Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses (1922)
by Thomas Hardy
3674668Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses1922Thomas Hardy


LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER




MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA • MADRAS

MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO

DALLAS • SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.

TORONTO

LATE LYRICS

AND EARLIER


WITH MANY OTHER VERSES


BY

THOMAS HARDY

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1922


COPYRIGHT

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN




CONTENTS

page

Apology
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v
Weathers
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1
The Maid of Keinton Mandeville
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3
Summer Schemes
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5
Epeisodia
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6
Faintheart in a Railway Train
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8
At Moonrise and Onwards
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9
The Garden Seat
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11
Barthélémon at Vauxhall
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12
"I sometimes think"
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14
Jezreel
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15
A Jog-trot Pair
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17
"The Curtains now are drawn"
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19
"According to the Mighty Working"
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21
"I was not He"
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22
The West-of-Wessex Girl
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23
Welcome Home
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25
Going and Staying
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26
Read by Moonlight
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27
At a House in Hampstead
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28
A Woman's Fancy
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30
Her Song
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33
A Wet August
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35
The Dissemblers
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36
To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning
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37
"A Man was drawing near to Me"
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38
The Strange House
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40
"As 'twere To-night"
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42
The Contretemps
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43
A Gentleman's Epitaph on Himself and a Lady
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46
The Old Gown
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48
A Night in November
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50
A Duettist to her Pianoforte
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51
"Where Three Roads joined"
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53
"And There was a Great Calm"
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55
Haunting Fingers
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59
The Woman I met
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63
"If it's ever Spring again"
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67
The Two Houses
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68
On Stinsford Hill at Midnight
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72
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
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74
The Selfsame Song
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75
The Wanderer
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76
A Wife comes back
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78
A Young Man's Exhortation
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81
At Lulworth Cove a Century back
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83
A Bygone Occasion
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85
Two Serenades
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86
The Wedding Morning
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89
End of the Year 1912
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90
The Chimes play "Life's a Bumper"
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91
"I worked no Wile to meet You"
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93
At the Railway Station, Upway
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95
Side by Side
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96
Dream of the City Shopwoman
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98
A Maiden's Pledge
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100
The Child and the Sage
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101
Mismet
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103
An Autumn Rain-scene
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105
Meditations on a Holiday
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107
An Experience
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111
The Beauty
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113
The Collector cleans his Picture
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114
The Wood Fire
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117
Saying Good-bye
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119
On the Tune called the Old-hundred-and-fourth
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121
The Opportunity
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123
Evelyn G. of Christminster
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124
The Rift
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126
Voices from Things growing
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127
On the Way
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130
"She did not turn"
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132
Growth in May
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133
The Children and Sir Nameless
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134
At the Royal Academy
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136
Her Temple
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138
A Two-Years' Idyll
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139
By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End
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141
Penance
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143
"I look in her Face"
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145
After the War
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146
"If You had known"
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148
The Chapel-Organist
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150
Fetching Her
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157
"Could I but will"
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159
She revisits alone the Church of her Marriage
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161
At the Entering of the New Year
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163
They would not come
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165
After a Romantic Day
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167
The Two Wives
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168
"I knew a Lady"
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170
A House with a History
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171
A Procession of Dead Days
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173
He follows Himself
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176
The Singing Woman
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178
Without, not within Her
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179
"O I won't lead a Homely Life"
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180
In the Small Hours
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181
The Little Old Table
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183
Vagg Hollow
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184
The Dream is—which?
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186
The Country Wedding
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187
First or Last
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190
Lonely Days
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191
"What did it mean?"
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194
At the Dinner-table
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196
The Marble Tablet
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198
The Master an the Leaves
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199
Last Words to a Dumb Friend
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201
A Drizzling Easter Morning
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204
On One who lived and died where He was born
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205
The Second Night
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207
She who saw not
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210
The Old Workman
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212
The Sailor's Mother
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214
Outside the Casement
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216
The Passer-by
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218
"I was the Midmost"
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220
A Sound in the Night
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221
On a Discovered Curl of Hair
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226
An Old Likeness
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227
Her Apotheosis
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229
"Sacred to the Memory"
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230
To a Well-named Dwelling
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231
The Whipper-in
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232
A Military Appointment
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234
The Milestone by the Rabbit-burrow
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236
The Lament of the Looking-glass
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237
Cross-currents
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238
The Old Neighbour and the New
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240
The Chosen
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241
The Inscription
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244
The Marble-streeted Town
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251
A Woman driving
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252
A Woman's Trust
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254
Best Times
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256
The Casual Acquaintance
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258
Intra Sepulchrum
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260
The Whitewashed Wall
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262
Just the Same
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264
The Last Time
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265
The Seven Times
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266
The Sun's Last Look on the Country Girl
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269
In a London Flat
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270
Drawing Details in an Old Church
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272
Rake-hell muses
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273
The Colour
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277
Murmurs in the Gloom
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279
Epitaph
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281
An Ancient to Ancients
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282
After reading Psalms xxxix., xl.
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285
Surview
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287

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