APOLOGY
CONTENTS
WEATHERS
THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR H. BISHOP)
SUMMER SCHEMES
EPEISODIA
FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN
AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS
THE GARDEN SEAT
BARTHELEMON AT VAUXHALL
"I SOMETIMES THINK" (FOR F. E. H.)
JEZREEL ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, SEPTEMBER 1918
A JOG-TROT PAIR
"THE CURTAINS NOW ARE DRAWN" (SONG)
"I WAS NOT HE" (SONG)
THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL
WELCOME HOME
GOING AND STAYING
READ BY MOONLIGHT
AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD SOMETIME THE DWELLING OF JOHN KEATS
A WOMAN'S FANCY
HER SONG
A WET AUGUST
THE DISSEMBLERS
TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING
"A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME"
THE STRANGE HOUSE (MAX GATE, A.D. 2000)
"AS 'TWERE TO-NIGHT" (SONG)
THE CONTRETEMPS
A GENTLEMAN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER
THE OLD GOWN (SONG)
A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER
A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE SONG OF SILENCE (E. L. H. H. C. H.)
"WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED"
"AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM" (ON THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE, Nov. 11, 1918)
HAUNTING FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
THE WOMAN I MET
"IF IT'S EVER SPRING AGAIN" (SONG)
THE TWO HOUSES
ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT
THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE
THE SELFSAME SONG
THE WANDERER
A WIFE COMES BACK
A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION
AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK
A BYGONE OCCASION (SONG)
TWO SERENADES I On Christmas Eve
THE WEDDING MORNING
END OF THE YEAR 1912
THE CHIMES PLAY "LIFE'S A BUMPER!"
"I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU" (SONG)
AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY
SIDE BY SIDE
DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN
A MAIDEN'S PLEDGE (SONG)
THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
MISMET
AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE
MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME TO AN OLD FOLK-JINGLE)
AN EXPERIENCE
THE BEAUTY
THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
THE WOOD FIRE (A FRAGMENT)
SAYING GOOD-BYE (SONG)
ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH
THE OPPORTUNITY (FOR H. P.)
EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINSTER
THE RIFT ( Song : Minor Mode )
VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD
ON THE WAY
"SHE DID NOT TURN"
GROWTH IN MAY
THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS
AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
HER TEMPLE
A TWO-YEARS' IDYLL
BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END
PENANCE
"I LOOK IN HER FACE" ( Song : Minor )
AFTER THE WAR
"IF YOU HAD KNOWN"
THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST ( A.D. 185 - )
FETCHING HER
"COULD I BUT WILL" ( Song : Verses 1, 3, key major ; verse 2, key minor )
SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE
AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR I (OLD STYLE)
THEY WOULD NOT COME
AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY
THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB-STORY)
"I KNEW A LADY" (CLUB SONG)
A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY
A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS
HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF
THE SINGING WOMAN
WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER
"O I WON'T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE" ( To an old air )
IN THE SMALL HOURS
THE LITTLE OLD TABLE
VAGG HOLLOW
THE DREAM IS WHICH?
THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY)
FIRST OR LAST (SONG)
LONELY DAYS
"WHAT DID IT MEAN?"
AT THE DINNER-TABLE
THE MARBLE TABLET
THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES
LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND
A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING
ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN
THE SECOND NIGHT (BALLAD)
SHE WHO SAW NOT
THE OLD WORKMAN
THE SAILOR'S MOTHER
OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)
THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)
"I WAS THE MIDMOST"
A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17 - )
ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR
AN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)
HER APOTHEOSIS "Secretum meum mihi" (FADED WOMAN'S SONG)
"SACRED TO THE MEMORY" (MARY H.)
TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING
THE WHIPPER-IN
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)
THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL'HAM HILL)
THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
CROSS-CURRENTS
THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW
THE CHOSEN
THE INSCRIPTION (A TALE)
THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN
A WOMAN DRIVING
A WOMAN'S TRUST
BEST TIMES
THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
INTRA SEPULCHRUM
THE WHITEWASHED WALL
JUST THE SAME
THE LAST TIME
THE SEVEN TIMES
THE SUN'S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL (M. H.)
IN A LONDON FLAT
DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
RAKE-HELL MUSES
THE COLOUR
MURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)
EPITAPH
AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS
AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.
SURVIEW "Cogitavi vias meas"
FOOTNOTES
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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