I said to love (Thomas Hardy Poems)
I said to Love,'It is not now as in old daysWhen men adored thee and thy ways All else above;Named thee ...
I said to Love,'It is not now as in old daysWhen men adored thee and thy ways All else above;Named thee ...
Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,Assessing minds, he does not need,Nor urgent writs to sup or dine,Nor pledges in the roseate wine.For ...
I say, "She was as good as fair," When standing by her mound; "Such passing sweetness," I declare, "No longer ...
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see - As one who, held in trance, has laboured long By ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
(After passing Sirmione, April 1887.) Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands That Neptune strokes in lake and sea, With what ...
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
Since Reverend Doctors now declare That clerks and people must prepare To doubt if Adam ever were; To hold the ...
I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All ...
I There is a house with ivied walls, And mullioned windows worn and old, And the long dwellers in those ...
Minor Key I Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth its loveliness Had ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
I need not go Through sleet and snow To where I know She waits for me; She will wait me ...
That mirror Which makes of men a transparency, Who holds that mirror And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see ...
I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All ...
Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be ...
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were ...
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