The Voice (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were ...
Thomas Hardy Poems (227 Poems)
Neutral Tones (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a ...
The Going (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Why did you give no hint that night That quickly after the morrow's dawn, And calmly, as if indifferent quite, ...
The Oxen (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat ...
A Broken Appointment (Thomas Hardy Poem)
You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. Yet less for loss of your dear ...
Heredity (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And ...
A Thunderstorm In Town (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(A Reminiscence, 1893) She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress, And we stayed, because of the pelting storm, Within the hansom's dry ...
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 ...
An Autumn Rain-Scene (Thomas Hardy Poem)
There trudges one to a merry-making With sturdy swing, On whom the rain comes down. To fetch the saving medicament ...
Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? -- planting rue?" -- "No: yesterday he went to wed ...
The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. ...
The Going of the Battery Wives. (Lament) (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough - Light in their loving as soldiers can be - ...
Drummer Hodge (Thomas Hardy Poem)
They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined -- just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the ...
Hap (Thomas Hardy Poem)
If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing, Know that ...
The Ruined Maid (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town? And whence ...
The Convergence Of The Twain (Thomas Hardy Poem)
(Lines on the loss of the "Titanic") I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the ...
The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy Poem)
Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right ...