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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.]
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