A Poet (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,Assessing minds, he does not need,Nor urgent writs to sup or dine,Nor pledges in the roseate wine.For ...
Thomas Hardy Poems on Mind (44 Poems)
The Casterbridge Captains (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all ...
[Greek Title] (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, O Willer masked and dumb! Who makest Life become, - As though ...
The Dame of Athelhall (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Soul! Shall I see thy face," she said, "In one brief hour? And away with thee from a loveless ...
She, To Him III (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will! And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye That he ...
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 ...
Middle-Age Enthusiasms (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To M. H. WE passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: "Go to, the hour Is ...
The Mother Mourns (Thomas Hardy Poem)
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
She, to Him, II (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away, Some other's feature, accent, thought like mine, Will carry you back to ...
The Tenant-For-Life (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The sun said, watching my watering-pot "Some morn you'll pass away; These flowers and plants I parch up hot - ...
The Alarm (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
Her Late Husband (King’s-Hintock, 182-.) (Thomas Hardy Poems)
"No--not where I shall make my own; But dig his grave just by The woman's with the initialed stone - ...
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 ...
Mute Opinion (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I traversed a dominion Whose spokesmen spake out strong Their purpose and opinion Through pulpit, press, and song. I ...
The Peasant’s Confession (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
At A Bridal (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity, A dream of other offspring held my mind, Compounded of us twain as ...
To Lizbie Browne (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? In sun, in rain? - Or is your brow Past joy, past ...
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 ...
The Superseded (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I As newer comers crowd the fore, We drop behind. - We who have laboured long and sore Times out ...
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 ...
Embarcation (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Southampton Docks: October 1899 Here, where Vespasian's legions struck the sands, And Cendric with the Saxons entered in, And Henry's ...
A Meeting With Despair (Thomas Hardy Poem)
AS evening shaped I found me on a moor Which sight could scarce sustain: The black lean land, of featureless ...
The Burghers (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
George Meredith (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Forty years back, when much had place That since has perished out of mind, I heard that voice and saw ...
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 ...
The Well-Beloved (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I wayed by star and planet shine Towards the dear one's home At Kingsbere, there to make her mine When ...
Her Dilemma (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE two were silent in a sunless church, Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones, And wasted carvings passed antique research; And ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...