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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

With a portrait

Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES

MOMENTS OF VISION

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THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE

FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN

AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS

THE GARDEN SEAT

BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL

“I SOMETIMES THINK”

A JOG-TROT PAIR

“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN”

“ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING”

“I WAS NOT HE”

THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL

GOING AND STAYING

READ BY MOONLIGHT

AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD

A WOMAN'S FANCY

THE DISSEMBLERS

TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING

“A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME”

THE STRANGE HOUSE

“AS 'TWERE TO-NIGHT”

THE CONTRETEMPS

A GENTLEMAN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER

A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER

A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE

“WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED”

“AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM”

HAUNTING FINGERS

THE WOMAN I MET

“IF IT'S EVER SPRING AGAIN”

ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT

THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE

THE SELFSAME SONG

A WIFE COMES BACK

A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION

AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK

A BYGONE OCCASION

THE WEDDING MORNING

END OF THE YEAR 1912

THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE'S A BUMPER!”

“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU”

AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY

DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN

A MAIDEN'S PLEDGE

THE CHILD AND THE SAGE

AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE

MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY

THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE

SAYING GOOD-BYE

ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED AND-FOURTH

THE OPPORTUNITY

EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER

VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD

“SHE DID NOT TURN”

THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS

AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY

A TWO-YEARS' IDYLL

BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END

“I LOOK IN HER FACE”

“IF YOU HAD KNOWN”

THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST

“COULD I BUT WILL”

SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE

AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR

THEY WOULD NOT COME

AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY

“I KNEW A LADY”

A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY

A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS

HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF

THE SINGING WOMAN

WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER

“O I WON'T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE”

IN THE SMALL HOURS

THE LITTLE OLD TABLE

THE DREAM IS—WHICH?

THE COUNTRY WEDDING

“WHAT DID IT MEAN?”

AT THE DINNER-TABLE

THE MARBLE TABLET

THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES

LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND

A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING

ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN

THE SECOND NIGHT

SHE WHO SAW NOT

THE OLD WORKMAN

THE SAILOR'S MOTHER

OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT

“I WAS THE MIDMOST”

A SOUND IN THE NIGHT

ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR

AN OLD LIKENESS

“SACRED TO THE MEMORY”

TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING

A MILITARY APPOINTMENT

THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW

THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS

THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW

THE INSCRIPTION

THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN

A WOMAN DRIVING

A WOMAN'S TRUST

THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE

INTRA SEPULCHRUM

THE WHITEWASHED WALL

THE SEVEN TIMES

THE SUN'S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL

IN A LONDON FLAT

DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH

RAKE-HELL MUSES

MURMURS IN THE GLOOM

AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS

AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.

HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES

WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

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541

“ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING”

I

When moiling seems at cease
In the vague void of night-time,
And heaven's wide roomage stormless
Between the dusk and light-time,
And fear at last is formless,
We call the allurement Peace.

II

Peace, this hid riot, Change,
This revel of quick-cued mumming,
This never truly being,
This evermore becoming,
This spinner's wheel onfleeing
Outside perception's range.

1917.