Poetry Codex

Victorian

Thomas Hardy

1840–1928

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) is best known as a novelist, but after finishing Jude the Obscure in 1895 he devoted the rest of his long career chiefly to poetry.

His verse is plain-spoken and often bleak, preoccupied with chance, loss, rural Wessex life, and the death of his first wife Emma, which produced some of his most admired elegies.

Poems (971)

  1. In Front of the Landscape
  2. Channel Firing
  3. The Convergence of the Twain
  4. The Ghost of the Past
  5. To Meet, or Otherwise
  6. II
  7. “when I Set Out for Lyonnesse”
  8. V
  9. The Face at the Casement
  10. Lost Love
  11. “my Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound”
  12. Wessex Heights (1896)
  13. Where the Picnic Was
  14. VI
  15. VII
  16. VIII
  17. IX
  18. A Plaint to Man
  19. X
  20. XI
  21. XII
  22. XIII
  23. XIV
  24. XV
  25. XVI
  26. XVII
  27. Spectres That Grieve
  28. “ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”
  29. At Tea
  30. In Church
  31. By Her Aunt’s Grave
  32. In the Room of the Bride-elect
  33. At a Watering-place
  34. In the Cemetery
  35. Outside the Window
  36. In the Study
  37. At the Altar-rail
  38. In the Nuptial Chamber
  39. In the Restaurant
  40. At the Draper’s
  41. On the Death-bed
  42. Over the Coffin
  43. In the Moonlight
  44. Self-unconscious
  45. The Discovery
  46. Tolerance
  47. I
  48. At Day-close in November
  49. The Year’s Awakening
  50. Under the Waterfall
  51. The Spell of the Rose
  52. The Going
  53. Your Last Drive
  54. The Walk
  55. Rain on a Grave
  56. “i Found Her Out There”
  57. Without Ceremony
  58. Lament
  59. The Haunter
  60. The Voice
  61. His Visitor
  62. A Circular
  63. A Dream or No
  64. After a Journey
  65. A Death-day Recalled
  66. At Castle Boterel
  67. Places
  68. III
  69. IV
  70. The Wistful Lady
  71. The Woman in the Rye
  72. The Cheval-glass
  73. The Re-enactment
  74. Her Secret
  75. “she Charged Me”
  76. The Newcomer’s Wife
  77. A Conversation at Dawn
  78. The Coronation
  79. Aquae Sulis
  80. Seventy-four and Twenty
  81. The Elopement
  82. “i Rose Up as My Custom Is”
  83. A Week
  84. Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams
  85. In the British Museum
  86. The Obliterate Tomb
  87. “regret Not Me”
  88. The Recalcitrants
  89. Starlings on the Roof
  90. The Sweet Hussy
  91. The Telegram
  92. Seen by the Waits
  93. The Two Soldiers
  94. The Death of Regret
  95. In the Days of Crinoline
  96. The Roman Gravemounds
  97. The Workbox
  98. The Satin Shoes
  99. A Poet
  100. The Sun on the Letter
  101. The Night of the Dance
  102. Misconception
  103. From Her in the Country
  104. Her Confession
  105. To an Impersonator of Rosalind
  106. To an Actress
  107. The Minute Before Meeting
  108. He Abjures Love
  109. The Ballad-Singer
  110. Former Beauties
  111. After the Club-dance
  112. The Market-girl
  113. The Inquiry
  114. A Wife Waits
  115. After the Fair
  116. To Carrey Clavel
  117. The Orphaned Old Maid
  118. The Spring Call
  119. Julie-jane
  120. The Fiddler
  121. The Husband’s View
  122. Rose-ann
  123. The Homecoming
  124. Pieces Occasional and Various
  125. IV
  126. V
  127. VI
  128. VII
  129. VIII
  130. IX
  131. X
  132. XI
  133. XII
  134. XIII
  135. XIV
  136. XV
  137. XVI
  138. XVII
  139. XVIII
  140. XIX
  141. XX
  142. XXI
  143. XXII
  144. XXIII
  145. XXIV
  146. XXV
  147. The Christening
  148. A Dream Question
  149. MICAH iii. 6
  150. By the Barrows
  151. A Wife and Another
  152. The Roman Road
  153. The Vampirine Fair
  154. The Reminder
  155. The Rambler
  156. Night in the Old Home
  157. In Childbed
  158. The Dear
  159. She Hears the Storm
  160. A Wet Night
  161. Before Life and After
  162. New Year’s Eve
  163. God’s Education
  164. To Sincerity
  165. Panthera
  166. The Unborn
  167. The Man He Killed
  168. One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes
  169. I
  170. II
  171. III
  172. Unrealized
  173. Wagtail and Baby
  174. Yell’ham-wood’s Story
  175. A Young Man’s Epigram on Existence
  176. The Temporary the All
  177. Amabel
  178. Hap
  179. Postponement
  180. A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
  181. Neutral Tones
  182. Her Initials
  183. Revulsion
  184. With Thoughts of Sergeant M— (pensioner), Who Died 185–
  185. The Stranger’s Song
  186. The Peasant’s Confession
  187. Her Death and After
  188. The Dance at the Phœnix
  189. A Sign-seeker
  190. Her Immortality
  191. The Ivy-wife
  192. A Meeting with Despair
  193. Unknowing
  194. Friends Beyond
  195. To Outer Nature
  196. Nature’s Questioning
  197. At an Inn
  198. In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury
  199. The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s
  200. The Two Men
  201. Lines
  202. “i Look Into My Glass”
  203. War Poems
  204. VII
  205. A Christmas Ghost-story
  206. The Tragedy
  207. The Irony
  208. XI
  209. XIII
  210. XIV
  211. XV
  212. XVI
  213. Poems of Pilgrimage
  214. XVII
  215. The Mother Mourns
  216. “i Said to Love”
  217. A Commonplace Day
  218. At a Lunar Eclipse
  219. V
  220. VI
  221. To Life
  222. The Problem
  223. The Sleep-worker
  224. The Bullfinches
  225. God-forgotten
  226. IV
  227. To Flowers from Italy in Winter
  228. On a Fine Morning
  229. Song of Hope
  230. The Well-beloved
  231. Her Reproach
  232. The Inconsistent
  233. A Broken Appointment
  234. “between Us Now”
  235. “i Need Not Go”
  236. A Spot
  237. Long Plighted
  238. The Widow
  239. The Dream-follower
  240. Max Gate, 1899
  241. Max Gate
  242. (triolet)
  243. The Last Chrysanthemum
  244. The Darkling Thrush
  245. Mad Judy
  246. A Wasted Illness
  247. VIII
  248. The Milkmaid
  249. The Levelled Churchyard
  250. The Ruined Maid
  251. Westbourne Park Villas, 1866
  252. The Tenant-for-life
  253. The King’s Experiment
  254. X
  255. The Self-unseeing
  256. I
  257. II
  258. III
  259. XII
  260. IX
  261. Sapphic Fragment
  262. After Schiller
  263. Song from Heine
  264. From Victor Hugo
  265. Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael
  266. Memory and I
  267. Moments of Vision
  268. The Voice of Things
  269. At the Wicket-gate
  270. Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune
  271. At the Word “farewell”
  272. First Sight of Her and After
  273. The Rival
  274. Heredity
  275. “you Were the Sort That Men Forget”
  276. She, I, and They
  277. Near Lanivet, 1872
  278. Joys of Memory
  279. To the Moon
  280. I
  281. II
  282. On a Midsummer Eve
  283. Before Knowledge
  284. The Blinded Bird
  285. “the Wind Blew Words”
  286. The Faded Face
  287. The Duel
  288. At Mayfair Lodgings
  289. To My Father’s Violin
  290. The Statue of Liberty
  291. The Change
  292. The Young Churchwarden
  293. “i Travel as a Phantom Now”
  294. “in the Seventies”
  295. IV
  296. V
  297. Where They Lived
  298. The Occultation
  299. Life Laughs Onward
  300. The Peace-offering
  301. “something Tapped”
  302. The Wound
  303. A Merrymaking in Question
  304. By Rushy-pond
  305. A Kiss
  306. The Announcement
  307. The Oxen
  308. The Tresses
  309. The Photograph
  310. On a Heath
  311. An Anniversary
  312. Kingston-maurward Ewelease
  313. The Pink Frock
  314. Transformations
  315. In Her Precincts
  316. Kingston-maurward Park
  317. The House of Silence
  318. Great Things
  319. The Chimes
  320. The Figure in the Scene
  321. “why Did I Sketch”
  322. Conjecture
  323. The Blow
  324. At Middle-field Gate in February
  325. The Youth Who Carried a Light
  326. The Head Above the Fog
  327. Overlooking the River Stour
  328. The Musical Box
  329. Royal Sponsors
  330. Old Furniture
  331. A Thought in Two Moods
  332. The Last Performance
  333. The Interloper
  334. The Sunshade
  335. The Ageing House
  336. The Caged Goldfinch
  337. At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years
  338. The Ballet
  339. The Five Students
  340. The Wind’s Prophecy
  341. During Wind and Rain
  342. He Prefers Her Earthly
  343. The Dolls
  344. Molly Gone
  345. A Backward Spring
  346. The Glimpse
  347. “who’s in the Next Room?”
  348. At a Country Fair
  349. The Memorial Brass: 186–
  350. Her Love-birds
  351. Paying Calls
  352. The Upper Birch-leaves
  353. “it Never Looks Like Summer”
  354. Everything Comes
  355. The Man with a Past
  356. He Fears His Good Fortune
  357. He Wonders About Himself
  358. Jubilate
  359. He Revisits His First School
  360. “i Thought, My Heart”
  361. Fragment
  362. Midnight on the Great Western
  363. Honeymoon Time at an Inn
  364. The Robin
  365. The Nettles
  366. In a Waiting-room
  367. The Clock-winder
  368. Old Excursions
  369. The Masked Face
  370. In a Whispering Gallery
  371. The Something That Saved Him
  372. The Enemy’s Portrait
  373. Imaginings
  374. On the Doorstep
  375. Signs and Tokens
  376. Paths of Former Time
  377. The Clock of the Years
  378. At the Piano
  379. The Shadow on the Stone
  380. The Tree and the Lady
  381. An Upbraiding
  382. The Young Glass-stainer
  383. Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary
  384. The Choirmaster’s Burial
  385. The Man Who Forgot
  386. While Drawing in a Church-yard
  387. “for Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”
  388. Poems of War and Patriotism
  389. His Country
  390. England to Germany in 1914
  391. On the Belgian Expatriation
  392. The Pity of It
  393. In Time of Wars and Tumults
  394. III
  395. “often When Warring”
  396. Then and Now
  397. A Call to National Service
  398. The Dead and the Living One
  399. VI
  400. VII
  401. “i Met a Man”
  402. “i Looked Up from My Writing”
  403. The Coming of the End
  404. Afterwards
  405. With Many Other Verses
  406. II
  407. Summer Schemes
  408. Faintheart in a Railway Train
  409. At Moonrise and Onwards
  410. The Garden Seat
  411. Barthélémon at Vauxhall
  412. A Jog-trot Pair
  413. I
  414. The West-of-wessex Girl
  415. Welcome Home
  416. Read by Moonlight
  417. A Woman’s Fancy
  418. Her Song
  419. A Wet August
  420. The Dissemblers
  421. To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning
  422. “a Man Was Drawing Near to Me”
  423. The Contretemps
  424. A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady, Who Were Buried Together
  425. A Night in November
  426. “where Three Roads Joined”
  427. IV
  428. V
  429. VI
  430. VII
  431. VIII
  432. IX
  433. The Woman I Met
  434. London, 1918
  435. The Two Houses
  436. On Stinsford Hill at Midnight
  437. The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
  438. The Selfsame Song
  439. The Wanderer
  440. A Wife Comes Back
  441. A Young Man’s Exhortation
  442. At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
  443. Two Serenades
  444. The Wedding Morning
  445. End of the Year 1912
  446. The Chimes Play “life’s a Bumper!”
  447. At the Railway Station, Upway
  448. Side by Side
  449. Dream of the City Shopwoman
  450. Westbourne Park Villas, 1866
  451. The Child and the Sage
  452. An Autumn Rain-scene
  453. An Experience
  454. The Beauty
  455. The Collector Cleans His Picture
  456. On the Tune Called the Old-hundred-and-fourth
  457. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
  458. On the Way
  459. “she Did Not Turn”
  460. Growth in May
  461. The Children and Sir Nameless
  462. At the Royal Academy
  463. Her Temple
  464. A Two-years’ Idyll
  465. By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End
  466. Penance
  467. After the War
  468. Fetching Her
  469. She Revisits Alone the Church of Her Marriage
  470. (old Style)
  471. (new Style)
  472. They Would Not Come
  473. After a Romantic Day
  474. A House with a History
  475. A Procession of Dead Days
  476. He Follows Himself
  477. The Singing Woman
  478. Without, Not Within Her
  479. In the Small Hours
  480. The Little Old Table
  481. Vagg Hollow
  482. The Dream Is—which?
  483. Lonely Days
  484. “what Did It Mean?”
  485. At the Dinner-table
  486. The Marble Tablet
  487. Last Words to a Dumb Friend
  488. A Drizzling Easter Morning
  489. On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born
  490. She Who Saw Not
  491. The Old Workman
  492. The Sailor’s Mother
  493. From “To Please his Wife.”
  494. “i Was the Midmost”
  495. On a Discovered Curl of Hair
  496. To a Well-named Dwelling
  497. The Whipper-in
  498. The Lament of the Looking-glass
  499. Cross-currents
  500. The Old Neighbour and the New
  501. The Chosen
  502. The Marble-streeted Town
  503. A Woman Driving
  504. A Woman’s Trust
  505. Best Times
  506. The Casual Acquaintance
  507. Intra Sepulchrum
  508. The Whitewashed Wall
  509. Just the Same
  510. The Last Time
  511. The Seven Times
  512. III
  513. Drawing Details in an Old Church
  514. Rake-hell Muses
  515. The Colour
  516. Epitaph
  517. An Ancient to Ancients
  518. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
  519. Going and Staying
  520. Waiting both
  521. A Bird-scene at a Rural Dwelling
  522. “Any little Old Song”
  523. In a former Resort after many Years
  524. A Cathedral Façade at Midnight
  525. The Turnip-hoer
  526. The Carrier
  527. Lover to Mistress
  528. The Monument-maker
  529. Circus-rider to Ringmaster
  530. Last Week in October
  531. Come not; yet come!
  532. The Later Autumn
  533. “Let me believe”
  534. At a Fashionable Dinner
  535. Green Slates
  536. An East-end Curate
  537. At Rushy-pond
  538. Four in the Morning
  539. On the Esplanade
  540. In St. Paul’s a while ago
  541. Coming up Oxford Street: Evening
  542. A Last Journey
  543. Singing Lovers
  544. The Month’s Calendar
  545. A Spellbound Palace
  546. When dead
  547. Sine Prole
  548. Ten Years since
  549. Every Artemisia
  550. The best she could
  551. The Graveyard of Dead Creeds
  552. “There seemed a Strangeness”
  553. A Night of Questionings
  554. Xenophanes, the Monist of Colophon
  555. Life and Death at Sunrise
  556. Night-time in Mid-fall
  557. A Sheep Fair
  558. Snow in the Suburbs
  559. A Light Snow-fall after Frost
  560. Winter Night in Woodland
  561. Ice on the Highway
  562. Music in a Snowy Street
  563. The Frozen Greenhouse
  564. Two Lips
  565. No Buyers
  566. One who married above him
  567. The New Toy
  568. Queen Caroline to her Guests
  569. Plena Timoris
  570. The Weary Walker
  571. Last Love-word
  572. Nobody comes
  573. In the Street
  574. The Last Leaf
  575. At Shag’s Heath
  576. A Second Attempt
  577. “Freed the Fret of Thinking”
  578. The Absolute explains
  579. “So, Time”
  580. An Inquiry
  581. The Faithful Swallow
  582. In Sherborne Abbey
  583. The Pair he saw pass
  584. The Mock Wife
  585. The Fight on Durnover Moor
  586. Last Look round St. Martin’s Fair
  587. The Caricature
  588. A Leader of Fashion
  589. Midnight on Beechen, 187-
  590. The Aerolite
  591. The Prospect
  592. Genitrix Laesa
  593. The Fading Rose
  594. When Oats were reaped
  595. Louie
  596. “She opened the Door”
  597. “What’s there to tell?”
  598. The Harbour Bridge
  599. Vagrant’s Song
  600. Farmer Dunman’s Funeral
  601. The Sexton at Longpuddle
  602. The Harvest-supper
  603. At a Pause in a Country Dance
  604. On the Portrait of a Woman about to be hanged
  605. The Church and the Wedding
  606. The Shiver
  607. “Not only I”
  608. She saw him, she said
  609. Once at Swanage
  610. The Flower’s Tragedy
  611. At the Aquatic Sports
  612. A Watcher’s Regret
  613. Horses aboard
  614. The History of an Hour
  615. The Missed Train
  616. Under High-Stoy Hill
  617. At the Mill
  618. Alike and Unlike
  619. The Thing unplanned
  620. The Sheep-boy
  621. Retty’s Phases
  622. A Poor Man and a Lady
  623. An Expostulation
  624. To a Sea-cliff
  625. The Echo-elf answers
  626. Cynic’s Epitaph
  627. A Beauty’s Soliloquy during her Honeymoon
  628. Donaghadee
  629. He inadvertently cures his Love-pains
  630. The Peace Peal
  631. Lady Vi
  632. A Popular Personage at Home
  633. Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells
  634. A Refusal
  635. Epitaph on a Pessimist
  636. The Protean Maiden
  637. A Watering-place Lady inventoried
  638. The Sea Fight
  639. Paradox
  640. The Rover come Home
  641. “Known had I”
  642. The Pat of Butter
  643. Bags of Meat
  644. The Sundial on a Wet Day
  645. Her Haunting-ground
  646. A Parting-scene
  647. Shortening Days at the Homestead
  648. Days to recollect
  649. To C. F. H.
  650. The High-School Lawn
  651. The Forbidden Banns
  652. The Paphian Ball
  653. On Martock Moor
  654. That Moment
  655. Premonitions
  656. This Summer and Last
  657. “Nothing matters much”
  658. In the Evening
  659. The Six Boards
  660. Before my Friend arrived
  661. Compassion: an Ode
  662. “Why she moved House”
  663. Tragedian to Tragedienne
  664. The Lady of Forebodings
  665. The Bird-catcher’s Boy
  666. A Hurried Meeting
  667. Discouragement
  668. A Leaving
  669. Song to an Old Burden
  670. “Why do I?”
  671. The New Dawn’s Business
  672. Proud Songsters
  673. Thoughts at Midnight
  674. “I am the One”
  675. The Prophetess
  676. A Wish for Unconsciousness
  677. The Bad Example
  678. To Louisa in the Lane
  679. Love watches a Window
  680. The Love-letters
  681. An Unkindly May
  682. Unkept Good Fridays
  683. The Mound
  684. Christmastide
  685. Reluctant Confession
  686. Expectation and Experience
  687. Evening Shadows
  688. The Three Tall Men
  689. The Lodging-house Fuchsias
  690. The Whaler’s Wife
  691. Throwing a Tree
  692. The War-wife of Catknoll
  693. Concerning his Old Home
  694. Her Second Husband hears her Story
  695. Yuletide in a Younger World
  696. After the Death of a Friend
  697. The Son’s Portrait
  698. Lying awake
  699. The Lady in the Furs
  700. Childhood among the Ferns
  701. A Countenance
  702. A Poet’s Thought
  703. Silences
  704. “I watched a Blackbird”
  705. A Nightmare, and the next Thing
  706. To a Tree in London
  707. The Felled Elm and She
  708. He did not know Me
  709. So Various
  710. A Self-glamourer
  711. The Dead Bastard
  712. The Clasped Skeletons
  713. In the Marquee
  714. After the Burial
  715. The Mongrel
  716. Concerning Agnes
  717. Henley Regatta
  718. An Evening in Galilee
  719. The Brother
  720. We Field-Women
  721. A Practical Woman
  722. Squire Hooper
  723. “A Gentleman’s Second-hand Suit”
  724. “We say we shall not meet”
  725. Seeing the Moon rise
  726. Song to Aurore
  727. He never expected much
  728. Standing by the Mantelpiece
  729. Boys then and now
  730. That Kiss in the Dark
  731. A Necessitarian’s Epitaph
  732. Burning the Holly
  733. Suspense
  734. The Second Visit
  735. Our Old Friend Dualism
  736. Faithful Wilson
  737. Gallant’s Song
  738. A Philosophical Fantasy
  739. A Question of Marriage
  740. The Letter’s Triumph
  741. A Forgotten Miniature
  742. Whispered at the Church-opening
  743. In Weatherbury Stocks
  744. A Placid Man’s Epitaph
  745. The New Boots
  746. The Musing Maiden
  747. Lorna the Second
  748. A Daughter returns
  749. The Third Kissing-gate
  750. Drinking Song
  751. The Tarrying Bridegroom
  752. The Destined Pair
  753. A Musical Incident
  754. June Leaves and Autumn
  755. No Bell-ringing
  756. “I looked back”
  757. The Aged Newspaper soliloquizes
  758. Christmas : 1924
  759. The Single Witness
  760. How She went to Ireland
  761. Dead “Wessex” the Dog to the Household
  762. The Woman who went East
  763. Not known
  764. The Boy’s Dream
  765. The Gap in the White
  766. Family Portraits
  767. The Catching Ballet of the Wedding Clothes
  768. A Winsome Woman
  769. The Ballad of Love’s Skeleton
  770. A Private Man on Public Men
  771. Christmas in the Elgin Room
  772. “We are getting to the End”
  773. He resolves to say no more
  774. V.R. 1819–1901: A Reverie
  775. The Going of the Battery: Wives’ Lament
  776. At the War Office, London
  777. The Dead Drummer
  778. The Souls of the Slain
  779. Song of the Soldiers’ Wives
  780. The Sick God
  781. The Bridge of Lodi
  782. On an Invitation to the United States
  783. The Lacking Sense
  784. Doom and She
  785. The Subalterns
  786. By the Earth’s Corpse
  787. Mute Opinion
  788. To an Unborn Pauper Child
  789. To Lizbie Browne
  790. The Coquette, and After
  791. His Immortality
  792. The To-be-forgotten
  793. Wives in the Sere
  794. The Superseded
  795. An August Midnight
  796. The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham
  797. A Man
  798. The Dame of Athelhall
  799. The Seasons of Her Year
  800. Architectural Masks
  801. The Tree: An Old Man’s Story
  802. The Church-builder
  803. Tess’s Lament
  804. The Supplanter: A Tale
  805. “I Have Lived with Shades”
  806. The Revisitation
  807. A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
  808. The Two Rosalinds
  809. A Sunday Morning Tragedy
  810. The House of Hospitalities
  811. Bereft
  812. John and Jane
  813. The Curate’s Kindness: A Workhouse Irony
  814. The Flirt’s Tragedy
  815. The Rejected Member’s Wife
  816. The Farm-woman’s Winter
  817. Autumn in King’s Hintock Park
  818. Shut Out That Moon
  819. Reminiscences of a Dancing Man
  820. The Dead Man Walking
  821. 1967
  822. Her Definition
  823. The Division
  824. On the Departure Platform
  825. In a Cathedral City
  826. “I Say I’ll Seek Her”
  827. Her Father
  828. At Waking
  829. Four Footprints
  830. In the Vaulted Way
  831. In the Mind’s Eye
  832. The End of the Episode
  833. The Sigh
  834. “In the Night She Came”
  835. The Conformers
  836. The Dawn After the Dance
  837. The Voice of the Thorn
  838. Let Me Enjoy
  839. The Dark-eyed Gentleman
  840. News for Her Mother
  841. The Dead Quire
  842. The Pine Planters
  843. The Difference
  844. The Torn Letter
  845. Beyond the Last Lamp
  846. In Death Divided
  847. The Place on the Map
  848. A Singer Asleep
  849. God’s Funeral
  850. Beeny Cliff
  851. The Phantom Horsewoman
  852. Had You Wept
  853. In the Servants’ Quarters
  854. The Moon Looks in
  855. The Sacrilege: A Ballad-tragedy
  856. The Abbey Mason
  857. The Jubilee of a Magazine
  858. Exeunt Omnes
  859. In a Museum
  860. The Riddle
  861. The Pedigree
  862. “You on the Tower”
  863. Looking Across
  864. At a Seaside Town in 1869
  865. A New Year’s Eve in War Time
  866. Epeisodia
  867. “According to the Mighty Working”
  868. “I Was Not He”
  869. “And There Was a Great Calm”
  870. Mismet
  871. “If You Had Known”
  872. The Chapel-organist
  873. The Master and the Leaves
  874. In a London Flat
  875. After the Visit
  876. The Sun on the Bookcase
  877. A Thunderstorm in Town
  878. The Schreckhorn
  879. St. Launce’s Revisited
  880. A King’s Soliloquy: On the Night of His Funeral
  881. The Moth-Signal
  882. Postscript: “Men Who March Away”
  883. After the Last Breath
  884. One We Knew
  885. Geographical Knowledge
  886. Aberdeen
  887. George Meredith
  888. At a Bridal
  889. Her Dilemma
  890. She, to Him: I
  891. She, to Him: II
  892. She, to Him: III
  893. She, to Him: IV
  894. Ditty
  895. The Sergeant’s Song
  896. Valenciennes
  897. The Burghers
  898. Leipzig
  899. The Alarm
  900. The Casterbridge Captains
  901. My Cicely
  902. Thoughts of Phena: At News of Her Death
  903. Middle-Age Enthusiasms
  904. In a Wood
  905. To a Lady: Offended by a Book of the Writer’s
  906. To an Orphan Child: A Whimsey
  907. The Impercipient
  908. The Slow Nature
  909. Heiress and Architect
  910. Departure
  911. The Colonel’s Soliloquy
  912. Shelley’s Skylark
  913. In the Old Theatre, Fiesole
  914. Rome: On the Palatine
  915. Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
  916. Rome: The Vatican—Sala delle Muse
  917. Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
  918. Lausanne
  919. Zermatt: To the Matterhorn
  920. The Bedridden Peasant: To an Unknowing God
  921. At a Hasty Wedding
  922. Birds at Winter Nightfall
  923. Her Late Husband
  924. The Lost Pyx
  925. Catullus: XXXI
  926. Afternoon Service at Mellstock
  927. Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
  928. To Shakespeare: After Three Hundred Years
  929. Timing Her
  930. The Background and the Figure
  931. Sitting on the Bridge
  932. This Heart: A Woman’s Dream
  933. Love the Monopolist
  934. On Sturminster Foot-Bridge
  935. Logs on the Hearth: A Memory of a Sister
  936. The Pedestrian: An Incident of 1883
  937. In the Garden
  938. An Appeal to America: On Behalf of the Belgian Destitute
  939. Cry of the Homeless: After the Prussian Invasion of Belgium
  940. Before Marching and After
  941. The Maid of Keinton Mandeville
  942. At a House in Hampstead: Sometime the Dwelling of John Keats
  943. The Strange House
  944. “As ’Twere To-night”
  945. The Old Gown
  946. A Duettist to Her Pianoforte: Song of Silence
  947. Haunting Fingers: A Phantasy in a Museum of Musical Instruments
  948. A Bygone Occasion
  949. Meditations on a Holiday
  950. The Wood Fire
  951. Saying Good-bye
  952. The Opportunity
  953. Evelyn G. of Christminster
  954. The Rift
  955. The Two Wives
  956. “I Knew a Lady”
  957. The Country Wedding
  958. First or Last
  959. The Second Night
  960. The Passer-by
  961. A Sound in the Night
  962. An Old Likeness
  963. Her Apotheosis
  964. “Sacred to the Memory”
  965. A Military Appointment
  966. The Milestone by the Rabbit-Burrow
  967. The Inscription
  968. The Sun’s Last Look on the Country Girl
  969. Murmurs in the Gloom
  970. After Reading Psalms: XXXIX., XL., Etc.
  971. Surview

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