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Thomas Hardy

2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Backward Spring The trees are afraid to put forth buds, 1917 151067
2: A Broken Appointment You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. 16528
3: A Bygone Occasion (Song) That night, that night, That song, that song! 16514
4: A Call To National Service Up and be doing, all who have a hand 1917 14518
5: A Christmas Ghost-Story South of the Line, inland from far Durban, 1899 14559
6: A Church Romance She turned in the high pew, until her sight 14556
7: A Circular As "legal representative" I read a missive not my own, 12628
8: A Commonplace Day The day is turning ghost, 35473
9: A Confession To A Friend In Trouble Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less 1866 14492
10: A Conversation At Dawn He lay awake, with a harassed air, 1910 196477
11: A Death-Day Recalled Beeny did not quiver, Juliot grew not gray, 24477
12: A Dream Or No Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me? 1913 24489
13: A Dream Question I asked the Lord: "Sire, is this true 24481
14: A Drizzling Easter Morning And he is risen? Well, be it so . . . 14480
15: A Duettist To Her Pianoforte Song Of Silence Since every sound moves memories, 32537
16: A Gentleman's Epitaph On Himself And A Lady, Who Were Buried Together I dwelt in the shade of a city, 28540
17: A House With A History There is a house in a city street 20475
18: A January Night The rain smites more and more, 1879 12580
19: A Jog-Trot Pair Who were the twain that trod this track 24470
20: A King's Soliloquy From the slow march and muffled drum 1910 44505
21: A Kiss By a wall the stranger now calls his, 16520
22: A Maiden's Pledge (Song) I do not wish to win your vow 16498
23: A Man In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, 35496
24: A Man Was Drawing Near To Me On that gray night of mournful drone, 30706
25: A Meeting With Despair As evening shaped I found me on a moor 28489
26: A Merrymaking In Question I will get a new string for my fiddle, 10429
27: A Military Appointment So back you have come from the town, Nan, dear! 20461
28: A New Year's Eve In War Time Phantasmal fears, And the flap of the flame, 37500
29: A Night In November I marked when the weather changed, 12548
30: A Plaint To Man When you slowly emerged from the den of Time, 1910 32582
31: A Poet Attentive eyes, fantastic heed, 1914 16511
32: A Procession Of Dead Days I see the ghost of a perished day; 48504
33: A Sign-Seeker I mark the months in liveries dank and dry, 48470
34: A Singer Asleep In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea, 1910 52433
35: A Sound In The Night What do I catch upon the night-wind, husband? 60447
36: A Spot In years defaced and lost, 24464
37: A Sunday Morning Tragedy I bore a daughter flower-fair, 1904 128579
38: A Thought In Two Moods I saw it - pink and white - revealed 16476
39: A Thunderstorm In Town She wore a new "terra-cotta" dress, 10476
40: A Trampwoman's Tragedy From Wynyard's Gap the livelong day, 1902 104511
41: A Two-Years' Idyll Yes; such it was; Just those two seasons unsought, 27570
42: A Wasted Illness Through vaults of pain, 32446
43: A Week On Monday night I closed my door, 21434
44: A Wet August Nine drops of water bead the jessamine, 1920 12510
45: A Wet Night I pace along, the rain-shafts riddling me, 14493
46: A Wife And Another War ends, and he's returning 70710
47: A Wife Comes Back This is the story a man told me 42605
48: A Wife In London She sits in the tawny vapour 20483
49: A Wife Waits Will's at the dance in the Club-room below, 12514
50: A Woman Driving How she held up the horses' heads, 20444
51: A Woman's Fancy Ah Madam; you've indeed come back here? 48511
52: A Woman's Trust If he should live a thousand years 24471
53: A Year Later (Serenade) I skimmed the strings; I sang quite low; 24492
54: A Young Man'S Epigram On Existence A senseless school, where we must give 1866 5541
55: A Young Man's Exhortation Call off your eyes from care 1867 20479
56: Aberdeen I looked and thought, "All is too gray and cold 8490
57: According To The Mighty Working When moiling seems at cease 1917 12526
58: After A Journey Hereto I come to interview a ghost; 32490
59: After A Romantic Day The railway bore him through 13536
60: After Reading Psalms XXXIX., XL., Etc. Simple was I and was young; 24688
61: After Schiller Knight, a true sister-love 8425
62: After The Club-Dance Black'on frowns east on Maidon, 12474
63: After The Fair The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place 1902 24537
64: After The Last Breath There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped; 1904 20786
65: After The Visit Come again to the place 24446
66: After The War 24463
67: Afternoon Service At Mellstock On afternoons of drowsy calm 12534
68: Afterwards When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, 20473
69: Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? Ah, are you digging on my grave 36402
70: Amabel I marked her ruined hues, 1865 32455
71: An Ancient To Ancients Where once we danced, where once sang, 70499
72: An Anniversary It was at the very date to which we have come, 18425
73: An Appeal To America On Behalf Of The Belgian Destitute Seven millions stand 1914 16474
74: An August Midnight A shaded lamp and a waving blind, 1899 12472
75: An Autumn Rain-Scene There trudges one to a merry-making 1904 21548
76: An Experience Wit, weight, or wealth there was not 24411
77: An Old Likeness Who would have thought That, not having missed her 37458
78: An Upbraiding Now I am dead you sing to me 12488
79: And There Was A Great Calm There had been years of Passion scorching, cold, 1918 45481
80: Apostrophe To An Old Psalm Tune I met you first - ah, when did I first meet you? 1916 35446
81: Aquae Sulis The chimes called midnight, just at interlune, 28407
82: Architectural Masks There is a house with ivied walls, 15424
83: As 'Twere To-Night (Song) As 'twere to-night, in the brief space 18504
84: At A Bridal When you paced forth, to wait maternity, 1866 14386
85: At A Country Fair At a bygone Western country fair 20558
86: At A Hasty Wedding - (Triolet) If hours be years the twain are blest, 8586
87: At A House In Hampstead Sometime The Dwelling Of John Keats O poet, come you haunting here 1920 32485
88: At A Lunar Eclipse Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea, 14471
89: At A Seaside Town In 1869 - Young Lover's Reverie I went and stood outside myself, 48440
90: At An Inn When we as strangers sought 40456
91: At Castle Boterel As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, 1913 36554
92: At Day-Close In November The ten hours' light is abating, 12506
93: At Lulworth Cove A Century Back Had I but lived a hundred years ago 1920 20454
94: At Madame Tussaud's In Victorian Years That same first fiddler who leads the orchestra to-night 16428
95: At Mayfair Lodgings How could I be aware, 28442
96: At Middle-Field Gate In February The bars are thick with drops that show 161536
97: At Moonrise And Onwards I thought you a fire On Heron-Plantation Hill, 24559
98: At The Dinner-Table I sat at dinner in my prime, 24413
99: At The Entering Of The New Year Our songs went up and out the chimney, 32459
100: At The Piano A woman was playing, 18609
101: At The Railway Station, Upway There is not much that I can do, 18456
102: At The Royal Academy These summer landscapes clump, and copse, and croft 15467
103: At The War Office, London Last year I called this world of gain-givings 10487
104: At The Wicket-Gate There floated the sounds of church-chiming, 16471
105: At The Word "Farewell" She looked like a bird from a cloud 32453
106: At Waking When night was lifting, 1869 32395
107: Autumn In King's Hintock Park Here by the baring bough 24501
108: Barthelemon At Vauxhall Francois Hippolite Barthelemon, first-fiddler at Vauxhall Gardens, 18459
109: Beeny Cliff O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, 15436
110: Before And After Summer Looking forward to the spring 20436
111: Before Knowledge When I walked roseless tracks and wide, 16418
112: Before Life And After A time there was - as one may guess 16446
113: Before Marching And After Orion swung southward aslant 1915 21446
114: Bereft In the black winter morning 1901 24505
115: Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams I dream that the dearest I ever knew 16390
116: Best Times We went a day's excursion to the stream, 20406
117: Between Us Now Between us now and here 24482
118: Beyond The Last Lamp While rain, with eve in partnership, 351743
119: Birds At Winter Nightfall - (Triolet) Around the house the flakes fly faster, 8462
120: By Henstridge Cross At The Year's End Why go the east road now? . . . 30412
121: By The Barrows Not far from Mellstock - so tradition saith 14428
122: By The Earth's Corpse O Lord, why grievest Thou? 32538
123: By The Runic Stone By the Runic Stone 16410
124: Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph On Raphael Here's one in whom Nature feared - faint at such vying 2376
125: Catullus: XXXI Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands 16432
126: Channel Firing That night your great guns, unawares, 1914 36449
127: Conjecture If there were in my kalendar 18385
128: Copying Architecture In An Old Minster (Wimborne) How smartly the quarters of the hour march by 35439
129: Could I But Will (Song) Could I but will, Will to my bent, 24410
130: Cross-Currents They parted a pallid, trembling I pair, 24409
131: Cry Of The Homeless - After The Prussian Invasion Of Belgium Instigator of the ruin Whichsoever thou mayst be 1915 24451
132: De Profundis - II When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong 16476
133: De Profundis - III There have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come 1896 20367
134: De Profundis I Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain 24387
135: Departure While the far farewell music thins and fails, 14415
136: Ditty Beneath a knap where flown 1870 45420
137: Doom And She There dwells a mighty pair 40428
138: Drawing Details In An Old Church I hear the bell-rope sawing, 16449
139: Dream Of The City Shopwoman Twere sweet to have a comrade here, 32377
140: During Wind And Rain They sing their dearest songs 28380
141: Embarcation Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, 14398
142: End Of The Year 1912 You were here at his young beginning, 14434
143: England To Germany In 1914 O England, may God punish thee! 1914 18386
144: Epeisodia Past the hills that peep 24410
145: Epitaph I never cared for Life: Life cared for me, 7449
146: Evelyn G. Of Christminster I can see the towers 48417
147: Everything Comes The house is bleak and cold 21387
148: Exeunt Omnes Everybody else, then, going, 1913 16370
149: Faintheart In A Railway Train At nine in the morning there passed a church, 10535
150: Fetching Her An hour before the dawn, 30467
151: First Or Last (Song) If grief come early Joy comes late, 14406
152: First Sight Of Her And After A day is drawing to its fall 12425
153: For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly For Life I had never cared greatly, 30388
154: Former Beauties These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn, 16420
155: Four Footprints Here are the tracks upon the sand 20411
156: Fragment At last I entered a long dark gallery, 26394
157: Friends Beyond William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, 36444
158: From Her In The Country I thought and thought of thy crass clanging town 1866 14396
159: From Victor Hugo Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule, 10394
160: Genoa And The Mediterranean O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea, 18396
161: Geographical Knowledge Where Blackmoor was, the road that led 24391
162: George Meredith Forty years back, when much had place 1909 18347
163: God's Education I saw him steal the light away 20381
164: God's Funeral I saw a slowly-stepping train 68429
165: God-Forgotten I towered far, and lo! I stood within 48378
166: Going And Staying The moving sun-shapes on the spray, 15424
167: Great Things Sweet cyder is a great thing, 32368
168: Growth In May I enter a daisy-and-buttercup land, 12393
169: Had You Wept Had you wept; had you but neared me with a frail uncertain ray, 16498
170: Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me 1866 14442
171: Haunting Fingers - A Phantasy In A Museum Of Musical Instruments Are you awake, Comrades, this silent night? 60414
172: He Abjures Love At last I put off love, For twice ten years 1883 48525
173: He Fears His Good Fortune There was a glorious time 22354
174: He Follows Himself In a heavy time I dogged myself 35378
175: He Prefers Her Earthly This after-sunset is a sight for seeing, 15401
176: He Revisits His First School I should not have shown in the flesh, 28404
177: He Wonders About Himself No use hoping, or feeling vext, 12400
178: Heiress And Architect She sought the Studios, beckoning to her side 1867 60408
179: Her Apotheosis There was a spell of leisure, 12416
180: Her Confession As some bland soul, to whom a debtor says 14417
181: Her Death And After Twas a death-bed summons, and forth I went 135393
182: Her Definition I lingered through the night to break of day, 1866 14520
183: Her Dilemma The two were silent in a sunless church, 1866 16412
184: Her Father I met her, as we had privily planned, 20416
185: Her Immortality Upon a noon I pilgrimed through 56412
186: Her Initials Upon a poet's page I wrote 1869 8434
187: Her Late Husband No - not where I shall make my own; 30404
188: Her Love-Birds When I looked up at my love-birds 24395
189: Her Reproach Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! 1867 14394
190: Her Secret That love's dull smart distressed my heart 12512
191: Her Song I sang that song on Sunday, 24426
192: Her Temple Dear, think not that they will forget you: 8426
193: Heredity I am the family face; 12471
194: His Country He travels southward, and looks around; 1913 30399
195: His Immortality I saw a dead man's finer part 1899 16382
196: His Visitor I come across from Mellstock while the moon wastes weaker 1913 20386
197: Honeymoon Time At An Inn At the shiver of morning, a little before the false dawn, 48380
198: How Great My Grief - (Triolet) How great my grief, my joys how few, 8418
199: I Found Her Out There I found her out there On a slope few see, 40509
200: I Have Lived With Shades I have lived with shades so long, 1899 40412
201: I Knew A Lady (Club Song) I knew a lady when the days 16423
202: I Look In Her Face (Song: Minor) I look in her face and say, 12384
203: I Look Into My Glass I look into my glass, 12396
204: I Looked Up From My Writing I looked up from my writing, 24464
205: I Met A Man I met a man when night was nigh, 1916 42515
206: I Need Not Go I need not go Through sleet and snow 32442
207: I Rose And Went To Rou'tor Town I rose and went to Rou'tor Town 18379
208: I Rose Up As My Custom Is I rose up as my custom is 40380
209: I Said And Sang Her Excellence - Fickle Lover's Song I said and sang her excellence: 24355
210: I Said To Love I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days 29428
211: I Say I'll Seek Her I say, "I'll seek her side 16425
212: I Sometimes Think I sometimes think as here I sit 18440
213: I Thought, My Heart I thought, my Heart, that you had healed 22368
214: I Travel As A Phantom Now I travel as a phantom now, 1915 12477
215: I Was Not He (Song) I was not he the man 15429
216: I Was The Midmost I was the midmost of my world 18395
217: I Worked No Wile To Meet You (Song) I worked no wile to meet you, 24430
218: If It's Ever Spring Again (Song) If it's ever spring again, Spring again, 18425
219: If You Had Known If you had known When listening with her to the far-down moan 1920 16423
220: Imaginings She saw herself a lady 18402
221: In A Cathedral City These people have not heard your name; 16415
222: In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury The years have gathered grayly 1890 24404
223: In A London Flat You look like a widower," she said 24435
224: In A Museum Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light, 8409
225: In A Waiting-Room On a morning sick as the day of doom 42368
226: In A Whispering Gallery That whisper takes the voice 21384
227: In A Wood Pale beech and pine-tree blue, 44434
228: In Childbed In the middle of the night 20419
229: In Death Divided I shall rot here, with those whom in their day 25417
230: In Front Of The Landscape 72369
231: In Her Precincts Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, 10399
232: In The British Museum What do you see in that time-touched stone, 28431
233: In The Days Of Crinoline A plain tilt-bonnet on her head 30405
234: In The Garden We waited for the sun 15418
235: In The Mind's Eye That was once her casement, 16374
236: In The Night She Came I told her when I left one day 24347
237: In The Old Theatre, Fiesole I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline 1887 14401
238: In The Servants' Quarters Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal? 35394
239: In The Seventies In the seventies I was bearing in my breast, 24382
240: In The Small Hours I lay in my bed and fiddled 24436
241: In The Vaulted Way In the vaulted way, where the passage turned 15372
242: In Time Of "The Breaking Of Nations"[1] Only a man harrowing clods 1915 12416
243: In Time Of Wars And Tumults Would that I'd not drawn breath here!" some one said, 1915 15588
244: In Vision I Roamed In vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, 1866 14353
245: Intra Sepulchrum What curious things we said, 32354
246: It Never Looks Like Summer It never looks like summer here 8396
247: Jezreel Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day 1918 16432
248: John And Jane He sees the world as a boisterous place 16425
249: Joys Of Memory When the spring comes round, and a certain day 16416
250: Jubilate The very last time I ever was here," he said, 28407
251: Julie-Jane Sing; how 'a would sing! 32376
252: Just The Same I sat. It all was past; 12413
253: Lament How she would have loved A party to-day! 44455
254: Last Words To A Dumb Friend Pet was never mourned as you, 1904 56490
255: Lausanne A spirit seems to pass, 16426
256: Leipzig Old Norbert with the flat blue cap 144413
257: Let Me Enjoy Let me enjoy the earth no less 16393
258: Life Laughs Onward Rambling I looked for an old abode 16407
259: Lines Before we part to alien thoughts and aims, 40402
260: Lines To A Movement In Mozart's E-Flat Symphony Show me again the time 1898 20386
261: Logs On The Hearth The fire advances along the log 16377
262: Lonely Days Lonely her fate was, Environed from sight 52403
263: Long Plighted 24410
264: Looking Across It is dark in the sky, 1915 25416
265: Looking At A Picture On An Anniversary But don't you know it, my dear, 1913 30425
266: Lost Love I play my sweet old airs 18424
267: Love The Monopolist - Young Lover's Reverie The train draws forth from the station-yard, 30393
268: Mad Judy When the hamlet hailed a birth 18402
269: Meditations On A Holiday (A New Theme To An Old Folk-Jingle) Tis May morning, All-adorning, 88408
270: Memory And I O memory, where is now my youth, 30422
271: Men Who March Away - Song Of The Soldiers What of the faith and fire within us 1914 35415
272: Middle-Age Enthusiasms We passed where flag and flower 24411
273: Midnight On The Great Western 20397
274: Misconception I busied myself to find a sure 24382
275: Mismet He was leaning by a face, 20415
276: Molly Gone No more summer for Molly and me; 30384
277: Moments Of Vision That mirror Which makes of men a transparency, 20401
278: More Love Lyrics In five-score summers! All new eyes, 1867 13405
279: Murmurs In The Gloom I wayfared at the nadir of the sun 1899 30502
280: Mute Opinion I traversed a dominion 16409
281: My Cicely Alive?" And I leapt in my wonder, 54411
282: My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound My spirit will not haunt the mound 15367
283: Nature's Questioning When I look forth at dawning, pool, 28426
284: Near Lanivet, 1872 There was a stunted handpost just on the crest, 32392
285: Neutral Tones We stood by a pond that winter day, 1867 16400
286: New Year's Eve I have finished another year," said God, 1906 30395
287: News For Her Mother One mile more is Where your door is 35407
288: Night In The Old Home When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, 16378
289: O I Won'T Lead A Homely Life O I won't lead a homely life 14403
290: Often When Warring Often when warring for he wist not what, 1915 14409
291: Old Excursions What's the good of going to Ridgeway, 1913 24373
292: Old Furniture I know not how it may be with others 35397
293: On A Discovered Curl Of Hair When your soft welcomings were said, 1913 18405
294: On A Fine Morning Whence comes Solace? - Not from seeing 1899 14392
295: On A Heath I could hear a gown-skirt rustling 18363
296: On A Midsummer Eve I idly cut a parsley stalk, 12422
297: On An Invitation To The United States My ardours for emprize nigh lost 16387
298: On Christmas Eve (Serenade) Late on Christmas Eve, in the street alone, 20415
299: On One Who Lived And Died Where He Was Born When a night in November 44385
300: On Stinsford Hill At Midnight I glimpsed a woman's muslined form 28385
301: On Sturminster Foot-Bridge - Onomatopoeic Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face 10356
302: On The Belgian Expatriation I dreamt that people from the Land of Chimes 1914 14397
303: On The Departure Platform We kissed at the barrier; and passing through 24416
304: On The Doorstep The rain imprinted the step's wet shine 1914 14369
305: On The Tune Called The Old-Hundred-And-Fourth We never sang together 20355
306: On The Way The trees fret fitfully and twist, 20398
307: One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes When I am in hell or some such place, 26374
308: One We Knew She told how they used to form for the country dances 1902 32396
309: Outside The Casement We sat in the room And praised her whom 30359
310: Overlooking The River Stour The swallows flew in the curves of an eight 24380
311: Panthera Yea, as I sit here, crutched, and cricked, and bent, 222405
312: Paths Of Former Time No; no; It must not be so: 1913 24378
313: Paying Calls I went by footpath and by stile 16372
314: Penance Why do you sit, O pale thin man, 24442
315: Places Nobody says: Ah, that is the place 1913 28391
316: Postponement Snow-bound in woodland, a mournful word, 1866 16357
317: Postscript "Men Who March Away" (Song Of The Soldiers) What of the faith and fire within us 35381
318: Quid Hic Agis? When I weekly knew An ancient pew, 1916 74414
319: Rain On A Grave Clouds spout upon her Their waters amain 1913 36520
320: Rake-Hell Muses Yes; since she knows not need, 68464
321: Read By Moonlight I paused to read a letter of hers 18415
322: Regret Not Me Regret not me; Beneath the sunny tree 30396
323: Reminiscences Of A Dancing Man Who now remembers Almack's balls 30453
324: Revulsion Though I waste watches framing words to fetter 14382
325: Rome - At The Pyramid Of Cestius - Near The Graves Of Shelley And Keats Who, then, was Cestius, 1887 24360
326: Rome - Building A New Street In The Ancient Quarter These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry 1887 14383
327: Rome - The Vatican - Sala Delle Muse I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day, 1887 24382
328: Rome: On The Palatine We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, 1887 14411
329: Rose-Ann Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann? 20425
330: Royal Sponsors The king and the queen will stand to the child; 35404
331: Sacred To The Memory That "Sacred to the Memory" 10436
332: San Sebastian Why, Sergeant, stray on the Ivel Way, 70363
333: Sapphic Fragment Dead shalt thou lie; and nought 6364
334: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - I At Tea The kettle descants in a cozy drone, 12421
335: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - II In Church And now to God the Father," he ends, 13406
336: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - III By Her Aunt's Grave Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover, 12436
337: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IV In The Room Of The Bride-Elect Would it had been the man of our wish! 13370
338: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IX At The Altar-Rail My bride is not coming, alas!" says the groom, 14351
339: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - V At A Watering-Place They sit and smoke on the esplanade, 12374
340: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VI In The Cemetery You see those mothers squabbling there? 14418
341: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VII Outside The Window My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane 12367
342: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VIII In The Study He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair 21382
343: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - X In The Nuptial Chamber O that mastering tune?" And up in the bed 12424
344: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XI In The Restaurant But hear. If you stay, and the child be born, 12443
345: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XII At The Draper's I stood at the back of the shop, my dear, 16417
346: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIII On The Death-Bed I'll tell being past all praying for 18367
347: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIV Over The Coffin They stand confronting, the coffin between, 14382
348: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XV In The Moonlight O lonely workman, standing there 15378
349: Saying Good-Bye (Song) We are always saying "Good-bye, good-bye!" 36392
350: Seen By The Waits Through snowy woods and shady 16438
351: Self-Unconscious Along the way He walked that day, 48414
352: Seventy-Four And Twenty Here goes a man of seventy-four, 8412
353: She - At His Funeral They bear him to his resting-place 8517
354: She Charged Me She charged me with having said this and that 16408
355: She Did Not Turn She did not turn, But passed foot-faint with averted head 14381
356: She Hears The Storm There was a time in former years 20399
357: She Revisits Alone The Church Of Her Marriage I have come to the church and chancel, 36427
358: She Who Saw Not Did you see something within the house 24397
359: She, I, And They I was sitting, She was knitting 1916 18383
360: She, To Him I When you shall see me in the toils of Time, 1866 14395
361: She, To Him II Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away, 1866 14413
362: She, To Him III I will be faithful to thee; aye, I will! 1866 14418
363: She, To Him IV This love puts all humanity from me; 1866 14399
364: Shelley's Skylark Somewhere afield here something lies 24370
365: Shut Out That Moon Close up the casement, draw the blind, 24455
366: Side By Side So there sat they, The estranged two, 40408
367: Signs And Tokens Said the red-cloaked crone 48350
368: Sitting On The Bridge Sitting on the bridge 36350
369: Something Tapped Something tapped on the pane of my room 1913 12388
370: Song From Heine I scanned her picture dreaming, 12403
371: Song Of Hope O sweet To-morrow! After to-day 27400
372: Song Of The Soldiers' Wives At last! In sight of home again, 32436
373: Spectres That Grieve It is not death that harrows us," they lipped, 24389
374: St. Launce's Revisited Slip back, Time! Yet again I am nearing 28480
375: Starlings On The Roof No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot, 18391
376: Summer Schemes When friendly summer calls again, 18415
377: Surview A cry from the green-grained sticks of the fire 20434
378: Tess's Lament I would that folk forgot me quite, 48380
379: The Abbey Mason The new-vamped Abbey shaped apace 218401
380: The Ageing House When the walls were red 18370
381: The Alarm In a ferny byway Near the great South-Wessex Highway, 115427
382: The Announcement They came, the brothers, and took two chairs 12354
383: The Background And The Figure - Lover's Ditty I think of the slope where the rabbits fed, 12396
384: The Ballad-Singer Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune; 12447
385: The Ballet They crush together - a rustling heap of flesh 18389
386: The Beauty O do not praise my beauty more, 16391
387: The Bedridden Peasant Much wonder I - here long low-laid 32435
388: The Blinded Bird So zestfully canst thou sing? 21410
389: The Blow That no man schemed it is my hope 28377
390: The Bridge Of Lodi When of tender mind and body 1887 68374
391: The Bullfinches Bother Bulleys, let us sing 30430
392: The Burghers The sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, 69392
393: The Caged Goldfinch Within a churchyard, on a recent grave, 8587
394: The Caged Thrush Freed And Home Again - (Villanelle) Men know but little more than we, 19387
395: The Casterbridge Captains Three captains went to Indian wars, 28377
396: The Casual Acquaintance While he was here in breath and bone, 20356
397: The Change Out of the past there rises a week 42366
398: The Chapel-Organist I've been thinking it through, as I play here to-night, to play never again, 86401
399: The Cheval-Glass Why do you harbour that great cheval-glass 40401
400: The Child And The Sage You say, O Sage, when weather-checked, 1908 20374
401: The Children And Sir Nameless Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared: 24442
402: The Chimes That morning when I trod the town 18416
403: The Chimes Play "Life's A Bumper!" Awake! I'm off to cities far away," 1913 18389
404: The Choirmaster's Burial He often would ask us 48410
405: The Chosen A woman for whom great gods might strive! 52393
406: The Christening Whose child is this they bring 1904 40370
407: The Church-Builder The church flings forth a battled shade 84351
408: The Clock Of The Years A spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 1916 31376
409: The Clock-Winder It is dark as a cave, 44396
410: The Collector Cleans His Picture How I remember cleaning that strange picture! 41398
411: The Colonel's Soliloquy The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . . 36395
412: The Colour What shall I bring you? Please will white do 40443
413: The Comet At Yalbury Or Yell'ham It bends far over Yell'ham Plain, 8369
414: The Coming Of The End How it came to an end! 30384
415: The Conformers Yes; we'll wed, my little fay, 32369
416: The Contretemps A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, 56422
417: The Convergence Of The Twain In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, 33402
418: The Coquette, And After - (Triolets) For long the cruel wish I knew 16403
419: The Coronation At Westminster, hid from the light of day, 1911 50397
420: The Country Wedding Little fogs were gathered in every hollow, 36409
421: The Curate's Kindness - A Workhouse Irony I thought they'd be strangers aroun' me, 40470
422: The Curtains Now Are Drawn (Song) The curtains now are drawn, 1913 20403
423: The Dame Of Athelhall Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, 60358
424: The Dance At The Phoenix To Jenny came a gentle youth 161386
425: The Dark-Eyed Gentleman I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane, 21401
426: The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate 1900 32410
427: The Dawn After The Dance Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling 1869 20421
428: The Dead And The Living One The dead woman lay in her first night's grave, 1915 39425
429: The Dead Drummer They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest 18365
430: The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, 40409
431: The Dead Quire Beside the Mead of Memories, 1897 100446
432: The Dear I plodded to Fairmile Hill-top, where 1901 20421
433: The Death Of Regret I opened my shutter at sunrise, 24426
434: The Difference Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon, 8357
435: The Discovery I wandered to a crude coast 12428
436: The Dissemblers It was not you I came to please, 12396
437: The Division Rain on the windows, creaking doors, 12620
438: The Dolls Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy, 16361
439: The Dream Is Which? I am laughing by the brook with her, 1913 18389
440: The Dream-Follower A dream of mine flew over the mead 8446
441: The Duel I am here to time, you see; 42416
442: The Elopement A woman never agreed to it!" said my knowing friend to me. 24420
443: The End Of The Episode Indulge no more may we 20358
444: The Enemy's Portrait He saw the portrait of his enemy, offered 40400
445: The Face At The Casement If ever joy leave An abiding sting of sorrow, 64353
446: The Faded Face How was this I did not see 21416
447: The Fallow Deer At The Lonely House One without looks in to-night 12406
448: The Farm-Woman's Winter If seasons all were summers, 16366
449: The Fiddler The fiddler knows what's brewing 16417
450: The Figure In The Scene It pleased her to step in front and sit 18345
451: The Fire At Tranter Sweatley's They had long met o' Zundays her true love and she 1866 113378
452: The Five Students The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath, 30473
453: The Flirt's Tragedy Here alone by the logs in my chamber, 116392
454: The Garden Seat Its former green is blue and thin, 12436
455: The Ghost Of The Past We two kept house, the Past and I, 40354
456: The Glimpse She sped through the door 29361
457: The Going Why did you give no hint that night 42490
458: The Going Of The Battery - Wives' Lament O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough 48410
459: The Haunter He does not think that I haunt here nightly: 32393
460: The Head Above The Fog Something do I see 20411
461: The Homecoming Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare, 1901 48531
462: The House Of Hospitalities Here we broached the Christmas barrel, 20388
463: The House Of Silence That is a quiet place 24371
464: The Husband's View Can anything avail Beldame, for my hid grief? 36413
465: The Impercipient That from this bright believing band 32345
466: The Inconsistent I say, "She was as good as fair," 16365
467: The Inquiry And are ye one of Hermitage 24394
468: The Inscription (A Tale) Sir John was entombed, and the crypt was closed, and she, 1907 96358
469: The Interloper And I saw the figure and visage of Madness seeking for a home. 36365
470: The Ivy-Wife I longed to love a full-boughed beech 24364
471: The Jubilee Of A Magazine Yes; your up-dated modern page 31396
472: The King's Experiment It was a wet wan hour in spring, 40348
473: The Lacking Sense O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, 30366
474: The Lament Of The Looking-Glass Words from the mirror softly pass 18323
475: The Last Chrysanthemum Why should this flower delay so long 24352
476: The Last Performance I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she, 1912 15363
477: The Last Signal Silently I footed by an uphill road 16324
478: The Last Time The kiss had been given and taken, 12326
479: The Levelled Churchyard O passenger, pray list and catch 1882 24329
480: The Little Old Table Creak, little wood thing, creak, 12323
481: The Lost Pyx - A Mediaeval Legend Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand 76320
482: The Maid Of Keinton Mandeville I hear that maiden still 1916 28299
483: The Man He Killed Had he and I but met 1902 20369
484: The Man Who Forgot At a lonely cross where bye-roads met 28353
485: The Man With A Past There was merry-making 24307
486: The Marble Tablet There it stands, though alas, what a little of her 1916 15323
487: The Marble-Streeted Town I reach the marble-streeted town, 20268
488: The Market-Girl Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb, 8328
489: The Masked Face I found me in a great surging space, 18319
490: The Master And The Leaves We are budding, Master, budding, 1917 24309
491: The Memorial Brass: 186- Why do you weep there, O sweet lady, 20293
492: The Milestone By The Rabbit-Burrow In my loamy nook As I dig my hole 18364
493: The Milkmaid Under a daisied bank 24440
494: The Minute Before Meeting The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain 1871 14345
495: The Moon Looks In I have risen again, And awhile survey 16347
496: The Moth-Signal What are you still, still thinking, 36345
497: The Mother Mourns When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, 88338
498: The Musical Box Lifelong to be Seemed the fair colour of the time; 36329
499: The Nettles This, then, is the grave of my son, 12351
500: The Newcomer's Wife He paused on the sill of a door ajar 20332
501: The Night Of The Dance The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn, 20324
502: The Noble Lady's Tale We moved with pensive paces, 160356
503: The Obliterate Tomb More than half my life long 144349
504: The Occultation When the cloud shut down on the morning shine, 8326
505: The Old Gown (Song) I have seen her in gowns the brightest, 24359
506: The Old Neighbour And The New Twas to greet the new rector I called I here, 16363
507: The Old Workman Why are you so bent down before your time, 28349
508: The Opportunity Forty springs back, I recall, 16326
509: The Orphaned Old Maid I wanted to marry, but father said, "No 12317
510: The Oxen Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. 1915 16340
511: The Passer-By He used to pass, well-trimmed and brushed, 20349
512: The Peace-Offering It was but a little thing, 10331
513: The Peasant's Confession Good Father! . . . 'Twas an eve in middle June, 138374
514: The Pedestrian Sir, will you let me give you a ride? 42292
515: The Pedigree I bent in the deep of night 37724
516: The Phantom Horsewoman Queer are the ways of a man I know: 36406
517: The Photograph The flame crept up the portrait line by line 25306
518: The Pine Planters (Marty South's Reverie) We work here together In blast and breeze; 68371
519: The Pink Frock O my pretty pink frock, 12332
520: The Pity Of It I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar 1915 14378
521: The Place On The Map I look upon the map that hangs by me 24311
522: The Problem Shall we conceal the Case, or tell it 10362
523: The Puzzled Game-Birds - (Triolet) They are not those who used to feed us 8353
524: The Rambler I do not see the hills around, 16310
525: The Rash Bride We Christmas-carolled down the Vale, and up the Vale, and round the Vale, 60325
526: The Re-Enactment Between the folding sea-downs, 110331
527: The Recalcitrants Let us off and search, and find a place 20370
528: The Rejected Member's Wife We shall see her no more 1906 24354
529: The Reminder While I watch the Christmas blaze 12309
530: The Respectable Burgher On "The Higher Criticism" Since Reverend Doctors now declare 36363
531: The Revisitation As I lay awake at night-time 140378
532: The Riddle Stretching eyes west Over the sea, 18431
533: The Rift (Song: Minor Mode) Twas just at gnat and cobweb-time, 12302
534: The Rival I determined to find out whose it was 16354
535: The Robin When up aloft I fly and fly, 24318
536: The Roman Gravemounds By Rome's dim relics there walks a man, 24392
537: The Roman Road The Roman Road runs straight and bare 15361
538: The Ruined Maid O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! 1866 24370
539: The Sacrilege - A Ballad-Tragedy I have a Love I love too well 160434
540: The Sailor's Mother O whence do you come, 18352
541: The Satin Shoes If ever I walk to church to wed, 64358
542: The Schreckhorn Aloof, as if a thing of mood and whim; 14311
543: The Seasons Of Her Year Winter is white on turf and tree, 12324
544: The Second Night (Ballad) I missed one night, but the next I went; 52331
545: The Self-Unseeing Here is the ancient floor, 12306
546: The Selfsame Song A bird bills the selfsame song, 12890
547: The Sergeant's Song When Lawyers strive to heal a breach, 1878 22305
548: The Seven Times The dark was thick. A boy he seemed at that time 44335
549: The Shadow On The Stone I went by the Druid stone 1916 24311
550: The Sick God In days when men had joy of war, 44324
551: The Sigh Little head against my shoulder, 30321
552: The Singing Woman There was a singing woman 12345
553: The Sleep-Worker When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see 14325
554: The Slow Nature Thy husband poor, poor Heart! is dead 1894 32383
555: The Something That Saved Him It was when Whirls of thick waters laved me 30287
556: The Souls Of The Slain The thick lids of Night closed upon me 1899 96336
557: The Spell Of The Rose I mean to build a hall anon, 42393
558: The Spring Call Down Wessex way, when spring's a-shine, 24349
559: The Statue Of Liberty This statue of Liberty, busy man, 60295
560: The Strange House I hear the piano playing 40412
561: The Stranger's Song O my trade it is the rarest one, 15345
562: The Subalterns Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky, 20341
563: The Sun On The Bookcase Once more the cauldron of the sun 14322
564: The Sun On The Letter I drew the letter out, while gleamed 12347
565: The Sun's Last Look On The Country Girl (M. H.) The sun threw down a radiant spot 1915 10327
566: The Sunshade Ah - it's the skeleton of a lady's sunshade, 20387
567: The Superseded As newer comers crowd the fore, 18388
568: The Supplanter - A Tale He bends his travel-tarnished feet 96325
569: The Sweet Hussy In his early days he was quite surprised 12331
570: The Telegram O he's suffering maybe dying and I not there to aid, 24366
571: The Temporary The All Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, 24363
572: The Tenant-For-Life The sun said, watching my watering-pot 24287
573: The To-Be-Forgotten I heard a small sad sound, 32405
574: The Torn Letter I tore your letter into strips 32323
575: The Tree - An Old Man's Story Its roots are bristling in the air 60311
576: The Tree And The Lady I have done all I could 16314
577: The Tresses When the air was damp 15353
578: The Two Houses In the heart of night, 56456
579: The Two Men There were two youths of equal age, 1866 85311
580: The Two Rosalinds The dubious daylight ended, 52338
581: The Two Soldiers Just at the corner of the wall 24318
582: The Two Wives I waited at home all the while they were boating together 15343
583: The Unborn I rose at night, and visited 24345
584: The Upper Birch-Leaves Warm yellowy-green In the blue serene, 24300
585: The Vampirine Fair Gilbert had sailed to India's shore, 108407
586: The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, 1912 16333
587: The Voice Of The Thorn When the thorn on the down 24284
588: The Voice Of Things Forty Augusts - aye, and several more - ago, 15377
589: The Walk You did not walk with me 16341
590: The Wanderer There is nobody on the road 36393
591: The Wedding Morning Tabitha dressed for her wedding: 16385
592: The Well-Beloved I wayed by star and planet shine 68362
593: The West-Of-Wessex Girl A very West-of-Wessex girl, 21388
594: The Whipper-In My father was the whipper-in, 30316
595: The Whitewashed Wall Why does she turn in that shy soft way 24331
596: The Widow By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue 44338
597: The Wind Blew Words The wind blew words along the skies, 18338
598: The Wind's Prophecy I travel on by barren farms, 40313
599: The Wistful Lady Love, while you were away there came to me 30326
600: The Woman I Met A stranger, I threaded sunken-hearted 1918 80438
601: The Woman In The Rye Why do you stand in the dripping rye, 12361
602: The Wood Fire (A Fragment) This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night! 18355
603: The Workbox See, here's the workbox, little wife, 40335
604: The Wound I climbed to the crest, 8310
605: The Year's Awakening How do you know that the pilgrim track 1910 20334
606: The Young Churchwarden When he lit the candles there, 21305
607: The Young Glass-Stainer These Gothic windows, how they wear me out 1893 8327
608: The Youth Who Carried A Light I saw him pass as the new day dawned, 1915 18365
609: Then And Now When battles were fought 1915 24318
610: They Would Not Come I travelled to where in her lifetime 24313
611: This Heart - A Woman's Dream At midnight, in the room where he lay dead 36372
612: Thoughts Of Phena - At News Of Her Death Not a line of her writing have I, 1890 24397
613: Timing Her Lalage's coming: Where is she now, O? 72347
614: To A Lady (Offended By A Book Of The Writer's) Now that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe, 14358
615: To A Lady Playing And Singing In The Morning Joyful lady, sing! And I will lurk here listening, 16347
616: To A Well-Named Dwelling Glad old house of lichened stonework, 18424
617: To An Actress I read your name when you were strange to me, 14311
618: To An Impersonator Of Rosalind Did he who drew her in the years ago 1867 14349
619: To An Orphan Child - A Whimsey Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's; 16339
620: To An Unborn Pauper Child Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, 36339
621: To Carrey Clavel You turn your back, you turn your back, 12367
622: To Flowers From Italy In Winter Sunned in the South, and here to-day; 16342
623: To Life O life with the sad seared face, 16359
624: To Lizbie Browne Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? 54321
625: To Meet, Or Otherwise Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams, 27324
626: To My Father's Violin Does he want you down there 1916 45325
627: To Outer Nature Show thee as I thought thee 30336
628: To Shakespeare - After Three Hundred Years Bright baffling Soul, least capturable of themes, 1916 36408
629: To Sincerity O sweet sincerity! Where modern methods be 1899 18423
630: To The Moon What have you looked at, Moon, 28349
631: Tolerance It is a foolish thing," said I, 15318
632: Transformations Portion of this yew 18345
633: Under The Waterfall Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, 52372
634: Unknowing When, soul in soul reflected, 32334
635: Unrealized Down comes the winter rain 24332
636: V.R. 1819-1901 - A Reverie Moments the mightiest pass uncalendared, 1901 14334
637: Vagg Hollow What do you see in Vagg Hollow, 24372
638: Valenciennes We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, 1897 56357
639: Voices From Things Growing In A Churchyard These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd, 56313
640: Wagtail And Baby A baby watched a ford, whereto 16832
641: We Sat At The Window We sat at the window looking out, 16331
642: Weathers This is the weather the cuckoo likes, 18301
643: Welcome Home To my native place Bent upon returning, 18322
644: Wessex Heights (1896) There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand 32345
645: What Did It Mean? What did it mean that noontide, when 22350
646: When I Set Out For Lyonnesse When I set out for Lyonnesse, 18319
647: Where The Picnic Was Where we made the fire, 30393
648: Where They Lived Dishevelled leaves creep down 18299
649: Where Three Roads Joined Where three roads joined it was green and fair, 20381
650: While Drawing In A Church-Yard It is sad that so many of worth, 20307
651: Who's In The Next Room? Who's in the next room? - who? 20344
652: Why Be At Pains? - Wooer's Song Why be at pains that I should know 16307
653: Why Did I Sketch Why did I sketch an upland green, 18289
654: Winter In Durnover Field Rook. - Throughout the field I find no grain; 10322
655: Without Ceremony It was your way, my dear, 15322
656: Without, Not Within Her It was what you bore with you, Woman, 12318
657: Wives In The Sere Never a careworn wife but shows, 16385
658: Yell'Ham-Wood's Story Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan, 1902 16321
659: You On The Tower You on the tower of my factory 21327
660: You Were The Sort That Men Forget You were the sort that men forget; 20373
661: Your Last Drive Here by the moorway you returned, 30302
662: Zermatt Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, 1897 14416
663: [Greek Title] Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, 20321




About:
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.


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