Night In The Old Home (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from ...
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from ...
When the hamlet hailed a birth Judy used to cry: When she heard our christening mirth She would kneel and ...
Southampton Docks: October 1899 Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, And Cendric with the Saxons entered in, And Henry's ...
AS evening shaped I found me on a moor Which sight could scarce sustain: The black lean land, of featureless ...
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
THE years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze With one who kindled gayly Love's fitful ecstasies! But ...
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
Between us now and here - Two thrown together Who are not wont to wear Life's flushest feather - Who ...
O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea, Heave careless of the deep wrong done to thee When from Torino's track I saw ...
Pale beech and pine-tree blue, Set in one clay, Bough to bough cannot you Bide out your day? When the ...
Who, then, was Cestius, And what is he to me? - Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous One thought alone ...
Since Reverend Doctors now declare That clerks and people must prepare To doubt if Adam ever were; To hold the ...
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
Once more the cauldron of the sun Smears the bookcase with winy red, And here my page is, and there ...
I For long the cruel wish I knew That your free heart should ache for me While mine should bear ...
A Whimsey AH, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's; Hers couldst thou wholly be, My light in thee ...
Forty years back, when much had place That since has perished out of mind, I heard that voice and saw ...
Sunned in the South, and here to-day; --If all organic things Be sentient, Flowers, as some men say, What are ...
I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All ...
In the vaulted way, where the passage turned To the shadowy corner that none could see, You paused for our ...
I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech And be as high as he: I stretched an arm within his reach, ...
Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To ...
I I saw a dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I: "This ...
I At last! In sight of home again, Of home again; No more to range and roam again As at ...
O life with the sad seared face, I weary of seeing thee, And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace, ...
Why should this flower delay so long To show its tremulous plumes? Now is the time of plaintive robin-song, When ...
I wayed by star and planet shine Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine When ...
Child, were I king, I'd yield my royal rule, My chariot, sceptre, vassal-service due, My crown, my porphyry-basined waters cool, ...
I do not see the hills around, Nor mark the tints the copses wear; I do not note the grassy ...
How do you know that the pilgrim track Along the belting zodiac Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds ...
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