I have lived with shades (Thomas Hardy Poems)
II have lived with shades so long,And talked to them so oft,Since forth from cot and croftI went mankind among, That ...
II have lived with shades so long,And talked to them so oft,Since forth from cot and croftI went mankind among, That ...
From the slow march and muffled drum,And crowds distrest,And book and bell, at length I have comeTo my full rest.A ...
Between us now and here - Two thrown togetherWho are not wont to wear Life's flushest feather -Who see the scenes slide ...
THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all ...
Moments the mightiest pass calendared, And when the Absolute In backward Time outgave the deedful word Whereby all life is ...
I "Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, "In one brief hour? And away with thee from a loveless ...
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
To M. H. WE passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: "Go to, the hour Is ...
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
I MARKED her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell My Amabel?" I looked upon her gown, ...
I "O Lord, why grievest Thou? - Since Life has ceased to be Upon this globe, now cold As lunar ...
I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft ...
I There dwells a mighty pair - Slow, statuesque, intense - Amid the vague Immense: None can their chronicle declare, ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
I Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? In sun, in rain? - Or is your brow Past joy, past ...
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
AS evening shaped I found me on a moor Which sight could scarce sustain: The black lean land, of featureless ...
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from ...
Who, then, was Cestius, And what is he to me? - Amid thick thoughts and memories multitudinous One thought alone ...
How do you know that the pilgrim track Along the belting zodiac Swept by the sun in his seeming rounds ...
UPON a noon I pilgrimed through A pasture, mile by mile, Unto the place where I last saw My dead ...
THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss, Out of the ...
At last I entered a long dark gallery, Catacomb-lined; and ranged at the side Were the bodies of men from ...
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
I found me in a great surging space, At either end a door, And I said: "What is this giddying ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went By the way of the Western Wall, so drear On that winter ...
Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust That moved a poet to prophecies - A pinch of ...
Under a daisied bank There stands a rich red ruminating cow, And hard against her flank A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends ...
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