Thomas Hardy's Poetry - a selection of verse

<body> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="1002" height="41"> <tr> <td width="142" height="37"> <EMBED SRC="remember.mid" AUTOSTART="FALSE" LOOP="999" CONTROLS="console" width=145 height=60 align=left hspace=10 vspace=5 alt=""> </td> <td width="89" valign="top" align="center" height="37"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="2"><a href="contents.htm" target="_top">Main menu</a> </font></td> <td width="65" valign="top" align="center" height="37"><a href="poetinx.htm" target="main"><font size="2" face="Goudy Old Style">Poems</font></a></td> <td width="62" valign="top" align="center" height="37"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="2"><a href="novels.htm" target="main">Novels</a> </font></td> <td width="130" valign="top" align="center" height="37"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="2"><a href="picindex.htm" target="main">Location pictures</a>  </font></td> <td width="92" valign="top" align="center" height="37"><a href="http://www.guestbookdepot.com/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi?book_id=264946" 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ever poem, written about the age of 16, about his home and birthplace, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset)</font> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><b>Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: </b> </address> <address><a href="moments.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Moments of vision </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thevoice.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The voice of things</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="whybeat.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Why be at pains?</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="wesat.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">We sat at the window  </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Poem for St Swithin's day, on holiday with Emma) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aftern.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Afternoon service in Mellstock</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> </font><font size="3">(nostalgic reminiscences of Stinsford Church, Dorset - "Mellstock" in the books</font><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">)</font> </address> <address><a href="wicketg.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">At the wicket gate </font></a> </address> <address><a href="inmuseum.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In a museum </font></a> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="apostrop.htm">Apostrophe to an old hymn tune</a></font> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="farewell.htm">At the word "farewell"</a></font> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="firstsig.htm">First sight of her and after</a></font> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="therival.htm">The Rival</a></font> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="heredity.htm">Heredity</a></font> </address> <address><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"><a href="youwere.htm">You were the sort that men forget</a></font> </address> <address> <a href="theoxen.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The oxen </font></a> <font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Christmas nostalgia) </font> </address> <address align="left"> <a href="lastsig.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The last signal </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(With the death of William Barnes, Hardy was the only remaining link between Dorset agricultural ways and the world of letters) </font> </address> <address> <a href="stour.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Overlooking the River Stour</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="oldfurn.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Old furniture</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="duringw.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">During wind and rain</font></a></address> <address align="left"> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><b>Satires of Circumstance</b> </address> <address align="left"><b>Lyrics and Revelries  </b> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">  </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">Lyrics and Revelries </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">  </address> <address> <a href="lyrics.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In front of the Landscape</font></a> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%"><a href="channel.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Channel firing</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (remarkably prescient, given the date...)  Good example of God as a "character" in Hardy. </font> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%"><a href="converg.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Convergence of the twain</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="ghost.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Ghost of the past</font></a> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">  </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">  </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">Satires of Circumstance </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">  </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">I <a href="attea.htm">At Tea</a></font> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">II <a href="inchurch.htm">In Church</a></font> </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">III <a href="aunts.htm">By her aunt's grave</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">IV <a href="bride.htm">In the room of the bride-elect</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">V <a href="water.htm">At a watering-place</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">VI  <a href="cemetry.htm">In the cemetery</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">VII  <a href="window.htm">Outside the window</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"><font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">VIII <a href="study.htm">In the study</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">IX <a href="altar.htm">At the altar-rail</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">X <a href="altarc.htm">In the nuptial chamber</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">XI <a href="restaur.htm">In the restaurant</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">XII <a href="drapers.htm">At the draper's</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">XIII <a href="deathbed.htm">At the deathbed</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">XIV <a href="coffin.htm">Over the coffin</a> </font> </address> <address style="line-height: 100%" align="left"> <font face="Goudy Old Style" size="3">XV <a href="moonlite.htm">In the moonlight</a> </font> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left" style="line-height: 100%">Satires of Circumstance </address> <address align="left">- Poems of 1912-13 </address> <address align="left"><a href="thegoing.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The going </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="lastdriv.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Your last drive </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thewalk.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The walk </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="raingrav.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Rain on a grave</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="ifound.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">I found her out there</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="wocerem.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Without ceremony </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="lament.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Lament</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thehaunt.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The haunter </font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="voice.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The voice </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(more yearnings for his early meetings with his first wife, once she was dead of course) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="hisvis.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">His visitor</font></a></address> <address align="left"><a href="acirc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A  circular</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="adream.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A dream or no</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (about the place where he met his first wife)</font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aftera.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">After a journey</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="adeath.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A death-day recalled</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="beenyc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Beeny Cliff</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (more about his first wife after her death - no wonder his second wife got so annoyed about it)</font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="atcastle.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">At Castle Boterel</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (reminiscences of his first wife and when they met - you wouldn't believe this if you read a biography...) </font> </address> <address> <a href="places.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Places</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="phanthor.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The phantom horsewoman</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="spelrose.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The spell of the rose </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="stlaunce.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">St Launce's revisited</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="picnic.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Where the picnic was </font></a> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><b>Time's Laughingstocks</b> </address> <address align="left"><a href="chroman.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A Church Romance </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Romanticised account of his parents' meeting; Hardy family legend had it that Thomas Sr. actually seduced the future Mrs Hardy under a bush...) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="deadquir.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Dead Quire</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (our old friends from Melstock again.. </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="manhekil.htm" target="main">The man he killed</a> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="http://www.gutenberg.config.com/etext03/dynst10.txt" target="_blank">The Dynasts (Gutenberg Text)</a> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="aconfess.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A confession to a friend in trouble</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aconv.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A conversation at dawn</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">  (the usual cheerful stuff about his first wife) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aking.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A king's soliloquy</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (1910 - about the death of Edward VII) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="ameet.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A meeting with despair </font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aplaint.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A plaint to man</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="apoet.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A poet</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="asign.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A sign-seeker</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="asinger.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A singer asleep</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="athund.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A thunderstorm in town </font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aweek.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A week</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aftert.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">After the visit</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (about his second wife, for once) </font> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="afterw.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Afterwards</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (more depression about death)</font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="grave.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Ah, are you digging on my grave?</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (some more death depression, but at least funny...)</font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="amabel.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Amabel</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (after a meeting with a woman he lusted after as a child, about twenty years later when she was 50 and he 25-ish...</font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="anaugust.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">An August Midnight</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (probably been at the cider when he wrote this...) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="aquaesul.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Aquae Sulis</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (or Bath to the rest of us) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="ataninn.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">At an inn</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="atabri.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">At a bridal</font></a> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="atday.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">At day-close in November</font></a></address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="beforea.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Before and after Summer</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="bereft.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Bereft, she thinks she dreams</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="beyondt.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Beyond the last lamp</font></a></address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="chrisg.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">A Christmas ghost story</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Christmas Eve, 1899 - he was accused of being unpatriotic, of course) </font> </address> <address align="left"> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address align="left"><a href="ditty.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Ditty</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (a poem about his first wife, just after he met her, rather than after she was dead...) </font> </address> <address align="left"><a href="hodge.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Drummer Hodge</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="exeunt.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Exeunt omnes</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (more death) </font></address> <address align="left"><a href="friends.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Friends beyond</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (later parodied by Betjeman, in "Dorset" (from <em>Continual Dew</em>, 1937, or <em>Collected Poems</em>)</font></address> <address align="left"><a href="godsfun.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">God's funeral</font></a></address> <address align="left"><a href="hadyou.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Had you wept</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="hap.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Hap</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="heresolv.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">He resolves to say no more</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="heiress.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Heiress and architect</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="herdeath.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Her death and after</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="herdilem.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Her dilemma</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="herimmor.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Her immortality</font></a> </address> <address align="left"><a href="hersec.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Her secret</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="iroseup.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">I rose up, as my custom is</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="eweleaze.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In a eweleaze near Weatherbury</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Weatherbury is Puddletown (Piddletown before Queen Victoria visited), Dorset) </font> </address> <address> <a href="inawood.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In a wood</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="indeath.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In death divided</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="britmus.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In the British Musem</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Acts 17 will tell you what it's all about)</font> </address> <address> <a href="crino.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In the days of crinoline</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="quarters.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In the servants' quarters</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="breaking.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In time of "Breaking of the nations"</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Inspired by a very dull, pastoral scene; a month after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. The poem itself was written rather later) </font> </address> <address> <a href="invision.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">In vision I roamed</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="leipzig.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Leipzig</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="lines.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Lines</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="lostlove.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Lost love</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="menmarch.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Men who march away</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="middleag.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Middle-age enthusiasms</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="mycicely.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">My Cicely</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="myspirit.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">My spirit will not haunt the mound</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="natures.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Nature's questioning</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="neutral.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Neutral tones</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="postpon.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Postponement</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="regretno.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Regret not me</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="sansebas.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">San Sebastien</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="seenwait.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Seen by the waits</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="selfunc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Self-unconcious</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="sev420.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Seventy-four and twenty</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="shefun.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She (at his funeral)</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="shechar.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She charged me</font></a> </address> <address align="left">  </address> <address> <a href="she_1.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She, to him - 1 </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="she_2.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She, to him - 2 </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="she_3.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She, to him - 3 </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="she_4.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">She, to him - 4 </font></a> </address> <address>   </address> <address> <a href="shutmoon.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Shut out that moon</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="snow_sub.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Snow in the suburbs</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="sotime.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">So time </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="spectres.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Spectres that grieve</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="abbmason.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The abbey mason</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="alarm.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The alarm</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Hardy was obsessed with Napoleon and his effect on Dorset) </font> </address> <address> <a href="burghers.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The burghers</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="captains.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Casterbridge Captains</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="cheval.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The cheval-glass</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="coron.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The coronation</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="phoenix.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The dance at the Phoenix</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thrush.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The darkling thrush </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(note Hardy's opinion about when the century ended - ref. 1999-2000) </font> </address> <address> <a href="deathreg.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The death of regret</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="differe.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The difference </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="discover.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The discovery</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="elope.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The elopment</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="casement.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The face at the casement </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(about a former rival for his first wife)</font> </address> <address> <a href="tranters.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The fire at Tranter Sweatley's </font></a> </address> <address>   </address> <address> <a href="theimper.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The impercipient </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(Typical Hardy dilemma - he'd love to believe, but can't) </font> </address> <address> <a href="ivywife.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The ivy-wife </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="jubilee.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The jubilee of a magazine</font></a> </address> <address>   </address> <address> <a href="themoon.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The moon looks in </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="themoths.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The moth signal</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thenewcw.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The newcomer's wife </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="theoblit.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The obliterate tomb </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="peasconf.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The peasant's confession</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (Hardy was obsessed with Napoleon, and the Napoleonic wars, visiting Waterloo twice)</font> </address> <address>   </address> <address> <a href="placemap.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The place on the map </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="recalc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The recalcitrants</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="reenact.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The re-enactment </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="respburg.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The respectable burgher </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(a good satire on the idiocy of liberal "Christianity") </font> </address> <address> <a href="romgrav.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Roman gravemounds </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(upset his wife (again...) - "the little white cat was my only friend") </font> </address> <address> <a href="sacri.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The sacrilege </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="satinsho.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The satin shoes </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="shreck.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The Shreckhorn</font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style"> (dedicated to the father of Virgina Woolf - although Hardy knew him through publishing) </font> </address> <address> <a href="self.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The self-unseeing</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="sergeant.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The sergeant's song </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="slownat.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The slow nature (an incident of the Froom valley) </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="starling.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The starlings on the roof </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="stranger.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The stranger's song </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(the stranger having been asked what his trade is...) </font> </address> <address> <a href="bookcase.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The sun in the bookcase</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="hussy.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The sweet hussy </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="telegram.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The telegram</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="tempo.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The temporary the all </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="tornlett.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The torn letter </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="the2men.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The two men</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="twosold.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The two soldiers </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="thevoice.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The voice of things </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(Mourning for a faith he can't have) </font> </address> <address> <a href="thewist.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The wistful lady</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="womrye.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The woman in the rye</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="workbox.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The workbox</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="yearsaw.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">The year's awakening </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="phena.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Thoughts of Ph---a , on her death </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(after the death of his cousin, Tryphena Sparks - he may well have had an affair with Phena when he was about 30, and she about 20; some have speculated (wrongly) that they had an illegitimate child) . Of course, any attractive woman Hardy knew was idealized as long as she was either unobtainable, or dead, or both...)</font> </address> <address> <a href="toalady.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">To a lady (offended by a book of the writer's)</font></a> </address> <address> <a href="orphan.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">To an orphan child </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="tomeet.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">To meet, or otherwise </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="outern.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">To outer nature </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="toleranc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Tolerance </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="waterfal.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Under the waterfall </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="unknow.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Unknowing </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="valenc.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Valenciennes </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="fieldwom.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">We field women </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(cf - Tess of the D'Urbervilles) </font> </address> <address> <a href="wessexh.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">Wessex heights </font></a> </address> <address> <a href="lyonesse.htm"><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">When I set out for Lyonesse </font></a><font size="3" face="Goudy Old Style">(about meeting his first wife - happy, for once) </font> </address> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> </body>