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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

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WESSEX POEMS

THE TEMPORARY THE ALL

A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE

II.

III.

IV.

THE PEASANT'S CONFESSION

THE ALARM

HER DEATH AND AFTER

THE DANCE AT THE PHŒNIX

THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS

A MEETING WITH DESPAIR

MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS

IN A WOOD

TO A LADY OFFENDED BY A BOOK OF THE WRITER'S

TO A MOTHERLESS CHILD

IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY

THE BRIDE-NIGHT FIRE

HEIRESS AND ARCHITECT

THE TWO MEN

LINES Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's Holiday Fund for City Children.

“I LOOK INTO MY GLASS”

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY

THE GOING OF THE BATTERY

AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON

A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY

DRUMMER HODGE

A WIFE IN LONDON

THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN

SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS

THE SICK BATTLE-GOD

POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE

GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

SHELLEY'S SKYLARK

IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE

ROME: ON THE PALATINE

ROME: BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER

ROME: THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE

ROME: AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY AND KEATS

LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN: 11–12 P. M.

ZERMATT TO THE MATTERHORN

THE BRIDGE OF LODI

ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES

THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT

BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE

MUTE OPINION

TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD

TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER

THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER

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

II.

III.

CARDINAL BEMBO'S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL

RETROSPECT

“I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES”

MEMORY AND I

ΑΓΝΩΣΤΕι ΘΕΩι.

[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]

TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS

THE REVISITATION

A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY

THE TWO ROSALINDS

A SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY

THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES

BEREFT

JOHN AND JANE

THE CURATE'S KINDNESS

THE FLIRT'S TRAGEDY

THE REJECTED MEMBER'S WIFE

THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER

AUTUMN IN KING'S HINTOCK PARK

SHUT OUT THAT MOON

REMINISCENCES OF A DANCING MAN

ON THE DEPARTURE PLATFORM

IN A CATHEDRAL CITY

“I SAY I'LL SEEK HER”

THE END OF THE EPISODE

THE SIGH

“IN THE NIGHT SHE CAME”

THE CONFORMERS

THE DAWN AFTER THE DANCE

THE SUN ON THE LETTER

THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE

MISCONCEPTION

THE VOICE OF THE THORN

FROM HER IN THE COUNTRY

HER CONFESSION

TO AN IMPERSONATOR OF ROSALIND

TO AN ACTRESS

THE MINUTE BEFORE MEETING

HE ABJURES LOVE

A SET OF COUNTRY SONGS

LET ME ENJOY

AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR

THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN

TO CARREY CLAVEL

THE ORPHANED OLD MAID

PIECES OCCASIONAL AND VARIOUS

NIGHT IN THE OLD HOME

AFTER THE LAST BREATH

BEFORE LIFE AND AFTER

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES

THE NOBLE LADY'S TALE

YELL'HAM-WOOD'S STORY

A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES

LYRICS AND REVERIES

IN FRONT OF THE LANDSCAPE

CHANNEL FIRING

THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN

THE GHOST OF THE PAST

AFTER THE VISIT

TO MEET, OR OTHERWISE

THE DIFFERENCE

THE SUN ON THE BOOKCASE

“WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE”

A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN

THE TORN LETTER

BEYOND THE LAST LAMP

THE FACE AT THE CASEMENT

LOST LOVE

“MY SPIRIT WILL NOT HAUNT THE MOUND”

“AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE?”

SELF-UNCONSCIOUS

THE DISCOVERY

TOLERANCE

BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER

AT DAY-CLOSE IN NOVEMBER

“I FOUND HER OUT THERE”

THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN

THE SPELL OF THE ROSE

ST. LAUNCE'S REVISITED

A CONVERSATION AT DAWN

A KING'S SOLILOQUY

THE CORONATION

AQUAE SULIS

SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY

THE ELOPEMENT

“I ROSE UP AS MY CUSTOM IS”

A WEEK

HAD YOU WEPT

BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS

IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM

IN THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS

THE OBLITERATE TOMB

“REGRET NOT ME”

THE RECALCITRANTS

STARLINGS ON THE ROOF

IN THE DAYS OF CRINOLINE

THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS

THE WORKBOX

THE SACRILEGE

THE ABBEY MASON

THE JUBILEE OF A MAGAZINE

THE SATIN SHOES

EXEUNT OMNES

A POET

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE

I AT TEA

II.

II IN CHURCH

III.

III BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE

IV.

IV IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT

V AT A WATERING-PLACE

VI.

VI IN THE CEMETERY

VII.

VII OUTSIDE THE WINDOW

VIII.

VIII IN THE STUDY

IX.

IX AT THE ALTAR-RAIL

X IN THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER

XI.

XI IN THE RESTAURANT

XII.

XII AT THE DRAPER'S

XIII.

XIII ON THE DEATH-BED

XIV.

XV.

“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”

COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER

“THE WIND BLEW WORDS”

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

A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION

“I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE”

THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE

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

AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S IN VICTORIAN YEARS

HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY

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”

IN A WHISPERING GALLERY

THE SOMETHING THAT SAVED HIM

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”

POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM

“MEN WHO MARCH AWAY”

HIS COUNTRY

ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914

ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION

AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE

THE PITY OF IT

IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS

IN TIME OF “THE BREAKING OF NATIONS”

CRY OF THE HOMELESS

BEFORE MARCHING AND AFTER

“OFTEN WHEN WARRING”

THEN AND NOW

A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE

THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE

A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME

“I MET A MAN”

“I LOOKED UP FROM MY WRITING”

FINALE

THE COMING OF THE END

AFTERWARDS

LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER

WEATHERS

THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE

SUMMER SCHEMES

EPEISODIA

FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN

AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS

THE GARDEN SEAT

BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL

“I SOMETIMES THINK”

JEZREEL

A JOG-TROT PAIR

“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN”

“ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING”

“I WAS NOT HE”

THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL

WELCOME HOME

GOING AND STAYING

READ BY MOONLIGHT

AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD

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

THE OLD GOWN

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”

THE TWO HOUSES

ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT

THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE

THE SELFSAME SONG

THE WANDERER

A WIFE COMES BACK

A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION

AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK

THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE'S A BUMPER!”

“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU”

AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY

SIDE BY SIDE

DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN

A MAIDEN'S PLEDGE

THE CHILD AND THE SAGE

MISMET

AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE

MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY

AN EXPERIENCE

THE BEAUTY

THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE

THE WOOD FIRE

SAYING GOOD-BYE

ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED AND-FOURTH

THE OPPORTUNITY

EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER

THE RIFT

VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD

ON THE WAY

“SHE DID NOT TURN”

GROWTH IN MAY

THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS

AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY

HER TEMPLE

A TWO-YEARS' IDYLL

BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END

SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE

AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR

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”

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

ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR

AN OLD LIKENESS

HER APOTHEOSIS

“SACRED TO THE MEMORY”

TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING

THE WHIPPER-IN

A MILITARY APPOINTMENT

THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW

THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS

CROSS-CURRENTS

THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW

THE CHOSEN

THE INSCRIPTION

THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN

A WOMAN DRIVING

A WOMAN'S TRUST

BEST TIMES

THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE

THE SUN'S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL

IN A LONDON FLAT

DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH

AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS

AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.

SURVIEW

HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES

WAITING BOTH

A BIRD-SCENE AT A RURAL DWELLING

“ANY LITTLE OLD SONG”

IN A FORMER RESORT AFTER MANY YEARS

A CATHEDRAL FAÇADE AT MIDNIGHT

CIRCUS-RIDER TO RINGMASTER

AT A FASHIONABLE DINNER

IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO

COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING

THE GRAVEYARD OF DEAD CREEDS

“THERE SEEMED A STRANGENESS”

A NIGHT OF QUESTIONINGS

XENOPHANES, THE MONIST OF COLOPHON

LIFE AND DEATH AT SUNRISE

NIGHT-TIME IN MID-FALL

A SHEEP FAIR

SNOW IN THE SUBURBS

A LIGHT SNOW-FALL AFTER FROST

WINTER NIGHT IN WOODLAND

ICE ON THE HIGHWAY

MUSIC IN A SNOWY STREET

THE FROZEN GREENHOUSE

TWO LIPS

NO BUYERS

ONE WHO MARRIED ABOVE HIM

THE NEW TOY

QUEEN CAROLINE TO HER GUESTS

“FREED THE FRET OF THINKING”

THE ABSOLUTE EXPLAINS

THE FIGHT ON DURNOVER MOOR

LAST LOOK ROUND ST. MARTIN'S FAIR

THE CARICATURE

A LEADER OF FASHION

MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN, 187*

WHEN OATS WERE REAPED

LOUIE

“SHE OPENED THE DOOR”

“WHAT'S THERE TO TELL?”

THE HARBOUR BRIDGE

VAGRANT'S SONG

FARMER DUNMAN'S FUNERAL

THE SEXTON AT LONGPUDDLE

THE HARVEST-SUPPER

AT A PAUSE IN A COUNTRY DANCE

ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED

THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING

THE SHIVER

“NOT ONLY I”

SHE SAW HIM, SHE SAID

ONCE AT SWANAGE

THE FLOWER'S TRAGEDY

AT THE AQUATIC SPORTS

A WATCHER'S REGRET

HORSES ABOARD

THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR

A POOR MAN AND A LADY

A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON

DONAGHADEE

HE INADVERTENTLY CURES HIS LOVE-PAINS

THE PEACE PEAL

LADY VI

A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME

INSCRIPTIONS FOR A PEAL OF EIGHT BELLS

A REFUSAL

EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST

THE PROTEAN MAIDEN

A WATERING-PLACE LADY INVENTORIED

THE SUNDIAL ON A WET DAY

HER HAUNTING-GROUND

A PARTING-SCENE

SHORTENING DAYS AT THE HOMESTEAD

“NOTHING MATTERS MUCH”

IN THE EVENING

THE SIX BOARDS

BEFORE MY FRIEND ARRIVED

COMPASSION

“WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE”

TRAGEDIAN TO TRAGEDIENNE

THE LADY OF FOREBODINGS

THE BIRD-CATCHER'S BOY

A HURRIED MEETING

DISCOURAGEMENT

A LEAVING

SONG TO AN OLD BURDEN

“WHY DO I?”

WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

THE NEW DAWN'S BUSINESS

A WISH FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS

THE BAD EXAMPLE

TO LOUISA IN THE LANE

LOVE WATCHES A WINDOW

EXPECTATION AND EXPERIENCE

ARISTODEMUS THE MESSENIAN

THE LODGING-HOUSE FUCHSIAS

THE WHALER'S WIFE

THROWING A TREE

THE WAR-WIFE OF CATKNOLL

CONCERNING HIS OLD HOME

HER SECOND HUSBAND HEARS HER STORY

YULETIDE IN A YOUNGER WORLD

AFTER THE DEATH OF A FRIEND

THE SON'S PORTRAIT

LYING AWAKE

THE LADY IN THE FURS

CHILDHOOD AMONG THE FERNS

A COUNTENANCE

A POET'S THOUGHT

SILENCES

“I WATCHED A BLACKBIRD”

A NIGHTMARE, AND THE NEXT THING

TO A TREE IN LONDON

THE FELLED ELM AND SHE

THE CLASPED SKELETONS

AN EVENING IN GALILEE

“A GENTLEMAN'S SECOND-HAND SUIT”

“WE SAY WE SHALL NOT MEET”

SEEING THE MOON RISE

SONG TO AURORE

HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH

STANDING BY THE MANTELPIECE

BOYS THEN AND NOW

THAT KISS IN THE DARK

A NECESSITARIAN'S EPITAPH

BURNING THE HOLLY

SUSPENSE

THE SECOND VISIT

OUR OLD FRIEND DUALISM

FAITHFUL WILSON

GALLANT'S SONG

A PHILOSOPHICAL FANTASY

A QUESTION OF MARRIAGE

THE LETTER'S TRIUMPH

A FORGOTTEN MINIATURE

WHISPERED AT THE CHURCH-OPENING

IN WEATHERBURY STOCKS

A PLACID MAN'S EPITAPH

THE THIRD KISSING-GATE

DRINKING SONG

THE TARRYING BRIDEGROOM

THE DESTINED PAIR

A MUSICAL INCIDENT

JUNE LEAVES AND AUTUMN

NO BELL-RINGING

“I LOOKED BACK”

THE AGED NEWSPAPER SOLILOQUIZES

CHRISTMAS: 1924

THE SINGLE WITNESS

HOW SHE WENT TO IRELAND

DEAD “WESSEX” THE DOG TO THE HOUSEHOLD

THE WOMAN WHO WENT EAST

THE CATCHING BALLET OF THE WEDDING CLOTHES

A WINSOME WOMAN

THE BALLAD OF LOVE'S SKELETON

A PRIVATE MAN ON PUBLIC MEN

CHRISTMAS IN THE ELGIN ROOM

“WE ARE GETTING TO THE END”

HE RESOLVES TO SAY NO MORE

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TWO LIPS

I kissed them in fancy as I came
Away in the morning glow:
I kissed them through the glass of her picture-frame:
She did not know.

I kissed them in love, in troth, in laughter,
When she knew all; long so!
That I should kiss them in a shroud thereafter
She did not know.