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Late Lyrics and Earlier

Late Lyrics and Earlier

by Thomas Hardy

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Author
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Title
Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses
Credits
Transcribed from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
4758
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4758
Release Date
December 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
  2. 2.APOLOGY
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.WEATHERS
  5. 5.THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)
  6. 6.SUMMER SCHEMES
  7. 7.EPEISODIA
  8. 8.FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN
  9. 9.AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS
  10. 10.THE GARDEN SEAT
  11. 11.BARTHÉLÉMON AT VAUXHALL
  12. 12.“I SOMETIMES THINK” (FOR F. E. H.)
  13. 13.JEZREEL ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918
  14. 14.A JOG-TROT PAIR
  15. 15.“THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN” (SONG) — “ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING”
  16. 16.“I WAS NOT HE” (SONG)
  17. 17.THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL
  18. 18.WELCOME HOME
  19. 19.GOING AND STAYING
  20. 20.READ BY MOONLIGHT
  21. 21.AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD SOMETIME THE DWELLING OF JOHN KEATS
  22. 22.A WOMAN’S FANCY
  23. 23.HER SONG
  24. 24.A WET AUGUST
  25. 25.THE DISSEMBLERS
  26. 26.TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING
  27. 27.“A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME”
  28. 28.THE STRANGE HOUSE (MAX GATE, A.D. 2000)
  29. 29.“AS ’TWERE TO-NIGHT” (SONG)
  30. 30.THE CONTRETEMPS
  31. 31.A GENTLEMAN’S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER
  32. 32.THE OLD GOWN (SONG)
  33. 33.A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
  34. 34.A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE SONG OF SILENCE (E. L. H.—H. C. H.)
  35. 35.“WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED”
  36. 36.“AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM” (ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)
  37. 37.HAUNTING FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
  38. 38.THE WOMAN I MET
  39. 39.“IF IT’S EVER SPRING AGAIN” (SONG)
  40. 40.THE TWO HOUSES
  41. 41.ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT
  42. 42.THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE
  43. 43.THE SELFSAME SONG
  44. 44.THE WANDERER
  45. 45.A WIFE COMES BACK
  46. 46.A YOUNG MAN’S EXHORTATION
  47. 47.AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK
  48. 48.A BYGONE OCCASION (SONG)
  49. 49.TWO SERENADES — I On Christmas Eve — II A Year Later
  50. 50.THE WEDDING MORNING
  51. 51.END OF THE YEAR 1912
  52. 52.THE CHIMES PLAY “LIFE’S A BUMPER!”
  53. 53.“I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU” (SONG)
  54. 54.AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY
  55. 55.SIDE BY SIDE
  56. 56.DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN
  57. 57.A MAIDEN’S PLEDGE (SONG)
  58. 58.THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
  59. 59.MISMET
  60. 60.AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE
  61. 61.MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME TO AN OLD FOLK-JINGLE)
  62. 62.AN EXPERIENCE
  63. 63.THE BEAUTY
  64. 64.THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
  65. 65.THE WOOD FIRE (A FRAGMENT)
  66. 66.SAYING GOOD-BYE (SONG)
  67. 67.ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH
  68. 68.THE OPPORTUNITY (FOR H. P.)
  69. 69.EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER
  70. 70.THE RIFT ( Song : Minor Mode )
  71. 71.VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD
  72. 72.ON THE WAY
  73. 73.“SHE DID NOT TURN”
  74. 74.GROWTH IN MAY
  75. 75.THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS
  76. 76.AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
  77. 77.HER TEMPLE
  78. 78.A TWO-YEARS’ IDYLL
  79. 79.BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR’S END
  80. 80.PENANCE
  81. 81.“I LOOK IN HER FACE” ( Song : Minor )
  82. 82.AFTER THE WAR
  83. 83.“IF YOU HAD KNOWN”
  84. 84.THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST ( A.D. 185–)
  85. 85.FETCHING HER
  86. 86.“COULD I BUT WILL” ( Song : Verses 1, 3, key major ; verse 2, key minor )
  87. 87.SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE
  88. 88.AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR — I (OLD STYLE) — II (NEW STYLE)
  89. 89.THEY WOULD NOT COME
  90. 90.AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY
  91. 91.THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER’S CLUB-STORY)
  92. 92.“I KNEW A LADY” (CLUB SONG)
  93. 93.A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY
  94. 94.A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS
  95. 95.HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF
  96. 96.THE SINGING WOMAN
  97. 97.WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER
  98. 98.“O I WON’T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE” ( To an old air )
  99. 99.IN THE SMALL HOURS
  100. 100.THE LITTLE OLD TABLE
  101. 101.VAGG HOLLOW
  102. 102.THE DREAM IS—WHICH?
  103. 103.THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER’S STORY)
  104. 104.FIRST OR LAST (SONG)
  105. 105.LONELY DAYS
  106. 106.“WHAT DID IT MEAN?”
  107. 107.AT THE DINNER-TABLE
  108. 108.THE MARBLE TABLET
  109. 109.THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES
  110. 110.LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND
  111. 111.A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING
  112. 112.ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN
  113. 113.THE SECOND NIGHT (BALLAD)
  114. 114.SHE WHO SAW NOT
  115. 115.THE OLD WORKMAN
  116. 116.THE SAILOR’S MOTHER
  117. 117.OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)
  118. 118.THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)
  119. 119.“I WAS THE MIDMOST”
  120. 120.A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17–)
  121. 121.ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR
  122. 122.AN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)
  123. 123.HER APOTHEOSIS “Secretum meum mihi” (FADED WOMAN’S SONG)
  124. 124.“SACRED TO THE MEMORY” (MARY H.)
  125. 125.TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING
  126. 126.THE WHIPPER-IN
  127. 127.A MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)
  128. 128.THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL’HAM HILL)
  129. 129.THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
  130. 130.CROSS-CURRENTS
  131. 131.THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW
  132. 132.THE CHOSEN
  133. 133.THE INSCRIPTION (A TALE)
  134. 134.THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN
  135. 135.A WOMAN DRIVING
  136. 136.A WOMAN’S TRUST
  137. 137.BEST TIMES
  138. 138.THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
  139. 139.INTRA SEPULCHRUM
  140. 140.THE WHITEWASHED WALL
  141. 141.JUST THE SAME
  142. 142.THE LAST TIME
  143. 143.THE SEVEN TIMES
  144. 144.THE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL (M. H.)
  145. 145.IN A LONDON FLAT
  146. 146.DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
  147. 147.RAKE-HELL MUSES
  148. 148.THE COLOUR
  149. 149.MURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)
  150. 150.EPITAPH
  151. 151.AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS
  152. 152.AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.
  153. 153.SURVIEW “Cogitavi vias meas”
  154. 154.FOOTNOTES

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