by Thomas Hardy
CIRCUS-RIDER TO RINGMASTER
COME NOT; YET COME!
COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING
COMPASSION
CONCERNING AGNES
CONCERNING HIS OLD HOME
CONJECTURE
COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER
COULD I BUT WILL
CROSS-CURRENTS
CRY OF THE HOMELESS AFTER THE PRUSSIAN INVASION OF BELGIUM
CYNIC’S EPITAPH
DAYS TO RECOLLECT
DEAD WESSEX THE DOG TO THE HOUSEHOLD
DEPARTURE
DISCOURAGEMENT
DITTY (E. L G.)
DONAGHADEE
DOOM AND SHE
DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN
DRINKING SONG
DURING WIND AND RAIN
EMBARCATION
END OF THE YEAR 1912
ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914
EPEISODIA
EPITAPH
EPITAPH ON A PESSIMIST
EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER
EVENING SHADOWS
EVERY ARTEMISIA
EVERYTHING COMES
EXEUNT OMNES
EXPECTATION AND EXPERIENCE
FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN
FAITHFUL WILSON
FAMILY PORTRAITS
FARMER DUNMAN’S FUNERAL
FETCHING HER
FIRST OR LAST
FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER
FOR LIFE I HAD NEVER CARED GREATLY
FOUR FOOTPRINTS
FOUR IN THE MORNING
FRAGMENT
FREED THE FRET OF THINKING
FRIENDS BEYOND
FROM HER IN THE COUNTRY
FROM VICTOR HUGO
GALLANT’S SONG
GENITRIX LAESA
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE (A MEMORY OF CHRISTIANA C-)
GEORGE MEREDITH 1828-1909
GOD’S EDUCATION
GOD’S FUNERAL
GOD-FORGOTTEN
GOING AND STAYING
GREAT THINGS
GREEK TITLE
GREEN SLATES
GROWTH IN MAY
HAD YOU WEPT
HAP
HAUNTING FINGERS
HE ABJURES LOVE
HE DID NOT KNOW ME
HE FEARS HIS GOOD FORTUNE
HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF
HE INADVERTENTLY CURES HIS LOVE-PAINS
HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH
HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY
HE RESOLVES TO SAY NO MORE
HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL
HE WONDERS ABOUT HIMSELF
HEIRESS AND ARCHITECT FOR A. W. B.
HENLEY REGATTA
HER APOTHEOSIS
HER CONFESSION
HER DEATH AND AFTER
HER DEFINITION
HER DILEMMA (IN — - CHURCH)
HER FATHER
HER HAUNTING-GROUND
HER IMMORTALITY
HER INITIALS
HER LATE HUSBAND (KING’S-HINTOCK, 182-.)
HER LOVE-BIRDS
HER REPROACH
HER SECOND HUSBAND HEARS HER STORY
HER SECRET
HER SONG
HER TEMPLE
HEREDITY
HIS COUNTRY
HIS IMMORTALITY
HIS VISITOR
HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN
HORSES ABOARD
HOW GREAT MY GRIEF (TRIOLET)
HOW SHE WENT TO IRELAND
I AM THE ONE
I FOUND HER OUT THERE
I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES
I KNEW A LADY
I LOOK IN HER FACE
I LOOK INTO MY GLASS
I LOOKED BACK
I LOOKED UP FROM MY WRITING
I MET A MAN
I NEED NOT GO
I ROSE AND WENT TO ROU’TOR TOWN
I ROSE UP AS MY CUSTOM IS
I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE
I SAID TO LOVE
I SAY I’LL SEEK HER
I SOMETIMES THINK
I THOUGHT, MY HEART
I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW
I WAS NOT HE
I WAS THE MIDMOST
I WATCHED A BLACKBIRD
I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU
ICE ON THE HIGHWAY
IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN
IF YOU HAD KNOWN
IMAGININGS
IN A CATHEDRAL CITY
IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY
IN A FORMER RESORT AFTER MANY YEARS
IN A LONDON FLAT
IN A MUSEUM
IN A WAITING-ROOM
IN A WHISPERING GALLERY
IN A WOOD
IN CHILDBED
IN DEATH DIVIDED
IN FRONT OF THE LANDSCAPE
IN HER PRECINCTS
IN SHERBORNE ABBEY
IN ST. PAUL’S A WHILE AGO
IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM
IN THE DAYS OF CRINOLINE
IN THE EVENING
IN THE GARDEN (M. H.)
IN THE MARQUEE
IN THE MIND’S EYE
IN THE NIGHT SHE CAME
IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE
IN THE SERVANTS’ QUARTERS
IN THE SEVENTIES
IN THE SMALL HOURS
IN THE STREET
IN THE VAULTED WAY
IN TIME OF “THE BREAKING OF NATIONS”
IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS
IN VISION I ROAMED TO -
IN WEATHERBURY STOCKS
INSCRIPTIONS FOR A PEAL OF EIGHT BELLS
INTRA SEPULCHRUM
IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER
JEZREEL
JOHN AND JANE
JOYS OF MEMORY
JUBILATE
JULIE-JANE
JUNE LEAVES AND AUTUMN
JUST THE SAME
KNOWN HAD I
LADY VI
LAMENT
LAST LOOK ROUND ST. MARTIN’S FAIR
LAST LOVE-WORD
LAST WEEK IN OCTOBER
LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND
LAUSANNE
LEIPZIG
LET ME BELIEVE
LET ME ENJOY (MINOR KEY)
LIDDELL AND SCOTT
LIFE AND DEATH AT SUNRISE
LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD
LINES
LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART’S E-FLAT SYMPHONY
LOGS ON THE HEARTH A MEMORY OF A SISTER
LONELY DAYS
LONG PLIGHTED
LOOKING ACROSS
LOOKING AT A PICTURE ON AN ANNIVERSARY
LORNA THE SECOND
LOST LOVE
LOUIE
LOVE THE MONOPOLIST
LOVE WATCHES A WINDOW
LOVER TO MISTRESS
LYING AWAKE
MAD JUDY
MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY
MEMORY AND I
MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS)
MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS
MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN, 187*
MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
MISCONCEPTION
MISMET
MOLLY GONE
MOMENTS OF VISION
MORE LOVE LYRICS
MURMURS IN THE GLOOM
MUSIC IN A SNOWY STREET
MUTE OPINION
MY CICELY (17-)
MY SPIRIT WILL NOT HAUNT THE MOUND
NATURE’S QUESTIONING
NEAR LANIVET, 1872
NEUTRAL TONES
NEW YEAR’S EVE
NEWS FOR HER MOTHER
NIGHT IN THE OLD HOME
NIGHT-TIME IN MID-FALL
NO BELL-RINGING
NO BUYERS
NOBODY COMES
NOT KNOWN
NOT ONLY I
NOTHING MATTERS MUCH
O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE
OFTEN WHEN WARRING
OLD EXCURSIONS
OLD FURNI
TURE
ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR
ON A FINE MORNING
ON A HEATH
ON A MIDSUMMER EVE
ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
ON MARTOCK MOOR
ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN
ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT
ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE (ONOMATOPOEIC)
ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION
ON THE DEPARTURE PLATFORM
ON THE DOORSTEP
ON THE ESPLANADE
ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED
ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH
ON THE WAY
ONCE AT SWANAGE
ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES
ONE WE KNEW (M. H. 1772-1857)
ONE WHO MARRIED ABOVE HIM
OUR OLD FRIEND DUALISM
OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT
OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR
PANTHERA
PARADOX
PATHS OF FORMER TIME
PAYING CALLS
PENANCE
PIECES OCCASIONAL AND VARIOUS
PLACES
PLENA TIMORIS
POSTPONEMENT
POSTSCRIPT
POSTSCRIPT “MEN WHO MARCH AWAY” (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS)
PREMONITIONS
PROUD SONGSTERS
QUEEN CAROLINE TO HER GUESTS
QUID HIC AGIS?
RAIN ON A GRAVE
RAKE-HELL MUSES
READ BY MOONLIGHT
REGRET NOT ME
RELUCTANT CONFESSION
REMINISCENCES OF A DANCING MAN
RETTY’S PHASES
REVULSION
ROME AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS
ROME THE VATICAN — SALA DELLE MUSE (1887)
ROME: BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER
ROME: ON THE PALATINE
ROSE-ANN
ROYAL SPONSORS
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
SAN SEBASTIAN
SAPPHIC FRAGMENT
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCES IN FIFTEEN GLIMPSES
SAYING GOOD-BYE
SEEING THE MOON RISE
SEEN BY THE WAITS
SELF-UNCONSCIOUS
SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY
SHE AT HIS FUNERAL
SHE CHARGED ME
SHE DID NOT TURN
SHE HEARS THE STORM
SHE OPENED THE DOOR
SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE
SHE SAW HIM, SHE SAID
SHE WHO SAW NOT
SHE, I, AND THEY
SHE, TO HIM — I
SHE, TO HIM — II
SHE, TO HIM — III
SHE, TO HIM — IV
SHELLEY’S SKYLARK
SHORTENING DAYS AT THE HOMESTEAD
SHUT OUT THAT MOON
SIDE BY SIDE
SIGNS AND TOKENS
SILENCES
SINE PROLE
SINGING LOVERS
SITTING ON THE BRIDGE
SNOW IN THE SUBURBS
SO VARIOUS
SO, TIME
SOMETHING TAPPED
SONG FROM HEINE
SONG OF HOPE
SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES
SONG TO AN OLD BURDEN
SONG TO AURORE
SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE
SQUIRE HOOPER
ST. LAUNCE’S REVISITED
STANDING BY THE MANTELPIECE
STARLINGS ON THE ROOF
SUMMER SCHEMES
SURVIEW
SUSPENSE
TEN YEARS SINCE
TESS’S LAMENT
THAT KISS IN THE DARK
THAT MOMENT
THE ABBEY MASON
THE ABSOLUTE EXPLAINS
THE AËROLITE
THE AGED NEWSPAPER SOLILOQUIZES
THE AGEING HOUSE
THE ALARM
THE ANNOUNCEMENT
THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE
THE BAD EXAMPLE
THE BALLAD OF LOVE’S SKELETON
THE BALLET
THE BEAUTY
THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN UNKNOWING GOD
THE BEST SHE COULD
THE BIRD-CATCHER’S BOY
THE BLINDED BIRD
THE BLOW
THE BOY’S DREAM
THE BRIDGE OF LODI
THE BROTHER
THE BULLFINCHES
THE BURGHERS (17-)
THE CAGED GOLDFINCH
THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN (VILLANELLE)
THE CARICATURE
THE CARRIER
THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS (KHYBER PASS, 1842)
THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
THE CATCHING BALLET OF THE WEDDING CLOTHES
THE CHANGE
THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST
THE CHEVAL-GLASS
THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS
THE CHIMES
THE CHIMES PLAY LIFE’S A BUMPER!
THE CHOIRMASTER’S BURIAL
THE CHOSEN
THE CHRISTENING
THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING
THE CHURCH-BUILDER
THE CLASPED SKELETONS
THE CLOCK OF THE YEARS
THE CLOCK-WINDER
THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY
THE COLOUR
THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL’HAM
THE COMING OF THE END
THE CONFORMERS
THE CONTRETEMPS
THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN
THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER (TRIOLETS)
THE CORONATION
THE COUNTRY WEDDING
THE CURATE’S KINDNESS A WORKHOUSE IRONY
THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN
THE DAME OF ATHELHALL
THE DANCE AT THE PHOENIX
THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN
THE DARKLING THRUSH
THE DAWN AFTER THE DANCE
THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE
THE DEAD BASTARD
THE DEAD DRUMMER
THE DEAD MAN WALKING
THE DEAD QUIRE
THE DEAR
THE DEATH OF REGRET
THE DESTINED PAIR
THE DIFFERENCE
THE DISCOVERY
THE DISSEMBLERS
THE DIVISION
THE DOLLS
THE DREAM IS - WHICH?
THE DREAM-FOLLOWER
THE DUEL
THE ECHO-ELF ANSWERS
THE ELOPEMENT
THE END OF THE EPISODE
THE ENEMY’S PORTRAIT
THE FACE AT THE CASEMENT
THE FADED FACE
THE FADING ROSE
THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW
THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE
THE FARM-WOMAN’S WINTER
THE FELLED ELM AND SHE
THE FIDDLER
THE FIGHT ON DURNOVER MOOR
THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE
THE FIRE AT TRANTER SWEATLEY’S
THE FIVE STUDENTS
THE FLIRT’S TRAGEDY (17 — )
THE FLOWER’S TRAGEDY
THE FORBIDDEN BANNS
THE FROZEN GREENHOUSE
THE GAP IN THE WHITE
THE GARDEN SEAT
THE GHOST OF THE PAST
THE GLIMPSE
THE GOING
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY
THE GRAVEYARD OF DEAD CREEDS
THE HARBOUR BRIDGE
THE HARVEST-SUPPER
THE HAUNTER
THE HEAD ABOVE THE FOG
THE HIGH-SCHOOL LAWN
THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR
THE HOMECOMING
THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES
THE HOUSE OF SILENCE
THE HUSBAND’S VIEW
THE IMPERCIPIENT (AT A CATHEDRAL SERVICE)
THE INCONSISTENT
THE INSCRIPTION
THE INTERLOPER
THE IVY-WIFE
THE
JUBILEE OF A MAGAZINE
THE KING’S EXPERIMENT
THE LACKING SENSE
THE LADY IN THE FURS
THE LADY OF FOREBODINGS
THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
THE LAST LEAF
THE LAST PERFORMANCE
THE LAST SIGNAL
THE LAST TIME
THE LATER AUTUMN
THE LETTER’S TRIUMPH
THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD
THE LITTLE OLD TABLE
THE LODGING-HOUSE FUCHSIAS
THE LOST PYX A MEDIAEVAL LEGEND
THE LOVE-LETTERS
THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE
THE MAN HE KILLED
THE MAN WHO FORGOT
THE MAN WITH A PAST
THE MARBLE TABLET
THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN
THE MASKED FACE
THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES
THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186-
THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW
THE MILKMAID
THE MINUTE BEFORE MEETING
THE MISSED TRAIN
THE MOCK WIFE
THE MONGREL
THE MONTH’S CALENDAR
THE MONUMENT-MAKER
THE MOON LOOKS IN
THE MOTHER MOURNS
THE MOTH-SIGNAL
THE MOUND
THE MUSICAL BOX
THE MUSING MAIDEN
THE NETTLES
THE NEW BOOTS
THE NEW DAWN’S BUSINESS
THE NEW TOY
THE NEWCOMER’S WIFE
THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE
THE NOBLE LADY’S TALE (circa 1790)
THE OBLITERATE TOMB
THE OCCULTATION
THE OLD GOWN
THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW
THE OLD WORKMAN
THE OPPORTUNITY
THE ORPHANED OLD MAID
THE OXEN
THE PAIR HE SAW PASS
THE PAPHIAN BALL
THE PASSER-BY
THE PAT OF BUTTER
THE PEACE PEAL
THE PEACE-OFFERING
THE PEASANT’S CONFESSION
THE PEDESTRIAN AN INCIDENT OF 1883
THE PEDIGREE
THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN
THE PHOTOGRAPH
THE PINE PLANTERS (MARTY SOUTH’S REVERIE)
THE PINK FROCK
THE PITY OF IT
THE PLACE ON THE MAP
THE PROBLEM
THE PROPHETESS
THE PROSPECT
THE PROTEAN MAIDEN
THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS (TRIOLET)
THE RAMBLER
THE RASH BRIDE AN EXPERIENCE OF THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE
THE RECALCITRANTS
THE RE-ENACTMENT
THE REJECTED MEMBER’S WIFE
THE REMINDER
THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER ON “THE HIGHER CRITICISM”
THE REVISITATION
THE RIDDLE
THE RIFT
THE RIVAL
THE ROBIN
THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS
THE ROMAN ROAD
THE ROVER COME HOME
THE RUINED MAID
THE SACRILEGE
THE SAILOR’S MOTHER
THE SATIN SHOES
THE SEA FIGHT
THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR
THE SECOND NIGHT
THE SECOND VISIT
THE SELFSAME SONG
THE SELF-UNSEEING
THE SERGEANT’S SONG (1803)
THE SEVEN TIMES
THE SEXTON AT LONGPUDDLE
THE SHADOW ON THE STONE
THE SHEEP-BOY
THE SHIVER
THE SICK GOD
THE SIGH
THE SINGING WOMAN