Selected poems of Thomas Hardy

Introduction

Hap

A Confession to a Friend in Trouble

Neutral tones

Friends Beyond

Nature's Questioning

The Impercipient

Heiress and Architect

"I Look into My Glass"

The Souls of the Slain

Rome: On the Palatine

Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius

At a Lunar Eclipse

To Life

Doom and She

The Subalterns

God-Forgotten

By the Earth's Corpse

To Lizbie Browne

"I Need Not Go"

His Immortality

Wives In the Sere

An August Midnight

The Darkening Thrush

The Ruined Maid

The Respectable Burgher

Memory and I

Agnosto Theo ("To the Unknown God")

After the Club-Dance

The Homecoming

The Rash Bride

Night in the Old Home New Year's Eve God's Education The Man He Killed

Wagtail and Baby

Channel Firing

"When I Set Out for Lyonnesse"

The Convergence of the Twain

Wessex Heights

"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"

The Going

Rain on a Grave

"I Found Her Out There"

Beeny Cliff

Aquae Sulis

Had You Wept

Starlings on the Roof

The Moon Looks In

At Tea

In Church

By Her Aunt's Grave

In the Room of the Bride-Elect

In the Cemetery

Outside the Window

Over the Coffin

In the Moonlight

To the Moon

The Blinded Bird

"The Wind Blew Words"

The Oxen

Transformations

Great Things

The Blow

Love the Monopolist

The Interloper

The Five Students

The Wind's Prophecy

During Wind and Rain

The Memorial Brass: 186-

Jubilate

Paths of Former Time

The Shadow on the Stone

In the Garden

While Drawing in a Churchyard

"For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly"

In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"

A New Year's Eve in War Time

"I Looked Up From My Writing"

Afterwards

Weathers

The Garden Seat

"According to the Mighty Working"

Going and Staying

Her Song

"And There Was a Great Calm"

Haunting Fingers

The Two Houses

"I Worked No While To Meet You"

Side by Side

On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and fourth

Voices From Things Growing in a Churchyard

By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End

After the War

The Chapel-Organist

At the Entering of the New Year

A Procession of Dead Days

He Follows Himself

The Singing Woman

Vagg Hollow

The Country Wedding

The Master and the Leaves

On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born

"I Was the Midmost"

The Whipper-In

The Milestone by the Rabbit-Burrow

The Seven Times

Drawing Details in and Old Church

An Ancient to Ancients

Waiting Both

In St. Paul's a While Ago

Every Artemisia

The Best She Could

A Night of Questionings

Life and Death at Sunrise

A Light Snow-Fall After Frost

The Aerolite

"She Opened the Door"

The Harbour Bridge

The Missed Train

A Popular Personage at Home

"Nothing Matters Much"

The Six Boards

"Why Do I ?"

The New Dawn's Business

Drinking Song.