Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems

WorkboxExeunt OmnesA PoetIn the Cemetery From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)Moments of VisionThe Voice of ThingsApostrophes to an Old Psalm TuneAt the Word 'Farewell'HeredityNear Laniet, 1872Copying Architecture in an Old MinsterTo ShakespeareQuid Hic Agis?On a Midsummer EveThe Blinded BirdThe Statue of LibertyThe ChangeLines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat SymphonyThe PedigreeHis Heart: A Woman's DreamThe OxenThe PhotographThe Last SignalThe Figure in the SceneOverlooking the River StourThe Musical BoxOld FurnitureThe Five StudentsThe Wind's ProphecyDuring Wind and RainA Backward SpringHe Revisits His First School'I thought, my heart'The Shadow on the Stone'For Life I had never cared greatly'The Pity of ItIn Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'A New Year's Eve in War Time'I looked up from my writing'Afterwards From Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)Weathers'According to the Might Working'The Contretemps'And There Was a Great Calm'The Selfsame SongAt Lulworth Cove a Century BackThe Collector Cleans His PictureOn the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourthVoices from Things Growing in a ChurchyardAfter a Romantic DayIn the Small HoursLast Words to a Dumb FriendA Drizzling Easter Morning'I was the midmost'The InscriptionThe Whitewashed WallAfter Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.Surview From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)Waiting BothA Bird-Scene at a Rural DwellingIn a Former Resort after Many YearsA Cathedral Facade at MidnightThe Monument-MakerThe Later AutumnAn East-End CurateSine ProleA Sheep FairSnow in the SuburbsA Light Snow-Fall after FrostMusic in a Snowy StreetIn Sherborne AbbeyThe Mock Wife'Not only I'Her Haunting-GroundDays to RecollectThis Summer and Last'Nothing matters much'Before My Friend ArrivedThe Bird-Cather's BoySong to an Old Burden'Why do I?' From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)The New Dawn's BusinessProud SongstersThe ProphetessA Wish for UnconsciousnessThe Love-LettersThrowing a TreeLying AwakeChildhood Among the FernsA Poet's Though'I watched a blackbird'A Nightmare, and the Next ThingSo VariousAn Evening in GalileeWe field-womenHe Never Expected MuchStanding by the MantelpieceOur Old Friend DualismDrinking SongThe Aged Newspaper SoliloquizesChristmas: 1924The Boy's DreamFamily PortraitChristmas in the Elgin Room'We are getting to the end'He Resolves to Say No More From Hardy's Uncollected PoemsThoughts from SophoclesThe Eve of WaterlooPrologueEpilogueOn One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself Selections from Hardy's AutobiographyAppendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by Hardy Appendix II