PREFACE TO WESSEX POEMS
CONTENTS
THE TEMPORARY THE ALL
AMABEL
HAP
"IN VISION I ROAMED" TO
AT A BRIDAL TO
POSTPONEMENT
A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE
NEUTRAL TONES
SHE AT HIS FUNERAL
HER INITIALS
HER DILEMMA (IN CHURCH)
REVULSION
SHE, TO HIM I
SHE, TO HIM II
SHE, TO HIM III
SHE, TO HIM IV
DITTY (E. L G.)
THE SERGEANT'S SONG -1803
VALENCIENNES -1793
SAN SEBASTIAN (August 1813)
THE STRANGER'S SONG
THE BURGHERS (17 - )
LEIPZIG -1813
THE PEASANT'S CONFESSION
THE ALARM -1803
HER DEATH AND AFTER
THE DANCE AT THE PHOENIX
THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS (KHYBER PASS, 1842)
A SIGN-SEEKER
MY CICELY (17 - )
HER IMMORTALITY
THE IVY-WIFE
A MEETING WITH DESPAIR
UNKNOWING
FRIENDS BEYOND
TO OUTER NATURE
THOUGHTS OF PHENA AT NEWS OF HER DEATH
MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS To M. H.
IN A WOOD See "THE WOODLANDERS"
TO A LADY OFFENDED BY A BOOK OF THE WRITER'S
TO AN ORPHAN CHILD A WHIMSEY
NATURE'S QUESTIONING
THE IMPERCIPIENT (AT A CATHEDRAL SERVICE)
AT AN INN
THE SLOW NATURE (AN INCIDENT OF FROOM VALLEY)
IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY
ADDITIONS THE FIRE AT TRANTER SWEATLEY'S
BY
THOMAS HARDY
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1919
COPYRIGHT
“Wessex Poems”: First Edition, Crown 8vo, 1898. New Edition 1903.
First Pocket Edition June 1907. Reprinted January 1909, 1913
“Poems, Past and Present”: First edition 1901 (dated 1902)
Second Edition 1903. First Pocket Edition June 1907
Reprinted January 1908, 1913, 1918, 1919