Thomas Hardy: The Complete Poems

by Gibson, James; Hardy, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780333949290
• ISBN10: 0333949293
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Thomas Hardy's first love was poetry. It was not until 1898, when he was 58, that his first book of poetry,Wessex Poemswas published. For the final years of his life he abandoned fiction and devoted himself entirely to poetry; he is now not only regarded as one of the most important English novelists but is also a poet of major stature and increasing popularity.The Complete Poemsincludes Hardy's more than 900 poems, complemented by detailed notes. Collected here are his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems,Domicilium, and the songs fromThe Dynasts. This edition contains an additional poem,The Sound of Her.

Author Biography

James Gibson is a writer, editor, and lecturer.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xxxii
Introduction	xxxv
James Gibson
Domicilium	3	(3)
Wessex Poems and Other Verses
Preface	6	(1)
The Temporary the All	7	(1)
Amabel	8	(1)
Hap	9	(1)
In Vision I Roamed	9	(1)
At a Bridal	10	(1)
Postponement	11	(1)
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble	11	(1)
Neutral Tones	12	(1)
She at His Funeral	12	(1)
Her Initials	13	(1)
Her Dilemma	13	(1)
Revulsion	14	(1)
She, to Him I	14	(1)
She, to Him II	15	(1)
She, to Him III	15	(1)
She, to Him IV	16	(1)
Ditty	17	(1)
The Sergeant's Song	18	(1)
Valenciennes	19	(2)
San Sebastian	21	(2)
The Stranger's Song	23	(1)
The Burghers	24	(2)
Leipzig	26	(5)
The Peasant's Confession	31	(4)
The Alarm	35	(4)
Her Death and After	39	(4)
The Dance at the Phoenix	43	(5)
The Casterbridge Captains	48	(1)
A Sign-Seeker	49	(2)
My Cicely	51	(4)
Her Immortality	55	(2)
The Ivy-Wife	57	(1)
A Meeting with Despair	57	(1)
Unknowing	58	(1)
Friends Beyond	59	(2)
To Outer Nature	61	(1)
Thoughts of Phena	62	(1)
Middle-Age Enthusiasms	63	(1)
In a Wood	64	(1)
To a Lady	65	(1)
To a Motherless Child	65	(1)
Nature's Questioning	66	(1)
The Impercipient	67	(1)
At an Inn	68	(1)
The Slow Nature	69	(1)
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury	70	(1)
The Bride-Night Fire	71	(4)
Heiress and Architect	75	(2)
The Two Men	77	(2)
Lines	79	(2)
I Look Into My Glass	81	(3)
Poems of the Past and the Present
Preface	84	(1)
V.R. 1819--1901	85	(1)
War Poems
Embarcation	86	(1)
Departure	86	(1)
The Colonel's Soliloquy	87	(1)
The Going of the Battery	88	(1)
At the War Office, London	89	(1)
A Christmas Ghost-Story	90	(1)
Drummer Hodge	90	(1)
A Wife in London	91	(1)
The Souls of the Slain	92	(4)
Song of the Soldiers' Wives and Sweethearts	96	(1)
The Sick Battle-God	97	(3)
Poems of Pilgrimage
Genoa and the Mediterranean	100	(1)
Shelley's Skylark	101	(1)
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole	102	(1)
Rome: On the Palatine	102	(3)
Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter	103	(1)
The Vatican: Sala delle Muse	103	(1)
At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats	104	(1)
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden: 11--12 p.m.	105	(1)
Zermatt: To the Matterhorn	106	(1)
The Bridge of Lodi	107	(3)
On an Invitation to the United States	110	(1)
Miscellaneous Poems
The Mother Mourns	111	(3)
I Said to Love	114	(1)
A Commonplace Day	115	(1)
At a Lunar Eclipse	116	(1)
The Lacking Sense	116	(2)
To Life	118	(1)
Doom and She	118	(2)
The Problem	120	(1)
The Subalterns	120	(1)
The Sleep-Worker	121	(1)
The Bullfinches	122	(1)
God-Forgotten	123	(1)
The Bedridden Peasant	124	(2)
By the Earth's Corpse	126	(1)
Mute Opinion	127	(1)
To an Unborn Pauper Child	127	(2)
To Flowers from Italy in Winter	129	(1)
On a Fine Morning	129	(1)
To Lizbie Browne	130	(2)
Song of Hope	132	(1)
The Well-Beloved	133	(2)
Her Reproach	135	(1)
The Inconsistent	135	(1)
A Broken Appointment	136	(1)
Between Us Now	136	(1)
How Great My Grief	137	(1)
I Need Not Go	138	(1)
The Coquette, and After	139	(1)
A Spot	139	(1)
Long Plighted	140	(1)
The Widow Betrothed	141	(1)
At a Hasty Wedding	142	(1)
The Dream-Follower	143	(1)
His Immortality	143	(1)
The To-Be-Forgotten	144	(1)
Wives in the Sere	145	(1)
The Superseded	146	(1)
An August Midnight	146	(1)
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again	147	(1)
Birds at Winter Nightfall	148	(1)
The Puzzled Game-Birds	148	(1)
Winter in Durnover Field	148	(1)
The Last Chrysanthemum	149	(1)
The Darkling Thrush	150	(1)
The Comet at Yell'ham	151	(1)
Mad Judy	151	(1)
A Wasted Illness	152	(1)
A Man	153	(1)
The Dame of Athelhall	154	(2)
The Seasons of Her Year	156	(1)
The Milkmaid	157	(1)
The Levelled Churchyard	157	(1)
The Ruined Maid	158	(1)
The Respectable Burgher	159	(1)
Architectural Masks	160	(1)
The Tenant-for-Life	161	(1)
The King's Experiment	162	(1)
The Tree	163	(2)
Her Late Husband	165	(1)
The Self-Unseeing	166	(1)
In Tenebris I	167	(1)
In Tenebris II	168	(1)
In Tenebris III	169	(1)
The Church-Builder	170	(3)
The Lost Pyx	173	(2)
Tess's Lament	175	(2)
The Supplanter	177	(4)
Imitations, etc.
Sapphic Fragment	181	(1)
Catullus: XXXI	181	(1)
After Schiller	182	(1)
Song from Heine	182	(1)
From Victor Hugo	182	(1)
Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael	183	(1)
Retrospect
I Have Lived with Shades	184	(1)
Memory and I	185	(1)
'AΓNΩTΣI &thetas;EΩI	186	(4)
Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
Time's Laughingstocks
Preface	190	(1)
The Revisitation	191	(4)
A Trampwoman's Tragedy	195	(4)
The Two Rosalinds	199	(2)
A Sunday Morning Tragedy	201	(5)
The House of Hospitalities	206	(1)
Bereft	206	(1)
John and Jane	207	(1)
The Curate's Kindness	208	(2)
The Flirt's Tragedy	210	(3)
The Rejected Member's Wife	213	(1)
The Farm-Woman's Winter	214	(1)
Autumn in King's Hintock Park	215	(1)
Shut Out That Moon	216	(1)
Reminiscences of a Dancing Man	216	(1)
The Dead Man Walking	217	(3)
More Love Lyrics
1967	220	(1)
Her Definition	220	(1)
The Division	221	(1)
On the Departure Platform	221	(1)
In a Cathedral City	222	(1)
I Say, `I'll Seek Her	222	(1)
Her Father	223	(1)
At Waking	224	(1)
Four Footprints	225	(1)
In the Vaulted Way	225	(1)
In the Mind's Eye	226	(1)
The End of the Episode	226	(1)
The Sigh	227	(1)
In the Night She Came	228	(1)
The Conformers	229	(1)
The Dawn after the Dance	230	(1)
The Sun on the Letter	231	(1)
The Night of the Dance	231	(1)
Misconception	232	(1)
The Voice of the Thorn	233	(1)
From Her in the Country	234	(1)
Her Confession	234	(1)
To an Impersonator of Rosalind	235	(1)
To an Actress	235	(1)
The Minute before Meeting	236	(1)
He Abjures Love	236	(2)
A Set of Country Songs
Let Me Enjoy	238	(1)
At Casterbridge Fair	239	(4)
The Ballad-Singer	239	(1)
Former Beauties	239	(1)
After the Club-Dance	240	(1)
The Market-Girl	240	(1)
The Inquiry	241	(1)
A Wife Waits	241	(1)
After the Fair	242	(1)
The Dark-Eyed Gentleman	243	(1)
To Carrey Clavel	244	(1)
The Orphaned Old Maid	244	(1)
The Spring Call	244	(1)
Julie-Jane	245	(1)
News for Her Mother	246	(2)
The Fiddler	248	(1)
The Husband's View	248	(1)
Rose-Ann	249	(1)
The Homecoming	250	(2)
Pieces Occasional and Various
A Church Romance	252	(1)
The Rash Bride	252	(3)
The Dead Quire	255	(5)
The Christening	260	(1)
A Dream Question	261	(1)
By the Barrows	262	(1)
A Wife and Another	262	(2)
The Roman Road	264	(1)
The Vampirine Fair	265	(3)
The Reminder	268	(1)
The Rambler	269	(1)
Night in the Old Home	269	(1)
After the Last Breath	270	(1)
In Childbed	271	(1)
The Pine Planters	271	(3)
The Dear	274	(1)
One We Knew	274	(1)
She Hears the Storm	275	(1)
A Wet Night	276	(1)
Before Life and After	277	(1)
New Year's Eve	277	(1)
God's Education	278	(1)
To Sincerity	279	(1)
Panthera	280	(6)
The Unborn	286	(1)
The Man He Killed	287	(1)
Geographical Knowledge	287	(1)
One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes	288	(1)
The Noble Lady's Tale	289	(7)
Unrealized	296	(1)
Wagtail and Baby	296	(1)
Aberdeen	297	(1)
George Meredith	297	(1)
Yell'ham-Wood's Story	298	(1)
A Young Man's Epigram on Existence	299	(4)
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries
Lyrics and Reveries
In Front of the Landscape	303	(2)
Channel Firing	305	(1)
The Convergence of the Twain	306	(2)
The Ghost of the Past	308	(1)
After the Visit	309	(1)
To Meet, or Otherwise	310	(1)
The Difference	311	(1)
The Sun on the Bookcase	311	(1)
When I Set Out for Lyonnesse	312	(1)
A Thunderstorm in Town	312	(1)
The Torn Letter	313	(1)
Beyond the Last Lamp	314	(1)
The Face at the Casement	315	(3)
Lost Love	318	(1)
My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound	318	(1)
Wessex Heights	319	(1)
In Death Divided	320	(1)
The Place on the Map	321	(1)
The Schreckhorn	322	(1)
A Singer Asleep	323	(2)
A Plaint to Man	325	(1)
God's Funeral	326	(3)
Spectres that Grieve	329	(1)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	330	(1)
Self-Unconscious	331	(1)
The Discovery	332	(1)
Tolerance	333	(1)
Before and after Summer	333	(1)
At Day-Close in November	334	(1)
The Year's Awakening	335	(1)
Under the Waterfall	335	(3)
Poems of 1912--13
The Going	338	(1)
Your Last Drive	339	(1)
The Walk	340	(1)
Rain on a Grave	341	(1)
I Found Her Out There	342	(1)
Without Ceremony	343	(1)
Lament	344	(1)
The Haunter	345	(1)
The Voice	346	(1)
His Visitor	347	(1)
A Circular	347	(1)
A Dream or No	348	(1)
After a Journey	349	(1)
A Death-Day Recalled	350	(1)
Beeny Cliff	350	(1)
At Castle Boterel	351	(1)
Places	352	(1)
The Phantom Horsewoman	353	(2)
The Spell of the Rose	355	(1)
St Launce's Revisited	356	(1)
Where the Picnic Was	357	(2)
Miscellaneous Pieces
The Wistful Lady	359	(1)
The Woman in the Rye	360	(1)
The Cheval-Glass	360	(1)
The Re-Enactment	361	(4)
Her Secret	365	(1)
She Charged Me	365	(1)
The Newcomer's Wife	366	(1)
A Conversation at Dawn	366	(7)
A King's Soliloquy	373	(1)
The Coronation	374	(2)
Aquae Sulis	376	(1)
Seventy-Four and Twenty	377	(1)
The Elopement	377	(1)
I Rose Up as My Custom Is	378	(1)
A Week	379	(1)
Had You Wept	380	(1)
Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams	381	(1)
In the British Museum	381	(1)
In the Servants' Quarters	382	(1)
The Obliterate Tomb	383	(5)
Regret Not Me	388	(1)
The Recalcitrants	389	(1)
Starlings on the Roof	390	(1)
The Moon Looks In	390	(1)
The Sweet Hussy	391	(1)
The Telegram	391	(1)
The Moth-Signal	392	(1)
Seen by the Waits	393	(1)
The Two Soldiers	394	(1)
The Death of Regret	395	(1)
In the Days of Crinoline	395	(1)
The Roman Gravemounds	396	(1)
The Workbox	397	(2)
The Sacrilege	399	(4)
The Abbey Mason	403	(8)
The Jubilee of a Magazine	411	(1)
The Satin Shoes	412	(2)
Exeunt Omnes	414	(1)
A Poet	415	(1)
Satires of Circumstance
At Tea	416	(1)
In Church	416	(1)
By Her Aunt's Grave	417	(1)
In the Room of the Bride-Elect	417	(1)
At a Watering-Place	418	(1)
In the Cemetery	418	(1)
Outside the Window	419	(1)
In the Study	419	(1)
At the Altar-Rail	420	(1)
In the Nuptial Chamber	420	(1)
In the Restaurant	421	(1)
At the Draper's	421	(1)
On the Death-Bed	422	(1)
Over the Coffin	422	(1)
In the Moonlight	423	(4)
Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
Moments of Vision	427	(1)
The Voice of Things	427	(1)
Why Be at Pains?	428	(1)
We Sat at the Window	428	(1)
Afternoon Service at Mellstock	429	(1)
At the Wicket-Gate	430	(1)
In a Museum	430	(1)
Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune	431	(1)
At the Word `Farewell'	432	(1)
First Sight of Her and After	433	(1)
The Rival	433	(1)
Heredity	434	(1)
You Were the Sort that Men Forget	434	(1)
She, I, and They	435	(1)
Near Lanivet, 1872	436	(1)
Joys of Memory	437	(1)
To the Moon	437	(1)
Copying Architecture in an Old Minster	438	(1)
To Shakespeare	439	(1)
Quid Hic Agis?	440	(3)
On a Midsummer Eve	443	(1)
Timing Her	443	(2)
Before Knowledge	445	(1)
The Blinded Bird	446	(1)
The Wind Blew Words	446	(1)
The Faded Face	447	(1)
The Riddle	448	(1)
The Duel	449	(1)
At Mayfair Lodgings	450	(1)
To My Father's Violin	451	(1)
The Statue of Liberty	452	(2)
The Background and the Figure	454	(1)
The Change	454	(2)
Sitting on the Bridge	456	(1)
The Young Churchwarden	457	(1)
I Travel as a Phantom Now	458	(1)
Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony	458	(1)
In the Seventies	459	(1)
The Pedigree	460	(1)
His Heart	461	(1)
Where They Lived	462	(1)
The Occultation	463	(1)
Life Laughs Onward	463	(1)
The Peace-Offering	464	(1)
Something Tapped	464	(1)
The Wound	465	(1)
A Merrymaking in Question	465	(1)
I Said and Sang Her Excellence	465	(1)
A January Night	466	(1)
A Kiss	467	(1)
The Announcement	467	(1)
The Oxen	468	(1)
The Tresses	468	(1)
The Photograph	469	(1)
On a Heath	470	(1)
An Anniversary	470	(1)
By the Runic Stone	471	(1)
The Pink Frock	472	(1)
Transformations	472	(1)
In Her Precincts	473	(1)
The Last Signal	473	(1)
The House of Silence	474	(1)
Great Things	474	(1)
The Chimes	475	(1)
The Figure in the Scene	476	(1)
Why Did I Sketch	477	(1)
Conjecture	477	(1)
The Blow	478	(1)
Love the Monopolist	479	(1)
At Middle-Field Gate in February	480	(1)
The Youth Who Carried a Light	480	(1)
The Head above the Fog	481	(1)
Overlooking the River Stour	482	(1)
The Musical Box	482	(2)
On Sturminster Foot-Bridge	484	(1)
Royal Sponsors	484	(1)
Old Furniture	485	(1)
A Thought in Two Moods	486	(1)
The Last Performance	487	(1)
You on the Tower	487	(1)
The Interloper	488	(1)
Logs on the Hearth	489	(1)
The Sunshade	490	(1)
The Ageing House	491	(1)
The Caged Goldfinch	491	(1)
At Madame Tussaud's in Victorian Years	492	(1)
The Ballet	492	(1)
The Five Students	493	(1)
The Wind's Prophecy	494	(1)
During Wind and Rain	495	(1)
He Prefers Her Earthly	496	(1)
The Dolls	496	(1)
Molly Gone	497	(1)
A Backward Spring	498	(1)
Looking Across	498	(1)
At a Seaside Town in 1869	499	(2)
The Glimpse	501	(1)
The Pedestrian	502	(1)
Who's in the Next Room?	503	(1)
At a Country Fair	504	(1)
The Memorial Brass: 186-	505	(1)
Her Love-Birds	505	(1)
Paying Calls	506	(1)
The Upper Birch-Leaves	507	(1)
It Never Looks Like Summer	507	(1)
Everything Comes	508	(1)
The Man with a Past	508	(1)
He Fears His Good Fortune	509	(1)
He Wonders About Himself	510	(1)
Jubilate	510	(1)
He Revisits His First School	511	(1)
I Thought, My Heart	512	(1)
Fragment	513	(1)
Midnight on the Great Western	514	(1)
Honeymoon Time at an Inn	514	(2)
The Robin	516	(1)
I Rose and Went to Rou'tor Town	517	(1)
The Nettles	517	(1)
In a Waiting-Room	518	(1)
The Clock-Winder	519	(1)
Old Excursions	520	(1)
The Masked Face	521	(1)
In a Whispering Gallery	522	(1)
The Something that Saved Him	522	(1)
The Enemy's Portrait	523	(2)
Imaginings	525	(1)
On the Doorstep	525	(1)
Signs and Tokens	526	(1)
Paths of Former Time	527	(1)
The Clock of the Years	528	(1)
At the Piano	529	(1)
The Shadow on the Stone	530	(1)
In the Garden	531	(1)
The Trec and the Lady	531	(1)
An Upbraiding	532	(1)
The Young Glass-Stainer	532	(1)
Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary	533	(1)
The Choirmaster's Burial	534	(1)
The Man Who Forgot	535	(1)
While Drawing in a Churchyard	536	(1)
For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly	537	(1)
Poems of War and Patriotism
Men Who March Away	538	(1)
His Country	539	(1)
England to Germany in 1914	540	(1)
On the Belgian Expatriation	540	(1)
An Appeal to America on Behalf of the Belgian Destitute	541	(1)
The Pity of It	542	(1)
In Time of Wars and Tumults	542	(1)
In Time of `The Breaking of Nations'	543	(1)
Cry of the Homeless	543	(1)
Before Marching and After	544	(1)
Often When Warring	545	(1)
Then and Now	545	(1)
A Call to National Service	546	(1)
The Dead and the Living One	547	(1)
A New Year's Eve in War Time	548	(1)
I Met a Man	548	(3)
I Looked Up from My Writing	551	(1)
Finale
The Coming of the End	552	(1)
Afterwards	553	(3)
Late Lyrics and Earlier
Apology	556	(7)
Weathers	563	(1)
The Maid of Keinton Mandeville	563	(1)
Summer Schemes	564	(1)
Epeisodia	565	(1)
Faintheart in a Railway Train	566	(1)
At Moonrise and Onwards	566	(1)
The Garden Seat	567	(1)
Barthelemon at Vauxhall	567	(1)
I Sometimes Think	568	(1)
Jezreel	569	(1)
A Jog-Trot Pair	569	(1)
The Curtains Now Are Drawn	570	(1)
`According to the Mighty Working'	571	(1)
I Was Not He	571	(1)
The West-of-Wessex Girl	572	(1)
Welcome Home	573	(1)
Going and Staying	573	(1)
Read by Moonlight	574	(1)
At a House in Hampstead	574	(2)
A Woman's Fancy	576	(1)
Her Song	577	(1)
A Wet August	578	(1)
The Dissemblers	578	(1)
To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning	579	(1)
A Man Was Drawing Near to Me	579	(1)
The Strange House	580	(2)
As 'Twere To-night	582	(1)
The Contretemps	582	(2)
A Gentleman's Epitaph on Himself and a Lady	584	(1)
The Old Gown	585	(1)
A Night in November	586	(1)
A Duettist to Her Pianoforte	586	(1)
Where Three Roads Joined	587	(1)
`And There Was a Great Calm'	588	(2)
Haunting Fingers	590	(2)
The Woman I Met	592	(2)
If It's Ever Spring Again	594	(1)
The Two Houses	595	(2)
On Stinsford Hill at Midnight	597	(1)
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House	598	(1)
The Selfsame Song	598	(1)
The Wanderer	599	(1)
A Wife Comes Back	600	(1)
A Young Man's Exhortation	601	(1)
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back	602	(1)
A Bygone Occasion	603	(1)
Two Serenades	603	(2)
The Wedding Morning	605	(1)
End of the Year 1912	605	(1)
The Chimes Play `Life's a Bumper!'	606	(1)
I Worked No Wile to Meet You	606	(1)
At the Railway Station, Upway	607	(1)
Side by Side	608	(1)
Dream of the City Shopwoman	609	(1)
A Maiden's Pledge	610	(1)
The Child and the Sage	610	(1)
Mismet	611	(1)
An Autumn Rain-Scene	612	(1)
Meditations on a Holiday	613	(2)
An Experience	615	(1)
The Beauty	616	(1)
The Collector Cleans His Picture	617	(1)
The Wood Fire	618	(1)
Saying Good-bye	619	(1)
On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth	620	(1)
The Opportunity	621	(1)
Evelyn G. of Christminster	621	(2)
The Rift	623	(1)
Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard	623	(2)
On the Way	625	(1)
She Did Not Turn	626	(1)
Growth in May	626	(1)
The Children and Sir Nameless	627	(1)
At the Royal Academy	627	(1)
Her Temple	628	(1)
A Two-Years' Idyll	628	(1)
By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End	629	(1)
Penance	630	(1)
I Look in Her Face	631	(1)
After the War	631	(1)
If You Had Known	632	(1)
The Chapel-Organist	633	(3)
Fetching Her	636	(1)
Could I but Will	637	(1)
She Revisits Alone the Church of Her Marriage	638	(1)
At the Entering of the New Year	639	(1)
They Would Not Come	640	(1)
After a Romantic Day	641	(1)
The Two Wives	642	(1)
I Knew a Lady	642	(1)
A House with a History	643	(1)
A Procession of Dead Days	644	(1)
He Follows Himself	645	(1)
The Singing Woman	646	(1)
Without, Not Within Her	647	(1)
O I Won't Lead a Homely Life	647	(1)
In the Small Hours	648	(1)
The Little Old Table	648	(1)
Vagg Hollow	649	(1)
The Dream Is -- Which?	650	(1)
The Country Wedding	650	(2)
First or Last	652	(1)
Lonely Days	652	(2)
What Did It Mean?	654	(1)
At the Dinner-Table	654	(1)
The Marble Tablet	655	(1)
The Master and the Leaves	656	(1)
Last Words to a Dumb Friend	657	(1)
A Drizzling Easter Morning	658	(1)
On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born	659	(1)
The Second Night	660	(2)
She Who Saw Not	662	(1)
The Old Workman	663	(1)
The Sailor's Mother	664	(1)
Outside the Casement	664	(1)
The Passer-By	665	(1)
I Was the Midmost	666	(1)
A Sound in the Night	667	(2)
On a Discovered Curl of Hair	669	(1)
An Old Likeness	669	(1)
Her Apotheosis	670	(1)
`Sacred to the Memory'	671	(1)
To a Well-Named Dwelling	671	(1)
The Whipper-In	672	(1)
A Military Appointment	673	(1)
The Milestone by the Rabbit-Burrow	674	(1)
The Lament of the Looking-Glass	674	(1)
Cross-Currents	675	(1)
The Old Neighbour and the New	676	(1)
The Chosen	676	(2)
The Inscription	678	(3)
The Marble-Streeted Town	681	(1)
A Woman Driving	682	(1)
A Woman's Trust	682	(1)
Best Times	683	(1)
The Casual Acquaintance	684	(1)
Intra Sepulchrum	684	(1)
The Whitewashed Wall	685	(1)
Just the Same	686	(1)
The Last Time	687	(1)
The Seven Times	687	(2)
The Sun's Last Look on the Country Girl	689	(1)
In a London Flat	689	(1)
Drawing Details in an Old Church	690	(1)
Rake-hell Muses	690	(3)
The Colour	693	(1)
Murmurs in the Gloom	694	(1)
Epitaph	695	(1)
An Ancient to Ancients	696	(1)
After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.	697	(1)
Surview	698	(3)
Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles
Waiting Both	701	(1)
A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling	701	(1)
Any Little Old Song	702	(1)
In a Former Resort after Many Years	702	(1)
A Cathedral Facade at Midnight	703	(1)
The Turnip-Hoer	703	(3)
The Carrier	706	(1)
Lover to Mistress	707	(1)
The Monument-Maker	707	(1)
Circus-Rider to Ringmaster	708	(1)
Last Week in October	709	(1)
Come Not; Yet Come!	709	(1)
The Later Autumn	710	(1)
Let Me Believe	711	(1)
At a Fashionable Dinner	711	(1)
Green Slates	712	(1)
An East-End Curate	713	(1)
At Rushy-Pond	713	(1)
Four in the Morning	714	(1)
On the Esplanade	715	(1)
In St Paul's a While Ago	716	(1)
Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening	717	(1)
A Last Journey	717	(1)
Singing Lovers	718	(1)
The Month's Calendar	719	(1)
A Spellbound Palace	720	(1)
When Dead	721	(1)
Sine Prole	721	(1)
Ten Years Since	722	(1)
Every Artemisia	722	(2)
The Best She Could	724	(1)
The Graveyard of Dead Creeds	724	(1)
There Seemed a Strangeness	725	(1)
A Night of Questionings	726	(2)
Xenophanes, the Monist of Colophon	728	(2)
Life and Death at Sunrise	730	(1)
Night-Time in Mid-Fall	731	(1)
A Sheep Fair	731	(1)
Snow in the Suburbs	732	(1)
A Light Snow-Fall after Frost	733	(1)
Winter Night in Woodland	734	(1)
Ice on the Highway	734	(1)
Music in a Snowy Street	735	(1)
The Frozen Greenhouse	736	(1)
Two Lips	737	(1)
No Buyers	737	(1)
One Who Married Above Him	738	(1)
The New Toy	739	(1)
Queen Caroline to Her Guests	740	(1)
Plena Timoris	741	(1)
The Weary Walker	742	(1)
Last Love-Word	742	(1)
Nobody Comes	743	(1)
In the Street	743	(1)
The Last Leaf	744	(1)
At Wynyard's Gap	745	(5)
At Shag's Heath	750	(2)
A Second Attempt	752	(1)
Freed the Fret of Thinking	753	(1)
The Absolute Explains	754	(3)
So, Time	757	(1)
An Inquiry	758	(1)
The Faithful Swallow	759	(1)
In Sherborne Abbey	759	(1)
The Pair He Saw Pass	760	(2)
The Mock Wife	762	(1)
The Fight on Durnover Moor	763	(2)
Last Look round St Martin's Fair	765	(1)
The Caricature	766	(1)
A Leader of Fashion	767	(1)
Midnight on Beechen, 187--	768	(1)
The Aerolite	769	(1)
The Prospect	770	(1)
Genitrix Laesa	770	(1)
The Fading Rose	771	(1)
When Oats Were Reaped	772	(1)
Louie	772	(1)
She Opened the Door	773	(1)
What's There to Tell?	773	(1)
The Harbour Bridge	774	(1)
Vagrant's Song	775	(1)
Farmer Dunman's Funeral	776	(1)
The Sexton at Longpuddle	777	(1)
The Harvest-Supper	777	(2)
At a Pause in a Country Dance	779	(1)
On the Portrait of a Woman about to be Hanged	780	(1)
The Church and the Wedding	780	(1)
The Shiver	781	(1)
Not Only I	782	(1)
She Saw Him, She Said	783	(1)
Once at Swanage	783	(1)
The Flower's Tragedy	784	(1)
At the Aquatic Sports	784	(1)
A Watcher's Regret	785	(1)
Horses Aboard	785	(1)
The History of an Hour	786	(1)
The Missed Train	786	(1)
Under High-Stoy Hill	787	(1)
At the Mill	787	(1)
Alike and Unlike	788	(1)
The Thing Unplanned	789	(1)
The Sheep-Boy	789	(1)
Retty's Phases	790	(1)
A Poor Man and a Lady	791	(2)
An Expostulation	793	(1)
To a Sea-Cliff	793	(1)
The Echo-Elf Answers	794	(1)
Cynic's Epitaph	795	(1)
A Beauty's Soliloquy during Her Honeymoon	795	(1)
Donaghadee	796	(1)
He Inadvertently Cures His Love-Pains	797	(1)
The Peace Peal	798	(1)
Lady Vi	799	(1)
A Popular Personage at Home	800	(1)
Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells	800	(1)
A Refusal	801	(2)
Epitaph on a Pessimist	803	(1)
The Protean Maiden	803	(1)
A Watering-Place Lady Inventoried	804	(1)
The Sea Fight	804	(1)
Paradox	805	(1)
The Rover Come Home	805	(1)
Known Had I	806	(1)
The Pat of Butter	806	(1)
Bags of Meat	807	(1)
The Sundial on a Wet Day	808	(1)
Her Haunting-Ground	809	(1)
A Parting-Scene	810	(1)
Shortening Days at the Homestead	810	(1)
Days to Recollect	811	(1)
To C.F.H.	811	(1)
The High-School Lawn	812	(1)
The Forbidden Banns	813	(1)
The Paphian Ball	814	(2)
On Martock Moor	816	(1)
That Moment	817	(1)
Premonitions	818	(1)
This Summer and Last	818	(1)
Nothing Matters Much	819	(1)
In the Evening	820	(1)
The Six Boards	820	(1)
Before My Friend Arrived	821	(1)
Compassion	822	(1)
Why She Moved House	823	(1)
Tragedian to Tragedienne	823	(1)
The Lady of Forebodings	824	(1)
The Bird-Catcher's Boy	825	(2)
A Hurried Meeting	827	(2)
Discouragement	829	(1)
A Leaving	829	(1)
Song to an Old Burden	830	(1)
Why Do I?	831	(3)
Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
Introductory Note	834	(1)
The New Dawn's Business	835	(1)
Proud Songsters	835	(1)
Thoughts at Midnight	836	(1)
I Am the One	837	(1)
The Prophetess	837	(1)
A Wish for Unconsciousness	838	(1)
The Bad Example	839	(1)
To Louisa in the Lane	839	(1)
Love Watches a Window	840	(1)
The Love-Letters	841	(1)
An Unkindly May	841	(1)
Unkept Good Fridays	842	(1)
The Mound	843	(1)
Liddell and Scott	844	(2)
Christmastide	846	(1)
Reluctant Confession	846	(1)
Expectation and Experience	847	(1)
Aristodemus the Messenian	848	(5)
Evening Shadows	853	(1)
The Three Tall Men	853	(2)
The Lodging-House Fuchsias	855	(1)
The Whaler's Wife	855	(2)
Throwing a Tree	857	(1)
The War-Wife of Catknoll	858	(1)
Concerning His Old Home	859	(1)
Her Second Husband Hears Her Story	860	(1)
Yuletide in a Younger World	861	(1)
After the Death of a Friend	861	(1)
The Son's Portrait	862	(1)
Lying Awake	863	(1)
The Lady in the Furs	863	(1)
Childhood among the Ferns	864	(1)
A Countenance	864	(1)
A Poet's Thought	865	(1)
Silences	865	(1)
I Watched a Blackbird	866	(1)
A Nightmare, and the Next Thing	866	(1)
To a Tree in London	867	(1)
The Felled Elm and She	868	(1)
He Did Not Know Me	869	(1)
So Various	870	(2)
A Self-Glamourer	872	(1)
The Dead Bastard	872	(1)
The Clasped Skeletons	873	(1)
In the Marquee	874	(2)
After the Burial	876	(1)
The Mongrel	877	(1)
Concerning Agnes	878	(1)
Henley Regatta	878	(1)
An Evening in Galilee	879	(1)
The Brother	880	(1)
We Field-Women	881	(1)
A Practical Woman	881	(1)
Squire Hooper	882	(1)
`A Gentleman's Second-Hand Suit'	883	(1)
We Say We Shall Not Meet	884	(1)
Seeing the Moon Rise	885	(1)
Song to Aurore	885	(1)
He Never Expected Much	886	(1)
Standing by the Mantelpiece	887	(1)
Boys Then and Now	887	(1)
That Kiss in the Dark	888	(1)
A Necessitarian's Epitaph	889	(1)
Burning the Holly	889	(2)
Suspense	891	(1)
The Second Visit	892	(1)
Our Old Friend Dualism	892	(1)
Faithful Wilson	892	(1)
Gallant's Song	893	(1)
A Philosophical Fantasy	893	(4)
A Question of Marriage	897	(1)
The Letter's Triumph	898	(1)
A Forgotten Miniature	899	(1)
Whispered at the Church-Opening	900	(1)
In Weatherbury Stocks	900	(1)
A Placid Man's Epitaph	901	(1)
The New Boots	902	(1)
The Musing Maiden	902	(1)
Lorna the Second	903	(1)
A Daughter Returns	904	(1)
The Third Kissing-Gate	904	(1)
Drinking Song	905	(3)
The Tarrying Bridegroom	908	(1)
The Destined Pair	908	(1)
A Musical Incident	909	(1)
June Leaves and Autumn	910	(1)
No Bell-Ringing	911	(2)
I Looked Back	913	(1)
The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes	913	(1)
Christmas: 1924	914	(1)
The Single Witness	914	(1)
How She Went to Ireland	915	(1)
Dead `Wessex' the Dog to the Household	915	(1)
The Woman Who Went East	916	(1)
Not Known	917	(1)
The Boy's Dream	918	(1)
The Gap in the White	919	(1)
Family Portraits	919	(2)
The Catching Ballet of the Wedding Clothes	921	(3)
A Winsome Woman	924	(1)
The Ballad of Love's Skeleton	925	(2)
A Private Man on Public Men	927	(1)
Christmas in the Elgin Room	927	(2)
We Are Getting to the End	929	(1)
He Resolves to Say No More	929	(4)
Previously Uncollected Poems and Fragments
When Wearily We Shrink Away	933	(1)
The Unplanted Primrose	933	(1)
To a Bridegroom	934	(1)
A Victorian Rehearsal	935	(1)
Thoughts from Sophocles	936	(1)
Eunice	937	(1)
Epigraph to The Woodlanders	937	(1)
She Would Welcome Old Tribulations	937	(1)
Looking Back	938	(1)
The Night of Trafalgar	938	(1)
Budmouth Dears	939	(1)
My Love's Gone a-Fighting	940	(1)
The Eve of Waterloo	941	(1)
Chorus of the Pities	942	(1)
Last Chorus	943	(1)
On the Doorstep	944	(1)
The Calf	945	(1)
A.H., 1855--1912	945	(1)
The Yellow-Hammer	946	(1)
A Jingle on the Times	947	(2)
Prologue	949	(1)
Epilogue	950	(1)
A Hundred Years Since	951	(1)
The Lizard	952	(1)
They Are Great Trees	952	(1)
At a Rehearsal of One of J.M.B.'s Plays	952	(1)
The Hatband	953	(1)
Epitaph for G. K. Chesterton	954	(1)
Epitaph for George Moore	954	(1)
The Sound of Her	955	(1)
Notes	956	(17)
Index of Titles	973	(11)
Index of First Lines	984