Thomas Hardy

    (SONG)       I was not he - the man Who used to pilgrim to your gate, At whose smart step you grew elate,    And rosed, as maidens can,       For a brief span....

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I Past the hills that peep Where the leaze is smiling, On and on beguiling Crisply-cropping sheep; Under boughs of brushwood Linking tree and tree In a shade of lushwood, ...

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On Monday night I closed my door, And thought you were not as heretofore, And little cared if we met no more. I seemed on Tuesday night to trace Something beyond mere commonplace In your id...

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The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain Seemed hopeless hills my strength must faint to climb, But they are gone; and now I would detain The few clock-beats that part us; rein back Time, A...

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In five-score summers!  All new eyes, New minds, new modes, new fools, new wise; New woes to weep, new joys to prize; With nothing left of me and you In that live century's vivid view ...

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"See, here's the workbox, little wife,    That I made of polished oak." He was a joiner, of village life;    She came of borough folk. He holds the present up to her As with a...

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The trees are afraid to put forth buds, And there is timidity in the grass; The plots lie gray where gouged by spuds,    And whether next week will pass Free of sly sour winds is t...

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(Wooer's Song)  Why be at pains that I should know    You sought not me? Do breezes, then, make features glow    So rosily? Come, the lit port is at our back,    And the ...

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A very West-of-Wessex girl,    As blithe as blithe could be,    Was once well-known to me, And she would laud her native town,    And hope and hope that we Might sometime stu...

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There is a house in a city street    Some past ones made their own; Its floors were criss-crossed by their feet,       And their babblings beat    From ceiling to white hear...

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I sat.  It all was past; Hope never would hail again; Fair days had ceased at a blast, The world was a darkened den. The beauty and dream were gone, And the halo in which I had h...

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I enter a daisy-and-buttercup land,    And thence thread a jungle of grass: Hurdles and stiles scarce visible stand    Above the lush stems as I pass. Hedges peer over, and try ...

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If it's ever spring again,    Spring again, I shall go where went I when Down the moor-cock splashed, and hen, Seeing me not, amid their flounder, Standing with my arm around her...

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There was a time in former years -    While my roof-tree was his - When I should have been distressed by fears    At such a night as this! I should have murmured anxiously,  ...

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The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath.  And thoughtful men Contrast its days of Now and Then, And delve, and measure, and compare; ...

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The rain smites more and more, The east wind snarls and sneezes; Through the joints of the quivering door    The water wheezes. The tip of each ivy-shoot Writhes on its neighbou...

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Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.    "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock    By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild c...

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I knew a lady when the days    Grew long, and evenings goldened;    But I was not emboldened By her prompt eyes and winning ways. And when old Winter nipt the haws,    "Anot...

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When Lawyers strive to heal a breach, And Parsons practise what they preach; Then Little Boney he'll pounce down, And march his men on London town!    Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum...

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      Yes; such it was;    Just those two seasons unsought, Sweeping like summertide wind on our ways;       Moving, as straws,    Hearts quick as ours in those days; ...

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I rose at night, and visited    The Cave of the Unborn: And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the life to be, Who long had prayed the silent Head    To haste its adv...

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I was the midmost of my world    When first I frisked me free, For though within its circuit gleamed    But a small company, And I was immature, they seemed    To bend their ...

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   Tabitha dressed for her wedding:-    "Tabby, why look so sad?" "--O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading,    Instead of supremely glad! . . .    "I called on Ca...

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      I thought you a fire    On Heron-Plantation Hill, Dealing out mischief the most dire    To the chattels of men of hire       There in their vill.       But ...

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I do not wish to win your vow To take me soon or late as bride, And lift me from the nook where now I tarry your farings to my side. I am blissful ever to abide In this green labyrinth--le...

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