V.R. 1819-1901 (A Reverie.) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Moments the mightiest pass calendared, And when the Absolute In backward Time outgave the deedful word Whereby all life is ...
Thomas Hardy Poems on World (23 Poems)
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 ...
Additions (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
Lausanne, In Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11-12 p.m. (Thomas Hardy Poems)
(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems ...
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, ...
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 ...
De Profundis (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I "Percussus sum sicut foenum, et aruit cor meum." - Ps. ci Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring ...
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 ...
Wives in the Sere (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, ...
In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury (Thomas Hardy Poem)
THE years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze With one who kindled gayly Love's fitful ecstasies! But ...
The Fire At Tranter Sweatley’s (Thomas Hardy Poems)
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Cave Of The Unborn (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I rose at night and visited The Cave of the Unborn, And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the ...
“I Need Not Go” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I need not go Through sleet and snow To where I know She waits for me; She will wait me ...
The Church-Builder (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
Moments Of Vision (Thomas Hardy Poem)
That mirror Which makes of men a transparency, Who holds that mirror And bids us such a breast-bare spectacle see ...
He Never Expected Much (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Well, World, you have kept faith with me, Kept faith with me; Upon the whole you have proved to be ...
Channel Firing (Thomas Hardy Poem)
That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought ...