOUND
  
A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION
  
“I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE”
  
A JANUARY NIGHT
  
A KISS
  
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
  
THE OXEN
  
THE TRESSES
  
THE PHOTOGRAPH
  
ON A HEATH
  
AN ANNIVERSARY
  
“BY THE RUNIC STONE”
  
THE PINK FROCK
  
TRANSFORMATIONS
  
IN HER PRECINCTS
  
THE LAST SIGNAL
  
THE HOUSE OF SILENCE
  
GREAT THINGS
  
THE CHIMES
  
THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE
  
“WHY DID I SKETCH”
  
CONJECTURE
  
THE BLOW
  
LOVE THE MONOPOLIST
  
AT MIDDLE-FIELD GATE IN FEBRUARY
  
THE YOUTH WHO CARRIED A LIGHT
  
THE HEAD ABOVE THE FOG
  
OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR
  
THE MUSICAL BOX
  
ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE
  
ROYAL SPONSORS
  
OLD FURNITURE
  
A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS
  
THE LAST PERFORMANCE
  
“YOU ON THE TOWER”
  
THE INTERLOPER
  
LOGS ON THE HEARTH
  
THE SUNSHADE
  
THE AGEING HOUSE
  
THE CAGED GOLDFINCH
  
AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S IN VICTORIAN YEARS
  
THE BALLET
  
THE FIVE STUDENTS
  
THE WIND'S PROPHECY
  
DURING WIND AND RAIN
  
HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY
  
THE DOLLS
  
MOLLY GONE
  
A BACKWARD SPRING
  
LOOKING ACROSS
  
AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869
  
THE GLIMPSE
  
THE PEDESTRIAN
  
“WHO'S IN THE NEXT ROOM?”
  
AT A COUNTRY FAIR
  
THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186*
  
HER LOVE-BIRDS
  
PAYING CALLS
  
THE UPPER BIRCH-LEAVES
  
“IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER”
  
EVERYTHING COMES
  
THE MAN WITH A PAST
  
HE FEARS HIS GOOD FORTUNE
  
HE WONDERS ABOUT HIMSELF
  
JUBILATE
  
HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL
  
“I THOUGHT, MY HEART”
  
FRAGMENT
  
MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
  
HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN
  
THE ROBIN
  
“I ROSE AND WENT TO ROU'TOR TOWN”
  
THE NETTLES
  
IN A WAITING-ROOM
  
THE CLOCK-WINDER
  
OLD EXCURSIONS
  
THE MASKED FACE
  
IN A WHISPERING GALLERY
  
THE SOMETHING THAT SAVED HIM
  
THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT
  
IMAGININGS
  
ON THE DOORSTEP
  
SIGNS AND TOKENS
  
PATHS OF FORMER TIME
  
THE CLOCK OF THE YEARS
  
AT THE PIANO
  
THE SHADOW ON THE STONE
  
IN THE GARDEN
  
THE TREE AND THE LADY
  
AN UPBRAIDING
  
THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER
  
LOOKING AT A PICTURE ON AN ANNIVERSARY
  
THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL
  
THE MAN WHO FORGOT
  
WHILE DRAWING IN A CHURCHYARD
  
“FOR LIFE I HAD NEVER CARED GREATLY”
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POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM
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FINALE
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LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
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HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES
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WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

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CARDINAL BEMBO'S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL

Here's one in whom Nature feared—faint at such vying—
Eclipse while he lived, and decease at his dying.
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