The Temporary The All (Thomas Hardy Poem)
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
CHANGE and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime, Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen; Wrought us fellowly, and ...
To M. H. WE passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: "Go to, the hour Is ...
When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time, And sedges were horny, And summer's green wonderwork faltered On leaze and in lane, ...
"The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . . It's true I've been accustomed now to home, And joints ...
SHOW thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee, Omen-scouting, All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee-- Wrought ...
I "O Time, whence comes the Mother's moody look amid her labours, As of one who all unwittingly has wounded ...
Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! Cold wisdom's words will ease thy track for thee; Aye, ...
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
WHEN, soul in soul reflected, We breathed an ?thered air, When we neglected All things elsewhere, And left the friendly ...
(an Incident of Froom Valley) "THY husband--poor, poor Heart!--is dead-- Dead, out by Moreford Rise; A bull escaped the barton-shed, ...
And your sunny years with a gracious wife Have brought you a daughter dear. "I watched her to-day; a more ...
(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems ...
These numbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome; Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome Lies bare ...
The sun said, watching my watering-pot "Some morn you'll pass away; These flowers and plants I parch up hot - ...
When wilt thou wake, O Mother, wake and see - As one who, held in trance, has laboured long By ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
By Mellstock Lodge and Avenue Towards her door I went, And sunset on her window-panes Reflected our intent. The creeper ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
I It bends far over Yell'ham Plain, And we, from Yell'ham Height, Stand and regard its fiery train, So soon ...
IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament, So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan, As though with an ...
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's ...
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
WHEN we as strangers sought Their catering care, Veiled smiles bespoke their thought Of what we were. They warmed as ...
We walked where Victor Jove was shrined awhile, And passed to Livia's rich red mural show, Whence, thridding cave and ...
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
I MARKED her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell My Amabel?" I looked upon her gown, ...
NOT a line of her writing have I, Not a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time ...
"No--not where I shall make my own; But dig his grave just by The woman's with the initialed stone - ...
Shall we conceal the Case, or tell it - We who believe the evidence? Here and there the watch-towers knell ...
I "O Lord, why grievest Thou? - Since Life has ceased to be Upon this globe, now cold As lunar ...
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