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Tables of Contents for Selected Poetry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
Chronology
xxv
Note on the Text
xxviii
from WESSEX POEMS
Hap
1
1
Neutral Tones
1
1
The Ivy-Wife
2
1
A Meeting with Despair
3
1
Friends Beyond
4
1
Thoughts of Phena
5
1
Nature's Questioning
6
1
The Impercipient
7
1
In a Emeleaze near Weatherbury
8
1
The Bride--Night Fire
9
3
`I Look into my glass'
12
4
from POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
WAR POEMS
A Christmas Ghost-Story
14
1
Drummer Hodge
14
1
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE
Shelley's Skylark
15
1
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden
16
1
The Mother Mourns
16
3
A Commonplace Day
19
1
Doom and She
20
2
The Subalterns
22
1
The Sleep-Worker
23
1
God-Forgotten
23
2
To an Unborn Pauper Child
25
1
To Lizbie Browne
26
2
A Broken Appointment
28
1
`Between us now'
28
1
A Spot
29
1
An August Midnight
30
1
Birds at Winter Nightfall
31
1
The Puzzled Game-Birds
31
1
Winter in Durnover Field
31
1
The Darkling Thrush
32
1
The Levelled Churchyard
33
1
The Ruined Maid
34
1
The Self-Unseeing
35
1
In Tenebris I
35
1
In Tenebris II
36
1
In Tenebris III
37
1
Tess's Lament
38
2
`Aγνωστω &Thetas;&epsis;ω
40
1
from TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
41
3
A Sunday Morning Tragedy
44
4
The Curate's Kindness
48
2
The Farm-Woman's Winter
50
1
Bereft
51
1
She Hears the Storm
51
1
Autumn in King's Hintock Park
52
1
Reminiscences of a Dancing Man
53
1
The Dead Man Walking
54
1
The Division
55
1
The End of the Episode
56
1
The Night of the Dance
56
1
At Casterbridge Fair:
57
4
The Ballad-Singer
57
1
Former Beauties
58
1
After the Club-Dance
58
1
The Market-Girl
59
1
The Inquiry
59
1
A Wife Waits
60
1
After the Fair
60
1
The Fiddler
61
1
A Church Romance
62
1
The Roman Road
62
1
The Reminder
63
1
Night in the Old Home
63
1
The Pine Planters
64
2
One We Knew
66
1
A Wet Night
67
1
New Year's Eve
68
1
God's Education
69
1
The Man He Killed
69
1
Yell'ham-Wood's Story
70
1
from SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE
Channel Firing
71
1
The Convergence of the Twain
72
1
`When I set out for Lyonnesse'
72
2
A Thunderstorm in Town
74
1
Wessex Heights
74
2
`Ah, are you digging on my grave?'
76
1
Before and After Summer
77
1
At Day-Close in November
78
1
The Year's Awakening
78
1
POEMS OF 1912-13
79
24
The Going
79
1
Your Last Drive
80
1
The Walk
81
1
Rain on a Grave
82
1
I found her out there'
83
1
Without Ceremony
84
1
Lament
85
1
The Haunter
86
1
The Voice
87
1
His Visitor
88
1
A Circular
88
1
A Dream or No
89
1
After a Journey
90
1
A Death-Day Recalled
91
1
Benny Cliff
91
1
At Castle Boterel
92
1
Places
93
1
The Phantom Horsewoman
94
1
The Spell of the Rose
95
2
St Launce's Revisited
97
1
Where the Picnic Was
98
1
Bereft, She Thinks She Dreams
99
1
In the Servants' Quarters
99
2
The Moth-Signal
101
1
Exeunt Omnes
102
1
SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE
103
135
At Tea
103
1
In Church
103
1
By Her Aunt's Grave
104
1
In the Room of the Bride-Elect
104
1
At a Watering-Place
104
1
In the Cemetery
105
1
Outside the Window
105
1
In the Study
106
1
At the Altar-Rail
107
1
In the Nupital Chamber
107
1
In the Restaurant
108
1
At the Draper's
108
1
On the Death-Bed
109
1
Over the Coffin
109
1
In the Moonlight
110
1
from MOMENTS OF VISION
At the Word `Farewell'
111
1
First Sight of Her and After
112
1
Near Lanivet, 1872
112
1
Quid Hic Agis?
113
2
`I travel as a phantom now'
115
1
A Merrymaking in Question
116
1
A January Night
116
1
The Oxen
117
1
Transformations
117
1
Great Things
118
1
At Middle-Field Gate in Febrauary
119
1
The Last Performance
119
1
The Interloper
120
1
Logs on the Hearth
121
1
The Five Students
122
1
During Wind and Rain
123
1
A Backward Spring
123
1
He Fears His Good Fortune
124
1
He Revisits His First School
125
1
Midnight on the Great Western
125
1
Signs and Tokens
126
2
The Shadow on the Stone
128
1
An Upbraiding
128
1
While Drawing in a Churchyard
129
1
`For Life I had never cared greatly'
130
7
POEMS OF WAR AND PATRIOTISM
`Men who march away'
131
1
The Pity of It
132
1
In Time of `the Breaking of Nations'
132
1
Before Marching and After
133
1
A New Year's Eve in War Time
134
3
Afterwards
135
2
from LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER
Weathers
137
1
Summer Schemes
137
1
Faintheart in a Railway Train
138
1
The Garden Seat
138
1
`The curtains now are drawn'
139
1
`According to the Mighty Working'
140
1
Going and Staying
140
1
At a House in Hampstead
141
1
A Wet August
142
1
A Night in November
142
1
`And there was a Great Calm'
143
2
Haunting Fingers
145
2
`If it's ever spring again'
147
1
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
147
1
The Selfsame Soing
148
1
The Wedding Morning
148
1
At the Railway Station, Upway
149
1
An Autumn Rain-Scene
149
1
An Experience
150
1
Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
151
1
On the Way
152
1
Growth in May
153
1
By Henstridge Cross at the Year's End
153
1
Penance
154
1
`I look in her face'
155
1
At the Entering of the New Year
156
1
After a Romantic Day
157
1
A Procession of Dead Days
157
2
`O I won't lead a homely life'
159
1
In the Small Hours
159
1
The Little Old Table
160
1
Vagg Hollow
160
1
The Country Wedding
161
1
Last Words to a Dumb Friend
162
2
A Drizzling Easter Morning
164
1
On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born
164
2
Best Times
166
1
Just the Same
166
1
The Last Time
167
1
The Sun's Last Look on the Country Girl
167
1
Drawing Details in an Old Church
168
1
Epitaph
168
1
An Ancient to Ancients
169
2
Surview
171
1
from HUMAN SHOWS
Waiting Both
172
1
A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling
172
1
Last Week in October
173
1
Four in the Morning
173
1
Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening
174
1
A Last Journey
174
1
The Best She Could
175
1
`There seemed a strangeness'
176
1
A Night of Questionings
177
2
Life and Death at Sunrise
179
1
Night-Time in Mid-Fall
180
1
A Sheep Fair
180
1
Snow in the Suburbs
181
1
A Light Snow-Fall after Frost
182
1
Winter Night in Woodland
182
1
Ice on the Highway
183
1
Music in a Snowy Street
184
1
Last Love-Word
185
1
Nobody Comes
185
1
A Second Attempt
186
1
Last Look Round St Martin's Fair
187
1
The Prospect
187
1
When Oats Were Reaped
188
1
Farmer Dunman's Funeral
188
1
The Sexton at Longpuddle
189
1
The Harvest-Supper
189
2
At a Pause in a Country Dance
191
1
On the Portrait of a Woman about to be Hanged
192
1
The Thing Unplanned
193
1
Retty's Phases
193
1
Cynic's Epitaph
194
1
A Popular Personage at Home
194
1
Inscriptions for a Peal of Eight Bells
195
1
Epitaph on a Pessimist
196
1
The Sundial on a Wet Day
196
1
Shortening Days at the Homestead
197
1
Days to Recollect
198
1
The High-School Lawn
198
1
That Moment
199
1
Premonitions
199
1
The Six Boards
200
1
Song to an Old Burden
200
2
from WINTER WORDS
The New Dawn's Business
202
1
Proud Songsters
202
1
`I am the one'
203
1
A Wish for Unconsciousness
204
1
To Louisa in the Lane
204
1
An Unkindly May
205
1
The Lodging-House Fuchsias
205
1
The War-Wife of Catknoll
206
1
Yuletide in a Younger World
207
1
After the Death of a Friend
208
1
Lying Awake
208
1
Childhood among the Ferns
208
1
Silences
209
1
`I watched a blackbird'
210
1
He Did Not Know Me
210
1
An Evening in Galilee
211
1
We Field-Women
212
1
A Practical Woman
213
1
`A Gentleman's Second-hand Suit'
213
1
`We say we shall not meet'
214
1
Seeing the Moon Rise
215
1
He never Expected Much
215
1
Standing by the Mantelpiece
216
1
Boys Then and Now
217
1
That Kiss in the Dark
218
1
A Necessitarian's Epitaph
218
1
Suspense
218
1
The Second Visit
219
1
Faithful Wilson
219
1
In Weatherbury Stocks
220
1
A Placid Man's Epitaph
220
1
The Third Kissing-Gate
221
1
The Destined Pair
221
1
June Leaves and Autumn
222
1
No Bell-Ringing
223
2
`I looked back'
225
1
Christmas: 1924
225
1
Dead `Wessex' the Dog to the Household
226
1
Christmas in the Elgin Room
227
1
He Resolves to Say No More
228
1
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Domicilium
229
1
On the Doorstep
230
8
from THE DYNASTS
The Night of Trafalgar
230
1
Albuera
231
1
Hussar's Song: Budmouth Dears
232
1
`My Love's gone a-fighting'
233
1
The Eve of Waterloo
234
1
Chorus of the Pities
235
2
Last Chorus
237
1
Notes
238
13
Further Reading
251
2
Glossary
253
2
Index of Titles and First Lines
255