The Year’s Awakening (Thomas Hardy Poems)
How do you know that the pilgrim track Along the belting zodiac Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds ...
Thomas Hardy Poems (227 Poems)
Her Immortality (Thomas Hardy Poem)
UPON a noon I pilgrimed through A pasture, mile by mile, Unto the place where I last saw My dead ...
A Christmas Ghost Story. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
South of the Line, inland from far Durban, A mouldering soldier lies--your countryman. Awry and doubled up are his gray ...
Revulsion (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss, Out of the ...
At a Hasty Wedding (Thomas Hardy Poem)
If hours be years the twain are blest, For now they solace swift desire By bonds of every bond the ...
Sapphic Fragment (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam. "Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare. Dead shalt thou lie; and nought Be told of thee or ...
Fragment (Thomas Hardy Poem)
At last I entered a long dark gallery, Catacomb-lined; and ranged at the side Were the bodies of men from ...
(As sung by Mr. Charles Charrington in the play of “The Three Wayfarers”) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(As sung by Mr. Charles Charrington in the play of "The Three Wayfarers") O MY trade it is the rarest ...
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 ...
The Pity Of It (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar From rail-track and from highway, and I heard In field and farmstead many ...
Let Me Enjoy (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Minor Key I Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth its loveliness Had ...
Architectural Masks (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I There is a house with ivied walls, And mullioned windows worn and old, And the long dwellers in those ...
My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound (Thomas Hardy Poem)
My spirit will not haunt the mound Above my breast, But travel, memory-possessed, To where my tremulous being found Life ...
Mismet (Thomas Hardy Poem)
He was leaning by a face, He was looking into eyes, And he knew a trysting-place, And he heard seductive ...
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again (Villanelle) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"Men know but little more than we, Who count us least of things terrene, How happy days are made to ...
God-Forgotten (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
No Buyers (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a ...
The Dream-Follower (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A dream of mine flew over the mead To the halls where my old Love reigns; And it drew me ...
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 ...
Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Around the house the flakes fly faster, And all the berries now are gone From holly and cotoneaster Around the ...
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 ...
Midnight On The Great Western (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy, And the roof-lamp's oily flame Played down on his listless form and ...
Departure (Thomas Hardy Poem)
While the far farewell music thins and fails, And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine - All smalling slowly ...
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my ...
Song of Hope (Thomas Hardy Poem)
O sweet To-morrow! - After to-day There will away This sense of sorrow. Then let us borrow Hope, for a ...
At a Lunar Eclipse (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea, Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine In even monochrome and ...
Between Us Now (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Between us now and here-- Two thrown together Who are not wont to wear Life's flushest feather-- Who see the ...
The Masked Face (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I found me in a great surging space, At either end a door, And I said: "What is this giddying ...