by Thomas Hardy
ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT
THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE
THE SELFSAME SONG
THE WANDERER
A WIFE COMES BACK
A YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATION
AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK
A BYGONE OCCASION
TWO SERENADES
THE WEDDING MORNING
END OF THE YEAR 1912
THE CHIMES PLAY LIFE’S A BUMPER!
I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU
AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY
SIDE BY SIDE
DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN
A MAIDEN’S PLEDGE
THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
MISMET
AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE
MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY
AN EXPERIENCE
THE BEAUTY
THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
THE WOOD FIRE
SAYING GOOD-BYE
ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH
THE OPPORTUNITY
EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER
THE RIFT
VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD
ON THE WAY
SHE DID NOT TURN
GROWTH IN MAY
THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS
AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
HER TEMPLE
A TWO-YEARS’ IDYLL
BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR’S END
PENANCE
I LOOK IN HER FACE
AFTER THE WAR
IF YOU HAD KNOWN
THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST
FETCHING HER
COULD I BUT WILL
SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE
AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR
THEY WOULD NOT COME
AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY
THE TWO WIVES
I KNEW A LADY
A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY
A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS
HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF
THE SINGING WOMAN
WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER
O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE
IN THE SMALL HOURS
THE LITTLE OLD TABLE
VAGG HOLLOW
THE DREAM IS - WHICH?
THE COUNTRY WEDDING
FIRST OR LAST
LONELY DAYS
WHAT DID IT MEAN?
AT THE DINNER-TABLE
THE MARBLE TABLET
THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES
LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND
A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING
ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN
THE SECOND NIGHT
SHE WHO SAW NOT
THE OLD WORKMAN
THE SAILOR’S MOTHER
OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT
THE PASSER-BY
I WAS THE MIDMOST
A SOUND IN THE NIGHT
ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR
AN OLD LIKENESS
HER APOTHEOSIS
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING
THE WHIPPER-IN
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT
THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW
THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
CROSS-CURRENTS
THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW
THE CHOSEN
THE INSCRIPTION
THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN
A WOMAN DRIVING
A WOMAN’S TRUST
BEST TIMES
THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
INTRA SEPULCHRUM
THE WHITEWASHED WALL
JUST THE SAME
THE LAST TIME
THE SEVEN TIMES
THE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL
IN A LONDON FLAT
DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
RAKE-HELL MUSES
THE COLOUR
MURMURS IN THE GLOOM
EPITAPH
AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS
AFTER READING PSALMS
SURVIEW
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
POSTSCRIPT
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?
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
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
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
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z
A BACKWARD SPRING
A BEAUTY’S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON
A BIRD-SCENE AT A RURAL DWELLING
A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
A BYGONE OCCASION
A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE
A CATHEDRAL FAÇADE AT MIDNIGHT
A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY
A CHURCH ROMANCE
A CIRCULAR
A COMMONPLACE DAY
A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE
A CONVERSATION AT DAWN
A COUNTENANCE
A DAUGHTER RETURNS
A DEATH-DAY RECALLED
A DREAM OR NO
A DREAM QUESTION
A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING
A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE
A FORGOTTEN MINIATURE
A GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER
A GENTLEMAN’S SECOND-HAND SUIT
A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY
A HURRIED MEETING
A JANUARY NIGHT (1879)
A JOG-TROT PAIR
A KING’S SOLILOQUY ON THE NIGHT OF HIS FUNERAL
A KISS
A LAST JOURNEY
A LEADER OF FASHION
A LEAVING
A LIGHT SNOW-FALL AFTER FROST
A MAIDEN’S PLEDGE
A MAN (IN MEMORY OF H. OF M.)
A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME
A MEETING WITH DESPAIR
A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT
A MUSICAL INCIDENT
A NECESSITARIAN’S EPITAPH
A NEW YEAR’S EVE IN WAR TIME
A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
A NIGHT OF QUESTIONINGS
A NIGHTMARE, AND THE NEXT THING
A PARTING-SCENE
A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
A PHILOSOPHICAL FANTASY
A PLACID MAN’S EPITAPH
A PLAINT TO MAN
A POET
A POET’S THOUGHT
A POOR MAN AND A LADY
A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME
A PRACTICAL WOMAN
A PRIVATE MAN ON PUBLIC MEN
A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS
A QUESTION OF MARRIAGE
A REFUSAL
A SECOND ATTEMPT
A SELF-GLAMOURER
A SET OF COUNTRY SONGS
A SHEEP FAIR
A SIGN-SEEKER
A SINGER ASLEEP
A SOUND IN THE NIGHT
A SPELLBOUND PALACE
A SPOT
A SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY (circa 186-)
A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS
A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN
A TRAMPWOMAN’S TRAGEDY (182-)
A TWO-YEARS’ IDYLL
A WASTED ILLNESS
A WATCHER’S REGRET
A WATERING-PLACE LADY INVENTORIED
A WEEK
A WET AUGUST
A WET NIGHT
A WIFE AND ANOTH
ER
A WIFE COMES BACK
A WIFE IN LONDON
A WINSOME WOMAN
A WISH FOR UNCONSCIOUSNESS
A WOMAN DRIVING
A WOMAN’S FANCY
A WOMAN’S TRUST
A YOUNG MAN’S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE
A YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATION
ABERDEEN
ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING
AFTER A JOURNEY
AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY
AFTER READING PSALMS
AFTER SCHILLER
AFTER THE BURIAL
AFTER THE DEATH OF A FRIEND
AFTER THE LAST BREATH (J. H. 1813-1904)
AFTER THE VISIT
AFTER THE WAR
AFTERWARDS
AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE?
ALIKE AND UNLIKE
AMABEL
AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS
AN ANNIVERSARY
AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE
AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT
AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE
AN EAST-END CURATE
AN EVENING IN GALILEE
AN EXPERIENCE
AN EXPOSTULATION
AN INQUIRY
AN OLD LIKENESS
AN UNKINDLY MAY
AN UPBRAIDING
AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM
ANY LITTLE OLD SONG
APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE
AQUAE SULIS
ARCHITECTURAL MASKS
ARISTODEMUS THE MESSENIAN
AS ‘TWERE TO-NIGHT
AT A BRIDAL TO -
AT A COUNTRY FAIR
AT A FASHIONABLE DINNER
AT A HASTY WEDDING (TRIOLET)
AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD
AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE
AT A PAUSE IN A COUNTRY DANCE
AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869
AT AN INN
AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR
AT CASTLE BOTEREL
AT DAY-CLOSE IN NOVEMBER
AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK
AT MADAME TUSSAUD’S IN VICTORIAN YEARS
AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS
AT MIDDLE-FIELD GATE IN FEBRUARY
AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS
AT RUSHY-POND
AT SHAG’S HEATH
AT THE AQUATIC SPORTS
AT THE DINNER-TABLE
AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR
AT THE MILL
AT THE PIANO
AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY
AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON
AT THE WICKET-GATE
AT THE WORD “FAREWELL”
AT WAKING
AT WYNYARD’S GAP
AUTUMN IN KING’S HINTOCK PARK
BAGS OF MEAT
BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL
BEENY CLIFF
BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER
BEFORE KNOWLEDGE
BEFORE LIFE AND AFTER
BEFORE MARCHING AND AFTER (in Memoriam F. W. G.)
BEFORE MY FRIEND ARRIVED
BEREFT
BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS
BEST TIMES
BETWEEN US NOW
BEYOND THE LAST LAMP
BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL (TRIOLET)
BOYS THEN AND NOW
BURNING THE HOLLY
BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR’S END
BY THE BARROWS
BY THE EARTH’S CORPSE
BY THE RUNIC STONE
CARDINAL BEMBO’S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL
CHANNEL FIRING
CHILDHOOD AMONG THE FERNS
CHRISTMAS IN THE ELGIN ROOM
CHRISTMASTIDE