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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
24
Chronology
xxxix
16
Suggestions for Further Reading
lv
2
Note on the Selection
lvii
Domicilium
1
4
From WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES
5
10
Hap
5
1
Neutral Tones
5
1
She, to Him II
6
1
Friends Beyond
7
2
Nature's Questioning
9
1
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury
10
1
"I Look Into My Glass"
11
4
From POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
15
26
Embarcation
15
1
Drummer Hodge
15
1
The Souls of the Slain
16
5
Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
21
1
Zermatt: To the Matterhorn
22
1
To an Unborn Pauper Child
22
2
To Lizbie Browne
24
3
"I Need Not Go"
27
1
At a Hasty Wedding
28
1
His Immortality
28
1
Wives in the Sere
29
1
An August Midnight
30
1
Winter in Durnover Field
31
1
The Last Chrysanthemum
32
1
The Darkling Thrush
33
1
Mad Judy
34
1
The Ruined Maid
35
1
The Respectable Burgher on "The Higher Criticism"
36
1
The Self-Unseeing
37
1
In Tenebris I
38
3
From TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES
41
28
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
41
4
The House of Hospitalities
45
1
The Rejected Member's Wife
46
1
Shut Out That Moon
47
1
The Division
48
1
"I Say I'll Seek Her"
48
1
"In the Night She Came"
49
1
The Night of the Dance
50
1
At Casterbridge Fair
51
4
The Ballad-Singer
51
1
Former Beauties
51
1
After the Club-Dance
52
1
The Market-Girl
52
1
The Inquiry
53
1
A Wife Waits
54
1
After the Fair
54
1
To Carrey Clavel
55
1
The Orphaned Old Maid
56
1
Rose-Ann
56
1
The Homecoming
57
2
A Church Romance
59
1
After the Last Breath
60
1
One We Knew
61
1
She Hears the Storm
62
1
The Man He Killed
63
1
One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes
64
5
From SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE, LYRICS AND REVERIES
69
38
Channel Firing
69
1
The Convergence of the Twain
70
2
"My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound"
72
1
Wessex Heights
73
2
The Schreckhorn
75
1
"Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?"
75
2
Before and After Summer
77
1
At Day-Close in November
78
1
Poems of 1912-13
79
12
The Going
79
1
Your Last Drive
80
1
The Walk
81
1
Rain on a Grave
82
1
Without Ceremony
83
1
Lament
84
1
The Haunter
85
1
The Voice
86
1
His Visitor
87
1
After a Journey
88
1
At Castle Boterel
89
2
"She Charged Me"
91
1
The Moon Looks In
91
1
In the Days of Crinoline
92
1
The Workbox
93
2
Exeunt Omnes
95
1
Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses
96
11
At Tea
96
1
In Church
96
1
By Her Aunt's Grave
97
1
In the Room of the Bride-Elect
97
1
At a Watering-Place
98
1
In the Cemetery
98
1
Outside the Window
99
1
In the Study
99
1
At the Altar-Rail
100
1
In the Nuptial Chamber
101
1
In the Restaurant
101
1
At the Draper's
102
1
On the Death-Bed
102
1
Over the Coffin
103
1
In the Moonlight
104
3
From MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
107
38
"We Sat at the Window"
107
1
Afternoon Service at Mellstock
107
1
At the Word "Farewell"
108
1
Heredity
109
1
Near Lanivet, 1872
109
2
To the Moon
111
1
Timing Her
112
2
The Blinded Bird
114
1
"The Wind Blew Words"
115
1
To My Father's Violin
116
1
The Pedigree
117
2
Where They Lived
119
1
"Something Tapped"
120
1
The Oxen
120
1
The Photograph
121
1
An Anniversary
122
1
Transformations
123
1
The Last Signal
123
1
Great Things
124
1
At Middle-Field Gate in February
125
1
On Sturminster Foot-Bridge
126
1
Old Furniture
126
2
A Thought in Two Moods
128
1
Logs on the Hearth
128
1
The Caged Goldfinch
129
1
The Ballet
129
1
The Five Students
130
1
During Wind and Rain
131
1
He Prefers Her Earthly
132
1
A Backward Spring
133
1
"Who's in the Next Room?"
133
1
At a Country Fair
134
1
Jubilate
135
1
Midnight on the Great Western
136
1
The Shadow on the Stone
137
1
In the Garden
138
1
An Upbraiding
138
1
The Choirmaster's Burial
139
2
In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
141
1
Afterwards
142
3
From LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
145
24
Weathers
145
1
The Garden Seat
145
1
"According to the Mighty Working"
146
1
Going and Staying
147
1
The Contretemps
148
2
A Night in November
150
1
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
150
1
On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth
151
1
Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
152
2
A Two-Years' Idyll
154
1
Fetching Her
155
1
A Procession of Dead Days
156
1
In the Small Hours
157
1
The Dream Is--Which?
158
1
Lonely Days
159
1
The Marble Tablet
160
1
The Master and the Leaves
161
1
Last Words to a Dumb Friend
162
2
An Ancient to Ancients
164
5
From HUMAN SHOWS, FAR PHANTASIES, SONGS AND TRIFLES
169
22
Waiting Both
169
1
A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling
169
1
Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening
170
1
When Dead
170
1
Ten Years Since
171
1
Life and Death at Sunrise
172
1
A Sheep Fair
173
1
The Calf
174
1
Snow in the Suburbs
175
1
Ice on the Highway
176
1
No Buyers
176
1
One Who Married Above Him
177
2
Last Love-Word
179
1
Nobody Comes
180
1
When Oats Were Reaped
180
1
The Harbour Bridge
181
1
The Missed Train
182
1
Retty's Phases
183
1
The Sundial on a Wet Day
184
1
Shortening Days at the Homestead
185
1
A Hurried Meeting
186
2
A Leaving
188
3
From WINTER WORDS IN VARIOUS MOODS AND METRES
191
6
Proud Songsters
191
1
"I Am the One"
191
1
Expectation and Experience
192
1
Throwing a Tree
193
1
Lying Awake
194
1
Henley Regatta
194
1
"A Gentleman's Second-Hand Suit"
195
1
A Forgotten Miniature
196
1
Appendix: Hardy's Notes and Remarks
197
8
Notes
205
40
Index of Titles and First Lines
245