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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

With a portrait

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

2 occurrences of The Coming of the End
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POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]

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

APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE

AT THE WORD “FAREWELL”

FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER

“YOU WERE THE SORT THAT MEN FORGET”

SHE, I, AND THEY

NEAR LANIVET, 1872

COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER

ON A MIDSUMMER EVE

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BEFORE KNOWLEDGE

THE BLINDED BIRD

“THE WIND BLEW WORDS”

AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS

TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE

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”

WHERE THEY LIVED

THE OCCULTATION

LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD

THE PEACE-OFFERING

“SOMETHING TAPPED”

A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION

“I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE”

A JANUARY NIGHT

THE ANNOUNCEMENT

“BY THE RUNIC STONE”

TRANSFORMATIONS

IN HER PRECINCTS

THE LAST SIGNAL

THE HOUSE OF SILENCE

THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE

“WHY DID I SKETCH”

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

A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS

THE LAST PERFORMANCE

“YOU ON THE TOWER”

LOGS ON THE HEARTH

THE AGEING HOUSE

THE CAGED GOLDFINCH

AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S IN VICTORIAN YEARS

THE FIVE STUDENTS

THE WIND'S PROPHECY

DURING WIND AND RAIN

HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY

A BACKWARD SPRING

AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869

“WHO'S IN THE NEXT ROOM?”

AT A COUNTRY FAIR

THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186*

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

HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL

“I THOUGHT, MY HEART”

MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN

HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN

“I ROSE AND WENT TO ROU'TOR TOWN”

IN A WAITING-ROOM

THE CLOCK-WINDER

THE MASKED FACE

IN A WHISPERING GALLERY

THE SOMETHING THAT SAVED HIM

THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT

ON THE DOORSTEP

SIGNS AND TOKENS

PATHS OF FORMER TIME

THE CLOCK OF THE YEARS

THE SHADOW ON THE STONE

THE TREE AND THE LADY

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”

POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM

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LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER

HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES

WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

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A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE

A senseless school, where we must give
Our lives that we may learn to live!
A dolt is he who memorizes
Lessons that leave no time for prizes.

16 W. P. V. 1866.