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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
With a portrait
Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)
WESSEX POEMS
POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]
TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS
MORE LOVE LYRICS
A SET OF COUNTRY SONGS
PIECES OCCASIONAL AND VARIOUS
A CHURCH ROMANCE
THE RASH BRIDE
THE DEAD QUIRE
THE CHRISTENING
A DREAM QUESTION
BY THE BARROWS
A WIFE AND ANOTHER
THE ROMAN ROAD
THE VAMPIRINE FAIR
THE REMINDER
THE RAMBLER
NIGHT IN THE OLD HOME
AFTER THE LAST BREATH
IN CHILDBED
THE PINE PLANTERS
THE DEAR
ONE WE KNEW
SHE HEARS THE STORM
A WET NIGHT
BEFORE LIFE AND AFTER
NEW YEAR'S EVE
GOD'S EDUCATION
TO SINCERITY
PANTHERA
THE UNBORN
THE MAN HE KILLED
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE
ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES
THE NOBLE LADY'S TALE
UNREALIZED
WAGTAIL AND BABY
ABERDEEN
GEORGE MEREDITH
YELL'HAM-WOOD'S STORY
A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES
MOMENTS OF VISION
LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES
WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES
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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
CYNIC'S EPITAPH
A race
with the sun as he downed
I ran at evetide,
Intent who should first gain the ground
And there hide.
He beat me by some minutes then,
But I triumphed anon,
For when he'd to rise up again
I stayed on.
Collected poems of Thomas Hardy