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 ...
Thomas Hardy Poems (227 Poems)
A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] (Thomas Hardy Poems)
From the slow march and muffled drum,And crowds distrest,And book and bell, at length I have comeTo my full rest.A ...
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 ...
A Dream Or No (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me?I've been but made fancyBy some necromancyThat much of my life claims the ...
A Jog-Trot Pair (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Who were the twain that trod this trackSo many times togetherHither and back,In spells of certain and uncertain weather?Commonplace in ...
Between us now (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Between us now and here - Two thrown togetherWho are not wont to wear Life's flushest feather -Who see the scenes slide ...
A Death-Day Recalled (Thomas Hardy Poems)
Beeny did not quiver,Juliot grew not gray,Thin Valency's riverHeld its wonted way.Bos seemed not to utterDimmest note of dirge,Targan mouth ...
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 ...
A Circular (Thomas Hardy Poems)
As 'legal representative'I read a missive not my own,On new designs the senders giveFor clothes, in tints as shown.Here figure ...
How great my grief (triolet) (Thomas Hardy Poems)
How great my grief, my joys how few,Since first it was my fate to know thee!- Have the slow years ...
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknown God (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Much wonder I--here long low-laid - That this dead wall should be Betwixt the Maker and the made, Between Thyself ...
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 ...
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 ...
[Greek Title] (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, O Willer masked and dumb! Who makest Life become, - As though ...
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 Inconsistent (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I say, "She was as good as fair," When standing by her mound; "Such passing sweetness," I declare, "No longer ...
Rom: On the Palatine (Thomas Hardy Poem)
We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, And passed to Livia's rich red mural show, Whence, thridding cave and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Bullfinches (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Bother Bulleys, let us sing From the dawn till evening! - For we know not that we go not When ...
The Lost Pyx: A Mediaeval Legend (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
Zermatt to the Matterhorn. (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled ...
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 ...
On an Invitation to the United States (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a ...
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 ...
Postponement (Thomas Hardy Poem)
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; ...
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, ...
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 ...