Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

by Thomas Hardy

LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

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LATE LYRICS

AND EARLIER

WITH MANY OTHER VERSES

BY

THOMAS HARDY

 

 

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1922

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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

page

Apology ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

v

Weathers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

1

The Maid of Keinton Mandeville ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

3

Summer Schemes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

5

Epeisodia ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

6

Faintheart in a Railway Train ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

8

At Moonrise and Onwards ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9

The Garden Seat ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

11

Barthélémon at Vauxhall ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

12

"I sometimes think" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

14

Jezreel ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

15

A Jog-trot Pair ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

17

"The Curtains now are drawn" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

19

"According to the Mighty Working" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

21

"I was not He" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

22

The West-of-Wessex Girl ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

23

Welcome Home ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

25

Going and Staying ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

Read by Moonlight ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

27

At a House in Hampstead ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

28

A Woman's Fancy ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

30

Her Song ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

33

A Wet August ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

35

The Dissemblers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

36

To a Lady playing and singing in the Morning ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

37

"A Man was drawing near to Me" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

38

The Strange House ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

40

"As 'twere To-night" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

42

The Contretemps ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

A Gentleman's Epitaph on Himself and a Lady ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

46

The Old Gown ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

48

A Night in November ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

50

A Duettist to her Pianoforte ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

51

"Where Three Roads joined" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

53

"And There was a Great Calm" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

55

Haunting Fingers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

59

The Woman I met ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

63

"If it's ever Spring again" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

67

The Two Houses ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

68

On Stinsford Hill at Midnight ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

72

The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

74

The Selfsame Song ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

75

The Wanderer ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

76

A Wife comes back ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

78

A Young Man's Exhortation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

81

At Lulworth Cove a Century back ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

83

A Bygone Occasion ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

85

Two Serenades ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

86

The Wedding Morning ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

89

End of the Year 1912 ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

90

The Chimes play "Life's a Bumper" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

91

"I worked no Wile to meet You" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

93

At the Railway Station, Upway ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

95

Side by Side ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

96

Dream of the City Shopwoman ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

98

A Maiden's Pledge ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

100

The Child and the Sage ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

101

Mismet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

103

An Autumn Rain-scene ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

105

Meditations on a Holiday ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

107

An Experience ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

111

The Beauty ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

113

The Collector cleans his Picture ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

114

The Wood Fire ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

117

Saying Good-bye ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

119

On the Tune called the Old-hundred-and-fourth ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

121

The Opportunity ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

123

Evelyn G. of Christminster ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

124

The Rift ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

126

Voices from Things growing ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

127

On the Way ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

130

"She did not turn" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

132

Growth in May ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

133

The Children and Sir Nameless ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

134

At the Royal Academy ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

136

Her Temple ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

138

A Two-Years' Idyll ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

139

By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

141

Penance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

143

"I look in her Face" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

145

After the War ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

146

"If You had known" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

148

The Chapel-Organist ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

150

Fetching Her ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

157

"Could I but will" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

159

She revisits alone the Church of her Marriage ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

161

At the Entering of the New Year ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

163

They would not come ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

165

After a Romantic Day ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

167

The Two Wives ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

168

"I knew a Lady" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

170

A House with a History ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

171

A Procession of Dead Days ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

173

He follows Himself ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

176

The Singing Woman ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

178

Without, not within Her ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

179

"O I won't lead a Homely Life" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

180

In the Small Hours ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

181

The Little Old Table ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

183

Vagg Hollow ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

184

The Dream is—which? ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

186

The Country Wedding ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

187

First or Last ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

190

Lonely Days ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

191

"What did it mean?" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

194

At the Dinner-table ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

196

The Marble Tablet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

198

The Master an the Leaves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

199

Last Words to a Dumb Friend ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

201

A Drizzling Easter Morning ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

204

On One who lived and died where He was born ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

205

The Second Night ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

207

She who saw not ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

210

The Old Workman ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

212

The Sailor's Mother ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

214

Outside the Casement ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

216

The Passer-by ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

218

"I was the Midmost" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

220

A Sound in the Night ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

221

On a Discovered Curl of Hair ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

226

An Old Likeness ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

227

Her Apotheosis ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

229

"Sacred to the Memory" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

230

To a Well-named Dwelling ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

231

The Whipper-in ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

232

A Military Appointment ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

234

The Milestone by the Rabbit-burrow ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

236

The Lament of the Looking-glass ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

237

Cross-currents ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

238

The Old Neighbour and the New ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

240

The Chosen ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

241

The Inscription ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

244

The Marble-streeted Town ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

251

A Woman driving ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

252

A Woman's Trust ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

254

Best Times ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

256

The Casual Acquaintance ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

258

Intra Sepulchrum ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

260

The Whitewashed Wall ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

262

Just the Same ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

264

The Last Time ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

265

The Seven Times ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

266

The Sun's Last Look on the Country Girl ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

269

In a London Flat ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

270

Drawing Details in an Old Church ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

272

Rake-hell muses ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

273

The Colour ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

277

Murmurs in the Gloom ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

279

Epitaph ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

281

An Ancient to Ancients ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

282

After reading Psalms xxxix., xl. ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

285

Surview ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

287