Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

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LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER



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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

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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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COPYRIGHT

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN




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CONTENTS

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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
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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
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 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
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 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
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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
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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
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"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
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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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