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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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