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Thomas Hardy 2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 Poetry Listing Read More About Thomas Hardy below poetry list Poem Title First Lines Period # Lines # Reads 1: A Backward Spring The trees are afraid to put forth buds, 1917 15 1141 2: A Broken Appointment You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. 16 566 3: A Bygone Occasion (Song) That night, that night, That song, that song! 16 559 4: A Call To National Service Up and be doing, all who have a hand 1917 14 552 5: A Christmas Ghost-Story South of the Line, inland from far Durban, 1899 14 611 6: A Church Romance She turned in the high pew, until her sight 14 595 7: A Circular As "legal representative" I read a missive not my own, 12 680 8: A Commonplace Day The day is turning ghost, 35 518 9: A Confession To A Friend In Trouble Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less 1866 14 549 10: A Conversation At Dawn He lay awake, with a harassed air, 1910 196 517 11: A Death-Day Recalled Beeny did not quiver, Juliot grew not gray, 24 512 12: A Dream Or No Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me? 1913 24 537 13: A Dream Question I asked the Lord: "Sire, is this true 24 518 14: A Drizzling Easter Morning And he is risen? Well, be it so . . . 14 523 15: A Duettist To Her Pianoforte Song Of Silence Since every sound moves memories, 32 580 16: A Gentleman's Epitaph On Himself And A Lady, Who Were Buried Together I dwelt in the shade of a city, 28 582 17: A House With A History There is a house in a city street 20 521 18: A January Night The rain smites more and more, 1879 12 628 19: A Jog-Trot Pair Who were the twain that trod this track 24 514 20: A King's Soliloquy From the slow march and muffled drum 1910 44 556 21: A Kiss By a wall the stranger now calls his, 16 587 22: A Maiden's Pledge (Song) I do not wish to win your vow 16 522 23: A Man In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, 35 543 24: A Man Was Drawing Near To Me On that gray night of mournful drone, 30 761 25: A Meeting With Despair As evening shaped I found me on a moor 28 535 26: A Merrymaking In Question I will get a new string for my fiddle, 10 469 27: A Military Appointment So back you have come from the town, Nan, dear! 20 511 28: A New Year's Eve In War Time Phantasmal fears, And the flap of the flame, 37 539 29: A Night In November I marked when the weather changed, 12 587 30: A Plaint To Man When you slowly emerged from the den of Time, 1910 32 633 31: A Poet Attentive eyes, fantastic heed, 1914 16 571 32: A Procession Of Dead Days I see the ghost of a perished day; 48 579 33: A Sign-Seeker I mark the months in liveries dank and dry, 48 521 34: A Singer Asleep In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea, 1910 52 477 35: A Sound In The Night What do I catch upon the night-wind, husband? 60 483 36: A Spot In years defaced and lost, 24 513 37: A Sunday Morning Tragedy I bore a daughter flower-fair, 1904 128 614 38: A Thought In Two Moods I saw it - pink and white - revealed 16 520 39: A Thunderstorm In Town She wore a new "terra-cotta" dress, 10 522 40: A Trampwoman's Tragedy From Wynyard's Gap the livelong day, 1902 104 558 41: A Two-Years' Idyll Yes; such it was; Just those two seasons unsought, 27 614 42: A Wasted Illness Through vaults of pain, 32 493 43: A Week On Monday night I closed my door, 21 491 44: A Wet August Nine drops of water bead the jessamine, 1920 12 560 45: A Wet Night I pace along, the rain-shafts riddling me, 14 541 46: A Wife And Another War ends, and he's returning 70 758 47: A Wife Comes Back This is the story a man told me 42 652 48: A Wife In London She sits in the tawny vapour 20 524 49: A Wife Waits Will's at the dance in the Club-room below, 12 560 50: A Woman Driving How she held up the horses' heads, 20 486 51: A Woman's Fancy Ah Madam; you've indeed come back here? 48 555 52: A Woman's Trust If he should live a thousand years 24 519 53: A Year Later (Serenade) I skimmed the strings; I sang quite low; 24 525 54: A Young Man'S Epigram On Existence A senseless school, where we must give 1866 5 586 55: A Young Man's Exhortation Call off your eyes from care 1867 20 516 56: Aberdeen I looked and thought, "All is too gray and cold 8 531 57: According To The Mighty Working When moiling seems at cease 1917 12 564 58: After A Journey Hereto I come to interview a ghost; 32 539 59: After A Romantic Day The railway bore him through 13 580 60: After Reading Psalms XXXIX., XL., Etc. Simple was I and was young; 24 738 61: After Schiller Knight, a true sister-love 8 480 62: After The Club-Dance Black'on frowns east on Maidon, 12 515 63: After The Fair The singers are gone from the Cornmarket-place 1902 24 581 64: After The Last Breath There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped; 1904 20 831 65: After The Visit Come again to the place 24 488 66: After The War 24 501 67: Afternoon Service At Mellstock On afternoons of drowsy calm 12 567 68: Afterwards When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, 20 536 69: Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? Ah, are you digging on my grave 36 448 70: Amabel I marked her ruined hues, 1865 32 518 71: An Ancient To Ancients Where once we danced, where once sang, 70 549 72: An Anniversary It was at the very date to which we have come, 18 463 73: An Appeal To America On Behalf Of The Belgian Destitute Seven millions stand 1914 16 513 74: An August Midnight A shaded lamp and a waving blind, 1899 12 520 75: An Autumn Rain-Scene There trudges one to a merry-making 1904 21 725 76: An Experience Wit, weight, or wealth there was not 24 445 77: An Old Likeness Who would have thought That, not having missed her 37 512 78: An Upbraiding Now I am dead you sing to me 12 544 79: And There Was A Great Calm There had been years of Passion scorching, cold, 1918 45 593 80: Apostrophe To An Old Psalm Tune I met you first - ah, when did I first meet you? 1916 35 488 81: Aquae Sulis The chimes called midnight, just at interlune, 28 462 82: Architectural Masks There is a house with ivied walls, 15 462 83: As 'Twere To-Night (Song) As 'twere to-night, in the brief space 18 547 84: At A Bridal When you paced forth, to wait maternity, 1866 14 426 85: At A Country Fair At a bygone Western country fair 20 685 86: At A Hasty Wedding - (Triolet) If hours be years the twain are blest, 8 626 87: At A House In Hampstead Sometime The Dwelling Of John Keats O poet, come you haunting here 1920 32 526 88: At A Lunar Eclipse Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea, 14 504 89: At A Seaside Town In 1869 - Young Lover's Reverie I went and stood outside myself, 48 487 90: At An Inn When we as strangers sought 40 503 91: At Castle Boterel As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, 1913 36 675 92: At Day-Close In November The ten hours' light is abating, 12 552 93: At Lulworth Cove A Century Back Had I but lived a hundred years ago 1920 20 493 94: At Madame Tussaud's In Victorian Years That same first fiddler who leads the orchestra to-night 16 469 95: At Mayfair Lodgings How could I be aware, 28 479 96: At Middle-Field Gate In February The bars are thick with drops that show 16 1574 97: At Moonrise And Onwards I thought you a fire On Heron-Plantation Hill, 24 589 98: At The Dinner-Table I sat at dinner in my prime, 24 455 99: At The Entering Of The New Year Our songs went up and out the chimney, 32 494 100: At The Piano A woman was playing, 18 661 101: At The Railway Station, Upway There is not much that I can do, 18 501 102: At The Royal Academy These summer landscapes clump, and copse, and croft 15 504 103: At The War Office, London Last year I called this world of gain-givings 10 552 104: At The Wicket-Gate There floated the sounds of church-chiming, 16 517 105: At The Word "Farewell" She looked like a bird from a cloud 32 499 106: At Waking When night was lifting, 1869 32 441 107: Autumn In King's Hintock Park Here by the baring bough 24 548 108: Barthelemon At Vauxhall Francois Hippolite Barthelemon, first-fiddler at Vauxhall Gardens, 18 494 109: Beeny Cliff O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, 15 474 110: Before And After Summer Looking forward to the spring 20 469 111: Before Knowledge When I walked roseless tracks and wide, 16 456 112: Before Life And After A time there was - as one may guess 16 485 113: Before Marching And After Orion swung southward aslant 1915 21 476 114: Bereft In the black winter morning 1901 24 572 115: Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams I dream that the dearest I ever knew 16 426 116: Best Times We went a day's excursion to the stream, 20 445 117: Between Us Now Between us now and here 24 531 118: Beyond The Last Lamp While rain, with eve in partnership, 35 1788 119: Birds At Winter Nightfall - (Triolet) Around the house the flakes fly faster, 8 521 120: By Henstridge Cross At The Year's End Why go the east road now? . . . 30 451 121: By The Barrows Not far from Mellstock - so tradition saith 14 464 122: By The Earth's Corpse O Lord, why grievest Thou? 32 580 123: By The Runic Stone By the Runic Stone 16 446 124: Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph On Raphael Here's one in whom Nature feared - faint at such vying 2 445 125: Catullus: XXXI Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands 16 474 126: Channel Firing That night your great guns, unawares, 1914 36 552 127: Conjecture If there were in my kalendar 18 425 128: Copying Architecture In An Old Minster (Wimborne) How smartly the quarters of the hour march by 35 479 129: Could I But Will (Song) Could I but will, Will to my bent, 24 446 130: Cross-Currents They parted a pallid, trembling I pair, 24 452 131: Cry Of The Homeless - After The Prussian Invasion Of Belgium Instigator of the ruin Whichsoever thou mayst be 1915 24 490 132: De Profundis - II When the clouds' swoln bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong 16 521 133: De Profundis - III There have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come 1896 20 404 134: De Profundis I Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain 24 424 135: Departure While the far farewell music thins and fails, 14 466 136: Ditty Beneath a knap where flown 1870 45 465 137: Doom And She There dwells a mighty pair 40 489 138: Drawing Details In An Old Church I hear the bell-rope sawing, 16 487 139: Dream Of The City Shopwoman Twere sweet to have a comrade here, 32 414 140: During Wind And Rain They sing their dearest songs 28 417 141: Embarcation Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, 14 446 142: End Of The Year 1912 You were here at his young beginning, 14 477 143: England To Germany In 1914 O England, may God punish thee! 1914 18 423 144: Epeisodia Past the hills that peep 24 458 145: Epitaph I never cared for Life: Life cared for me, 7 503 146: Evelyn G. Of Christminster I can see the towers 48 454 147: Everything Comes The house is bleak and cold 21 422 148: Exeunt Omnes Everybody else, then, going, 1913 16 408 149: Faintheart In A Railway Train At nine in the morning there passed a church, 10 585 150: Fetching Her An hour before the dawn, 30 510 151: First Or Last (Song) If grief come early Joy comes late, 14 441 152: First Sight Of Her And After A day is drawing to its fall 12 468 153: For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly For Life I had never cared greatly, 30 423 154: Former Beauties These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn, 16 457 155: Four Footprints Here are the tracks upon the sand 20 451 156: Fragment At last I entered a long dark gallery, 26 442 157: Friends Beyond William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, 36 482 158: From Her In The Country I thought and thought of thy crass clanging town 1866 14 423 159: From Victor Hugo Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule, 10 435 160: Genoa And The Mediterranean O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea, 18 426 161: Geographical Knowledge Where Blackmoor was, the road that led 24 426 162: George Meredith Forty years back, when much had place 1909 18 383 163: God's Education I saw him steal the light away 20 427 164: God's Funeral I saw a slowly-stepping train 68 475 165: God-Forgotten I towered far, and lo! I stood within 48 419 166: Going And Staying The moving sun-shapes on the spray, 15 463 167: Great Things Sweet cyder is a great thing, 32 408 168: Growth In May I enter a daisy-and-buttercup land, 12 429 169: Had You Wept Had you wept; had you but neared me with a frail uncertain ray, 16 547 170: Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me 1866 14 482 171: Haunting Fingers - A Phantasy In A Museum Of Musical Instruments Are you awake, Comrades, this silent night? 60 457 172: He Abjures Love At last I put off love, For twice ten years 1883 48 566 173: He Fears His Good Fortune There was a glorious time 22 390 174: He Follows Himself In a heavy time I dogged myself 35 418 175: He Prefers Her Earthly This after-sunset is a sight for seeing, 15 499 176: He Revisits His First School I should not have shown in the flesh, 28 438 177: He Wonders About Himself No use hoping, or feeling vext, 12 431 178: Heiress And Architect She sought the Studios, beckoning to her side 1867 60 449 179: Her Apotheosis There was a spell of leisure, 12 464 180: Her Confession As some bland soul, to whom a debtor says 14 464 181: Her Death And After Twas a death-bed summons, and forth I went 135 430 182: Her Definition I lingered through the night to break of day, 1866 14 565 183: Her Dilemma The two were silent in a sunless church, 1866 16 455 184: Her Father I met her, as we had privily planned, 20 463 185: Her Immortality Upon a noon I pilgrimed through 56 448 186: Her Initials Upon a poet's page I wrote 1869 8 471 187: Her Late Husband No - not where I shall make my own; 30 446 188: Her Love-Birds When I looked up at my love-birds 24 432 189: Her Reproach Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! 1867 14 433 190: Her Secret That love's dull smart distressed my heart 12 562 191: Her Song I sang that song on Sunday, 24 469 192: Her Temple Dear, think not that they will forget you: 8 478 193: Heredity I am the family face; 12 513 194: His Country He travels southward, and looks around; 1913 30 442 195: His Immortality I saw a dead man's finer part 1899 16 414 196: His Visitor I come across from Mellstock while the moon wastes weaker 1913 20 441 197: Honeymoon Time At An Inn At the shiver of morning, a little before the false dawn, 48 418 198: How Great My Grief - (Triolet) How great my grief, my joys how few, 8 458 199: I Found Her Out There I found her out there On a slope few see, 40 560 200: I Have Lived With Shades I have lived with shades so long, 1899 40 447 201: I Knew A Lady (Club Song) I knew a lady when the days 16 458 202: I Look In Her Face (Song: Minor) I look in her face and say, 12 419 203: I Look Into My Glass I look into my glass, 12 437 204: I Looked Up From My Writing I looked up from my writing, 24 495 205: I Met A Man I met a man when night was nigh, 1916 42 564 206: I Need Not Go I need not go Through sleet and snow 32 493 207: I Rose And Went To Rou'tor Town I rose and went to Rou'tor Town 18 417 208: I Rose Up As My Custom Is I rose up as my custom is 40 426 209: I Said And Sang Her Excellence - Fickle Lover's Song I said and sang her excellence: 24 397 210: I Said To Love I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days 29 473 211: I Say I'll Seek Her I say, "I'll seek her side 16 466 212: I Sometimes Think I sometimes think as here I sit 18 479 213: I Thought, My Heart I thought, my Heart, that you had healed 22 395 214: I Travel As A Phantom Now I travel as a phantom now, 1915 12 523 215: I Was Not He (Song) I was not he the man 15 470 216: I Was The Midmost I was the midmost of my world 18 433 217: I Worked No Wile To Meet You (Song) I worked no wile to meet you, 24 465 218: If It's Ever Spring Again (Song) If it's ever spring again, Spring again, 18 463 219: If You Had Known If you had known When listening with her to the far-down moan 1920 16 470 220: Imaginings She saw herself a lady 18 453 221: In A Cathedral City These people have not heard your name; 16 453 222: In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury The years have gathered grayly 1890 24 439 223: In A London Flat You look like a widower," she said 24 472 224: In A Museum Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light, 8 454 225: In A Waiting-Room On a morning sick as the day of doom 42 401 226: In A Whispering Gallery That whisper takes the voice 21 438 227: In A Wood Pale beech and pine-tree blue, 44 489 228: In Childbed In the middle of the night 20 465 229: In Death Divided I shall rot here, with those whom in their day 25 457 230: In Front Of The Landscape 72 404 231: In Her Precincts Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, 10 438 232: In The British Museum What do you see in that time-touched stone, 28 469 233: In The Days Of Crinoline A plain tilt-bonnet on her head 30 442 234: In The Garden We waited for the sun 15 455 235: In The Mind's Eye That was once her casement, 16 414 236: In The Night She Came I told her when I left one day 24 380 237: In The Old Theatre, Fiesole I traced the Circus whose gray stones incline 1887 14 441 238: In The Servants' Quarters Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal? 35 430 239: In The Seventies In the seventies I was bearing in my breast, 24 413 240: In The Small Hours I lay in my bed and fiddled 24 476 241: In The Vaulted Way In the vaulted way, where the passage turned 15 413 242: In Time Of "The Breaking Of Nations"[1] Only a man harrowing clods 1915 12 455 243: In Time Of Wars And Tumults Would that I'd not drawn breath here!" some one said, 1915 15 952 244: In Vision I Roamed In vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, 1866 14 381 245: Intra Sepulchrum What curious things we said, 32 389 246: It Never Looks Like Summer It never looks like summer here 8 432 247: Jezreel Did they catch as it were in a Vision at shut of the day 1918 16 475 248: John And Jane He sees the world as a boisterous place 16 466 249: Joys Of Memory When the spring comes round, and a certain day 16 457 250: Jubilate The very last time I ever was here," he said, 28 452 251: Julie-Jane Sing; how 'a would sing! 32 414 252: Just The Same I sat. It all was past; 12 453 253: Lament How she would have loved A party to-day! 44 505 254: Last Words To A Dumb Friend Pet was never mourned as you, 1904 56 551 255: Lausanne A spirit seems to pass, 16 473 256: Leipzig Old Norbert with the flat blue cap 144 464 257: Let Me Enjoy Let me enjoy the earth no less 16 426 258: Life Laughs Onward Rambling I looked for an old abode 16 453 259: Lines Before we part to alien thoughts and aims, 40 449 260: Lines To A Movement In Mozart's E-Flat Symphony Show me again the time 1898 20 433 261: Logs On The Hearth The fire advances along the log 16 421 262: Lonely Days Lonely her fate was, Environed from sight 52 456 263: Long Plighted 24 463 264: Looking Across It is dark in the sky, 1915 25 457 265: Looking At A Picture On An Anniversary But don't you know it, my dear, 1913 30 461 266: Lost Love I play my sweet old airs 18 473 267: Love The Monopolist - Young Lover's Reverie The train draws forth from the station-yard, 30 429 268: Mad Judy When the hamlet hailed a birth 18 451 269: Meditations On A Holiday (A New Theme To An Old Folk-Jingle) Tis May morning, All-adorning, 88 450 270: Memory And I O memory, where is now my youth, 30 460 271: Men Who March Away - Song Of The Soldiers What of the faith and fire within us 1914 35 451 272: Middle-Age Enthusiasms We passed where flag and flower 24 442 273: Midnight On The Great Western 20 431 274: Misconception I busied myself to find a sure 24 432 275: Mismet He was leaning by a face, 20 462 276: Molly Gone No more summer for Molly and me; 30 432 277: Moments Of Vision That mirror Which makes of men a transparency, 20 440 278: More Love Lyrics In five-score summers! All new eyes, 1867 13 447 279: Murmurs In The Gloom I wayfared at the nadir of the sun 1899 30 535 280: Mute Opinion I traversed a dominion 16 461 281: My Cicely Alive?" And I leapt in my wonder, 54 464 282: My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound My spirit will not haunt the mound 15 402 283: Nature's Questioning When I look forth at dawning, pool, 28 463 284: Near Lanivet, 1872 There was a stunted handpost just on the crest, 32 425 285: Neutral Tones We stood by a pond that winter day, 1867 16 448 286: New Year's Eve I have finished another year," said God, 1906 30 430 287: News For Her Mother One mile more is Where your door is 35 445 288: Night In The Old Home When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, 16 409 289: O I Won'T Lead A Homely Life O I won't lead a homely life 14 446 290: Often When Warring Often when warring for he wist not what, 1915 14 444 291: Old Excursions What's the good of going to Ridgeway, 1913 24 416 292: Old Furniture I know not how it may be with others 35 448 293: On A Discovered Curl Of Hair When your soft welcomings were said, 1913 18 438 294: On A Fine Morning Whence comes Solace? - Not from seeing 1899 14 433 295: On A Heath I could hear a gown-skirt rustling 18 407 296: On A Midsummer Eve I idly cut a parsley stalk, 12 457 297: On An Invitation To The United States My ardours for emprize nigh lost 16 417 298: On Christmas Eve (Serenade) Late on Christmas Eve, in the street alone, 20 449 299: On One Who Lived And Died Where He Was Born When a night in November 44 418 300: On Stinsford Hill At Midnight I glimpsed a woman's muslined form 28 406 301: On Sturminster Foot-Bridge - Onomatopoeic Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face 10 390 302: On The Belgian Expatriation I dreamt that people from the Land of Chimes 1914 14 436 303: On The Departure Platform We kissed at the barrier; and passing through 24 461 304: On The Doorstep The rain imprinted the step's wet shine 1914 14 406 305: On The Tune Called The Old-Hundred-And-Fourth We never sang together 20 388 306: On The Way The trees fret fitfully and twist, 20 446 307: One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes When I am in hell or some such place, 26 413 308: One We Knew She told how they used to form for the country dances 1902 32 442 309: Outside The Casement We sat in the room And praised her whom 30 398 310: Overlooking The River Stour The swallows flew in the curves of an eight 24 424 311: Panthera Yea, as I sit here, crutched, and cricked, and bent, 222 458 312: Paths Of Former Time No; no; It must not be so: 1913 24 423 313: Paying Calls I went by footpath and by stile 16 420 314: Penance Why do you sit, O pale thin man, 24 485 315: Places Nobody says: Ah, that is the place 1913 28 432 316: Postponement Snow-bound in woodland, a mournful word, 1866 16 405 317: Postscript "Men Who March Away" (Song Of The Soldiers) What of the faith and fire within us 35 423 318: Quid Hic Agis? When I weekly knew An ancient pew, 1916 74 458 319: Rain On A Grave Clouds spout upon her Their waters amain 1913 36 552 320: Rake-Hell Muses Yes; since she knows not need, 68 495 321: Read By Moonlight I paused to read a letter of hers 18 446 322: Regret Not Me Regret not me; Beneath the sunny tree 30 443 323: Reminiscences Of A Dancing Man Who now remembers Almack's balls 30 496 324: Revulsion Though I waste watches framing words to fetter 14 436 325: Rome - At The Pyramid Of Cestius - Near The Graves Of Shelley And Keats Who, then, was Cestius, 1887 24 388 326: Rome - Building A New Street In The Ancient Quarter These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry 1887 14 418 327: Rome - The Vatican - Sala Delle Muse I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day, 1887 24 425 328: Rome: On The Palatine We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, 1887 14 454 329: Rose-Ann Why didn't you say you was promised, Rose-Ann? 20 460 330: Royal Sponsors The king and the queen will stand to the child; 35 443 331: Sacred To The Memory That "Sacred to the Memory" 10 477 332: San Sebastian Why, Sergeant, stray on the Ivel Way, 70 399 333: Sapphic Fragment Dead shalt thou lie; and nought 6 400 334: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - I At Tea The kettle descants in a cozy drone, 12 467 335: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - II In Church And now to God the Father," he ends, 13 452 336: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - III By Her Aunt's Grave Sixpence a week," says the girl to her lover, 12 488 337: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IV In The Room Of The Bride-Elect Would it had been the man of our wish! 13 402 338: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - IX At The Altar-Rail My bride is not coming, alas!" says the groom, 14 390 339: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - V At A Watering-Place They sit and smoke on the esplanade, 12 404 340: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VI In The Cemetery You see those mothers squabbling there? 14 454 341: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VII Outside The Window My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane 12 407 342: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - VIII In The Study He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair 21 422 343: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - X In The Nuptial Chamber O that mastering tune?" And up in the bed 12 532 344: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XI In The Restaurant But hear. If you stay, and the child be born, 12 490 345: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XII At The Draper's I stood at the back of the shop, my dear, 16 456 346: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIII On The Death-Bed I'll tell being past all praying for 18 409 347: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XIV Over The Coffin They stand confronting, the coffin between, 14 422 348: Satires Of Circumstances In Fifteen Glimpses - XV In The Moonlight O lonely workman, standing there 15 422 349: Saying Good-Bye (Song) We are always saying "Good-bye, good-bye!" 36 431 350: Seen By The Waits Through snowy woods and shady 16 482 351: Self-Unconscious Along the way He walked that day, 48 451 352: Seventy-Four And Twenty Here goes a man of seventy-four, 8 455 353: She - At His Funeral They bear him to his resting-place 8 552 354: She Charged Me She charged me with having said this and that 16 445 355: She Did Not Turn She did not turn, But passed foot-faint with averted head 14 409 356: She Hears The Storm There was a time in former years 20 435 357: She Revisits Alone The Church Of Her Marriage I have come to the church and chancel, 36 469 358: She Who Saw Not Did you see something within the house 24 431 359: She, I, And They I was sitting, She was knitting 1916 18 421 360: She, To Him I When you shall see me in the toils of Time, 1866 14 433 361: She, To Him II Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away, 1866 14 458 362: She, To Him III I will be faithful to thee; aye, I will! 1866 14 464 363: She, To Him IV This love puts all humanity from me; 1866 14 435 364: Shelley's Skylark Somewhere afield here something lies 24 408 365: Shut Out That Moon Close up the casement, draw the blind, 24 499 366: Side By Side So there sat they, The estranged two, 40 455 367: Signs And Tokens Said the red-cloaked crone 48 383 368: Sitting On The Bridge Sitting on the bridge 36 383 369: Something Tapped Something tapped on the pane of my room 1913 12 423 370: Song From Heine I scanned her picture dreaming, 12 442 371: Song Of Hope O sweet To-morrow! After to-day 27 441 372: Song Of The Soldiers' Wives At last! In sight of home again, 32 482 373: Spectres That Grieve It is not death that harrows us," they lipped, 24 443 374: St. Launce's Revisited Slip back, Time! Yet again I am nearing 28 535 375: Starlings On The Roof No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot, 18 435 376: Summer Schemes When friendly summer calls again, 18 455 377: Surview A cry from the green-grained sticks of the fire 20 479 378: Tess's Lament I would that folk forgot me quite, 48 415 379: The Abbey Mason The new-vamped Abbey shaped apace 218 444 380: The Ageing House When the walls were red 18 414 381: The Alarm In a ferny byway Near the great South-Wessex Highway, 115 476 382: The Announcement They came, the brothers, and took two chairs 12 385 383: The Background And The Figure - Lover's Ditty I think of the slope where the rabbits fed, 12 443 384: The Ballad-Singer Sing, Ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune; 12 506 385: The Ballet They crush together - a rustling heap of flesh 18 438 386: The Beauty O do not praise my beauty more, 16 431 387: The Bedridden Peasant Much wonder I - here long low-laid 32 490 388: The Blinded Bird So zestfully canst thou sing? 21 455 389: The Blow That no man schemed it is my hope 28 425 390: The Bridge Of Lodi When of tender mind and body 1887 68 414 391: The Bullfinches Bother Bulleys, let us sing 30 548 392: The Burghers The sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, 69 439 393: The Caged Goldfinch Within a churchyard, on a recent grave, 8 643 394: The Caged Thrush Freed And Home Again - (Villanelle) Men know but little more than we, 19 428 395: The Casterbridge Captains Three captains went to Indian wars, 28 420 396: The Casual Acquaintance While he was here in breath and bone, 20 388 397: The Change Out of the past there rises a week 42 411 398: The Chapel-Organist I've been thinking it through, as I play here to-night, to play never again, 86 443 399: The Cheval-Glass Why do you harbour that great cheval-glass 40 439 400: The Child And The Sage You say, O Sage, when weather-checked, 1908 20 418 401: The Children And Sir Nameless Sir Nameless, once of Athelhall, declared: 24 499 402: The Chimes That morning when I trod the town 18 467 403: The Chimes Play "Life's A Bumper!" Awake! I'm off to cities far away," 1913 18 435 404: The Choirmaster's Burial He often would ask us 48 452 405: The Chosen A woman for whom great gods might strive! 52 446 406: The Christening Whose child is this they bring 1904 40 411 407: The Church-Builder The church flings forth a battled shade 84 384 408: The Clock Of The Years A spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 1916 31 425 409: The Clock-Winder It is dark as a cave, 44 440 410: The Collector Cleans His Picture How I remember cleaning that strange picture! 41 442 411: The Colonel's Soliloquy The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . . 36 434 412: The Colour What shall I bring you? Please will white do 40 481 413: The Comet At Yalbury Or Yell'ham It bends far over Yell'ham Plain, 8 405 414: The Coming Of The End How it came to an end! 30 429 415: The Conformers Yes; we'll wed, my little fay, 32 410 416: The Contretemps A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, 56 476 417: The Convergence Of The Twain In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, 33 444 418: The Coquette, And After - (Triolets) For long the cruel wish I knew 16 451 419: The Coronation At Westminster, hid from the light of day, 1911 50 453 420: The Country Wedding Little fogs were gathered in every hollow, 36 449 421: The Curate's Kindness - A Workhouse Irony I thought they'd be strangers aroun' me, 40 517 422: The Curtains Now Are Drawn (Song) The curtains now are drawn, 1913 20 457 423: The Dame Of Athelhall Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, 60 393 424: The Dance At The Phoenix To Jenny came a gentle youth 161 437 425: The Dark-Eyed Gentleman I pitched my day's leazings in Crimmercrock Lane, 21 449 426: The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate 1900 32 463 427: The Dawn After The Dance Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling 1869 20 474 428: The Dead And The Living One The dead woman lay in her first night's grave, 1915 39 468 429: The Dead Drummer They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest 18 407 430: The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, 40 458 431: The Dead Quire Beside the Mead of Memories, 1897 100 520 432: The Dear I plodded to Fairmile Hill-top, where 1901 20 472 433: The Death Of Regret I opened my shutter at sunrise, 24 480 434: The Difference Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon, 8 402 435: The Discovery I wandered to a crude coast 12 481 436: The Dissemblers It was not you I came to please, 12 450 437: The Division Rain on the windows, creaking doors, 12 681 438: The Dolls Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy, 16 409 439: The Dream Is Which? I am laughing by the brook with her, 1913 18 437 440: The Dream-Follower A dream of mine flew over the mead 8 493 441: The Duel I am here to time, you see; 42 463 442: The Elopement A woman never agreed to it!" said my knowing friend to me. 24 472 443: The End Of The Episode Indulge no more may we 20 397 444: The Enemy's Portrait He saw the portrait of his enemy, offered 40 441 445: The Face At The Casement If ever joy leave An abiding sting of sorrow, 64 391 446: The Faded Face How was this I did not see 21 460 447: The Fallow Deer At The Lonely House One without looks in to-night 12 451 448: The Farm-Woman's Winter If seasons all were summers, 16 412 449: The Fiddler The fiddler knows what's brewing 16 475 450: The Figure In The Scene It pleased her to step in front and sit 18 377 451: The Fire At Tranter Sweatley's They had long met o' Zundays her true love and she 1866 113 429 452: The Five Students The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath, 30 522 453: The Flirt's Tragedy Here alone by the logs in my chamber, 116 434 454: The Garden Seat Its former green is blue and thin, 12 482 455: The Ghost Of The Past We two kept house, the Past and I, 40 398 456: The Glimpse She sped through the door 29 404 457: The Going Why did you give no hint that night 42 538 458: The Going Of The Battery - Wives' Lament O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough 48 452 459: The Haunter He does not think that I haunt here nightly: 32 448 460: The Head Above The Fog Something do I see 20 485 461: The Homecoming Gruffly growled the wind on Toller downland broad and bare, 1901 48 585 462: The House Of Hospitalities Here we broached the Christmas barrel, 20 434 463: The House Of Silence That is a quiet place 24 418 464: The Husband's View Can anything avail Beldame, for my hid grief? 36 473 465: The Impercipient That from this bright believing band 32 396 466: The Inconsistent I say, "She was as good as fair," 16 407 467: The Inquiry And are ye one of Hermitage 24 434 468: The Inscription (A Tale) Sir John was entombed, and the crypt was closed, and she, 1907 96 404 469: The Interloper And I saw the figure and visage of Madness seeking for a home. 36 404 470: The Ivy-Wife I longed to love a full-boughed beech 24 414 471: The Jubilee Of A Magazine Yes; your up-dated modern page 31 444 472: The King's Experiment It was a wet wan hour in spring, 40 393 473: The Lacking Sense O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, 30 408 474: The Lament Of The Looking-Glass Words from the mirror softly pass 18 370 475: The Last Chrysanthemum Why should this flower delay so long 24 389 476: The Last Performance I am playing my oldest tunes," declared she, 1912 15 413 477: The Last Signal Silently I footed by an uphill road 16 362 478: The Last Time The kiss had been given and taken, 12 371 479: The Levelled Churchyard O passenger, pray list and catch 1882 24 377 480: The Little Old Table Creak, little wood thing, creak, 12 357 481: The Lost Pyx - A Mediaeval Legend Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand 76 357 482: The Maid Of Keinton Mandeville I hear that maiden still 1916 28 338 483: The Man He Killed Had he and I but met 1902 20 415 484: The Man Who Forgot At a lonely cross where bye-roads met 28 415 485: The Man With A Past There was merry-making 24 347 486: The Marble Tablet There it stands, though alas, what a little of her 1916 15 374 487: The Marble-Streeted Town I reach the marble-streeted town, 20 302 488: The Market-Girl Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey kerb, 8 373 489: The Masked Face I found me in a great surging space, 18 363 490: The Master And The Leaves We are budding, Master, budding, 1917 24 347 491: The Memorial Brass: 186- Why do you weep there, O sweet lady, 20 343 492: The Milestone By The Rabbit-Burrow In my loamy nook As I dig my hole 18 410 493: The Milkmaid Under a daisied bank 24 485 494: The Minute Before Meeting The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain 1871 14 386 495: The Moon Looks In I have risen again, And awhile survey 16 388 496: The Moth-Signal What are you still, still thinking, 36 386 497: The Mother Mourns When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, 88 388 498: The Musical Box Lifelong to be Seemed the fair colour of the time; 36 373 499: The Nettles This, then, is the grave of my son, 12 401 500: The Newcomer's Wife He paused on the sill of a door ajar 20 380 501: The Night Of The Dance The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn, 20 368 502: The Noble Lady's Tale We moved with pensive paces, 160 405 503: The Obliterate Tomb More than half my life long 144 394 504: The Occultation When the cloud shut down on the morning shine, 8 366 505: The Old Gown (Song) I have seen her in gowns the brightest, 24 400 506: The Old Neighbour And The New Twas to greet the new rector I called I here, 16 403 507: The Old Workman Why are you so bent down before your time, 28 424 508: The Opportunity Forty springs back, I recall, 16 376 509: The Orphaned Old Maid I wanted to marry, but father said, "No 12 364 510: The Oxen Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. 1915 16 385 511: The Passer-By He used to pass, well-trimmed and brushed, 20 398 512: The Peace-Offering It was but a little thing, 10 370 513: The Peasant's Confession Good Father! . . . 'Twas an eve in middle June, 138 420 514: The Pedestrian Sir, will you let me give you a ride? 42 344 515: The Pedigree I bent in the deep of night 37 1147 516: The Phantom Horsewoman Queer are the ways of a man I know: 36 458 517: The Photograph The flame crept up the portrait line by line 25 354 518: The Pine Planters (Marty South's Reverie) We work here together In blast and breeze; 68 410 519: The Pink Frock O my pretty pink frock, 12 389 520: The Pity Of It I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar 1915 14 423 521: The Place On The Map I look upon the map that hangs by me 24 348 522: The Problem Shall we conceal the Case, or tell it 10 418 523: The Puzzled Game-Birds - (Triolet) They are not those who used to feed us 8 396 524: The Rambler I do not see the hills around, 16 350 525: The Rash Bride We Christmas-carolled down the Vale, and up the Vale, and round the Vale, 60 376 526: The Re-Enactment Between the folding sea-downs, 110 371 527: The Recalcitrants Let us off and search, and find a place 20 408 528: The Rejected Member's Wife We shall see her no more 1906 24 402 529: The Reminder While I watch the Christmas blaze 12 350 530: The Respectable Burgher On "The Higher Criticism" Since Reverend Doctors now declare 36 412 531: The Revisitation As I lay awake at night-time 140 428 532: The Riddle Stretching eyes west Over the sea, 18 490 533: The Rift (Song: Minor Mode) Twas just at gnat and cobweb-time, 12 354 534: The Rival I determined to find out whose it was 16 405 535: The Robin When up aloft I fly and fly, 24 372 536: The Roman Gravemounds By Rome's dim relics there walks a man, 24 503 537: The Roman Road The Roman Road runs straight and bare 15 403 538: The Ruined Maid O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! 1866 24 419 539: The Sacrilege - A Ballad-Tragedy I have a Love I love too well 160 480 540: The Sailor's Mother O whence do you come, 18 397 541: The Satin Shoes If ever I walk to church to wed, 64 408 542: The Schreckhorn Aloof, as if a thing of mood and whim; 14 350 543: The Seasons Of Her Year Winter is white on turf and tree, 12 364 544: The Second Night (Ballad) I missed one night, but the next I went; 52 367 545: The Self-Unseeing Here is the ancient floor, 12 344 546: The Selfsame Song A bird bills the selfsame song, 12 990 547: The Sergeant's Song When Lawyers strive to heal a breach, 1878 22 341 548: The Seven Times The dark was thick. A boy he seemed at that time 44 380 549: The Shadow On The Stone I went by the Druid stone 1916 24 355 550: The Sick God In days when men had joy of war, 44 358 551: The Sigh Little head against my shoulder, 30 369 552: The Singing Woman There was a singing woman 12 387 553: The Sleep-Worker When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see 14 372 554: The Slow Nature Thy husband poor, poor Heart! is dead 1894 32 438 555: The Something That Saved Him It was when Whirls of thick waters laved me 30 336 556: The Souls Of The Slain The thick lids of Night closed upon me 1899 96 373 557: The Spell Of The Rose I mean to build a hall anon, 42 454 558: The Spring Call Down Wessex way, when spring's a-shine, 24 396 559: The Statue Of Liberty This statue of Liberty, busy man, 60 344 560: The Strange House I hear the piano playing 40 459 561: The Stranger's Song O my trade it is the rarest one, 15 381 562: The Subalterns Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky, 20 385 563: The Sun On The Bookcase Once more the cauldron of the sun 14 371 564: The Sun On The Letter I drew the letter out, while gleamed 12 389 565: The Sun's Last Look On The Country Girl (M. H.) The sun threw down a radiant spot 1915 10 374 566: The Sunshade Ah - it's the skeleton of a lady's sunshade, 20 434 567: The Superseded As newer comers crowd the fore, 18 425 568: The Supplanter - A Tale He bends his travel-tarnished feet 96 357 569: The Sweet Hussy In his early days he was quite surprised 12 395 570: The Telegram O he's suffering maybe dying and I not there to aid, 24 425 571: The Temporary The All Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, 24 410 572: The Tenant-For-Life The sun said, watching my watering-pot 24 333 573: The To-Be-Forgotten I heard a small sad sound, 32 449 574: The Torn Letter I tore your letter into strips 32 369 575: The Tree - An Old Man's Story Its roots are bristling in the air 60 358 576: The Tree And The Lady I have done all I could 16 352 577: The Tresses When the air was damp 15 400 578: The Two Houses In the heart of night, 56 507 579: The Two Men There were two youths of equal age, 1866 85 361 580: The Two Rosalinds The dubious daylight ended, 52 386 581: The Two Soldiers Just at the corner of the wall 24 365 582: The Two Wives I waited at home all the while they were boating together 15 397 583: The Unborn I rose at night, and visited 24 397 584: The Upper Birch-Leaves Warm yellowy-green In the blue serene, 24 338 585: The Vampirine Fair Gilbert had sailed to India's shore, 108 448 586: The Voice Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, 1912 16 386 587: The Voice Of The Thorn When the thorn on the down 24 327 588: The Voice Of Things Forty Augusts - aye, and several more - ago, 15 426 589: The Walk You did not walk with me 16 402 590: The Wanderer There is nobody on the road 36 444 591: The Wedding Morning Tabitha dressed for her wedding: 16 436 592: The Well-Beloved I wayed by star and planet shine 68 404 593: The West-Of-Wessex Girl A very West-of-Wessex girl, 21 438 594: The Whipper-In My father was the whipper-in, 30 387 595: The Whitewashed Wall Why does she turn in that shy soft way 24 379 596: The Widow By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue 44 388 597: The Wind Blew Words The wind blew words along the skies, 18 385 598: The Wind's Prophecy I travel on by barren farms, 40 355 599: The Wistful Lady Love, while you were away there came to me 30 367 600: The Woman I Met A stranger, I threaded sunken-hearted 1918 80 498 601: The Woman In The Rye Why do you stand in the dripping rye, 12 402 602: The Wood Fire (A Fragment) This is a brightsome blaze you've lit good friend, to-night! 18 406 603: The Workbox See, here's the workbox, little wife, 40 377 604: The Wound I climbed to the crest, 8 396 605: The Year's Awakening How do you know that the pilgrim track 1910 20 373 606: The Young Churchwarden When he lit the candles there, 21 350 607: The Young Glass-Stainer These Gothic windows, how they wear me out 1893 8 375 608: The Youth Who Carried A Light I saw him pass as the new day dawned, 1915 18 419 609: Then And Now When battles were fought 1915 24 350 610: They Would Not Come I travelled to where in her lifetime 24 342 611: This Heart - A Woman's Dream At midnight, in the room where he lay dead 36 406 612: Thoughts Of Phena - At News Of Her Death Not a line of her writing have I, 1890 24 427 613: Timing Her Lalage's coming: Where is she now, O? 72 386 614: To A Lady (Offended By A Book Of The Writer's) Now that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe, 14 403 615: To A Lady Playing And Singing In The Morning Joyful lady, sing! And I will lurk here listening, 16 388 616: To A Well-Named Dwelling Glad old house of lichened stonework, 18 456 617: To An Actress I read your name when you were strange to me, 14 348 618: To An Impersonator Of Rosalind Did he who drew her in the years ago 1867 14 385 619: To An Orphan Child - A Whimsey Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's; 16 379 620: To An Unborn Pauper Child Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, 36 371 621: To Carrey Clavel You turn your back, you turn your back, 12 409 622: To Flowers From Italy In Winter Sunned in the South, and here to-day; 16 375 623: To Life O life with the sad seared face, 16 401 624: To Lizbie Browne Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? 54 357 625: To Meet, Or Otherwise Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams, 27 359 626: To My Father's Violin Does he want you down there 1916 45 363 627: To Outer Nature Show thee as I thought thee 30 379 628: To Shakespeare - After Three Hundred Years Bright baffling Soul, least capturable of themes, 1916 36 450 629: To Sincerity O sweet sincerity! Where modern methods be 1899 18 451 630: To The Moon What have you looked at, Moon, 28 393 631: Tolerance It is a foolish thing," said I, 15 348 632: Transformations Portion of this yew 18 379 633: Under The Waterfall Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, 52 408 634: Unknowing When, soul in soul reflected, 32 373 635: Unrealized Down comes the winter rain 24 368 636: V.R. 1819-1901 - A Reverie Moments the mightiest pass uncalendared, 1901 14 376 637: Vagg Hollow What do you see in Vagg Hollow, 24 413 638: Valenciennes We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, 1897 56 399 639: Voices From Things Growing In A Churchyard These flowers are I, poor Fanny Hurd, 56 342 640: Wagtail And Baby A baby watched a ford, whereto 16 915 641: We Sat At The Window We sat at the window looking out, 16 371 642: Weathers This is the weather the cuckoo likes, 18 337 643: Welcome Home To my native place Bent upon returning, 18 358 644: Wessex Heights (1896) There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand 32 381 645: What Did It Mean? What did it mean that noontide, when 22 389 646: When I Set Out For Lyonnesse When I set out for Lyonnesse, 18 352 647: Where The Picnic Was Where we made the fire, 30 427 648: Where They Lived Dishevelled leaves creep down 18 330 649: Where Three Roads Joined Where three roads joined it was green and fair, 20 418 650: While Drawing In A Church-Yard It is sad that so many of worth, 20 343 651: Who's In The Next Room? Who's in the next room? - who? 20 375 652: Why Be At Pains? - Wooer's Song Why be at pains that I should know 16 346 653: Why Did I Sketch Why did I sketch an upland green, 18 321 654: Winter In Durnover Field Rook. - Throughout the field I find no grain; 10 352 655: Without Ceremony It was your way, my dear, 15 352 656: Without, Not Within Her It was what you bore with you, Woman, 12 347 657: Wives In The Sere Never a careworn wife but shows, 16 418 658: Yell'Ham-Wood's Story Coomb-Firtrees say that Life is a moan, 1902 16 355 659: You On The Tower You on the tower of my factory 21 360 660: You Were The Sort That Men Forget You were the sort that men forget; 20 431 661: Your Last Drive Here by the moorway you returned, 30 333 662: Zermatt Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, 1897 14 455 663: [Greek Title] Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, 20 359 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. This page viewed 15253 times.

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