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  • Song of the Soldiers
    What of the faith and fire within us
        Men who march away
    38 lines
  • We Are Getting to the End
    We are getting to the end of visioning
    The impossible within this universe,
    15 lines
  • Mute Opinion
    I traversed a dominion
    Whose spokesmen spake out strong
    20 lines
  • The Missed Train
    How I was caught
    Hieing home, after days of allure,
    23 lines
  • The Master And The Leaves
    We are budding, master, budding,
    We of your favourite tree;
    30 lines
  • Mad Judy
    When the hamlet hailed a birth
    Judy used to cry:
    19 lines
  • How She Went To Ireland
    Dora’s gone to Ireland
        Through the sleet and snow;
    20 lines
  • The Shadow On The Stone
          I went by the Druid stone
      That broods in the garden white and lone,
    26 lines
  • Domicilium
    It faces west, and round the back and sides
    High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs,
    36 lines
  • The Cheval-Glass
    Why do you harbour that great cheval-glass
    Filling up your narrow room?
    40 lines
  • His Visitor
    I come across from Mellstock while the moon wastes weaker
    To behold where I lived with you for twenty years and more
    20 lines
  • Lament
    How she would have loved
    A party to-day! --
    44 lines
  • The Woman In The Rye
    'Why do you stand in the dripping rye,
    Cold-lipped, unconscious, wet to the knee,
    15 lines
  • The Night Of Trafalgar
    In the wild October night-time, when the wind raved round the
        land,
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Her Secret
    That love's dull smart distressed my heart
    He shrewdly learnt to see,
    12 lines
  • St Launce's Revisited
    Slip back, Time!
    Yet again I am nearing
    28 lines
  • The Elopement
    'A woman never agreed to it!' said my knowing friend to me.
    'That one thing she'd refuse to do for Solomon's mines in fee:
    24 lines
  • The Going
    Why did you give no hint that night
    That quickly after the morrow's dawn,
    42 lines
  • She Charged Me
    She charged me with having said this and that
    To another woman long years before,
    16 lines
  • The Wistful Lady
    'Love, while you were away there came to me --
    From whence I cannot tell --
    30 lines
  • The Selfsame Song
    A bird sings the selfsame song,
    With never a fault in its flow,
    12 lines
  • To An Unborn Pauper Child
    Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently,
    And though thy birth-hour beckons thee,
    40 lines
  • The Fire At Tranter Sweatley's
    They had long met o' Zundays—her true love and she—
      And at junketings, maypoles, and flings;
    130 lines, 1 comment
  • [Greek Title]
    Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee,
    O Willer masked and dumb!
    20 lines
  • In Front Of The Landscape
    Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions,
    Dolorous and dear,
    71 lines
  • Starlings On The Roof
    'No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot,
    The people who lived here have left the spot,
    27 lines
  • In The British Museum
    'What do you see in that time-touched stone,
          When nothing is there
    39 lines
  • Aquae Sulis
    The chimes called midnight, just at interlune,
    And the daytime talk on the Roman investigations
    28 lines
  • The Coronation
    At Westminster, hid from the light of day,
    Many who once had shone as monarchs lay.
    50 lines
  • The Contretemps
    A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom,
    And we clasped, and almost kissed;
    56 lines
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