Poems by Thomas Hardy
San Sebastian
... And see too well your crimes!"We'd stormed it at night, by the vlanker-light ...
Lausanne, In Gibbon's Old Garden: 11-12 p.m.
... of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems to pass, ...
Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
... "Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!" And yet within these ruins' very shade ...
The Tenant-For-Life
... Than they will feel in a year "As I look on at you here, now, ...
To Outer Nature
... Love alone had wrought thee--Wrought thee for my pleasure, ...
The Lacking Sense Scene.--A sad-coloured landscape, Waddon Vale
... omniscience Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones ...
Her Reproach
... How absence wears these cheeks and dims these eyes! It surely is far sweeter and more wise ...
Unknowing
... .. --We did not know!But though, your powers outreckoning, ...
She, to Him, II
... To one who could to you her all resign And thus reflecting, you will never see ...
The Temporary The All
... " Thus I ... But lo, me!Mistress, friend, place, aims to be bettered straightway, ...
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
... We said: "We'll set such sorts as these!" ...
The Mother Mourns
... With dirgeful refrain, Weary plaint that Mankind, in these late days, ...
The Colonel's Solilquy
... . ."Now sounds 'The Girl I've left behind me,'--Ah, ...
Additions
... The Fire at Tranter Sweatley'sTHEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- ...
Postponement
... Cheerily mating!'"Fear-filled, I stayed me till summer-tide, ...