A Choice of Thomas Hardy’s Poems

Front Matter....Pages 1-7
Thomas Hardy....Pages 9-18
The Night of Trafalgar....Pages 19-19
Shortening Days at the Homestead....Pages 20-20
The Oxen....Pages 21-21
To the Moon....Pages 22-22
The Roman Road....Pages 23-23
Friends Beyond....Pages 24-25
A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling....Pages 26-26
A Church Romance....Pages 27-27
A Sheep Fair....Pages 28-28
A Broken Appointment....Pages 29-29
At Casterbridge Fair....Pages 30-30
‘Regret Not Me’....Pages 31-32
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’....Pages 33-33
A Trampwoman’s Tragedy....Pages 34-38
‘When I Set Out for Lyonnesse’....Pages 39-39
‘A Man was Drawing Near to Me’....Pages 40-41
At The Word ‘Farewell’....Pages 42-43
A Thunderstorm in Town....Pages 44-44
Where They Lived....Pages 45-45
‘And There was a Great Calm’....Pages 46-47
On Sturminster Foot-Bridge....Pages 48-48
At a Country Fair....Pages 49-49
At the Railway Station, Upway....Pages 50-50
No Buyers....Pages 51-51
Snow in the Suburbs....Pages 52-52
To an Unborn Pauper Child....Pages 53-54
The Self-Unseeing....Pages 55-55
Throwing a Tree....Pages 56-56
Overlooking the River Stour....Pages 57-57
An August Midnight....Pages 58-58
Lausanne....Pages 59-59
The Darkling Thrush....Pages 60-61
Waiting Both....Pages 62-62
Lying Awake....Pages 62-62
Afternoon Service at Mellstock....Pages 63-63
Nobody Comes....Pages 64-64
The Harbour Bridge....Pages 65-66
Life and Death at Sunrise....Pages 67-67
The Five Students....Pages 68-69
The Mock Wife....Pages 70-71
Once at Swanage....Pages 72-72
Night-Time in Mid-Fall....Pages 73-73
During Wind and Rain....Pages 74-74
Drawing Details in an Old Church....Pages 75-75
The Voice....Pages 76-76
After a Journey....Pages 77-78
The Phantom Horsewoman....Pages 79-80
‘If You Had Known’....Pages 81-81
Where the Picnic Was....Pages 82-82
Days to Recollect....Pages 83-83
‘I Said to Love’....Pages 84-84
The Garden Seat....Pages 85-85
A Light Snow-Fall After Frost....Pages 86-86
In Sherborne Abbey....Pages 87-88
He Never Expected Much....Pages 89-89
‘I Travel as a Phantom Now’....Pages 90-90
Afterwards....Pages 91-91
Surview....Pages 92-92
Back Matter....Pages 94-95