The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknown God (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Much wonder I--here long low-laid - That this dead wall should be Betwixt the Maker and the made, Between Thyself ...
Thomas Hardy Poems on Time (44 Poems)
She, to Him, I (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When you shall see me lined by tool of Time, My lauded beauties carried off from me, My eyes no ...
Additions (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
The Temporary The All (Thomas Hardy Poem)
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
The Colonel’s Solilquy (Thomas Hardy Poems)
"The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . . It's true I've been accustomed now to home, And joints ...
To Outer Nature (Thomas Hardy Poem)
SHOW thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee, Omen-scouting, All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee-- Wrought ...
The Lacking Sense Scene.–A sad-coloured landscape, Waddon Vale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
The Widow (Thomas Hardy Poem)
By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue Towards her door I went, And sunset on her window-panes Reflected our intent. The creeper ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
The Bridge of Lodi. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
The Supplanter: A Tale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
By the Earth’s Corpse (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I "O Lord, why grievest Thou? - Since Life has ceased to be Upon this globe, now cold As lunar ...
A Commonplace Day (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The day is turning ghost, And scuttles from the kalendar in fits and furtively, To join the anonymous host Of ...
De Profundis (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
At Lulworth Cove A Century Back (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Had I but lived a hundred years ago I might have gone, as I have gone this year, By Warmwell ...
The Phantom Horsewoman. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Queer are the ways of a man I know: He comes and stands In a careworn craze, And looks at ...
Wives in the Sere (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, ...
In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze With one who kindled gayly Love's fitful ecstasies! But ...
Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Who, then, was Cestius, And what is he to me? - Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous One thought alone ...
The Fire At Tranter Sweatley’s (Thomas Hardy Poems)
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
Song of the Soldier’s Wifes. (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I At last! In sight of home again, Of home again; No more to range and roam again As at ...
To Life (Thomas Hardy Poem)
O life with the sad seared face, I weary of seeing thee, And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace, ...
The Last Chrysanthemum (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Why should this flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes? Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, When ...
From Victor Hugo (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule, My chariot, sceptre, vassal-service due, My crown, my porphyry-basined waters cool, ...
Tess’s Lament (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I I would that folk forgot me quite, Forgot me quite! I would that I could shrink from sight, And ...
My Cicely (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
An Ancient To Ancients (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang, And cracks creep; worms have ...
Domicilium (Thomas Hardy Poem)
It faces west, and round the back and sides High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs, And sweep against ...
She Hears The Storm (Thomas Hardy Poem)
There was a time in former years-- While my roof-tree was his-- When I should have been distressed by fears ...
The Dance At The Phoenix (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...