Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses
by Thomas Hardy
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- LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
- APOLOGY
- CONTENTS
- WEATHERS
- THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)
- SUMMER SCHEMES
- EPEISODIA
- FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN
- AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS
- THE GARDEN SEAT
- BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL
- “I SOMETIMES THINK” (FOR F. E. H.)
- JEZREEL ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918
- A JOG-TROT PAIR
- “THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN” (SONG)
- “ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING”
- “I WAS NOT HE” (SONG)
- THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL
- WELCOME HOME
- GOING AND STAYING
- READ BY MOONLIGHT
- AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD SOMETIME THE DWELLING OF JOHN KEATS
- A WOMAN’S FANCY
- HER SONG
- A WET AUGUST
- THE DISSEMBLERS
- TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING
- “A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME”
- THE STRANGE HOUSE (MAX GATE, A.D. 2000)
- “AS ’TWERE TO-NIGHT” (SONG)
- THE CONTRETEMPS
- A GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER
- THE OLD GOWN (SONG)
- A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
- A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE SONG OF SILENCE (E. L. H.—H. C. H.)
- “WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED”
- “AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM” (ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)
- HAUNTING FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- THE WOMAN I MET
- “IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN” (SONG)
- THE TWO HOUSES
- 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 (SONG)
- TWO SERENADES
- I On Christmas Eve
- II A Year Later
- THE WEDDING MORNING
- END OF THE YEAR 1912
- THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE’S A BUMPER!”
- “I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU” (SONG)
- AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY
- SIDE BY SIDE
- DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN
- A MAIDEN’S PLEDGE (SONG)
- THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
- MISMET
- AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE
- MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME TO AN OLD FOLK-JINGLE)
- AN EXPERIENCE
- THE BEAUTY
- THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
- THE WOOD FIRE (A FRAGMENT)
- SAYING GOOD-BYE (SONG)
- ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH
- THE OPPORTUNITY (FOR H. P.)
- EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER
- THE RIFT (Song: Minor Mode)
- 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
- PENANCE
- “I LOOK IN HER FACE” (Song: Minor)
- AFTER THE WAR
- “IF YOU HAD KNOWN”
- THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST (A.D. 185–)
- FETCHING HER
- “COULD I BUT WILL” (Song: Verses 1, 3, key major; verse 2, key minor)
- SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE
- AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR
- I (OLD STYLE)
- II (NEW STYLE)
- THEY WOULD NOT COME
- AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY
- THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER’S CLUB-STORY)
- “I KNEW A LADY” (CLUB SONG)
- 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” (To an old air)
- IN THE SMALL HOURS
- THE LITTLE OLD TABLE
- VAGG HOLLOW
- THE DREAM IS—WHICH?
- THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER’S STORY)
- FIRST OR LAST (SONG)
- 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 (BALLAD)
- SHE WHO SAW NOT
- THE OLD WORKMAN
- THE SAILOR’S MOTHER
- OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)
- THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)
- “I WAS THE MIDMOST”
- A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17–)
- ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR
- AN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)
- HER APOTHEOSIS “Secretum meum mihi” (FADED WOMAN’S SONG)
- “SACRED TO THE MEMORY” (MARY H.)
- TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING
- THE WHIPPER-IN
- A MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)
- THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL’HAM HILL)
- THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
- CROSS-CURRENTS
- THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW
- THE CHOSEN
- THE INSCRIPTION (A TALE)
- 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 (M. H.)
- IN A LONDON FLAT
- DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
- RAKE-HELL MUSES
- THE COLOUR
- MURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)
- EPITAPH
- AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS
- AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.
- SURVIEW “Cogitavi vias meas”
- FOOTNOTES
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