Chapter XXXIV: Chapter XXXV Chapter XXXVI Chapter XXXVII Chapter

XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE LYRICS AND REVERIES WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS

Lyrics and Reveries�

PAGE

In Front of the Landscape

3

Channel Firing

7

The Convergence of the Twain

9

The Ghost of the Past

12

After the Visit

14

To Meet, or Otherwise

16

The Difference

18

The Sun on the Bookcase

19

�When I set out for Lyonnesse�

20

A Thunderstorm in Town

21

The Torn Letter

22

Beyond the Last Lamp

25

The Face at the Casement

27

Lost Love

30

�My spirit will not haunt the mound�

31

Wessex Heights

32

In Death divided

35

p. viThe Place on the Map

37

Where the Picnic was

39

The Schreckhorn

41

A Singer asleep

42

A Plaint to Man

45

God�s Funeral

47

Spectres that grieve

52

�Ah, are you digging on my grave?�

54

Satires of Circumstance�

I.

At Tea

59

II.

In Church

60

III.

By her Aunt�s Grave

61

IV.

In the Room of the Bride-elect

62

V.

At the Watering-place

63

VI.

In the Cemetery

64

VII.

Outside the Window

65

VIII.

In the Study

66

IX.

At the Altar-rail

67

X.

In the Nuptial Chamber

68

XI.

In the Restaurant

69

XII.

At the Draper�s

70

XIII.

On the Death-bed

71

XIV.

Over the Coffin

72

XV.

In the Moonlight

73

p. viiLyrics and Reveries (continued)�

Self-unconscious

77

The Discovery

80

Tolerance

81

Before and after Summer

82

At Day-close in November

83

The Year�s Awakening

84

Under the Waterfall

85

The Spell of the Rose

88

St. Launce�s revisited

90

Poems of 1912�13�

The Going

95

Your Last Drive

97

The Walk

99

Rain on a Grace

100

�I found her out there�

102

Without Ceremony

104

Lament

105

The Haunter

107

The Voice

109

His Visitor

110

A Circular

112

A Dream or No

113

After a Journey

115

A Death-ray recalled

117

p. viiiBeeny Cliff

119

At Castle Boterel

121

Places

123

The Phantom Horsewoman

125

Miscellaneous Pieces�

The Wistful Lady

129

The Woman in the Rye

131

The Cheval-Glass

132

The Re-enactment

134

Her Secret

140

�She charged me�

141

The Newcomer�s Wife

142

A Conversation at Dawn

143

A King�s Soliloquy

152

The Coronation

154

Aquae Sulis

157

Seventy-four and Twenty

160

The Elopement

161

�I rose up as my custom is�

163

A Week

165

Had you wept

167

Bereft, she thinks she dreams

169

In the British Museum

170

In the Servants� Quarters

172

The Obliterate Tomb

175

p. ix�Regret not me�

183

The Recalcitrants

185

Starlings on the Roof

186

The Moon looks in

187

The Sweet Hussy

188

The Telegram

189

The Moth-signal

191

Seen by the Waits

193

The Two Soldiers

194

The Death of Regret

195

In the Days of Crinoline

197

The Roman Gravemounds

199

The Workbox

201

The Sacrilege

203

The Abbey Mason

210

The Jubilee of a Magazine

222

The Satin Shoes

224

Exeunt Omnes

227

A Poet

228

Postscript�

�Men who march away�

229

DESPERATE REMEDIES By Thomas Hardy

CONTENTS

PREFATORY NOTE

I. THE EVENTS OF THIRTY YEARS

II. THE EVENTS OF A FORTNIGHT

III. THE EVENTS OF EIGHT DAYS

IV. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

V. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

VI. THE EVENTS OF TWELVE HOURS

VII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS

VIII. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN DAYS

IX. THE EVENTS OF TEN WEEKS

X. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT

XI. THE EVENTS OF FIVE DAYS

XII. THE EVENTS OF TEN MONTHS

XIII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

XIV. THE EVENTS OF FIVE WEEKS

XV. THE EVENTS OF THREE WEEKS

XVI. THE EVENTS OF ONE WEEK

XVII. THE EVENTS OF ONE DAY

XVIII. THE EVENTS OF THREE DAYS

XIX. THE EVENTS OF A DAY AND NIGHT

XX. THE EVENTS OF THREE HOURS

XXI. THE EVENTS OF EIGHTEEN HOURS

SEQUEL

POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS

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V.R. 1819�1901

231

WAR POEMS�

Embarcation

235

Departure

237

The Colonel�s Soliloquy

239

The Going of the Battery

242

At the War Office

245

A Christmas Ghost-Story

247

The Dead Drummer

249

A Wife in London

251

The Souls of the Slain

253

Song of the Soldiers� Wives

260

The Sick God

263

POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE�

Genoa and the Mediterranean

269

Shelley�s Skylark

272

In the Old Theatre, Fiesole

274

Rome: on the Palatine

276

,, Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter

278

,, The Vatican: Sala Delle Muse

280

,, At the Pyramid of Cestius

283

Lausanne: In Gibbon�s Old Garden

286

Zermatt: To the Matterhorn

288

The Bridge of Lodi

290

On an Invitation to the United States

295

p. xiiMISCELLANEOUS POEMS�

The Mother Mourns

299

�I said to Love�

305

A Commonplace Day

307

At a Lunar Eclipse

310

The Lacking Sense

312

To Life

316

Doom and She

318

The Problem

321

The Subalterns

323

The Sleep-worker

325

The Bullfinches

327

God-Forgotten

329

The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God

333

By the Earth�s Corpse

336

Mute Opinion

339

To an Unborn Pauper Child

341

To Flowers from Italy in Winter

344

On a Fine Morning

346

To Lizbie Browne

348

Song of Hope

352

The Well-Beloved

354

Her Reproach

358

The Inconsistent

360

A Broken Appointment

362

�Between us now�

364

�How great my Grief�

366

�I need not go�

367

The Coquette, and After

369

p. xiiiA Spot

371

Long Plighted

373

The Widow

375

At a Hasty Wedding

378

The Dream-Follower

379

His Immortality

380

The To-be-Forgotten

382

Wives in the Sere

385

The Superseded

387

An August Midnight

389

The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again

391

Birds at Winter Nightfall

393

The Puzzled Game-Birds

394

Winter in Durnover Field

395

The Last Chrysanthemum

397

The Darkling Thrush

399

The Comet at Yalbury or Yell�ham

402

Mad Judy

403

A Wasted Illness

405

A Man

408

The Dame of Athelhall

412

The Seasons of her Year

416

The Milkmaid

418

The Levelled Churchyard

420

The Ruined Maid

422

The Respectable Burgher on �the Higher Criticism�

425

Architectural Masks

428

The Tenant-for-Life

430

p. xivThe King�s Experiment

432

The Tree: an Old Man�s Story

435

Her Late Husband

439

The Self-Unseeing

441

De Profundis i.

443

De Profundis ii.

445

De Profundis iii.

448

The Church-Builder

451

The Lost Pyx: a Medi�val Legend

457

Tess�s Lament

462

The Supplanter: A Tale

465

IMITATIONS, Etc.�

Sapphic Fragment

473

Catullus: xxxi

474

After Schiller

476

Song: From Heine

477

From Victor Hugo

479

Cardinal Bembo�s Epitaph on Raphael

480

RETROSPECT�

�I have Lived with Shades�

483

Memory and I

486

?G?OS?O. T?O

489

MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES By Thomas Hardy CONTENTS

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Moments of Vision

1

The Voice of Things

2

�Why be at pains?�

3

�We sat at the window�

4

Afternoon Service at Mellstock

5

At the Wicket-gate

6

In a Museum

7

Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune

8

At the Word �Farewell�

11

First Sight of Her and After

13

The Rival

14

Heredity

15

�You were the sort that men forget�

16

She, I, and They

17

Near Lanivet, 1872

18

Joys of Memory

20

To the Moon

21

Copying Architecture in an Old Minster

22

p. viTo Shakespeare

24

Quid hic agis?

27

On a Midsummer Eve

30

Timing Her

31

Before Knowledge

34

The Blinded Bird

35

�The wind blew words�

36

The Faded Face

37

The Riddle

38

The Duel

39

At Mayfair Lodgings

42

To my Father�s Violin

44

The Statue of Liberty

47

The Background and the Figure

50

The Change

51

Sitting on the Bridge

54

The Young Churchwarden

56

�I travel as a phantom now�

57

Lines to a Movement in Mozart�s E-flat Symphony

58

�In the seventies�

60

The Pedigree

62

This Heart. A Woman�s Dream

65

Where they lived

68

The Occultation

69

Life laughs Onward

70

The Peace-offering

71

p. vii�Something tapped�

72

The Wound

73

A Merrymaking in Question

74

�I said and sang her excellence�

75

A January Night. 1879

77

A Kiss

78

The Announcement

79

The Oxen

80

The Tresses

81

The Photograph

82

On a Heath

84

An Anniversary

85

�By the Runic Stone�

87

The Pink Frock

88

Transformations

89

In her Precincts

90

The Last Signal

91

The House of Silence

93

Great Things

95

The Chimes

97

The Figure in the Scene

98

�Why did I sketch�

99

Conjecture

100

The Blow

101

Love the Monopolist

103

At Middle-field Gate in February

105

p. viiiThe Youth who carried a Light

106

The Head above the Fog

108

Overlooking the River Stour

109

The Musical Box

111

On Sturminster Foot-bridge

113

Royal Sponsors

114

Old Furniture

116

A Thought in Two Moods

118

The Last Performance

119

�You on the tower�

120

The Interloper

122

Logs on the Hearth

124

The Sunshade

126

The Ageing House

128

The Caged Goldfinch

129

At Madame Tussaud�s in Victorian Years

130

The Ballet

132

The Five Students

133

The Wind�s Prophecy

135

During Wind and Rain

137

He prefers her Earthly

139

The Dolls

140

Molly gone

141

A Backward Spring

143

Looking Across

144

At a Seaside Town in 1869

146

p. ixThe Glimpse

149

The Pedestrian

151

�Who�s in the next room?�

153

At a Country Fair

155

The Memorial Brass: 186-

156

Her Love-birds

158

Paying Calls

160

The Upper Birch-Leaves

161

�It never looks like summer�

162

Everything comes

163

The Man with a Past

164

He fears his Good Fortune

166

He wonders about Himself

167

Jubilate

168

He revisits his First School

171

�I thought, my heart�

173

Fragment

174

Midnight on the Great Western

176

Honeymoon Time at an Inn

177

The Robin

181

�I rose and went to Rou�tor town�

183

The Nettles

184

In a Waiting-room

185

The Clock-winder

187

Old Excursions

189

The Masked Face

191

p. xIn a Whispering Gallery

192

The Something that saved Him

193

The Enemy�s Portrait

195

Imaginings

197

On the Doorstep

198

Signs and Tokens

199

Paths of Former Time

201

The Clock of the Years

203

At the Piano

205

The Shadow on the Stone

206

In the Garden

208

The Tree and the Lady

209

An Upbraiding

211

The Young Glass-stainer

212

Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary

213

The Choirmaster�s Burial

215

The Man who forgot

217

While drawing in a Churchyard

219

�For Life I had never cared greatly�

221

Poems of War and Patriotism�

�Men who march away� (Song of the Soldiers)

225

His Country

227

England to Germany in 1914

229

On the Belgian Expatriation

230

p. xiAn Appeal to America on behalf of the Belgian Destitute

231

The Pity of It

232

In Time of Wars and Tumults

233

In Time of �the Breaking of nations�

234

Cry of the Homeless

235

Before Marching and After

237

�Often when warring�

239

Then and Now

240

A Call to National Service

242

The Dead and the Living One

243

A New Year�s Eve in War Time

246

�I met a man�

248

�I looked up from my writing�

250

Finale�

The Coming of the End

255

Afterwards

257

A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY By Thomas Hardy

CONTENTS

PREFACE. BOOK THE FIRST. GEORGE SOMERSET. BOOK THE SECOND. DARE AND HAVILL. BOOK THE THIRD. DE STANCY. BOOK THE FOURTH. SOMERSET, DARE AND DE STANCY. BOOK THE FIFTH. DE STANCY AND PAULA. BOOK THE SIXTH. PAULA.

THE WELL-BELOVED A SKETCH OF A TEMPERAMENT By Thomas Hardy

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