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Collected poems of Thomas Hardy

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Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928)

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WESSEX POEMS
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POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
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[TIME'S LAUGHING STOCKS AND OTHER VERSES.]
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SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES
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MOMENTS OF VISION
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LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
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HUMAN SHOWS FAR PHANTASIES SONGS, AND TRIFLES
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WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES
  
THE NEW DAWN'S BUSINESS
  
PROUD SONGSTERS
  
THOUGHTS AT MIDNIGHT
  
“I AM THE ONE”
  
THE PROPHETESS
  
A WISH FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS
  
THE BAD EXAMPLE
  
TO LOUISA IN THE LANE
  
LOVE WATCHES A WINDOW
  
THE LOVE-LETTERS
  
AN UNKINDLY MAY
  
UNKEPT GOOD FRIDAYS
  
THE MOUND
  
LIDDELL AND SCOTT
  
CHRISTMASTIDE
  
RELUCTANT CONFESSION
  
EXPECTATION AND EXPERIENCE
  
ARISTODEMUS THE MESSENIAN
  
EVENING SHADOWS
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THE THREE TALL MEN
  
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
  
HE DID NOT KNOW ME
  
SO VARIOUS
  
A SELF-GLAMOURER
  
THE DEAD BASTARD
  
THE CLASPED SKELETONS
  
IN THE MARQUEE
  
AFTER THE BURIAL
  
THE MONGREL
  
CONCERNING AGNES
  
HENLEY REGATTA
  
AN EVENING IN GALILEE
  
THE BROTHER
  
WE FIELD-WOMEN
  
A PRACTICAL WOMAN
  
SQUIRE HOOPER
  
“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 NEW BOOTS
  
THE MUSING MAIDEN
  
LORNA THE SECOND
  
A DAUGHTER RETURNS
  
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
  
NOT KNOWN
  
THE BOY'S DREAM
  
THE GAP IN THE WHITE
  
FAMILY PORTRAITS
  
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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A NECESSITARIAN'S EPITAPH

A world I did not wish to enter
Took me and poised me on my centre,
Made me grimace, and foot, and prance,
As cats on hot bricks have to dance
Strange jigs to keep them from the floor,
Till they sink down and feel no more.
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