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Thomas Hardy's Poetry, by first line

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  • Amabel
    I MARKED her ruined hues,
    Her custom-straitened views,
    32 lines
  • Hap
    If but some vengeful god would call to me
    From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing,
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • In Vision I Roamed
    IN vision I roamed the flashing Firmament,
    So fierce in blazon that the Night waxed wan,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • At A Bridal
    WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity,
    A dream of other offspring held my mind,
    14 lines
  • Postponement
    SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word,
    Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Neutral Tones
    WE stood by a pond that winter day,
    And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • She At His Funeral
    THEY bear him to his resting-place--
    In slow procession sweeping by;
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Her Dilemma
    THE two were silent in a sunless church,
    Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones,
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • Revulsion
    THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter
    Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss,
    14 lines
  • Ditty
    BENEATH a knap where flown
    Nestlings play,
    45 lines
  • The Sergeant's Song
    WHEN Lawyers strive to heal a breach,
    And Parsons practise what they preach;
    22 lines
  • Valenciennes
    We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed,
    And from our mortars tons of iron hummed
    56 lines
  • San Sebastian
    Why Sergeant, stray on the Ivel Way,
    As though at home there were spectres rife?
    70 lines
  • The Stranger's Song
    O My trade it is the rarest one,
    Simple shepherds all--
    15 lines, 1 comment
  • The Burghers
    THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest,
    And still I mused on that Thing imminent:
    69 lines
  • Leipzig
    "Old Norbert with the flat blue cap--
    A German said to be--
    144 lines
  • The Alarm
    In a ferny byway
    Near the great South-Wessex Highway,
    117 lines
  • Her Death And After
    'TWAS a death-bed summons, and forth I went
    By the way of the Western Wall, so drear
    135 lines
  • The Dance At The Phoenix
    TO Jenny came a gentle youth
    From inland leazes lone;
    161 lines
  • The Casterbridge Captains
    THREE captains went to Indian wars,
    And only one returned:
    28 lines
  • A Sign-Seeker
    I MARK the months in liveries dank and dry,
    The day-tides many-shaped and hued;
    48 lines
  • My Cicely
    "Alive?"--And I leapt in my wonder,
    Was faint of my joyance
    124 lines
  • Her Immortality
    UPON a noon I pilgrimed through
    A pasture, mile by mile,
    56 lines
  • The Ivy-Wife
    I LONGED to love a full-boughed beech
    And be as high as he:
    24 lines
  • A Meeting With Despair
    AS evening shaped I found me on a moor
    Which sight could scarce sustain:
    28 lines
  • Unknowing
    WHEN, soul in soul reflected,
    We breathed an æthered air,
    32 lines
  • Friends Beyond
    WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
    Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
    41 lines
  • To Outer Nature
    SHOW thee as I thought thee
    When I early sought thee,
    31 lines
  • Middle-Age Enthusiasms
    We passed where flag and flower
    Signalled a jocund throng;
    24 lines
  • To A Lady
    Offended by a Book of the Writer's
    NOW that my page upcloses, doo
    15 lines
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