Moments of Vision

About this eBook

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Title

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

Credits

Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3255

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3255

Release Date

June 1, 2002

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.MOMENTS OF VISION
4. 4.THE VOICE OF THINGS
5. 5.“WHY BE AT PAINS?” ( Wooer’s Song )
6. 6.“WE SAT AT THE WINDOW” ( Bournemouth , 1875)
7. 7.AFTERNOON SERVICE AT MELLSTOCK ( Circa 1850)
8. 8.AT THE WICKET-GATE
9. 9.IN A MUSEUM
10. 10.APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE
11. 11.AT THE WORD “FAREWELL”
12. 12.FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER
13. 13.THE RIVAL
14. 14.HEREDITY
15. 15.“YOU WERE THE SORT THAT MEN FORGET”
16. 16.SHE, I, AND THEY
17. 17.NEAR LANIVET, 1872
18. 18.JOYS OF MEMORY
19. 19.TO THE MOON
20. 20.COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER ( Wimborne )
21. 21.TO SHAKESPEARE AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS
22. 22.QUID HIC AGIS?
23. 23.ON A MIDSUMMER EVE
24. 24.TIMING HER ( Written to an old folk-tune )
25. 25.BEFORE KNOWLEDGE
26. 26.THE BLINDED BIRD
27. 27.“THE WIND BLEW WORDS”
28. 28.THE FADED FACE
29. 29.THE RIDDLE
30. 30.THE DUEL
31. 31.AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS
32. 32.TO MY FATHER’S VIOLIN
33. 33.THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
34. 34.THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE ( Lover’s Ditty )
35. 35.THE CHANGE
36. 36.SITTING ON THE BRIDGE ( Echo of an old song )
37. 37.THE YOUNG CHURCHWARDEN
38. 38.“I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW”
39. 39.LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART’S E-FLAT SYMPHONY
40. 40.“IN THE SEVENTIES”
41. 41.THE PEDIGREE
42. 42.THIS HEART A WOMAN’S DREAM
43. 43.WHERE THEY LIVED
44. 44.THE OCCULTATION
45. 45.LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD
46. 46.THE PEACE-OFFERING
47. 47.“SOMETHING TAPPED”
48. 48.THE WOUND
49. 49.A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION
50. 50.“I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE” ( Fickle Lover’s Song )
51. 51.A JANUARY NIGHT (1879)
52. 52.A KISS
53. 53.THE ANNOUNCEMENT
54. 54.THE OXEN
55. 55.THE TRESSES
56. 56.THE PHOTOGRAPH
57. 57.ON A HEATH
58. 58.AN ANNIVERSARY
59. 59.“BY THE RUNIC STONE” ( Two who became a story )
60. 60.THE PINK FROCK
61. 61.TRANSFORMATIONS
62. 62.IN HER PRECINCTS
63. 63.THE LAST SIGNAL ( Oct. 11, 1886) A MEMORY OF WILLIAM BARNES
64. 64.THE HOUSE OF SILENCE
65. 65.GREAT THINGS
66. 66.THE CHIMES
67. 67.THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE
68. 68.“WHY DID I SKETCH”
69. 69.CONJECTURE
70. 70.THE BLOW
71. 71.LOVE THE MONOPOLIST ( Young Lover’s Reverie )
72. 72.AT MIDDLE-FIELD GATE IN FEBRUARY
73. 73.THE YOUTH WHO CARRIED A LIGHT
74. 74.THE HEAD ABOVE THE FOG
75. 75.OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR
76. 76.THE MUSICAL BOX
77. 77.ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE (ONOMATOPOEIC)
78. 78.ROYAL SPONSORS
79. 79.OLD FURNITURE
80. 80.A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS
81. 81.THE LAST PERFORMANCE
82. 82.“YOU ON THE TOWER”
83. 83.THE INTERLOPER
84. 84.LOGS ON THE HEARTH A MEMORY OF A SISTER
85. 85.THE SUNSHADE
86. 86.THE AGEING HOUSE
87. 87.THE CAGED GOLDFINCH
88. 88.AT MADAME TUSSAUD’S IN VICTORIAN YEARS
89. 89.THE BALLET
90. 90.THE FIVE STUDENTS
91. 91.THE WIND’S PROPHECY
92. 92.DURING WIND AND RAIN
93. 93.HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY
94. 94.THE DOLLS
95. 95.MOLLY GONE
96. 96.A BACKWARD SPRING
97. 97.LOOKING ACROSS
98. 98.AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869 ( Young Lover’s Reverie )
99. 99.THE GLIMPSE
100. 100.THE PEDESTRIAN AN INCIDENT OF 1883
101. 101.“WHO’S IN THE NEXT ROOM?”
102. 102.AT A COUNTRY FAIR
103. 103.THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186–
104. 104.HER LOVE-BIRDS
105. 105.PAYING CALLS
106. 106.THE UPPER BIRCH-LEAVES
107. 107.“IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER”
108. 108.EVERYTHING COMES
109. 109.THE MAN WITH A PAST
110. 110.HE FEARS HIS GOOD FORTUNE
111. 111.HE WONDERS ABOUT HIMSELF
112. 112.JUBILATE
113. 113.HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL
114. 114.“I THOUGHT, MY HEART”
115. 115.FRAGMENT
116. 116.MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN
117. 117.HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN
118. 118.THE ROBIN
119. 119.“I ROSE AND WENT TO ROU’TOR TOWN” ( She , alone )
120. 120.THE NETTLES
121. 121.IN A WAITING-ROOM
122. 122.THE CLOCK-WINDER
123. 123.OLD EXCURSIONS
124. 124.THE MASKED FACE
125. 125.IN A WHISPERING GALLERY
126. 126.THE SOMETHING THAT SAVED HIM
127. 127.THE ENEMY’S PORTRAIT
128. 128.IMAGININGS
129. 129.ON THE DOORSTEP
130. 130.SIGNS AND TOKENS
131. 131.PATHS OF FORMER TIME
132. 132.THE CLOCK OF THE YEARS
133. 133.AT THE PIANO
134. 134.THE SHADOW ON THE STONE
135. 135.IN THE GARDEN (M. H.)
136. 136.THE TREE AND THE LADY
137. 137.AN UPBRAIDING
138. 138.THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER
139. 139.LOOKING AT A PICTURE ON AN ANNIVERSARY
140. 140.THE CHOIRMASTER’S BURIAL
141. 141.THE MAN WHO FORGOT
142. 142.WHILE DRAWING IN A CHURCH-YARD
143. 143.“FOR LIFE I HAD NEVER CARED GREATLY”
144. 144.POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM — “MEN WHO MARCH AWAY” (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) — HIS COUNTRY — ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914 — ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION — AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE — THE PITY OF IT — IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS — IN TIME OF “THE BREAKING OF NATIONS” [235] — CRY OF THE HOMELESS AFTER THE PRUSSIAN INVASION OF BELGIUM — BEFORE MARCHING AND AFTER ( in Memoriam F. W. G. ) — “OFTEN WHEN WARRING” — THEN AND NOW — A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE — THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE — A NEW YEAR’S EVE IN WAR TIME — “I MET A MAN” — “I LOOKED UP FROM MY WRITING”
145. 145.FINALE — THE COMING OF THE END — AFTERWARDS
146. 146.FOOTNOTES

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