Wessex Poems
and Other Verses
By
THOMAS HARDY
Author of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" etc.
With
30 Illustrations by the Author
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1899
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Desperate Remedies. |
The Hand of Ethelberta. |
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Life's Little Ironies. Tales. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental $1,25.
A Group of Noble Dames. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1,25.
Fellow-Townsmen. 32mo, Cloth, 35 cents.NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1898, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE
OF the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and others partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the light.
Whenever an ancient and legitimate word of the district, for which there was no equivalent in received English, suggested itself as the most natural, nearest, and often only expression of a thought, it has been made use of, on what seemed good grounds.
The pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception; and this even where they are not obviously so.
The dates attached to some of the poems do not apply to the rough sketches given in illustration, which have been recently made, and, as may be surmised, are inserted for personal and local reasons rather than for their intrinsic qualities.
T. H.
September 1898.
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They've a way of whispering to me."
—Friends Beyond, p. 145.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
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