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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

LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER

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HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES

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

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

AN EAST-END CURATE

FOUR IN THE MORNING

ON THE ESPLANADE

IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO

COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING

THE MONTH'S CALENDAR

A SPELLBOUND PALACE

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

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

ONE WHO MARRIED ABOVE HIM

QUEEN CAROLINE TO HER GUESTS

THE WEARY WALKER

AT WYNYARD'S GAP

AT SHAG'S HEATH

A SECOND ATTEMPT

“FREED THE FRET OF THINKING”

THE ABSOLUTE EXPLAINS

THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW

IN SHERBORNE ABBEY

THE PAIR HE SAW PASS

THE FIGHT ON DURNOVER MOOR

LAST LOOK ROUND ST. MARTIN'S FAIR

A LEADER OF FASHION

MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN, 187*

THE FADING ROSE

WHEN OATS WERE REAPED

“SHE OPENED THE DOOR”

“WHAT'S THERE TO TELL?”

THE HARBOUR BRIDGE

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

“NOT ONLY I”

SHE SAW HIM, SHE SAID

ONCE AT SWANAGE

THE FLOWER'S TRAGEDY

AT THE AQUATIC SPORTS

A WATCHER'S REGRET

THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR

THE MISSED TRAIN

UNDER HIGH-STOY HILL

ALIKE AND UNLIKE

THE THING UNPLANNED

A POOR MAN AND A LADY

AN EXPOSTULATION

THE ECHO-ELF ANSWERS

CYNIC'S EPITAPH

A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON

HE INADVERTENTLY CURES HIS LOVE-PAINS

A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME

INSCRIPTIONS FOR A PEAL OF EIGHT BELLS

EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST

THE PROTEAN MAIDEN

A WATERING-PLACE LADY INVENTORIED

THE ROVER COME HOME

“KNOWN HAD I”

THE PAT OF BUTTER

THE SUNDIAL ON A WET DAY

HER HAUNTING-GROUND

A PARTING-SCENE

SHORTENING DAYS AT THE HOMESTEAD

DAYS TO RECOLLECT

THE HIGH-SCHOOL LAWN

THE FORBIDDEN BANNS

THE PAPHIAN BALL

ON MARTOCK MOOR

THAT MOMENT

THIS SUMMER AND LAST

“NOTHING MATTERS MUCH”

BEFORE MY FRIEND ARRIVED

“WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE”

TRAGEDIAN TO TRAGEDIENNE

THE LADY OF FOREBODINGS

THE BIRD-CATCHER'S BOY

A HURRIED MEETING

SONG TO AN OLD BURDEN

“WHY DO I?”

WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES

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THAT MOMENT

The tragedy of that moment
Was deeper than the sea,
When I came in that moment
And heard you speak to me!

What I could not help seeing
Covered life as a blot;
Yes, that which I was seeing,
And knew that you were not