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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
LYRICS AND REVERIES
POEMS OF 1912–13
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE
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