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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
  
V. R. 1819–1901
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WAR POEMS
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POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  
THE MOTHER MOURNS
  
“I SAID TO LOVE”
  
A COMMONPLACE DAY
  
AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE
  
THE LACKING SENSE
  
TO LIFE
  
DOOM AND SHE
  
THE PROBLEM
  
THE SUBALTERNS
  
THE SLEEP-WORKER
  
THE BULLFINCHES
  
GOD-FORGOTTEN
  
THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT
  
BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE
  
MUTE OPINION
  
TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD
  
TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER
  
ON A FINE MORNING
  
TO LIZBIE BROWNE
  
SONG OF HOPE
  
THE WELL-BELOVED
  
HER REPROACH
  
THE INCONSISTENT
  
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
  
“BETWEEN US NOW”
  
“HOW GREAT MY GRIEF”
  
“I NEED NOT GO”
  
THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER
  
A SPOT
  
LONG PLIGHTED
  
THE WIDOW BETROTHED
  
AT A HASTY WEDDING
  
THE DREAM-FOLLOWER
  
HIS IMMORTALITY
  
THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN
  
WIVES IN THE SERE
  
THE SUPERSEDED
  
AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT
  
THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN
  
BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL
  
THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS
  
WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD
  
THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
  
THE DARKLING THRUSH
  
THE COMET AT YELL'HAM
  
MAD JUDY
  
A WASTED ILLNESS
  
A MAN
  
THE DAME OF ATHELHALL
  
THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR
  
THE MILKMAID
  
THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD
  
THE RUINED MAID
  
THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER
  
ARCHITECTURAL MASKS
  
THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE
  
THE KING'S EXPERIMENT
  
THE TREE
  
HER LATE HUSBAND
  
THE SELF-UNSEEING
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IN TENEBRIS I
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IN TENEBRIS II
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IN TENEBRIS III
  
THE CHURCH-BUILDER
  
THE LOST PYX
  
TESS'S LAMENT
  
THE SUPPLANTER
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IMITATIONS, ETC.
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RETROSPECT
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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
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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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CHRISTMAS: 1924

“Peace upon earth!” was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
1924.
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