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 ...
Thomas Hardy Poems on Sadness (37 Poems)
Song From Heine (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I scanned her picture dreaming, Till each dear line and hue Was imaged, to my seeming, As if it lived ...
Rome: The Vatican-Sala Delle Muse. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day, And it seemed to grow still, and the ...
The King’s Experiment (Thomas Hardy Poems)
It was a wet wan hour in spring, And Nature met King Doom beside a lane, Wherein Hodge trudged, all ...
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 ...
Valenciennes (Thomas Hardy Poem)
By Corporal Tullidge. See "The Trumpet-Major" In Memory of S. C. (Pensioner). Died 184- WE trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, ...
The Lacking Sense Scene.–A sad-coloured landscape, Waddon Vale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
San Sebastian (Thomas Hardy Poem)
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
The Slow Nature (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(an Incident of Froom Valley) "THY husband--poor, poor Heart!--is dead-- Dead, out by Moreford Rise; A bull escaped the barton-shed, ...
Leipzig (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
The Supplanter: A Tale (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
Thought Of Ph—a At News Of Her Death (Thomas Hardy Poem)
NOT a line of her writing have I, Not a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time ...
A Sign-Seeker (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry, The day-tides many-shaped and hued; I see the nightfall shades subtrude, ...
Doom and She (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I There dwells a mighty pair - Slow, statuesque, intense - Amid the vague Immense: None can their chronicle declare, ...
The Two Men (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
The Contretemps (Thomas Hardy Poem)
A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the ...
Genoa and the Mediterranean. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
O epic-famed, god-haunted Central Sea, Heave careless of the deep wrong done to thee When from Torino's track I saw ...
“I Said to Love” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All ...
A Wasted Illness (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To ...
To Life (Thomas Hardy Poem)
O life with the sad seared face, I weary of seeing thee, And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Dance At The Phoenix (Thomas Hardy Poem)
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
Thoughts Of Phena (Thomas Hardy Poem)
at news of her death Not a line of her writing have I Not a thread of her hair, No ...
Men Who March Away (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Song of the Soldiers What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say ...