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 ...
I said to Love,'It is not now as in old daysWhen men adored thee and thy ways All else above;Named thee ...
Why go to Saint-Juliot? What's Juliot to me?I've been but made fancyBy some necromancyThat much of my life claims the ...
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 and here - Two thrown togetherWho are not wont to wear Life's flushest feather -Who see the scenes slide ...
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 ...
Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,Assessing minds, he does not need,Nor urgent writs to sup or dine,Nor pledges in the roseate wine.For ...
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, my joys how few,Since first it was my fate to know thee!- Have the slow years ...
Much wonder I--here long low-laid - That this dead wall should be Betwixt the Maker and the made, Between Thyself ...
THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all ...
I scanned her picture dreaming, Till each dear line and hue Was imaged, to my seeming, As if it lived ...
Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, O Willer masked and dumb! Who makest Life become, - As though ...
I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day, And it seemed to grow still, and the ...
I say, "She was as good as fair," When standing by her mound; "Such passing sweetness," I declare, "No longer ...
We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, And passed to Livia's rich red mural show, Whence, thridding cave and ...
It was a wet wan hour in spring, And Nature met King Doom beside a lane, Wherein Hodge trudged, 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 ...
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will! And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye That he ...
Bother Bulleys, let us sing From the dawn till evening! - For we know not that we go not When ...
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled ...
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; ...
By Corporal Tullidge. See "The Trumpet-Major" In Memory of S. C. (Pensioner). Died 184- WE trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, ...
When you shall see me lined by tool of Time, My lauded beauties carried off from me, My eyes no ...
I My ardours for emprize nigh lost Since Life has bared its bones to me, I shrink to seek a ...
Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away, Some other's feature, accent, thought like mine, Will carry you back to ...
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