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| Searching... Author: hardy, thomas Matches Found: 883 Hardy, Thomas Poet's Biography 883 poems available by this author 1967 Poem Text First Line: In five-score summers! All new eyes Last Line: That thy worm should be my worm, love! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The A BACKWARD SPRING Poem Text First Line: The trees are afraid to put forth buds Last Line: What happened to it in mid-december. Subject(s): Spring A BEAUTY'S SOLILOQUY DURING HER HONEYMOON Poem Text First Line: Too late, too late! I did not know my fairness Last Line: Quite so emphatically! Subject(s): Honeymoons; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BIRD-SCENE AT A RURAL DWELLING Poem Text First Line: When the inmate stirs, the birds retire discreetly Last Line: Just such enactments, just such daybreaks seen. Subject(s): Animals A BROKEN APPOINTMENT Poem Text First Line: You did not come Last Line: You love not me? Subject(s): Love - Complaints A BYGONE OCCASION (SONG) Poem Text First Line: That night, that night Last Line: Though tears may throng! A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE Poem Text First Line: Up and be doing, all who have a hand Last Line: So loud for promptness all around outcries! Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CATHEDRAL FACADE AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: Along the sculptures of the western wall Last Line: The coded creeds of old-time godliness. A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899 Poem Text First Line: South of the line, inland from far durban Last Line: But tarries yet the cause for which he died.' Subject(s): Boer War; Christmas; South African War; Nativity, The A CHURCH ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: She turned in the high pew, until her sight Last Line: Bowing 'new sabbath' or 'mount ephraim'. A CIRCULAR Poem Text First Line: As 'legal representative' Last Line: Was costumed in a shroud. A COMMONPLACE DAY Poem Text First Line: The day is turning ghost Last Line: May wake regret in me. A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IN TROUBLE Poem Text First Line: Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Last Line: Than that, though banned, such instinct was in me! A CONVERSATION AT DAWN Poem Text First Line: He lay awake, with a harassed air Last Line: Flung its lazy flounce at the neighbouring quay. A COOUNTENANCE Poem Text First Line: Her laugh was not in the middle of her face quite Last Line: As love became unblinded? A DAUGHTER RETURNS Poem Text First Line: I like not that dainty-cut raiment, those earrings of pearl Last Line: Then, then shall I think, think of thee! Subject(s): Daughters; Homecoming A DEATH-DAY RECALLED Poem Text First Line: Beeny did not quiver Last Line: Of their former friend? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DREAM OR NO Poem Text First Line: Why go to saint-juliot? What's juliot to me? Last Line: Or beeny, or bos with its flounce flinging mist? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM QUESTION Poem Text First Line: I asked the lord, 'sire, is this true Last Line: Within the ethic of my will.' Subject(s): Bible; God; Religion; Theology A DRIZZLING EASTER MORNING Poem Text First Line: And he is risen? Well, be it so Last Line: For endless rest -- though risen is he. Variant Title(s): On One Who Lived And Died Where Born Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection A DUETTIST TO HER PIANOFORTE; SONG OF SILENCE (E.L.H - H.C.H.) Poem Text First Line: Since every sound moves memories Last Line: Nay: hushed, hushed, hushed, you are for me! Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Silence A GENTLEMAN'S EPITAPH ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER Poem Text First Line: I dwelt in the shade of a city Last Line: Companion to me! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY Poem Text First Line: There is a house in a city street Last Line: Alone, from wall to wall. A HURRIED MEETING Poem Text First Line: It is august moonlight in the tall plantation Last Line: "and then all mourning, mourning!" A JANUARY NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The rain smites more and more Last Line: We do not know. A JINGLE ON THE TIMES Poem Text First Line: I am a painter Last Line: December 1914 A JOG-TROT PAIR Poem Text First Line: Who were the twain that trod this track Last Line: Yes; happier than the cleverest, smartest, rarest. A KING'S SOLILOQUY (ON THE NIGHT OF HIS FUNERAL) Poem Text First Line: From the slow march and muffled drum Last Line: My acts and me. Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910) A KISS Poem Text First Line: By a wall the stranger now calls his Last Line: In the infinite. Subject(s): Kisses A LAST JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Father, you seem to have been sleeping fair' Last Line: "to see those old friends that he cared for so?" A LEADER OF FASHION Poem Text First Line: Never has she known Last Line: Throughout their count of calvaries! A LEAVING Poem Text First Line: Knowing what it bore / I watched the rain-smitten back of the car Last Line: Knowing what it bore! A LIGHT SNOWFALL AFTER FROST Poem Text First Line: On the flat road a man at last appears Last Line: When it transformed it so. A MAIDEN'S PLEDGE (SONG) Poem Text First Line: I do not wish to win your vow Last Line: Shall come, and you stand wholly mine. A MAN Poem Text First Line: In casterbridge there stood a noble pile Last Line: His protest lives where deathless things abide!' A MAN WAS DRAWING NEAR TO ME' First Line: On that gray night of mournful drone A MEETING WITH DESPAIR Poem Text First Line: As evening shaped I found me on a moor Last Line: Had gone. Then chuckled he. A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION Poem Text First Line: I will get a new string for my fiddle Last Line: And gurgoyles that mouthed to the tune. Subject(s): Parties A MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO) Poem Text First Line: So back you have come from the town, nan, dear! Last Line: "and it's here our meeting is planned to be." A NEW YEAR'S EVE IN WAR TIME Poem Text First Line: Phantasmal fears Last Line: To pale europe; and tiredly the pines intone. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: I marked when the weather changed Last Line: And saying at last you knew! A NIGHT OF QUESTIONINGS Poem Text First Line: On the eve of all-souls' day Last Line: "no more I know" A PARTING SCENE Poem Text First Line: The two pale women cried Last Line: "too long; too long!"" burst out. ('twas for five years.)" A PLAINT TO MAN Poem Text First Line: When you slowly emerged from the den of time Last Line: And visioned help unsought, unknown. Subject(s): Men A POET Poem Text First Line: Attentive eyes, fantastic heed Last Line: It will be word enough of praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets A POOR MAN AND A LADY Poem Text First Line: We knew it was not a valid thing Last Line: And no one knew, unless it was god. A POPULAR PERSONAGE AT HOME Poem Text First Line: I live here: 'wessex' is my name Last Line: "yet, will this pass, and pass shall I?" Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wessex, England A PROCESSION OF DEAD DAYS Poem Text First Line: I see the ghost of a perished day Last Line: And what his third hour took away! A REFUSAL Poem Text First Line: Said the grave dean of westminster Last Line: That I ensconce swinburne! Subject(s): Christianity; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey A SECOND ATTEMPT Poem Text First Line: Thirty years after Last Line: "twice-over cannot be!" A SHEEP FAIR Poem Text First Line: The day arrives of the autumn fair Last Line: At pummery fair. A SIGN-SEEKER Poem Text First Line: I mark the months in liveries dank and dry Last Line: And nescience mutely muses: when a man falls he lies. A SINGER ASLEEP Poem Text First Line: In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea Last Line: Upon the capes and chines. Subject(s): Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE, 17--) Poem Text First Line: What do I catch upon the night-wind, husband?' Last Line: And sometimes an infant's moan. A SPELLBOUND PALACE (HAMPTON COURT) Poem Text First Line: On this kindly yellow day of mild low-travelling winter sun Last Line: Save the mindless fountain tinkling on with thin enfeebled will. Subject(s): Hampton Court Palace, England A SPOT Poem Text First Line: In years defaced and lost Last Line: Suffuse this glen!' A SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: I bore a daughter flower-fair Last Line: But pray god not to pity me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS Poem Text First Line: I saw it - pink and white - revealed Last Line: Made of the dusty ground!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN Poem Text First Line: She wore a new 'terra-cotta' dress Last Line: Had lasted a minute more. Subject(s): Love A TRAMPWOMAN'S TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: From wynyard's gap the livelong day Last Line: Haunting the western moor. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes A TWO-YEARS' IDYLL Poem Text First Line: Yes; such it was / just those two seasons unsought Last Line: That seems it now. A WASTED ILLNESS Poem Text First Line: Through vaults of pain Last Line: To reach that door. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness A WATCHER'S REGRET; J.E.'S STORY Poem Text First Line: I slept across the front of the clock Last Line: Of the hour in which she went. Subject(s): Time A WATERING-PLACE LADY INVENTORIED Poem Text First Line: A sweetness of temper unsurpassed and unforgettable Last Line: And that (with a sigh) 'twas a pity she'd no one to treat her tenderly. A WEEK Poem Text First Line: On monday night I closed my door Last Line: Without whom life were waste to me! A WET AUGUST Poem Text First Line: Nine drops of water bead the jessamine Last Line: Were wrought more bright than brightest skies to-day. Subject(s): Rain; Summer A WET NIGHT Poem Text First Line: I pace along, the rain-shafts riddling me Last Line: And taking all such toils as trifles mere. Subject(s): Rain A WIFE AND ANOTHER Poem Text First Line: War ends, and he's returning Last Line: I held I had not stirred god wrothfully. Subject(s): Homecoming; Marriage; Soldiers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WIFE COMES BACK Poem Text First Line: This is the story a man told me Last Line: "why did you come?" A WIFE IN LONDON Poem Text First Line: She sits in the tawny vapour Last Line: And of new love that they would learn. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War A WOMAN DRIVING Poem Text First Line: How she held up the horses' heads Last Line: Towards some radiant star. A WOMAN'S FANCY Poem Text First Line: Ah, madam; you've indeed come back here?' Last Line: Not she who wedded him. A WOMAN'S TRUST Poem Text First Line: If he should live a thousand years Last Line: Thus she believed in him! A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE Poem Text First Line: A senseless school, where we must give Last Line: Lessons that leave no time for prizes. Subject(s): Schools; Students A YOUNG MAN'S EXHORTATION Poem Text First Line: Call off your eyes from care Last Line: Most kingly is the king. A. H., 1855-1912 Poem Text First Line: A laurelled soldier he; yet who could find Last Line: At once into the sweetest sleep of all? Subject(s): Soldiers ABERDEEN Poem Text First Line: I looked and thought, 'all is too gray and cold Last Line: Men count for the stability of the time. ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING Poem Text First Line: When moiling seems at cease Last Line: Outside perception's range. Subject(s): Peace AFTER A JOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Hereto I come to view a voiceless ghost Last Line: Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers. Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Memory; New Year; Nostalgia AFTER A ROMANTIC DAY Poem Text First Line: The railway bore him through Last Line: The visions of his mind were drawn. AFTER READING PSALMS 34, 40, ETC Poem Text First Line: Simple was I and was young Last Line: Yea: quem elegisti?' Subject(s): Bible AFTER THE LAST BREATH (J.H. 1813-1904) Poem Text First Line: There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped Last Line: Outshapes but small. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The AFTER THE VISIT Poem Text First Line: Come again to the place Last Line: That which mattered most could not be. AFTER THE WAR Poem Text First Line: Last post sounded Last Line: "and she the dead!" Subject(s): World War I; First World War AFTERNOON SERVICE AT MELLSTOCK Poem Text First Line: On afternooons of drowsy calm Last Line: Since we stood psalming there. AFTERWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE? Poem Text AH, ARE YOU DIGGING ON MY GRAVE? ALIKE AND UNLIKE (GREAT ORME'S HEAD) Poem Text First Line: We watched the selfsame scene on that long drive Last Line: Mine commonplace; yours tragic, gruesome, gray. AMABEL Poem Text First Line: I marked her ruined hues Last Line: "o amabel!'" AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS Poem Text First Line: Where once we danced, where once we sang, gentlemen Last Line: Gentlemen. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: It was at the very date to which we have come Last Line: Socket-bones. AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE Poem Text First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: A shaded lamp and a waving blind Last Line: They know earth-secrets that know not I. Subject(s): Insects; Bugs AN AUTUMN RAIN-SCENE Poem Text First Line: There trudges one to a merry-making Last Line: On whom the rain comes down. Subject(s): Rain AN EAST-END CURATE Poem Text First Line: A small blind street off east commercial road Last Line: But stoops along abstractedly, for good, or in vain, god wot! AN EXPERIENCE Poem Text First Line: Wit, weight, or wealth there was not Last Line: Was never to forget! AN EXPOSTULATION Poem Text First Line: Why want to go afar Last Line: Wherein your foredames gaily filled the pail? AN INQUIRY; A PHANTASY Poem Text First Line: I said to it: 'we grasp not what you meant Last Line: "in crowning death as king!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R.T.) Poem Text First Line: Who would have thought Last Line: Herself of old. AN UPBRAIDING Poem Text First Line: Now I am dead you sing to me Last Line: As when we lived, or how? AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' Poem Text First Line: There had been years of passion -- scorching, cold Last Line: And again the spirit of pity whispered, 'why?' Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I; First World War ANGOSTO THEO Poem Text First Line: Long have I framed weak phantasies of thee Last Line: Would raise my voice in song. Subject(s): Religion; Theology ANY LITTLE OLD SONG APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE Poem Text First Line: I met you first - ah, when did I first meet you? Last Line: Till doom's great day be! AQUAE SULIS Poem Text First Line: The chimes called midnight, just at interlune Last Line: And the boiling voice of the waters' medicinal pour. Subject(s): Bath, England ARCHITECTURAL MASKS Poem Text First Line: There is a house with ivied walls Last Line: You vulgar people there.' Subject(s): Houses AS 'TWERE TONIGHT AT A BRIDAL Poem Text First Line: When you paced forth, to await maternity Last Line: If the race all such sovereign types unknows. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A COUNTRY FAIR Poem Text First Line: At a bygone western country fair Last Line: If once, a hundred times! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT A FASHIONABLE DINNER Poem Text First Line: We sat with the banqueting-party Last Line: Lavine! AT A HASTY WEDDING; TRIOLET Poem Text First Line: If hours be years the twain are blest Last Line: For now they solace swift desire. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT A HOUSE IN HAMPSTEAD Poem Text First Line: O poet, come you haunting here Last Line: Passed to the dim. Subject(s): Hampstead Heath, London; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE Poem Text First Line: Thy shadow, earth, from pole to central sea Last Line: Heroes, and women fairer than the skies? Subject(s): Eclipses; Moon AT A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1869 Poem Text First Line: I went and stood outside myself Last Line: One beam! Yea, she is gone, is gone. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of AT AN INN Poem Text First Line: When we as strangers sought Last Line: As we stood then! AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER Poem Text First Line: Sing, ballad-singer, raise a hearty tune Last Line: Make me forget her tears. Subject(s): Festivals; Love; Singing & Singers; Fairs; Pageants; Songs AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES Poem Text First Line: These market-dames, mid-aged, with lips thin-drawn Last Line: Them always fair. Subject(s): Beauty; Festivals; Transience; Fairs; Pageants; Impermanence AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE Poem Text First Line: Black'on frowns east on maidon Last Line: They, too, have done the same! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 4. THE MARKET-GIRL Poem Text First Line: Nobody took any notice of her as she stood on the causey know Last Line: And I found that though no others had bid, a prize had been won by me. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 5. THE INQUIRY Poem Text First Line: And are ye one of hermitage Last Line: Preserves a maid's alive. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 6. A WIFE WAITS Poem Text First Line: Will's at the dance in the club-room below Last Line: Shivering I wait for him here. Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 7. AFTER THE FAIR Poem Text First Line: The singers are gone from the cornmarket-place Last Line: At their meeting-times here, just as these! Subject(s): Festivals; Fairs; Pageants AT CASTLE BOTEREL Poem Text First Line: As I drive to the junction of lane and highway Last Line: Never again. Subject(s): Love; Time AT DAY-CLOSE IN NOVEMBER Poem Text First Line: The ten hours' light is abating Last Line: That none will in time be seen. AT LULWORTH COVE A CENTURY BACK Poem Text First Line: Had I but lived a hundred years ago Last Line: And bend with reverence where his ashes lie.' Subject(s): Dorset, England; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S IN VICTORIAN YEARS Poem Text First Line: That same first-fiddler who leads the orchestra tonight Last Line: Yes; gamuts that graced forty years'-flight were not a small thing! Subject(s): Tussaud's Wax Museum; Waxworks AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS Poem Text First Line: How could I be aware Last Line: And neither of us knew! AT MIDDLE-FIELD GATE IN FEBRUARY Poem Text First Line: The bars are thick with drops that show Last Line: Bloomed a bevy now underground! AT MOONRISE AND ONWARDS Poem Text First Line: I thought you a fire Last Line: Or life's top cyme! AT PAUSE IN A COUNTRY DANCE (MIDDLE OF LAST CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: They stood at the foot of the figure Last Line: In elbow-chairs through the slow night. AT RUSHY-POND Poem Text First Line: On the frigid face of the heath-hemmed pond Last Line: Her days dropped out of mine. AT SHAG'S HEATH, 1685 Poem Text First Line: I grieve and grieve for what I have done Last Line: Sweet, slain king monmouth -- he! AT THE AQUATIC SPORTS Poem Text First Line: With their backs to the sea two fiddlers stand Last Line: A business they pursue. AT THE DINNER TABLE Poem Text First Line: I sat at dinner in my prime Last Line: In jest there fifty years before. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR Poem Text First Line: Our songs went up and out the chimney Last Line: "albeit the fault may not be thine." Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; World War I; First World War AT THE MILL Poem Text First Line: O miller knox, whom we knew well Last Line: Just as of old. AT THE PIANO Poem Text First Line: A woman was playing Last Line: And the phantom hid nigh. Subject(s): Musical Instruments; Pianos AT THE RAILWAY STATION, UPWAY Poem Text First Line: There is not much that I can do ...' Last Line: The convict, and boy with the violin. AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY Poem Text First Line: These summer landscapes - clump, and copse, and croft Last Line: And no more know they sight of any sun. AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON Poem Text First Line: Last year I called this world of gaingivings Last Line: From ind to occident. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War AT THE WICKET-GATE Poem Text First Line: There floated the sounds of church-chiming Last Line: As thence we withdrew. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AT THE WORD 'FAREWELL' Poem Text First Line: She looked like a bird from a cloud Last Line: When we came in together. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AT WAKING Poem Text First Line: When night was lifting Last Line: Is a blank to me! Subject(s): Morning AT WYNYARD'S GAP Poem Text First Line: The hounds pass here? Last Line: He hands her up. Exeunt omnes. AUTUMN IN THE PARK Poem Text First Line: Here by the baring bough Last Line: Raking up leaves. Subject(s): Country Life BAGS OF MEAT Poem Text First Line: Here's a fine bag of meat Last Line: When the butcher wins, and he's driven from the place. Subject(s): Auctions; Butchers; Cattle BARTHELEMON AT VAUXHALL Poem Text First Line: He said: 'awake my soul, and with the sun' Last Line: It spread to galleried naves and mighty quires. Subject(s): Barthelemon, Francois Hippolite; Music & Musicians BEENY CLIFF; MARCH 1870 - MARCH 1913 Poem Text First Line: O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea Last Line: And nor knows nor cares for beeny, and will laugh there nevermore. BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER Poem Text First Line: Looking forward to the spring Last Line: I, alas, perceived not when. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Fall BEFORE KNOWLEDGE Poem Text First Line: When I walked roseless tracks and wide Last Line: And I heard no call! BEFORE LIFE AND AFTER Poem Text First Line: A time there was - as one may guess Last Line: How long, how long? BEFORE MARCHING, AND AFTER (IN MEMORIAM F.W.G.) Poem Text First Line: Orion swung southward aslant Last Line: A brightness therefrom not to fade on the morrow. Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties BEFORE MY FRIEND ARRIVED Poem Text First Line: I sat on the eve-lit weir Last Line: The tower is dark on the sky. BEREFT Poem Text First Line: In the black winter morning Last Line: Would 'twere underground! BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS Poem Text First Line: I dream that the dearest I ever knew Last Line: And no one wakes me! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BEST TIMES Poem Text First Line: We went a day's excursion to the stream Last Line: Walk down again, struck me as I stood there. BETWEEN US NOW Poem Text First Line: Between us now and here Last Line: Faith be for aye. BEYOND THE LAST LAMP (NEAR TOOTING COMMON) Poem Text First Line: While rain, with eve in partnership Last Line: And will, while such a lane remain. BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL; TRIOLET Poem Text First Line: Around the house the flakes fly faster Last Line: And all the berries now are gone! Subject(s): Birds; Winter BROTHER First Line: O know you what I have done Last Line: I've done them both out there! BUDMOUTH DEARS Poem Text First Line: When we lay where budmouth beach is Last Line: Down? Variant Title(s): Hussar's Song Subject(s): Soldiers BY HENSTRIDGE CROSS AT THE YEAR'S END Poem Text First Line: Why go the east road now? Last Line: "we are for new feet now." Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails BY THE BARROWS Poem Text First Line: Not far from mellstock - so tradition saith Last Line: Of stoic and devoted self-unheed. Subject(s): Mothers BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE Poem Text First Line: O lord, why grievest thou? Last Line: It still repenteth me!' Subject(s): Creation BY THE RUNIC STONE (TWO WHO BECAME A STORY) Poem Text First Line: By the runic stone / they sat, where the grass sloped down Last Line: From zone to zone! CALF First Line: You may have seen, in road or street Last Line: And rising halfway to my hips, %and babbling pleasant tunes Subject(s): Calves CARDINAL BEMBO'S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL Poem Text First Line: Here's one in whom nature feared - faint at such vying Last Line: Eclipse while he lived, and decease at his dying. CHANNEL FIRING Poem Text First Line: That night your great guns, unawares Last Line: And camelot, and starlit stonehenge. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Social Protest; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CHRISTMAS: 1924 First Line: Peace on earth!' was said. We sing it Last Line: We've got as far as poison-gas Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Christmas CIRCUS-RIDER TO RINGMASTER Poem Text First Line: When I am riding round the ring no longer Last Line: As in these last years! COME NOT; YET COME! (SONG) Poem Text First Line: In my sage moments I can say Last Line: And I faint to a phantom past all trace. COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING Poem Text First Line: The sun from the west glares back Last Line: Empty of interest in things, and wondering why he was born. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight COMPASSION; AN ODE IN CELEBRATION ... PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Poem Text First Line: Backward among the dusky years Last Line: Calls a yet mightier one. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Compassion; Animal Abuse; Vivisection CONJECTURE Poem Text First Line: If there were in my kalendar Last Line: I'd pass to pulseless sleep! COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINISTER (WIMBORNE) Poem Text First Line: How smartly the quarters of the hour march by Last Line: In a moment's forgetfulness. COULD I BUT WILL CROSS-CURRENTS Poem Text First Line: They parted - a pallid, trembling pair Last Line: "I was distressed to make!" CRY OF THE HOMELESS Poem Text First Line: Instigator of the ruin Last Line: Till death dark thee with his pall.' Subject(s): Homeless; World War I; First World War CYNIC'S EPTIAPH Poem Text First Line: A race with the sun as he downed Last Line: I stayed on. Subject(s): Cynicism DAYS TO RECOLLECT Poem Text First Line: Do you recall Last Line: That sad november! DEAD 'WESSEX,' THE DOG, TO THE HOUSEHOLD First Line: Do you think of me at all Subject(s): Animals DEPARTURE Poem Text First Line: While the far farewell music thins and fails Last Line: Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?' Subject(s): Boer War; South African War DISCOURAGEMENT Poem Text First Line: To see the mother, naturing nature, stand Last Line: And fosterer of visions ghast and grim. DITTY Poem Text First Line: Beneath a knap where flown Last Line: Where she dwells! DOMICILIUM First Line: It faces west, and round the back and sides Last Line: So wild it was when first we settled here DONAGHADEE (SONG) Poem Text First Line: I've never gone to donaghadee Last Line: And yet I sing of donaghadee! DOOM AND SHE Poem Text First Line: There dwells a mighty pair Last Line: When the night tempests rise. DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH Poem Text First Line: I hear the bell-rope sawing Last Line: But not inquire. DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN Poem Text First Line: Twere sweet to have a comrade here Last Line: Their one life's time! Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers DRUMMER HODGE Poem Text First Line: They throw in drummer hodge, to rest Last Line: His stars eternally. Variant Title(s): The Dead Drummer Subject(s): Boer War; Travel; War; South African War; Journeys; Trips DURING WIND AND RAIN Poem Text First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DYNASTS, SELS. DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIFTH First Line: At last villeneuve accepts the sea and fate Last Line: And fiercely the predestined plot proceeds Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT FIRST First Line: Hark now, and gather how the martial mood Last Line: Affection ever was illogical Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT FOURTH First Line: Yes, yes, I grasp your reasons, mr. Pitt Last Line: He's staunch. He's watching, or I am much deceived Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT SECOND First Line: Our migratory proskenion now presents Last Line: And if he's not, why, we've a holiday! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT SIXTH First Line: Soldiers, the hordes of muscovy now face you Last Line: A gauze of shadow overdraws Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. ACT THIRD First Line: Monsieur the admiral decres Last Line: If time's weird threads to weave! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 1. FORE SCENE. THE OVERWORLD First Line: What of the immanent will and its designs? Last Line: We may but muse on, never learn Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIFTH First Line: Napoleon even now embraces not Last Line: Over the scene they disappear Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FIRST First Line: Another stranger presses to see you, sir Last Line: And peoples are enmeshed in new calamity! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT FOURTH First Line: Whether the rain comes in or not Last Line: Whether ye sigh their sighs with them or no! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT SECOND First Line: The life-guards still insist, love, that the king Last Line: Will light me in Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT SIXTH First Line: A bird's eye perspective is revealed of the peninsular trace Last Line: A painless hand Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 2. ACT THIRD First Line: Now he's one of the eighty-first Last Line: The night closes over Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT FIRST First Line: The portent is an ill one, emperor Last Line: The woes of moscow Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT FOURTH First Line: The view is from a vague altitude over the beautiful country Last Line: The opera house becomes lost in darkness Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SECOND First Line: This grateful rest of four-and-twenty hours Last Line: To leipzig city, and await the blow Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SEVENTH. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO First Line: An aerial view of the battlefield at the time of sunrise Last Line: Because it must Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Last Line: From to-morrow's mist-fall till time is sped Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo DYNASTS: 3. ACT THIRD First Line: We come; and learn as time's disordered deaf sands run Last Line: The dawn must find us fording the nivelle! Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) DYNASTS: 3. AFTER SCENE. THE OVERWORLD First Line: Thus doth the great foresightless mechanize Last Line: Concious the will informing, till it fashion all things fair Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) EMBARCATION Poem Text First Line: Here, where vespasian's legions struck the sands Last Line: As if they knew not that they weep the while. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War END OF THE YEAR 1912 Poem Text First Line: You were here at his young beginning Last Line: Once, while six bells swung thereto. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914 Poem Text First Line: O england, may god punish thee!' Last Line: And present sight, your ancient name. Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War EPEISODIA Poem Text First Line: Past the hills that peep Last Line: There shall rest we. EPITAPH Poem Text First Line: I never cared for life: life cared for me Last Line: "nor sought in me much more than thou couldst find." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Life; Work; Workers EVELYN G. OF CHRISTMINISTER Poem Text First Line: I can see the towers Last Line: Of you now there! EVERY ARTEMISIA Poem Text First Line: Your eye-light wanes with an ail of care ...' Last Line: "fanes of my sires." EVERYTHING COMES Poem Text First Line: The house is bleak and cold Last Line: Tis too late,' she said. EXEUNT OMNES Poem Text First Line: Everybody else, then, going Last Line: Soon one more goes thither! EXPECTATION AND EXPERIENCE First Line: I had a holiday once,' said the woman Last Line: What on earth made me plod there!' FAINTHEART IN A RAILWAY TRAIN Poem Text First Line: At nine in the morning there passed a church Last Line: That I had alighted there! Variant Title(s): A Glimpse From The Train Subject(s): Love FAMOUS TRAGEDY OF THE QUEEN OF CORNWALL AT TINTAGEL IN LYONESSE First Line: I come, at your persuasive call Last Line: Such ghosts of distant days FATHER DUNMAN'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: Bury me on a sunday' Last Line: "a jolly afternoon." Subject(s): Funerals; Burials FETCHING HER Poem Text First Line: An hour before the dawn, / my friend Last Line: But left it where it grew! FIRST OR LAST (SONG) Poem Text First Line: If grief come early Last Line: Aye, my dear and tender! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER Poem Text First Line: A day is drawing to its fall Last Line: Has been a common day. FLIRT'S TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: Here alone by the logs in my chamber Last Line: Whose lover he slew. FOR LIFE I HAD NEVER CARED GREATLY Poem Text FOR LIFE I HAD NEVER CARED GREATLY FORGOTTEN MINIATURE First Line: There you are in the dark Last Line: Some wait for sleep FOUR FOOTPRINTS Poem Text First Line: Here are the tracks upon the sand Last Line: For they have resumed their honeymoon tour. Subject(s): Footprints FOUR IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: At four this day of june I rise Last Line: At four o'clock! FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: At last I entered a long dark gallery Last Line: If the world goes on.' FREED THE FRET OF THINKING FRIENDS BEYOND Poem Text First Line: William dewy, tranter reuben, farmer ledlow late at plough Last Line: And the squire, and lady susan, murmur mildly to me now. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FROM HER IN THE COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: I thought and thought of thy crass clanging town Last Line: Longing to madness I might move therein! GALLANT'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When the maiden leaves off teasing Last Line: Ha-ha. Ho! GENITRIX LAESA (MEASURE OF A SARUM SEQUENCE) Poem Text First Line: Nature, through these generations Last Line: To dissolubility. GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Poem Text First Line: O epic-famed, god-haunted central sea Last Line: Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee. Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Mediterranean Sea GENTLEMAN'S SECOND-HAND SUIT' First Line: Here it is hanging in the sun Last Line: With him, and grieve GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE (A MEMORY OF CHRISTIANA C - ) Poem Text First Line: Where blackmoor was, the road that led Last Line: Then he'll come back to me!' GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: Forty years back, when much had place Last Line: His words wing on - as live words will. Subject(s): Meredith, George (1828-1909); Novels & Novelists GOD'S EDUCATION Poem Text First Line: I saw him steal the light away Last Line: Theirs is the teaching mind!' Variant Title(s): His Education Subject(s): God GOD'S FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: I saw a slowly-stepping train Last Line: Mechanically I followed with the rest. Subject(s): Religion; Theology GOD-FORGOTTEN Poem Text First Line: I towered far, and lo! I stood within Last Line: When trouble hovers nigh. Subject(s): God GOING AND STAYING Poem Text First Line: The moving sun-shapes on the spray Last Line: Alike dissolving. Subject(s): Time GREAT THINGS Poem Text First Line: Sweet cider [or, cyder] is a great thing Last Line: Great things to me! GREEN SLATES (PENPETHY) Poem Text First Line: It happened once, before the duller Last Line: "standing in the quarry!" Subject(s): Memory; Quarries GROWTH IN MAY Poem Text First Line: I enter a daisy-and buttercup land Last Line: And her gown, as she waits for her love. HAD YOU WEPT Poem Text First Line: Had you wept; had you but neared me with a hazed uncertain ray Last Line: And hence our deep division, and our dark undying pain. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HAP Poem Text First Line: If but some vengeful god would call to me Last Line: Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. Subject(s): Fate; Social Protest; Destiny HAUNTING FINGERS; A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICIAL INSTRUMENTS Poem Text First Line: Are you awake' Last Line: And day crawled in. Subject(s): Musical Instruments HE ABJURES LOVE Poem Text First Line: At last I put off love Last Line: And then, the curtain. Subject(s): Love HE FEARS HIS GOOD FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: There was a glorious time Last Line: - and it came. HE FOLLOWS HIMSELF Poem Text First Line: In a heavy time I dogged myself Last Line: Thus bootlessly. HE INADVERTENLY CURES HIS LOVE-PAINS Poem Text First Line: I said 'o let me sing the praise Last Line: Those old sweet agonies again! HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH (OR) A CONSIDERATION Poem Text First Line: Well, world, you have kept faith with me Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH (OR) A CONSIDERATION First Line: Well, world, you have kept faith with me Last Line: As each year might assign Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays HE PREFERS HER EARTHLY Poem Text First Line: This after-sunset is a sight for seeing Last Line: You as the one you were. HE RESOLVES TO SAY NO MORE First Line: O my soul, keep the rest unknown Last Line: And show to no man what I see HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL Poem Text First Line: I should not have shown in the flesh Last Line: I may right it - some day. Subject(s): Schools; Students HE WONDERS ABOUT HIMSELF VEXED Poem Text First Line: No use hoping, or feeling vext Last Line: And a fair desire fulfil? HEIRESS AND ARCHITECT Poem Text First Line: She sought the studios, beckoning to her side Last Line: "for you will die." HENLEY REGATTA First Line: She looks from the window: still it pours down direly Last Line: Her little paper boats HER APOTHEOSIS (FADED WOMAN'S SONG) Poem Text First Line: There were years vague of measure Last Line: Ringed me with living light. HER CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: As some bland soul, to whom a debtor says Last Line: To putting off for ever the caress. HER DEATH AND AFTER Poem Text First Line: Twas a death-bed summons, and forth I went Last Line: If only she could know! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HER DEFINITION Poem Text First Line: I lingered through the night to break of day Last Line: The sweetest image outside paradise. HER DILEMMA; IN CHURCH Poem Text First Line: The two were silent in a sunless church Last Line: Where nature such dilemmas could devise. Subject(s): Death; Kindness; Dead, The HER FATHER Poem Text First Line: I met her, as we had privily planned Last Line: Of time, and wrack, and foes.' Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HER HAUNTING-GROUND Poem Text First Line: Can it be so? It must be so Last Line: And, save for others, knew no gloom? HER IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: Upon a noon I pilgrimed through Last Line: Never again to be! HER INITIALS Poem Text First Line: Upon a poet's page I wrote Last Line: The radiance has died away. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HER LATE HUSBAND Poem Text First Line: No - not where I shall make my own Last Line: "in our sight up above!""'" Subject(s): Widows & Widowers HER LOVE-BIRDS Poem Text First Line: When I looked up at my love-birds Last Line: And smote like death on me! Subject(s): Birds HER REPROACH Poem Text First Line: Con the dead page as if 'twere live love: press on Last Line: A moment; musing, 'he, too, had his day!' HER SECRET Poem Text First Line: That love's dull smart distressed my heart Last Line: Did he dream of following me! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Secrets HER SONG Poem Text First Line: I sang that song on sunday Last Line: Of soul-smart or despair? HER TEMPLE Poem Text First Line: Dear, think not that they will forget you Last Line: "none now knows his name." HEREDITY Poem Text First Line: I am the family face Last Line: That heeds no call to die. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Life Change Events; Heritage; Heredity HIS COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: I journeyed from my native spot Last Line: On my way everywhere.' Subject(s): Patriotism HIS HEART; A WOMAN'S DREAM Poem Text First Line: At midnight, in the room where he lay dead Last Line: Where I shall wait, but his step will not sound. HIS IMMORTALITY Poem Text First Line: I saw a dead man's finer part Last Line: Dying amid the dark. Subject(s): Immortality HIS VISITOR Poem Text First Line: I come across from mellstock while the moon wastes weaker Last Line: Souls of old. HONEYMOON TIME AT AN INN Poem Text First Line: At the shiver of morning, a little before the false dawn Last Line: That it fits all mortal mould.' Subject(s): Honeymoons; Superstition HORSES ABOARD Poem Text First Line: Horses in horseclothes stand in a row Last Line: From the scheme nature planned for them, -- wondering why. Subject(s): Animals HOW GREAT MY GRIEF; TRIOLET Poem Text First Line: How great my grief, my joys how few Last Line: Since first it was my fate to know thee? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HOW SHE WENT TO IRELAND First Line: Dora's gone to ireland Last Line: Dora does not know I AM THE ONE WHOM THE RINGDOVES SEE Last Line: Must scathe him not. He is one with us %beginning and end I FOUND HER OUT THERE Poem Text I FOUND HER OUT THERE I KNEW A LADY (CLUB SONG) Poem Text First Line: I knew a lady when the days Last Line: "for both our burdens you are to blame!" I LOOK IN HER FACE AND SAY I LOOK INTO MY GLASS Poem Text I LOOK INTO MY GLASS I LOOKED UP FROM MY WRITING Poem Text I LOOKED UP FROM MY WRITING I MET A MAN Poem Text First Line: I met a man when night was nigh Last Line: Like moses' after sinai. Subject(s): War I NEED NOT GO Poem Text I NEED NOT GO I ROSE AND WENT TO ROU'TOR TOWN I ROSE UP AS MY CUSTOM IS I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE I SAID TO LOVE Poem Text I SAID TO LOVE I SAY, 'I'LL SEEK HER SIDE' I SOMETIMES THINK I THOUGHT, MY HEART Poem Text First Line: I thought, my heart, that you had healed Last Line: Be there or no!' I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW I WAS NOT HE - THE MAN I WAS THE MIDMOST Poem Text First Line: I was the midmost of my world Last Line: On earth's bewildering ball! I WORKED NO WILE TO MEET YOU ICE ON THE HIGHWAY Poem Text First Line: Seven buxom women abreast, and arm in arm Last Line: Yet loud their laughter as they stagger and slide! IF IT'S EVER SPRING AGAIN IF YOU HAD KNOWN IMAGININGS Poem Text First Line: She saw herself a lady Last Line: She knows can never be. IN A CATHEDRAL CITY Poem Text First Line: These people have not heard your name Last Line: The spot's unconsciousness of you! Subject(s): Churches; Love; Cathedrals IN A EWELEAZE NEAR WEATHERBURY Poem Text First Line: The years have gathered grayly Last Line: As she did upon this leaze. IN A FORMER RESORT AFTER MANY YEARSS Poem Text First Line: Do I know these, slack-shaped and wan Last Line: From underground in curious calls? IN A LONDON FLAT Poem Text First Line: You look like a widower,' she said Last Line: That she had forgotten them where she slept. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN A MUSEUM Poem Text First Line: Here's the mould of a musical bird long passed from light Last Line: In the full-fugued song of the universe unending. Subject(s): Music & Musicians IN A WAITING-ROOM Poem Text First Line: On a morning sick as the day of doom Last Line: Had spread a glory through the gloom. Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains IN A WHISPERING GALLERY Poem Text First Line: That whisper takes the voice Last Line: Be a soul's voice floating here. IN A WOOD Poem Text First Line: Pale beech and pine so blue [or, pine-tree blue] Last Line: Life-loyalties. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods IN CHILDBED Poem Text First Line: In the middle of the night Last Line: Such strange things did mother say to me. Subject(s): Mothers IN DEATH DIVIDED Poem Text First Line: I shall rot here, with those whom in their day Last Line: Stretching across the miles that sever you from me. IN FRONT OF THE LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: Plunging and laboring on in a tide of visions Last Line: Save a few tombs?' IN HER PRECINCTS Poem Text First Line: Her house looked cold from the foggy lea Last Line: The gloom of severance mine alone. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation IN SHERBORNE ABBEY (17--) Poem Text First Line: The moon has passed to the panes of the south-aisle wall Last Line: As likewise are left their chill and chiselled neighbours around. IN ST. PAUL'S A WHILE AGO Poem Text First Line: Summer and winter close commune Last Line: An epilept enthusiast. Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London IN TENEBRIS: 1 Poem Text First Line: Wintertime nighs Last Line: Waits in unhope. Variant Title(s): De Profundis 1 IN TENEBRIS: 2 Poem Text First Line: When the clouds' swollen bosoms echo back the shouts of the many and strong Last Line: Get him up and be gone as one shaped awry; he disturbs the order here. Variant Title(s): De Profundis 2 Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology IN TENEBRIS: 3 Poem Text First Line: There have been times when I well might have passed and the ending have come Last Line: Ending have come. Variant Title(s): De Profundis 3 IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM Poem Text First Line: What do you see in that time-touched stone Last Line: The voice of paul.' Subject(s): British Museum, London; Museums; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Art Gallerys; Saul Of Tarsus IN THE DAYS OF CRINOLINE Poem Text First Line: A plain tilt-bonnet on her head Last Line: He kissed her on the cheek. IN THE EVENING; IN MEMORIAM FREDERICI TREEVES, 1853-1923 Poem Text First Line: In the evening, when the world knew he was dead Last Line: "enough. You have returned. And all is well." IN THE GARDEN Poem Text First Line: We waited for the sun Last Line: Soonest had to go. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening IN THE MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: O lonely workman, standing there Last Line: Whom during her life I thought nothing of.' Subject(s): Moon IN THE NIGHT SHE CAME' First Line: I told her when I left one day IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE Poem Text First Line: I traced the circus whose gray stones incline Last Line: The power, the pride, the reach of perished rome. Variant Title(s): In The Old Theatre, Fiesole (april 1887) Subject(s): Rome, Italy IN THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS Poem Text First Line: Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal? Last Line: And he droops, and turns, and goes. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids IN THE SEVENTIES Poem Text First Line: In the seventies I was bearing in my breast Last Line: Locked in me. IN THE SMALL HOURS Poem Text First Line: I lay in my bed and fiddled Last Line: That now, not then, held reign. IN THE STREET (SONG) Poem Text First Line: Only acquaintances Last Line: Our futures, and what there may whelm and whirl. IN THE VAULTED WAY Poem Text First Line: In the vaulted way, where the passage turned Last Line: The thing is dark, dear. I do not know. IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS' Poem Text First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TIME OF WARS AND TUMULTS Poem Text First Line: Would that I'd not drawn breath here!' some one said Last Line: By empery's insatiate lust of power. Subject(s): World War I; First World War IN VISION I ROAMED Poem Text First Line: In vision I roamed the flashing firmament Last Line: Locked in that universe taciturn and drear. INSCRIPTIONS FOR A PEAL OF EIGHT BELLS; AFTER A RESTORATION Poem Text First Line: Thomas tremble new-made me Last Line: Now I'm rehung, one dolt can do it. Subject(s): Bells INTRA SEPULCHRUM Poem Text First Line: What curious things we said Last Line: The centre of the world. IT NEVER LOOKS LIKE SUMMER HERE JEZREEL; ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, 1918 Poem Text First Line: Did they catch as it were in a vision at shut of day Last Line: Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in jezreel! Subject(s): Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936); Jezreel, Israel; Soldiers; World War I; Allenby Of Megiddo, First Viscount; First World War JOHN AND JANE Poem Text First Line: He sees the world as a boisterous place Last Line: Do john and jane with their worthless son. JOYS OF MEMORY Poem Text First Line: When the spring comes round, and a certain day Last Line: When spring comes round. Subject(s): Memory JUBILATE Poem Text First Line: The very last time I ever was here,' he said Last Line: And onward he went, and the darkness swallowed him up. JULIE-JANE Poem Text First Line: Sing; how 'a would sing! Last Line: From her fancy-men. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement JUNE LEAVES AND AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Lush summer lit the trees to green Last Line: Had length of days in store. Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall JUST THE SAME Poem Text First Line: I sat. It all was past Last Line: The world was just the same. KNOWN HAD I (SONG) Poem Text First Line: Known had I what I knew not Last Line: Have known what I know now. Subject(s): Knowledge LADY VI Poem Text First Line: There goes the lady vi. How well Last Line: "in well-bred talk one keeps outside." LAMENT Poem Text First Line: How she would have loved Last Line: In her yew-arched bed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST LOOK ROUND ST. MARTIN'S FAIR Poem Text First Line: The sun is like an open furnace door Last Line: "though crying, ""fire away!" LAST LOVE-WORD Poem Text First Line: This is the last; the very, very last! Last Line: Love, doomed us two! Subject(s): Love LAST WEEK IN OCTOBER Poem Text First Line: The trees are undressing, and fling in many places Last Line: Trembles, as fearing such a fate for himself anon. LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND Poem Text First Line: Pet was never mourned as you Last Line: That you moulder where you played. Subject(s): Animals; Cats LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN Poem Text First Line: A spirit seems to pass Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'" Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians LEIPZIG Poem Text First Line: Old norbert with the flat blue cap Last Line: "and her touse of the tambourine!" LET ME ENJOY (MINOR KEY) Poem Text First Line: Let me enjoy the earth no less Last Line: Though it contain no place for me. LET ME; SONG Poem Text First Line: Let me believe it, dearest Last Line: You forget! LIDDELL AND SCOTT, ON THE COMPLETION OF THEIR LEXICON First Line: Well, though it seems %beyond our dreams Last Line: I feel as hollow as a fiddle, %working so many hours,' said liddell Subject(s): Lexicons; Liddell, Henry George (1811-1898); Scott, Robert (1811-1887) LIFE AND DEATH AT SUNRISE (NEAR DOGBURY GATE, 1867) Poem Text First Line: The hills uncap their tops Last Line: "-- he was ninety-odd. He could call up the french revolution." Subject(s): Old Age LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD Poem Text First Line: Rambling I looked for an old abode Last Line: Died on my tongue. LINES SPOKEN BY MISS ADA REHAN AT THE LYCEUM THEATER Poem Text First Line: Before we part to alien thoughts and aims Last Line: More than our thanks, far more: their gratitude. LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART'S E-FLAT SYMPHONY Poem Text First Line: Show me again the time Last Line: Love lures life on. Subject(s): Love LODGING-HOUSE FUCHSIAS First Line: Mrs. Masters's fuchsias hung Last Line: They cut back all the flowery mass %in the morning LOGS ON THE HEARTH; A MEMORY OF A SISTER Poem Text First Line: The fire advances along the log Last Line: Laughing, her young brown hand awave. Subject(s): Sisters LONELY DAYS (VERSIFIED FROM A DIARY) Poem Text First Line: Lonely her fate was Last Line: And she knew nought. Subject(s): Diaries; Solitude; Loneliness LONG PLIGHTED Poem Text First Line: Is it worth while, dear, now Last Line: Shall end the spheres? Subject(s): Love LOOKING ACROSS Poem Text First Line: It is dark in the sky Last Line: Are not five out there? LOOKING AT A PICTURE ON AN ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: But don't you know it, my dear Last Line: Lone-labouring here! Subject(s): Portraits LOST LOVE Poem Text First Line: I play my sweet old airs Last Line: A woman as I was born! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOUIE Poem Text First Line: I am forgetting louie the bouyant Last Line: Long two strangers they and far apart; such neighbours now! LOVE THE MONOPOLIST (YOUNG LOVER'S REVERIE) Poem Text First Line: The train draws forth from the station-yard Last Line: And you will have to say!' Subject(s): Love LOVER TO MISTESS (SONG FROM AN OLD COPY) Poem Text First Line: Beckon to me to come Last Line: Would be enough! LYING AWAKE First Line: You, morningtide star, now are steady-eyed, over the east Last Line: The names creeping out everywhere MAD JUDY Poem Text First Line: When the hamlet hailed a birth Last Line: Judy was insane, we knew. Subject(s): Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness MEDITATIONS ON A HOLIDAY (A NEW THEME ON AN OLD FOLK MEASURE) Poem Text First Line: Tis a may morning Last Line: "how weak of you and small!" Subject(s): Holidays MEMORY AND I Poem Text First Line: O memory, where is now my youth Last Line: Is only known to me.' Subject(s): Memory MEN WHO MARCH AWAY (2) Poem Text First Line: We be the king's men, hale and hearty Last Line: Right fol-lol! Subject(s): Great Britain - Wars With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) MEN WHO MARCH AWAY' (SONG OF THE SOLDIERS) Poem Text First Line: What of the faith and fire within us Last Line: Men who march away. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Soldiers Subject(s): Freedom; World War I; Liberty; First World War MIDDLE-AGE ENTHUSIASMS Poem Text First Line: We passed where flag and flower Last Line: "our thoughts will reach this nook no more." Subject(s): Aging; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MIDNIGHT ON BEECHEN, 187- Poem Text First Line: On beechen cliff self-commune I Last Line: On beechen cliff! MIDNIGHT ON THE GREAT WESTERN Poem Text First Line: In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy Last Line: But are not of? Subject(s): Railroads; Railways; Trains MISCONCEPTION Poem Text First Line: I busied myself to find a sure Last Line: I find most pleasure in!' MISMET Poem Text First Line: He was leaning by a face Last Line: While the heritor of the right it would have saved her soul to know! MOLLY GONE Poem Text First Line: No more summer for molly and me Last Line: Her eyes may have meetings with mine. MOMENTS OF VISION Poem Text First Line: That mirror / which makes of men a transparency Last Line: Glassing it - where? Subject(s): Mirrors; Science; Scientists MONGREL First Line: In havenpool harbour the ebb was strong Last Line: Turned to much like a curse as he sank to die, %and a loathing of mankind Subject(s): Animals; Dogs MOUND First Line: For a moment pause Last Line: And palter, and pause: - %yes; here it was! MURMURS IN THE GLOOM Poem Text First Line: I wayfared at the nadir of the sun Last Line: From gloom to light?' MUSIC IN A SNOWY STREET Poem Text First Line: The weather is sharp Last Line: For pence, in the snow! MUTE OPINION Poem Text First Line: I traversed a dominion Last Line: But as the mute had thought. MY CICELY Poem Text First Line: Alive?'-and I leapt in my wonder Last Line: When lovers were we. MY SPIRIT WILL NOT HAUNT THE MOUND NATURE'S QUESTIONING Poem Text First Line: When I look forth at dawning, pool Last Line: Are still the same, and gladdest life death neighbors nigh. Subject(s): Nature NEAR LANIVET, 1872 Poem Text First Line: There was a stunted handpost just on the crest Last Line: Some day. - alas, alas! NEUTRAL TONES Poem Text First Line: We stood by a pond that winter day Last Line: And a pond edged with grayish leaves. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of; Winter NEW YEAR'S EVE Poem Text First Line: I have finished another year,' said god Last Line: In his unweeting way. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEWS FOR HER MOTHER Poem Text First Line: One mile more is Last Line: Mine from thy heart, make thy nearness seem afar? Subject(s): Mothers NIGHT IN THE OLD HOME Poem Text First Line: When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast Last Line: And, satisfied, placid, unfretting, watch time away beamingly!' NIGHT-TIME IN MID-FALL Poem Text First Line: It is a storm-strid night, winds footing swift Last Line: Church-timbers crack, and witches ride abroad. Subject(s): Nature NO BUYERS (A STREET SCENE) Poem Text First Line: A load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Last Line: And nobody buys. NOBODY COMES Poem Text First Line: Tree-leaves labour up and down Last Line: And nobody pulls up there. NOT ONLY I NOTHING MATTERS MUCH (B.F.L.) Poem Text First Line: Nothing matters much,' he said Last Line: "nothing much matters." O JAN, O JAN, O JAN'; OPERETTA First Line: O jan, o jan, o jan, what can the matter be Last Line: And I will walk along with you everywhere O, I WON'T LEAD A HOMELY LIFE OFTEN WHEN WARRING Poem Text First Line: Often when warring for he wist not what Last Line: And war's apology wholly stultified. Subject(s): World War I; First World War OLD EXCURSIONS Poem Text First Line: What's the good of going to ridgeway Last Line: In those haunts we knew. OLD FURNITURE Poem Text First Line: I know not how it may be with others Last Line: But sink away. Subject(s): Nostalgia ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR Poem Text First Line: When your soft welcomings were said Last Line: Till I had reached your old abode. Subject(s): Hair ON A FINE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Whence comes solace? - not from seeing Last Line: Proof that earth was made for man. ON A HEATH Poem Text First Line: I could hear a gown-skirt rustling Last Line: All that was bright of me. ON A MIDSUMMER EVE Poem Text First Line: I idly cut a parsley stalk Last Line: That turned a tenderer verse for me. ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES Poem Text First Line: My ardours for emprize nigh lost Last Line: And their experience count as mine. Subject(s): United States; America ON MARTOCK MOOR Poem Text First Line: My deep-dyed husband trusts me Last Line: Meets me upon the moor. Subject(s): Moors (land) ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN Poem Text First Line: When a night in november Last Line: Those stairs! ON STINSFORD HILL AT MIDNIGHT Poem Text First Line: I glimpsed a woman's muslined form Last Line: And had no heed of me. ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face Last Line: As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans. Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION Poem Text First Line: I dreamt that people from the land of chimes Last Line: Of ravaged roof, and smouldering gable-end. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War ON THE DEPARTURE PLATFORM Poem Text First Line: We kissed at the barrier; and passing through Last Line: I cannot tell! Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation ON THE DOORSTEP Poem Text First Line: The rain imprinted the step's wet shine Last Line: And forth I stride. ON THE ESPLANADE; MIDSUMMER: 10 P.M. Poem Text First Line: The broad bald moon edged up where the sea was wide Last Line: My fate's masked face crept near me I did not know! ON THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN ABOUT TO BE HANGED Poem Text First Line: Comely and capable one of our race Last Line: Brought to derision! Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ON THE TUNE CALLED THE OLD-HUNDRED-AND-FOURTH Poem Text First Line: We never sang together Last Line: Before our sands had run? ON THE WAY Poem Text First Line: The trees fret fitfully and twist Last Line: And the wind a lyre. ONCE AT SWANAGE Poem Text First Line: The spray sprang up across the cusps of the moon Last Line: And there we two stood, hands clasped; I and she! ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES Poem Text First Line: When I am in hell or some such place Last Line: With you away. Dear, come, o come to me!' Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy ONE WE KNEW (M.H. 1772-1857) Poem Text First Line: She told how they used to form for the country dances Last Line: Things present but as a tale. ONE WHO MARRIED ABOVE HIM Poem Text First Line: Tis you, I think? Back from your week's work, steve?' Last Line: Through which steve's wife was brought out, but which steve re-entered no more. OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR) Poem Text First Line: We sat in the room Last Line: Looked in, and smiled us another smile. OVERLOOKING THE RIVER STOUR Poem Text First Line: The swallows flew in the curves of an eight Last Line: These less things hold my gaze! Subject(s): England; Rivers; Stour (river), England; English PANTHERA Poem Text First Line: Yea, as I sit here, crutched, and cricked, and bent Last Line: An exit rare for ardent soldiers such as he. Subject(s): Legends PARADOX (M.H.) Poem Text First Line: Though out of sight now, and as 'twere not the least to us Last Line: Yea indeed, may know well; even know thereof all. PATHS OF FORMER TIME Poem Text First Line: No; no / it must not be so Last Line: By the summer paths we used to know! PAYING CALLS Poem Text First Line: I went by footpath and by stile Last Line: But they spoke not to me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The PENANCE Poem Text First Line: Why do you sit, o pale thin man ...' Last Line: "freeze my touch; yes, freeze." PLACES Poem Text First Line: Nobody says: ah, that is the place Last Line: But a vapid tale. PLAY OF 'SAINT GEORGE' First Line: Here come I old father christmas Last Line: And I wish you a merry christmas, and god bless you all! Subject(s): Christmas PLENA TIMORIS Poem Text First Line: The lovers looked over the parapet-stone Last Line: And her arm dropt from his as they wandered away. POSTPONEMENT Poem Text First Line: Snowbound in woodland, a mournful word Last Line: "cheerily mating!" Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives POSTSCRIPT First Line: Time has trailed lengthily since met PREMONITIONS Poem Text First Line: The bell went heavy today Last Line: Ah! I wonder who next it will be! PROUD SONGSTERS First Line: The thrushes sing as the sun is going Last Line: And earth, and air, and rain QUEEN CAROLINE TO HER GUESTS Poem Text First Line: Dear friends, stay! Last Line: Dear friends, stay! QUESTION OF MARRIAGE First Line: I yield you my whole heart, countess, said he Last Line: Than rust as the wife of a spouse like mine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage QUID HIC AGIS? Poem Text First Line: When I weekly knew Last Line: What doest thou here?' Subject(s): Time RAIN ON A GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Clouds spout upon her / their waters amain Last Line: All her life's round. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Rain; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement RAKE-HELL MUSES Poem Text First Line: Yes; since she knows not need Last Line: Though I plumb hell. READ BY MOONLIGHT Poem Text First Line: I paused to read a letter of hers Last Line: By the moon's cold shine! REGRET NOT ME Poem Text REGRET NOT ME REMINISCES OF A DANCING MAN Poem Text First Line: Who now remember's almack's balls Last Line: To a thunderous jullien air? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers RETROSPECT Poem Text First Line: I have lived with shades so long Last Line: And told in vain!' RETTY'S PHASES Poem Text First Line: Retty used to shake her head Last Line: Was so long ago! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials REVULSION Poem Text First Line: Though I waste watches framing words Last Line: And my heart's table bear no woman's name. ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: Who, then, was cestius / and what is he to me? Last Line: It is an ample fame. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ROME. BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER Poem Text First Line: These umbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Last Line: Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin. Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME. THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE Poem Text First Line: I sat in the muse's hall at the mid of the day Last Line: Woo where thou wilt; and rejoice thou canst love at all!' Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Vatican Palace ROME: ON THE PALATINE Poem Text First Line: We walked where victor jove was shrined awhile Last Line: Till time seemed fiction, past and present one. Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROSE-ANN Poem Text First Line: Why didn't you say you was promised, rose-ann Last Line: As you in your scorning treat me! Subject(s): Love - Complaints ROYAL SPONSORS Poem Text First Line: The king and the queen will stand to the child Last Line: At the font that day. Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers SACRED TO THE MEMORY SAN SEBASTIAN Poem Text First Line: Why, sergeant, stray on the ivel way' Last Line: "should have brought me a daughter dear!" SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE. 6. IN THE CEMETERY Poem Text First Line: You see those mothers squabbling there? Last Line: As anything else, to ease your pain!' Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA Poem Text First Line: The kettle descants in a cosy drone Last Line: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Complaints; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 10. IN THE NUPTIAL CHAMBER Poem Text First Line: O that mastering tune!' and up in the bed Last Line: And it's he I embrace while embracing you!' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 11. IN THE RESTAURANT Poem Text First Line: But hear, if you stay, and the child be born Last Line: Let us go, and face it, and bear the shame.' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Love - Marital; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 12. AT THE DRAPER'S Poem Text First Line: I stood at the back of the shop, my dear Last Line: I left you to your adorning.' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 13. ON THE DEATH-BED Poem Text First Line: I'll tell - being past all praying for Last Line: Though it be burning for evermore.' Subject(s): Murder SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN Poem Text First Line: They stand confronting, the coffin between Last Line: Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.' Variant Title(s): Over The Coffin Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 2. IN CHURCH Poem Text First Line: And now to god the father,' he ends Last Line: That had moved the congregation so. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE Poem Text First Line: Sixpence a week,' says the girl to her lover Last Line: She passively nods. And they go that way. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Selfishness; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 4. IN THE ROOM OF THE BRIDE-ELECT Poem Text First Line: Would it had been the man of our wish! Last Line: Good god - I must marry him I suppose!' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 5. AT A WATERING-PLACE Poem Text First Line: They sit and smoke on the esplanade Last Line: Well, bliss is in ignorance: what's the harm!' SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 7. OUTSIDE THE WINDOW Poem Text First Line: My stick!' he says, and turns in the lane Last Line: And he steals off, leaving his stick unclaimed. SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 8. IN THE STUDY Poem Text First Line: He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Last Line: No household skeleton at all. Subject(s): Books; Reading SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 9. AT THE ALTAR-RAIL Poem Text First Line: My bride is not coming, alas!' says the groom Last Line: "I had eaten the apple ere you were weaned.""'" Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SAYING GOODBYE Poem Text First Line: We are always saying Last Line: "good-bye!" SEEN BY THE WAITS Poem Text First Line: Through snowy woods and shady Last Line: We thought, but never said. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Widows & Widowers SELF-UNCONSCIOUS Poem Text First Line: Along the way Last Line: That loomed with an immortal mien. SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY Poem Text First Line: Here goes a man of seventy-four Last Line: What earth's ingrained conditions are. Subject(s): Old Age SHE CHARGED ME Poem Text First Line: She charged me with having said this and that Last Line: Ere long, in our play of slave and queen. Subject(s): Jealousy SHE DID NOT TURN SHE HEARS THE STORM Poem Text First Line: There was a time in former years Last Line: Which earth grants all her kind. Subject(s): Storms SHE OPENED THE DOOR SHE REVISITS ALONE THE CHURCH OF HER MARRIAGE Poem Text First Line: I have come to the church and chancel Last Line: Where all's the same. Subject(s): Churches; Love - Marital; Marriage; Cathedrals; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SHE SAW HIM, SHE SAID Poem Text First Line: Why, I saw you with the sexton, out-side the church-door Last Line: And she sank to musefulness SHE WHO SAW NOT Poem Text First Line: Did you see something within the house' Last Line: As a vision what she had missed when the real beholding. SHE, I AND THEY Poem Text First Line: I was sitting Last Line: And unable to keep up their sturdy line.' Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity SHE, TO HIM (I) First Line: When you shall see me in the toils of time, Last Line: The hand of friendship down life's sunless hill? SHE, TO HIM: 1 Poem Text First Line: When you shall see me lined by tool of time Last Line: The hand of friendship down life's sunless hill? SHE, TO HIM: 2 Poem Text First Line: Perhaps, long hence, when I have passed away Last Line: A thought -- as I in yours but seem to be. Variant Title(s): She, To Him (ii) SHE, TO HIM: 3 Poem Text First Line: I will be faithful to thee; aye, I will! Last Line: And nothing left for love to look upon. SHE, TO HIM: 4 Poem Text First Line: This love puts all humanity from me Last Line: The more it shapes its moans in selfish-wise. SHE; AT HIS FUNERAL Poem Text First Line: They bear him to his resting-place Last Line: Whilst my regret consumes like fire! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials SHELLEY'S SKYLARK Poem Text First Line: Somewhere afield here something lies Last Line: Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme. Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SHORTENING DAYS AT THE HOMESTEAD Poem Text First Line: The first fire since the summer is lit, and is smoking into the room Last Line: His mill, and tubs, and vat, and press. SHUT OUT THAT MOON Poem Text First Line: Close up the casement, draw the blind Last Line: Too tart the fruit it brought! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SIDE BY SIDE Poem Text First Line: So there sat they Last Line: In their span of days. SIGNS AND TOKENS Poem Text First Line: Said the red-cloaked crone Last Line: Of more takings away!' SINE PROLE (MEDIEVAL LATIN SEQUENCE METRE) Poem Text First Line: Forth from ages thick in mystery Last Line: And its dice that fling no prize! SINGING LOVERS Poem Text First Line: I rowed: the dimpled tide was at the turn Last Line: Joined in the song not now! SITTING ON THE BRIDGE SNOW IN THE SUBURBS Poem Text First Line: Every branch big with it Last Line: And we take him in. Subject(s): Snow; Suburbs SO, TIME (THE SAME THOUGHT RESUMED) Poem Text First Line: So, time Last Line: Afar, yet close to us. SOMETHING TAPPED Poem Text First Line: Something tapped on the pane of my room Last Line: Tapped at the pane for me. SONG Poem Text First Line: The curtains now are drawn Last Line: And death may come, but loving is divine.' Subject(s): Love SONG First Line: Let's meet again tonight, my fair SONG OF HOPE Poem Text First Line: O sweet to-morrow! Last Line: Shines soon! Subject(s): Hope; Optimism SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS Poem Text First Line: At last! In sight of home again Last Line: But quicken it to prime! Subject(s): Boer War; Women; South African War SONG TO AN OLD BURDEN Poem Text First Line: The feet have left the wormholed flooring Last Line: When phantoms call the tune! SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE Poem Text First Line: It is not death that harrows us,' they lipped Last Line: Until the new-year's dawn strode up the air. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Sorrow; Sadness ST. LAUNCE'S REVISITED Poem Text First Line: Slip back, time! Last Line: Ever into nought! STARLINGS ON THE ROOF Poem Text First Line: No smoke spreads out of this chimney-pot Last Line: Till they move their last - no care to pack!' Subject(s): Moving & Movers; Starlings SUMMER SCHEMES Poem Text First Line: When friendly summer calls again Last Line: Of what another moon will bring! SURVIEW: COGITAVI VIAS MEAS Poem Text First Line: A cry from the green-grained sticks of the fire Last Line: And my voice ceased talking to me. Subject(s): Love TEN YEARS SINCE Poem Text First Line: Tis ten years since / I saw her on the stairs Last Line: Those ten years since! Subject(s): Time TESS'S LAMENT Poem Text First Line: I would that folk forgot me quite Last Line: And gone all trace of me! THAT MOMENT Poem Text First Line: The tragedy of that moment Last Line: And knew that you were not! THE ABBEY MASON (WITH MEMORIES OF JOHN HICKS, ARCHITECT) Poem Text First Line: The new-vamped abbey shaped apace Last Line: And upon nothing rear a name. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Monasteries; Abbeys THE ABSOLUTE EXPLAINS Poem Text First Line: O no,' said it; 'her lifedoings Last Line: "bruits as its name." THE AEROLITE Poem Text First Line: I thought a germ of consciousness Last Line: Normal unawareness waits rebirth. THE AGEING HOUSE Poem Text First Line: When the walls were red Last Line: While fiercely girds the wind at the long-limbed sycamore tree! Subject(s): Houses THE ALARM Poem Text First Line: In a ferny byway Last Line: "that thou hast helped in this!" THE ANNOUNCEMENT Poem Text First Line: They came, the brothers, and took two chairs Last Line: A spirit had passed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE Poem Text First Line: I think of the slope where the rabbits fed Last Line: That also will flower there! THE BALLET Poem Text First Line: They crush together - a rustling heap of flesh Last Line: Yet severed so many a mile! Subject(s): Ballet; Dancing & Dancers THE BEAUTY Poem Text First Line: O do not praise my beauty more Last Line: My cheek begins to clam. Subject(s): Beauty THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT; TO AN UNKNOWING GOD Poem Text First Line: Much wonder I - here long low-laid Last Line: The mercies thou wouldst show! Subject(s): Peasantry; Sickness; Illness THE BEST SHE COULD Poem Text First Line: Nine leaves a minute Last Line: "granted her prime." Subject(s): Summer THE BIRD CATCHER'S BOY Poem Text First Line: Father, I fear your trade Last Line: One sailor boy. THE BLINDED BIRD Poem Text First Line: So zestfully canst thou sing? Last Line: Who is divine? This bird. Subject(s): Birds THE BLOW Poem Text First Line: That no man schemed it is my hope Last Line: It grieves me I did thus and thus!' THE BRIDE-NIGHT FIRE Poem Text First Line: They had long met o'zundays - her true love and she Last Line: "I stand as a maiden to-day!" Variant Title(s): The Fire At Tranter Sweatley's THE BRIDGE OF LODI Poem Text First Line: When of tender mind and body Last Line: Guesses why and what I sing! Subject(s): Bridges; Napoleon I (1769-1821); War THE BULLFINCHES Poem Text First Line: Brother bulleys, let us sing Last Line: Where those be that sang of old. Subject(s): Finches THE BURGHERS Poem Text First Line: The sun had wheeled from grey's to dammer's crest Last Line: "-- ""not mortal?"" said he. ""lingering -- worse,"" said I." THE CAGED GOLDFINCH Poem Text First Line: Within a churchyard, on a recent grave Last Line: No one knew anything. Subject(s): Birds; Goldfinches THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN; VILLANELLE Poem Text First Line: Men know but little more then we Last Line: How happy days are made to be.' Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Thrushes; Joy; Delight THE CARICATURE Poem Text First Line: Of the lady lu there were stories told Last Line: But few, or none, found out. THE CARRIER Poem Text First Line: There's a seat, I see, still empty? Last Line: And night lay over all. THE CASTERBRIDGE CAPTAINS Poem Text First Line: Three captains went to indian wars THE CASUAL AQUAINTANCE Poem Text First Line: While he was here with breath and bone Last Line: Or point out where he lies. THE CATCHING BALLET OF THE WEDDING CLOTHES Poem Text First Line: A gentleman's coming Last Line: Came thither again. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHANGE Poem Text First Line: Out of the past there rises a week Last Line: The heart whose sweet reverberances are all time leaves to me. THE CHAPEL-ORGANIST Poem Text First Line: I've been thinking it through, as I play here tonight, to play never again Last Line: Not a soul from the seaport my birthplace -- will come, or bestow me. . . A tear. Subject(s): Music & Musicians THE CHEVAL-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Why do you harbour that great cheval-glass Last Line: Where my grave is to be.' Subject(s): Glass & Glassblowers; Glaziers THE CHILD AND THE SAGE Poem Text First Line: You say, o sage, when weather-checked Last Line: Makes reasonable a pain? THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS Poem Text First Line: Sir nameless, once of athelhall, declared Last Line: "who was this old stone man beneath our toes?" Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood THE CHIMES Poem Text First Line: That morning when I trod the town Last Line: Though near to me. THE CHIMES PLAY 'LIFE'S A BUMPER!' Poem Text First Line: Awake! I'm off to cities far away Last Line: Playing out 'life's a bumper!' there to me. THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL Poem Text First Line: He often would ask us Last Line: When he had grown old. Subject(s): Choirs; Funerals; Mourning; Burials; Bereavement THE CHOSEN Poem Text First Line: A woman for whom great gods might strive!' Last Line: Not one, but all combined. THE CHRISTENING Poem Text First Line: Whose child is this they bring Last Line: Yea: sweet love's sepulchring!' Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings THE CHURCH AND THE WEDDING Poem Text First Line: I'll restore this old church for our marriage Last Line: And then no more. Subject(s): Churches; Marriage; Cathedrals; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CHURCH BUILDER Poem Text First Line: The church flings forth a battled shade Last Line: A cheaper gallows-tree!' Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE CLOCK OF THE YEARS Poem Text First Line: And the spirit said Last Line: To mar the ordained.' THE CLOCK-WINDER Poem Text First Line: It is dark as a cave Last Line: Kept his past out of view. THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE Poem Text First Line: How I remember cleaning that strange picture! Last Line: From the adjacent steeple. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Paintings & Painters THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY Poem Text First Line: The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! Last Line: Things may not be as then.' Subject(s): Boer War; War; South African War THE COLOUR Poem Text First Line: What shall I bring you?' Last Line: "and black will do." THE COMET AT YELL'HAM Poem Text First Line: It bends far over yell'ham plain Last Line: On that sweet form of thine. Subject(s): Comets THE COMING OF THE END Poem Text First Line: How it came to an end! Last Line: Ere it came to an end. THE CONFORMERS Poem Text First Line: Yes; we'll wed, my little fay Last Line: Sound parish views.' Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CONTRETEMPS Poem Text First Line: A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom Last Line: Let peace lie on lulled lips: I will not say. Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC Poem Text First Line: In a solitude of the sea Last Line: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. Subject(s): Disasters; Icebergs; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Ocean THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER; TRIOLETS Poem Text First Line: For long the cruel wish I knew Last Line: The woman - women always do! Subject(s): Women THE CORONATION Poem Text First Line: At westminster, hid from the light of day Last Line: Clamour dogs kingship; afterwards not so!' Subject(s): George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Great Britain - Rulers THE COUNTRY WEDDING (A FIDDLER'S STORY) Poem Text First Line: Little fogs were gathered in every hollow Last Line: And carried 'em there in an after year. Subject(s): Fiddles; Marriage; Musical Instruments; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CURATE'S KINDNESS (A WORKHOUSE IRONY) Poem Text First Line: I thought they'd be strangers aroun' me Last Line: At pummery or ten-hatches weir. THE DAME OF ATHELHALL Poem Text First Line: Dear! Shall I see thy face,' she said Last Line: Than ever she was with me.' THE DANCE AT THE PHOENIX Poem Text First Line: To jenny came a gentle youth Last Line: Twas saddest morn to see. THE DARK-EYED GENTLEMAN Poem Text First Line: I pitched my day's leazings in crimmercrock lane Last Line: That his daddy once tied up my garter for me! Subject(s): Seduction THE DARKLING THRUSH Poem Text First Line: I leant upon a coppice gate Last Line: And I was unaware. Subject(s): Birds; Despair; Hope; Thrushes; Optimism THE DAWN AFTER THE DANCE Poem Text First Line: Here is your parents' dwelling with its curtained windows telling Last Line: That the vows of man and maid are frail as filmy gossamere. Subject(s): Courtship THE DEAD AND THE LIVING ONE Poem Text First Line: The dead woman lay in her first night's grave Last Line: There was a deeper gloom around. Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE DEAD MAN WALKING Poem Text First Line: They hail me as one living Last Line: I live not now. THE DEAD QUIRE Poem Text First Line: Beside the mead of memories Last Line: The mead of memories. THE DEAR Poem Text First Line: I plodded to fairmile hill-top, where Last Line: To make her understand. THE DEATH OF REGRET Poem Text First Line: I opened my shutter at sunrise Last Line: And wastes by the sycamore. THE DIFFERENCE Poem Text First Line: Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon Last Line: Nor I find a joy in the scene or the tune. THE DISCOVERY Poem Text First Line: I wandered to a crude coast Last Line: Where I burst on her my heart could not but follow. THE DISSEMBLERS Poem Text First Line: It was not you I came to please Last Line: When daisies hid her head! THE DIVISION Poem Text First Line: Rain on the windows, creaking doors Last Line: And longer than the years! Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE DOLLS Poem Text First Line: Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy Last Line: But one I love too well.' Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DREAM IS - WHICH? Poem Text First Line: I am laughing by the brook with her Last Line: To find her, I knew where. THE DREAM-FOLLOWER Poem Text First Line: A dream of mine flew over the mead Last Line: And I whitely hastened away. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DUEL Poem Text First Line: I am here to time, you see Last Line: He's clay, and we are free.' Subject(s): Duels THE DYNASTS: 3. ACT SIXTH Poem Text First Line: The village of beaumont stands in the centre foreground Subject(s): Great Britain - Relations With France; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Science; Waterloo; Scientists; Battle Of Waterloo THE ECHO ELF ANSWERS Poem Text First Line: How much shall I love her? Last Line: "earth-hewn." THE ELOPEMENT Poem Text First Line: A woman never agreed to it!' said my knowing friend to me Last Line: And now she is rich and respectable, and time has buried the past. Subject(s): Time; Women THE END OF THE EPISODE Poem Text First Line: Indulge no more may we Last Line: Than thoroughfares of stones. Subject(s): Love; Love - Loss Of THE ENEMY'S PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: He saw the portrait of his enemy, offered Last Line: I thought they were the bitterest enemies?' Subject(s): Enemies; Hate; Portraits THE FACE AT THE CASEMENT Poem Text First Line: If ever joy leave Last Line: Cruel as the grave! Subject(s): Jealousy THE FADED FACE Poem Text First Line: How was this I did not see Last Line: Sorrow-wrung! Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FADING ROSE Poem Text First Line: I saw a rose, in bloom, but sad Last Line: "tis there I have laid her and trod her in.'" Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FAITHFUL SWALLOW Poem Text First Line: When summer shone Last Line: Too late to go! THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE Poem Text First Line: One without looks in tonight Last Line: Fourfooted, tiptoe. Subject(s): Deer THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER Poem Text First Line: If seasons all were summers Last Line: And what I love not, brings. Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIDDLER Poem Text First Line: The fiddler knows what's brewing Last Line: By my sweet viol and bow!' Subject(s): Violins THE FIGHT ON DURNOVER MOOR (183-) Poem Text First Line: We'd loved, we two, some while Last Line: Of hers, at botany bay. THE FIGURE IN THE SCENE Poem Text First Line: It pleased her to step in front and sit Last Line: Ever since that day. THE FIVE STUDENTS Poem Text First Line: The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath Last Line: The rest - anon. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE FLOWER'S TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: In the bedchamber window, near the glass Last Line: Of the flower's fate; nor it of her own. THE FORBIDDEN BANNS; A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEEN-THIRTIES Poem Text First Line: O what's the gain, my worthy sir Last Line: By whom the deed was done. Subject(s): Courtship THE FROZEN GREENHOUSE (ST. JULIOT) Poem Text First Line: There was a frost Last Line: And knows it not. Subject(s): Frost; Greenhouses THE GARDEN SEAT Poem Text First Line: Its former green is blue and thin Last Line: They are as light as upper air! Subject(s): Consolation; Ghosts; Supernatural THE GHOST OF THE PAST Poem Text First Line: We two kept house, the past and I Last Line: Dimming as days draw by. THE GLIMPSE Poem Text First Line: She sped through the door Last Line: But she still keeps away! Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Supernatural; Bereavement THE GOING Poem Text First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOING OF THE BATTERY; WIVES' LAMENTS Poem Text First Line: O it was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough Last Line: Wait we, in trust, what time's fulness shall show. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE GRAVEYARD OF DEAD CREEDS Poem Text First Line: I lit upon the graveyard of dead creeds Last Line: "the melancholy marching of the years." THE HARBOUR BRIDGE Poem Text First Line: From here, the quay, one looks above to mark Last Line: Or any other lives. THE HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850) Poem Text First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids THE HAUNTER Poem Text First Line: He does not think that I haunt here nightly Last Line: And to bring peace thereto. THE HEAD ABOVE THE FOG Poem Text First Line: Something do I see Last Line: To a last tryst with me. THE HIGH SCHOOL LAWN Poem Text First Line: Gray prinked with rose Last Line: With them, -- with me. THE HISTORY OF AN HOUR Poem Text First Line: Vain is the wish to try rhyming it, writing it! Last Line: So catch that hour! Subject(s): Time THE HOMECOMING Poem Text First Line: Gruffly growled the wind on toller downland broad and bare Last Line: And ye'll soon forget to sock and sigh for dear daddee!' Subject(s): Homecoming THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES Poem Text First Line: Here we broached the christmas barrel Last Line: Who smile on me. Subject(s): Hospitality THE HOUSE OF SILENCE Poem Text First Line: That is a quiet place Last Line: An aion in an hour.' THE HUSBAND'S VIEW Poem Text First Line: Can anything avail Last Line: To maids, is a useful thing!' Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Child Birth; Midwifery THE IMPERCIPIENT (AT A CATHEDRAL SERVICE) Poem Text First Line: That with this bright believing band Last Line: About us. Rest shall we. Subject(s): Agnosticism; Religion; Theology THE INCONSISTENT Poem Text First Line: I say, 'she was as good as fair!' Last Line: Would I had died for thee!' THE INSCRIPTION (A TALE) Poem Text First Line: Sir john was etombed, and the crypt was closed, and she Last Line: Themselves in prayer. THE INTERLOPER Poem Text First Line: There are three folk driving in a quaint old chaise Last Line: Would, would it could not be there! THE IVY-WIFE Poem Text First Line: I longed to love a full-boughed beech Last Line: And in his fall felled me! THE JUBILEE OF A MAGAZINE (TO THE EDITOR) Poem Text First Line: Yes; your up-dated modern page Last Line: But too much, this, for fifty years. Subject(s): Magazines THE KING'S EXPERIMENT Poem Text First Line: It was a wet wan hour in spring Last Line: Funereal gloom and cold.' THE LACKING SENSE Poem Text First Line: O time, whence comes the mother's moody look amid her labours Last Line: For thou art of her clay.' THE LADY OF FOREBODINGS Poem Text First Line: What do you so regard, my lady ...' Last Line: "to muse upon." THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS Poem Text First Line: Words from the mirror softly pass Last Line: "so sweet a flower as she." Subject(s): Mirrors THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM Poem Text First Line: Why should this flower delay so long Last Line: By the great face behind. Subject(s): Chrysanthemums; Flowers THE LAST LEAF Poem Text First Line: The trees throng thick above Last Line: "yes: I forgot." Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall THE LAST PERFORMANCE Poem Text First Line: I am playing my oldest tunes,' declared she Last Line: And wondered how she knew. THE LAST SIGNAL Poem Text First Line: Silently I footed by an uphill road Last Line: As with a wave of his hand. Subject(s): Barnes, William (1801-1886); Poetry & Poets THE LAST TIME Poem Text First Line: The kiss had been given and taken Last Line: And I stood looking thereon. THE LATER AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Gone are the lovers, under the bush Last Line: A robin looks on. THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: O passenger, pray list and catch / our sighs and piteous groans Last Line: Deliver us o lord! Amen!' THE LITTLE OLD TABLE Poem Text First Line: Creak, little wood thing, creak Last Line: This creak from long ago. THE LOST PYX; A MEDIAEVAL LEGEND Poem Text First Line: Some say the spot is banned: that the pillar cross-and-hand Last Line: That midnight miracle. Subject(s): Monuments THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE (A TRIBUTE TO SIR. H. BISHOP) Poem Text First Line: I hear that maiden still Last Line: Should he upbraid!' THE MAN HE KILLED Poem Text First Line: Had he and I but met Last Line: "or help to half-a-crown." Subject(s): Enemies; Murder; Soldiers; War THE MAN WHO FORGOT Poem Text First Line: At a lonely cross where bye-roads met Last Line: To meet her in that bower. Subject(s): Forgetfulness THE MAN WITH A PAST Poem Text First Line: There was merry-making Last Line: One on me. THE MARBLE TABLET Poem Text First Line: There it stands, though alas what a little of her Last Line: With silence on what shone behind. THE MARBLE-STREETED TOWN Poem Text First Line: I reach the marble-streeted town Last Line: Has heard her name. THE MASKED FACE Poem Text First Line: I found me in a great surging space Last Line: Because they were past its ken.' THE MASTER AND THE LEAVES Poem Text First Line: We are budding, master, budding Last Line: Is too sunk in to say!' THE MEMORIAL BRASS: 186- Poem Text First Line: Why do you weep there, o sweet lady Last Line: - 'madam, I swear your beauty will disarm him!' THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL'HAM HILL) Poem Text First Line: In my loamy nook Last Line: Where no gins are? THE MILKMAID Poem Text First Line: Under a daisied bank Last Line: If fred would not prefer that other one. Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE MINUTE BEFORE MEETING Poem Text First Line: The grey gaunt days dividing us in twain Last Line: A full-up measure of felicity. THE MISSED TRAIN Poem Text First Line: How I was caught / hieing home, after days of allure Last Line: Then in me: now in these. THE MOCK WIFE Poem Text First Line: It's a dark drama, this, and yet I know the house, and date Last Line: And they seemed to make no question that the cheat was justified. THE MONTH'S CALENDAR Poem Text First Line: Tear off the calendar Last Line: Aught ever to me! THE MONUMENT-MAKER Poem Text First Line: I chiselled her monument Last Line: Yet I hoped not quite, in her very innermost! Subject(s): Monuments THE MOON LOOKS IN Poem Text First Line: I have risen again Last Line: And the women sour!' Subject(s): Moon THE MOTH-SIGNAL (ON EGDON HEATH) Poem Text First Line: What are you still, still thinking Last Line: In these days as in mine!' THE MOTHER MOURNS Poem Text First Line: When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time Last Line: Is heard not again!' Subject(s): Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement THE MUSICAL BOX Poem Text First Line: Lifelong to be Last Line: I did not see. Subject(s): Music Box THE NETTLES Poem Text First Line: This, then, is the grave of my son Last Line: Who spurned me for seeing what he could not see. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NEW TOY Poem Text First Line: She cannot leave it alone Last Line: May so be inclined to believe. Subject(s): Toys THE NEWCOMER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: He paused on the sill of a door ajar Last Line: Found him with crabs upon his face. THE NIGHT OF THE DANCE Poem Text First Line: The cold moon hangs to the sky by its horn Last Line: My vows as we wheel around. Subject(s): Courtship THE NIGHT OF TRAFALGAR Poem Text First Line: In the wild october night-time, when the wind raved round the land Last Line: That night at trafalgar! Subject(s): Trafalgar, Battle Of THE NOBLE LADY'S TALE (CIRCA 1790) Poem Text First Line: We moved with pensive paces Last Line: That go she did. She knew her actor best. THE OBLITERATE TOMB Poem Text First Line: More than half my life long Last Line: Told in their day.' Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE OCCULTATION Poem Text First Line: When the cloud shut down on the morning shine Last Line: Live on somewhere? THE OLD GOWN Poem Text First Line: I have seen her in gowns the brightest Last Line: "shall I see his face again?" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE OLD NEIGHBOUR AND THE NEW Poem Text First Line: Twas to greet the new rector I called here Last Line: Or him who but entered yestreen. THE OLD WORKMAN Poem Text First Line: Why are you so bent down before your time Last Line: "when I lie underground." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE OPPORTUNITY Poem Text First Line: Forty springs back, I recall Last Line: Its offer; but nought avails it! THE ORPHANED OLD MAID Poem Text First Line: I wanted to marry, but father said, 'no Last Line: And nobody flings me a thought or a care. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids THE OXEN Poem Text First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock Last Line: Hoping it might be so. Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The THE PAIR HE SAW PASS Poem Text First Line: O sad man, now a long dead man Last Line: Or what you thought was so. THE PAPHIAN BALL; ANOTHER CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE OF THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE Poem Text First Line: We went our christmas rounds once more Last Line: I give it for what it may be worth. Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE PASSER-BY (L.H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE) Poem Text First Line: He used to pass, well-trimmed and brushed Last Line: And disappear! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE PAT OF BUTTER Poem Text First Line: Once, at the agricultural show Last Line: "and, ""this is the best,"" I cried." THE PEACE PEAL (AFTER FOUR YEARS OF SILENCE) Poem Text First Line: Said a wistful daw in saint peter's tower Last Line: Or lower, of pens and politics. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War THE PEACE-OFFERING Poem Text First Line: It was but a little thing Last Line: Through the mind! THE PEASANT'S CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: Good father! ... It was eve in middle june Last Line: Entreat the lord for me! THE PEDESTRIAN; AN INCIDENT OF 1883 Poem Text First Line: Sir, will you let me give you a ride Last Line: Through an unconscienced trick of time! Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THE PEDIGREE Poem Text First Line: I bent in the deep of night Last Line: And the stained moon and drift retook their places there. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity THE PHANTOM Poem Text First Line: That was once her casement Last Line: Wish thy ghost away. Variant Title(s): In The Mind's Eye THE PHANTOM HORSEWOMAN Poem Text First Line: Queer are the ways of a man I know Last Line: Draws rein and sings to the swing of the tide. Subject(s): Love; Supernatural THE PHOTOGRAPH Poem Text First Line: The flame crept up the portrait line by line Last Line: If in heaven, did she smile at me sadly and shake her head? Subject(s): Photography & Photographers THE PINE PLANTERS (MARTY SOUTH'S REVERIE) Poem Text First Line: We work here together Last Line: We pass away. Subject(s): Pine Trees THE PINK FROCK Poem Text First Line: O my pretty pink frock Last Line: And not so cheated!' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mourning; Bereavement THE PITY OF IT Poem Text First Line: I walked in loamy wessex lanes afar Last Line: And their brood perish everlastingly.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THE PLACE ON THE MAP Poem Text First Line: I look upon the map that hangs by me Last Line: And its episode comes back in pantomime. Subject(s): Maps THE PROBLEM Poem Text First Line: Shall we conceal the case, or tell it Last Line: Humanity's joy and pain. THE PROSPECT Poem Text First Line: The twigs of the birch imprint the december sky Last Line: Whither I would go! THE PROTEAN MAID (SONG) Poem Text First Line: This single girl is two girls Last Line: "with kisses swift and slow." THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS Poem Text First Line: They are not those who used to feed us Last Line: When we were young - they cannot be! Subject(s): Birds THE RAMBLER Poem Text First Line: I do not see the hills around Last Line: And now perceived too late by me! THE RASH BRIDE Poem Text First Line: We christmas-carolled down the vale, and up the vale, and round the vale Last Line: We sang the ninetieth psalm to her - set to saint stephen's tune. THE RE-ENACTMENT Poem Text First Line: Between the folding sea-downs Last Line: On that strange night, or was it some wrecked heart indeed? THE RECALCITRANTS Poem Text First Line: Let us off and search, and find a place Last Line: Well, let us away, scorned, unexplained. THE REJECTED MEMBER'S WIFE Poem Text First Line: We shall see her no more Last Line: And that chestnut hair. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE REMINDER Poem Text First Line: While I watch the christmas blaze Last Line: Do you make me notice you! Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER, ON 'THE HIGHER CRITICISM' Poem Text First Line: Since reverend doctors now declare Last Line: And read that moderate man voltaire. Subject(s): Bible; Public Worship; Religion; Church Attendance; Theology THE REVISITATION Poem Text First Line: As I lay awake at night-time Last Line: Love is lame at fifty years. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Time THE RIDDLE Poem Text First Line: Stretching eyes west Last Line: Does she allow. THE RIFT Poem Text First Line: Twas just at gnat and cob-web time Last Line: And cobweb-time. THE RIVAL Poem Text First Line: I determined to find out whose it was Last Line: Would work so foolishly! Subject(s): Jealousy THE ROBIN Poem Text First Line: When up aloft / I fly and fly Last Line: Feathery ball! Subject(s): Robins THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS Poem Text First Line: By rome's dim relics there walks a man Last Line: Yet its mourner's mood has a charm for me. Subject(s): Graves; Rome, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROMAN ROAD Poem Text First Line: The roman road runs straight and bare Last Line: The roman road. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails THE ROVER COME HOME Poem Text First Line: He's journeyed through america Last Line: And lies in the churchyard near. THE RUINED MAID Poem Text First Line: O 'melia, my dear, this does everything crown! Last Line: Cannot quite expect that. You ain't ruined,' said she. Subject(s): Irony; Prostitution; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE SACRILEGE; A BALLAD-TRAGEDY Poem Text First Line: I have a love I love too well Last Line: Until his judgment-time. THE SAILOR'S MOTHER Poem Text First Line: O whence do you come ...' Last Line: "and the salt fog mops me. And nobody's come!" THE SATIN SHOES Poem Text First Line: If ever I walk to church to wed Last Line: Like flute-notes softly blown. Subject(s): Marriage; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers THE SCHRECKHORN Poem Text First Line: Aloof, as if a thing of mood and whim Last Line: When dawn that calls the climber dyes them rose? Subject(s): Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904) THE SEA FIGHT; IN MEMORIAM CAPTAIN PROWSE Poem Text First Line: Down went the grand 'queen mary' Last Line: With his comrades all around. Subject(s): Sea Battles; World War I; Naval Warfare; First World War THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR Poem Text First Line: Winter is white on turf and tree Last Line: Alone - alone! Subject(s): Seasons THE SECOND NIGHT; BALLAD Poem Text First Line: I missed one night, but the next I went Last Line: Shot through the firmament. THE SELF-UNSEEING Poem Text First Line: Here is the ancient floor Last Line: Yet we were looking away! Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives THE SELFSAME SONG Poem Text First Line: A bird sings the selfsame song Last Line: That song with me. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs THE SERGEANT'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When lawyer's strive to heal a breach Last Line: Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! Subject(s): Soldiers THE SEVEN TIMES Poem Text First Line: The dark was thick. A boy he seemed at that time Last Line: Beside me there. THE SEXTON AT LONGPUDDLE Poem Text First Line: He passes down the churchyard track Last Line: To shape their cell. THE SHADOW ON THE STONE Poem Text First Line: I went by the druid stone Last Line: My head unturned lest my dream should fade. Subject(s): Shadows THE SHEEP BOY Poem Text First Line: A yawning, sunned concave Last Line: Are viewless -- folded into those creeping scrolls of white. THE SHIVER Poem Text First Line: Five long clangs from the house-clock nigh Last Line: "I seek her again; and I love you not now." THE SICK BATTLE-GOD Poem Text First Line: In days when men found joy in war Last Line: The battle-god is god no more. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE SIGH Poem Text First Line: Little head against my shoulder Last Line: That she sighed. Subject(s): Sighs THE SINGING WOMAN Poem Text First Line: There was a singing woman Last Line: And there was none to heed. THE SIX BOARDS Poem Text First Line: Six boards belong to me Last Line: Or furthest stars. THE SLEEP-WORKER Poem Text First Line: When wilt thou wake, o mother, wake and see Last Line: Or patiently adjust, amend, and heal? THE SLOW NATURE (AN INCIDENT OF FROOM VALLEY) Poem Text First Line: Thy husband - poor, poor heart! - is dead! Last Line: And laughed in his ancient way. THE SOMETHING THAT SAVED HIM Poem Text First Line: It was when / whirls of thick water laved me Last Line: And sang. THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN Poem Text First Line: The thick lids of night closed upon me Last Line: Sea-mutterings and me. Subject(s): Boer War; South African War THE SPELL OF THE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I mean to build a hall anon Last Line: Too late to tell me so! Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE SPRING CALL Poem Text First Line: Down wessex way, when spring's a-shine Last Line: To call is 'pret-ty de-urr!' Subject(s): Country Life THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: This statue of liberty, busy man Last Line: In the dens of vice had died. Subject(s): Statues THE STRANGE HOUSE Poem Text First Line: I hear the piano playing' Last Line: "knew joy, or despair." THE STRANGER'S SONG Poem Text First Line: O my trade it is the rarest one Last Line: And on his soul may god ha' mer-cy! THE SUBALTERNS Poem Text First Line: Poor wanderer,' said the leaden sky Last Line: They owned their passiveness. Subject(s): Predestination THE SUN ON THE BOOKCASE (STUDENT'S LOVE-SONG: 1870) Poem Text First Line: Once more the cauldron of the sun Last Line: Will be mine alway? Subject(s): Love THE SUN ON THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: I drew the letter out, while gleamed Last Line: Expressed with their own ardency! Subject(s): Letters THE SUN'S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL Poem Text First Line: The sun threw down a radiant spot Last Line: That met so many a day? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SUNDIAL ON A WET DAY Poem Text First Line: I drip, drip here Last Line: My trade declare. THE SUNSHADE Poem Text First Line: Ah - it's the skeleton of a lady's sunshade Last Line: The vain things thought when she flourished this? Subject(s): Umbrellas THE SUPERSEDED Poem Text First Line: As newer comers crowd the fore Last Line: Too, drop behind? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE SUPPLANTER; A TALE Poem Text First Line: He bends his travel-tarnished feet Last Line: From her beseeching eyes. THE SWEET HUSSY Poem Text First Line: In his early days he was quite surprised Last Line: That she was the wicked one - he the good. Subject(s): Promiscuity THE TELEGRAM Poem Text First Line: O he's suffering - maybe dying - and I not there to aid Last Line: Ere a woman held me slave. THE TEMPORARY THE ALL Poem Text First Line: Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime Last Line: Never transcended! THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE Poem Text First Line: The sun said, watching my watering-pot Last Line: Are dead men out of mind!' THE THING UNPLANNED Poem Text First Line: The white winter sun struck its stroke on the bridge Last Line: Of the thing that I did -- the thing better! THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN Poem Text First Line: I heard a small sad sound Last Line: And seeing it we mourn.' Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence THE TORN LETTER Poem Text First Line: I tore your letter into strips Last Line: But that, thank god, you do not know. Subject(s): Letters; Love - Loss Of THE TREE AND THE LADY Poem Text First Line: I have done all I could Last Line: Gone is she, scorning my bough! Subject(s): Trees THE TREE; AN OLD MAN'S STORY Poem Text First Line: Its roots are bristling in the air Last Line: Twas said for love of me. Subject(s): Love; Trees THE TRESSES Poem Text First Line: When the air was damp Last Line: Or sun uphold!' Subject(s): Hair THE TURNIP-HOER Poem Text First Line: Of tides that toss the souls of men Last Line: "yet it is like his name." THE TWO HOUSES Poem Text First Line: In the heart of night Last Line: "and print on thee their presences as on me." THE TWO MEN Poem Text First Line: There were two youths of equal age Last Line: "these men were like in all they did." THE TWO ROSALINDS Poem Text First Line: The dubious daylight ended Last Line: Beat up a merry tune. THE TWO SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: Just at the corner of the wall Last Line: Its tragic shadow there. Subject(s): Soldiers THE TWO WIVES (SMOKER'S CLUB STORY) Poem Text First Line: I waited at home all the while they were boating together Last Line: "and it's just the same thing, don't you see." Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE UNBORN Poem Text First Line: I rose at night, and visited Last Line: By the all-immanent will. THE UPPER BIRCH-LEAVES Poem Text First Line: Warm yellowy-green Last Line: You may forget!' THE VAMPIRINE FAIR Poem Text First Line: Gilbert had sailed to india's shore Last Line: He darked my cottage door.' THE VOICE Poem Text First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE VOICE OF THE THORN Poem Text First Line: When the thorn on the down Last Line: A heart, and by thee.' Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE VOICE OF THINGS Poem Text First Line: Forty augusts - aye, and several more - ago Last Line: Prayer denied. THE WALK Poem Text First Line: You did not walk with me Last Line: Of the look of a room on returning thence. THE WANDERER Poem Text First Line: There is nobody on the road Last Line: And all night. THE WEARY WALKER Poem Text First Line: A plain in front of me Last Line: Ever the road! Subject(s): Walking THE WEDDING MORNING Poem Text First Line: Tabitha dressed for her wedding Last Line: "she can have him. I shall not mourn!" Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Marriage; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WELL-BELOVED Poem Text First Line: I went by star and planet shine Last Line: And left a waste within. THE WEST-OF-WESSEX GIRL Poem Text First Line: A very west-of wessex-girl Last Line: We never were to go! THE WHIPPER-IN Poem Text First Line: My father was the whipper-in Last Line: "for scaring, as 'tis old." THE WHITEWASHED WALL Poem Text First Line: Why does she turn in that shy soft way Last Line: To him under his sheet of white. THE WIDOW BETROTHED Poem Text First Line: I passed the lodge and avenue Last Line: She smiled as maid on me! Subject(s): Widows & Widowers THE WIND BLEW WORDS Poem Text First Line: The wind blew words along the skies Last Line: To kill, break, or suppress. THE WIND'S PROPHECY Poem Text First Line: I travel on by barren farms Last Line: Thy love is one thou'st not yet known.' Subject(s): Wind THE WISTFUL LADY Poem Text First Line: Love, while you were away there came to me Last Line: But show her not to me. THE WOMAN I MET Poem Text First Line: A stranger, I threaded sunken-hearted Last Line: She turned and thinned away. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE WOMAN IN THE RYE Poem Text First Line: Why do you stand in the dripping rye Last Line: Wrapt in a peace withheld from me!' Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE WOOD FIRE; A FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: This is a brightsome blaze you've lit, goodfriend, tonight!' Last Line: "and it's worthless for much else, what with cuts and stains thereon." THE WORKBOX Poem Text First Line: See, here's the workbox, little wife Last Line: But known of what he died. Subject(s): Death; Wood; Dead, The THE WOUND Poem Text First Line: I climbed to the crest Last Line: That it pierced me through. THE YEAR'S AWAKENING Poem Text First Line: How do you know that the pilgrim track Last Line: How do you know? Subject(s): Spring THE YOUNG CHURCHWARDEN Poem Text First Line: When he lit the candles there Last Line: To understand!' Subject(s): Clergy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER Poem Text First Line: These gothic windows, how they wear me out Last Line: Mary, and think of aphrodite's form.' Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Glass & Glassblowers; Labor & Laborers; Paintings & Painters; Glaziers; Work; Workers THE YOUTH WHO CARRIED A LIGHT Poem Text First Line: I saw him pass as the new day dawned Last Line: And thence on infinitely? Subject(s): Light THEN AND NOW Poem Text First Line: When battles were fought Last Line: Stab first.' Subject(s): World War I; First World War THERE SEEMED A STRANGENESS; A PHANTASY Poem Text First Line: There seemed a strangeness in the air Last Line: "the great adjustment is taking place." THEY WOULD NOT COME Poem Text First Line: I travelled to where in her lifetime Last Line: And bruised the heart of me! THIS SUMMER AND LAST Poem Text First Line: Unhappy summer you / who do not see Last Line: Know what it knew! Subject(s): Summer THOUGHTS OF PHENA AT NEWS OF HER DEATH Poem Text First Line: Not a line of her writing have I Last Line: I may picture her there. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sparks, Tryphena THROWING A TREE First Line: The two executioners stalk along over the knolls Last Line: And two hundred years steady growth has been ended in less %than two hours Subject(s): Environment; Trees TIMING HER Poem Text First Line: Lalage's coming Last Line: Here's lalage! TO A LADY Poem Text First Line: Now that my page upcloses, doomed, maybe Last Line: And then surcease. Truth will be truth alway. TO A LADY PLAYING AND SINGING IN THE MORNING Poem Text First Line: Joyful lady, sing! Last Line: My idled morn may comfort me! TO A MOTHERLESS CHILD Poem Text First Line: Ah, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's Last Line: But one's alone! Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings TO A SEA-CLIFF (DURLSTON HEAD) Poem Text First Line: Lend me an ear Last Line: Between them lay a sword. TO A TREE IN LONDON First Line: Here you stay %night and day Last Line: Smelt the landscape's sweet serene Subject(s): Environment; Trees TO A WELL-NAMED DWELLING Poem Text First Line: Glad old house of lichened stonework Last Line: While they stand. TO AN ACTRESS Poem Text First Line: I read your name when you were strange to me Last Line: To springs that then were sealed up utterly? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses TO AN IMPERSONATOR OF ROSALIND Poem Text First Line: Did he who drew her in the years ago Last Line: The 'very, very rosalind' indeed! TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD Poem Text First Line: Breathe not, hid heart: cease silently Last Line: Joys seldom yet attained by humankind! Subject(s): Poverty TO C.F.H.; ON HER CHRISTENING-DAY Poem Text First Line: Fair caroline, I wonder what Last Line: Good things with glad. . . . Yes, caroline! Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings TO CARREY CLAVEL Poem Text First Line: You turn your back, you turn your back Last Line: Yes, carrey, yes; I know! TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER Poem Text First Line: Sunned in the south, and here today Last Line: To tell man whence you came. Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Italians TO LIFE Poem Text First Line: O life with the sad seared face Last Line: I feign, I shall believe! Subject(s): Life TO LIZBIE BROWNE Poem Text First Line: Dear lizbie browne / where are you now? Last Line: Yes, lizbie browne! Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement TO MEET, OR OTHERWISE Poem Text First Line: Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams Last Line: Amid the spheres, as part of sick life's antidote. TO MY FATHER'S VIOLIN Poem Text First Line: Does he want you down there Last Line: Your present dumbness, shape your olden story. Subject(s): Fathers; Violins TO OUTER NATURE Poem Text First Line: Show thee as I thought thee Last Line: Passed the hodiernal! TO SHAKESPEARE; AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS Poem Text First Line: Bright baffling soul, least capturable of themes Last Line: Lodged there a radiant guest, and sped for ever thence. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO SINCERITY Poem Text First Line: O sweet sincerity! Last Line: And life its disesteeming. Subject(s): Sincerity TO THE MOON Poem Text First Line: What have you looked at, moon Last Line: As I go.' Subject(s): Moon TOLERANCE Poem Text First Line: It is a foolish thing,' said I Last Line: To linger in the shadows there. TRAGEDIAN TO TRAGEDIENNE Poem Text First Line: Shall I leave you behind me Last Line: Yes: end them: I not there to succour you. TRANSFORMATIONS Poem Text First Line: Portion of this yew Last Line: That made them what they were! Subject(s): Reincarnation; Transmigration; Pretas TWO LIPS Poem Text First Line: I kissed them in fancy as I came Last Line: She did not know. Subject(s): Kisses TWO SERENADES: 1. ON CHRISTMAS EVE Poem Text First Line: Late on christmas eve, in the street alone Last Line: She did not come. Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Complaints; Nativity, The TWO SERENADES: 2. A YEAR LATER Poem Text First Line: I skimmed the strings; I sang quite low Last Line: Sick I withdrew. Subject(s): Love - Complaints UNDER HIGH-STOY HILL Poem Text First Line: Four climbed high-stoy from ivelwards Last Line: Yet speak not of what lies behind. UNDER THE WATERFALL Poem Text First Line: Whenever I plunge my arm, like this Last Line: In turns therefrom sipped lovers' wine.' Subject(s): Rivers; Waterfalls UNKNOWING Poem Text First Line: When, soul in soul reflected Last Line: I feel and know! UNREALIZED Poem Text First Line: Down comes the winter rain Last Line: Mother won't know. V.R. 1819-1901; A REVERIE Poem Text First Line: The mightiest moments pass uncalendered Last Line: Till ripening years have run. Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) VAGG HOLLOW Poem Text First Line: What do you see in vagg hollow Last Line: "but I'm not afraid at all!" Subject(s): Swamps; Bogs; Fens; Marshes VAGRANT'S SONG Poem Text First Line: When a dark-eyed dawn Last Line: As a house of a thousand pound! VALENCIENNES Poem Text First Line: We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed Last Line: As we did valencieen! VOICES FROM THINGS GROWING IN A CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: These flowers are I , poor fanny hurd, / sir or madam Last Line: All night eerily! WAGTAIL AND BABY Poem Text First Line: A baby watched a ford, whereto Last Line: The baby fell a-thinking. Subject(s): Babies; Birds; Wagtails; Infants WAITING - BOTH Poem Text First Line: A star looks down at me Last Line: "so mean I." Subject(s): Stars; Time; Transience; Impermanence WE ARE GETTING TO THE END First Line: We are getting to the end of visioning Last Line: Yes. We are getting to the end of dreams! WE FIELD-WOMEN First Line: How it rained Last Line: And pails, and songs, and love-too rash: %how it shone! Subject(s): Environment; Fields WE SAT AT THE WINDOW (BOURNEMOUTH, 1875) Poem Text First Line: We sat at the window looking out Last Line: When the rain came down. WE SAY WE SHALL NOT MEET Last Line: But meet no more WEATHERS Poem Text First Line: This is the weather the cuckoo likes Last Line: And so do I. Subject(s): Birds; Rain WELCOME HOME Poem Text First Line: Back to my native place Last Line: And I was left in the frosty lane. WESSEX HEIGHTS Poem Text First Line: There are some heights in wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand Last Line: And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty. Subject(s): Mountains; Wessex, England; Hills; Downs (great Britain) WHAT DID IT MEAN Poem Text First Line: What did it mean that noontide, when Last Line: Which still the haunting first deranged? WHAT'S THERE TO TELL WHEN DEAD Poem Text First Line: It will be much better when Last Line: Be waiting you. WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE Poem Text WHEN I SET OUT FOR LYONNESSE WHEN OATS WERE REAPED Poem Text First Line: That day when oats were reaped, and wheat was ripe, and barley ripening Last Line: Nor a bill of any bird; and no response accorded she. WHERE THE PICNIC WAS Poem Text First Line: Where we made the fire Last Line: For evermore Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues WHERE THEY LIVED Poem Text First Line: Dishevelled leaves creep down Last Line: Time calls, 'pass below!' Subject(s): Time WHERE THREE ROADS JOINED IT WAS GREEN AND FAIR WHILE DRAWING IN A CHURCHYARD Poem Text First Line: It is sad that so many of worth Last Line: That show of things. WHO'S IN THE NEXT ROOM? - WHO? Poem Text WHO'S IN THE NEXT ROOM? - WHO? WHY BE AT PAINS? (WOOER'S SONG) Poem Text First Line: Why be at pains that I should know Last Line: I plough the unknown. Subject(s): Courtship WHY DID I SKETCH AN UPLAND GREEN WHY DO I GO ON DOING THESE THINGS? WHY DO IT? WHY SHE MOVED HOUSE (THE DOG MUSES) Poem Text First Line: Why she moved house, without a word Last Line: And I but pause and pass. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Moving & Movers WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD; TRIOLET Poem Text First Line: Throughout the field I find no grain Last Line: The cruel frost encrusts the cornland! Subject(s): Birds; Winter WINTER NIGHT IN WOODLAND (OLD TIME) Poem Text First Line: The bark of a fox rings, sonorous and long Last Line: Tired and thirsty, but cheerful, they home to their beds in the dawn. Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters WITHOUT CEREMONY Poem Text First Line: It was your way, my dear Last Line: Good-bye is not worth while!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WITHOUT, NOT WITHIN HER Poem Text First Line: It was what you bore with you, woman Last Line: Of the winnowing-fan. WIVES IN THE SERE Poem Text First Line: Never a careworn wife but shows Last Line: Time again subdues her. XENOPHANES, THE MONIST OF COLOPHON Poem Text First Line: Are you groping your way?' Last Line: "xenophanes!" YELL'HAM-WOOD'S STORY Poem Text First Line: Coomb-firtrees say that life is a moan Last Line: Life offers - to deny!' YOU ON THE TOWER Poem Text First Line: You on the tower of my factory Last Line: "he brushed you by as he flew." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOU WERE THE SORT THAT MEN FORGET YOUR LAST DRIVE Poem Text First Line: Here by the moorway you returned Last Line: You are past love, praise, indifference, blame. ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN Poem Text First Line: Thirty-two years since, up against the sun Last Line: When darkness filled the earth till the ninth hour. Subject(s): Matterhorn; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) |
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