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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
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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
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
THE TURNIP-HOER
THE CARRIER
LOVER TO MISTRESS
THE MONUMENT-MAKER
CIRCUS-RIDER TO RINGMASTER
LAST WEEK IN OCTOBER
COME NOT; YET COME!
THE LATER AUTUMN
“LET ME BELIEVE”
AT A FASHIONABLE DINNER
GREEN SLATES
AN EAST-END CURATE
AT RUSHY-POND
FOUR IN THE MORNING
ON THE ESPLANADE
IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO
COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING
A LAST JOURNEY
SINGING LOVERS
THE MONTH'S CALENDAR
A SPELLBOUND PALACE
WHEN DEAD
SINE PROLE
TEN YEARS SINCE
EVERY ARTEMISIA
THE BEST SHE COULD
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
PLENA TIMORIS
THE WEARY WALKER
LAST LOVE-WORD
NOBODY COMES
IN THE STREET
THE LAST LEAF
AT WYNYARD'S GAP
AT SHAG'S HEATH
A SECOND ATTEMPT
“FREED THE FRET OF THINKING”
THE ABSOLUTE EXPLAINS
“SO, TIME”
AN INQUIRY
THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW
IN SHERBORNE ABBEY
THE PAIR HE SAW PASS
THE MOCK WIFE
THE FIGHT ON DURNOVER MOOR
LAST LOOK ROUND ST. MARTIN'S FAIR
THE CARICATURE
A LEADER OF FASHION
MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN, 187*
THE AËROLITE
THE PROSPECT
GENITRIX LAESA
THE FADING ROSE
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
THE MISSED TRAIN
UNDER HIGH-STOY HILL
AT THE MILL
ALIKE AND UNLIKE
THE THING UNPLANNED
THE SHEEP-BOY
RETTY'S PHASES
A POOR MAN AND A LADY
AN EXPOSTULATION
TO A SEA-CLIFF
THE ECHO-ELF ANSWERS
CYNIC'S EPITAPH
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 SEA FIGHT
PARADOX
THE ROVER COME HOME
“KNOWN HAD I”
THE PAT OF BUTTER
BAGS OF MEAT
THE SUNDIAL ON A WET DAY
HER HAUNTING-GROUND
A PARTING-SCENE
SHORTENING DAYS AT THE HOMESTEAD
DAYS TO RECOLLECT
TO C. F. H.
THE HIGH-SCHOOL LAWN
THE FORBIDDEN BANNS
THE PAPHIAN BALL
ON MARTOCK MOOR
THAT MOMENT
PREMONITIONS
THIS SUMMER AND LAST
“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
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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST
I'm
Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd,
I've lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and would to God
My dad had done the same.
[_]
From the French and Greek.
Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
