Satires of Circumstance

About this eBook

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Title

Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

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.

2863

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2863

Release Date

October 1, 2001

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LYRICS AND REVERIES — IN FRONT OF THE LANDSCAPE — CHANNEL FIRING — THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN — THE GHOST OF THE PAST — AFTER THE VISIT ( To F. E. D. ) — TO MEET, OR OTHERWISE — THE DIFFERENCE — THE SUN ON THE BOOKCASE ( Student’s Love-song ) — “WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE” — A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN ( A Reminiscence ) — THE TORN LETTER — BEYOND THE LAST LAMP (Near Tooting Common) — THE FACE AT THE CASEMENT — LOST LOVE — “MY SPIRIT WILL NOT HAUNT THE MOUND”
4. 4.WESSEX HEIGHTS (1896) — IN DEATH DIVIDED — THE PLACE ON THE MAP — WHERE THE PICNIC WAS — THE SCHRECKHORN ( With thoughts of Leslie Stephen ) (June 1897) — A SINGER ASLEEP ( Algernon Charles Swinburne , 1837–1909) — A PLAINT TO MAN — GOD’S FUNERAL — SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE — “AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE?”
5. 5.SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCES IN FIFTEEN GLIMPSES — I AT TEA — II IN CHURCH — III BY HER AUNT’S GRAVE — IV IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT — V AT A WATERING-PLACE — VI IN THE CEMETERY — VII OUTSIDE THE WINDOW — VIII IN THE STUDY — IX AT THE ALTAR-RAIL — X IN THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER — XI IN THE RESTAURANT — XII AT THE DRAPER’S — XIII ON THE DEATH-BED — XIV OVER THE COFFIN — XV IN THE MOONLIGHT
6. 6.LYRICS AND REVERIES ( continued ) — SELF-UNCONSCIOUS — THE DISCOVERY — TOLERANCE — BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER — AT DAY-CLOSE IN NOVEMBER — THE YEAR’S AWAKENING — UNDER THE WATERFALL — THE SPELL OF THE ROSE — ST. LAUNCE’S REVISITED
7. 7.POEMS OF 1912–13 — THE GOING — YOUR LAST DRIVE — THE WALK — RAIN ON A GRAVE — “I FOUND HER OUT THERE” — WITHOUT CEREMONY — LAMENT — THE HAUNTER — THE VOICE — HIS VISITOR — A CIRCULAR — A DREAM OR NO — AFTER A JOURNEY — A DEATH-DAY RECALLED — BEENY CLIFF March 1870— March 1913 — AT CASTLE BOTEREL — PLACES — THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN
8. 8.MISCELLANEOUS PIECES — THE WISTFUL LADY — THE WOMAN IN THE RYE — THE CHEVAL-GLASS — THE RE-ENACTMENT — HER SECRET — “SHE CHARGED ME” — THE NEWCOMER’S WIFE — A CONVERSATION AT DAWN — A KING’S SOLILOQUY ON THE NIGHT OF HIS FUNERAL — THE CORONATION — AQUAE SULIS — SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY — THE ELOPEMENT — “I ROSE UP AS MY CUSTOM IS” — A WEEK — HAD YOU WEPT — BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS — IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM — IN THE SERVANTS’ QUARTERS — THE OBLITERATE TOMB — “REGRET NOT ME” — THE RECALCITRANTS — STARLINGS ON THE ROOF — THE MOON LOOKS IN — THE SWEET HUSSY — THE TELEGRAM — THE MOTH-SIGNAL ( On Egdon Heath ) — SEEN BY THE WAITS — THE TWO SOLDIERS — THE DEATH OF REGRET — IN THE DAYS OF CRINOLINE — THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS — THE WORKBOX — THE SACRILEGE A BALLAD-TRAGEDY ( Circa 182-) — Part I — Part II — THE ABBEY MASON ( Inventor of the “ Perpendicular ” Style of Gothic Architecture ) — THE JUBILEE OF A MAGAZINE ( To the Editor ) — THE SATIN SHOES — EXEUNT OMNES — A POET — POSTSCRIPT “MEN WHO MARCH AWAY” (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS)

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