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| 1351. | The Pity Of It by Thomas Hardy | | I walked in loamy Wessex lanes, afar
From rail-track and from highway, and I heard
In field and farmstead many an ancient word
Of local lineage lik... |
| 1352. | My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound by Thomas Hardy | | My spirit will not haunt the mound
Above my breast,
But travel, memory-possessed,
To where my tremulous being found
Life largest, best.
My phan... |
| 1353. | Sapphic Fragment by Thomas Hardy | | "Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam.
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare.
Dead shalt thou lie; and nought
Be told of thee ... |
| 1355. | To An Orphan Child by Thomas Hardy | | A Whimsey
AH, child, thou art but half thy darling mother's;
Hers couldst thou wholly be,
My light in thee would outglow all in others;
She woul... |
| 1358. | The Contretemps by Thomas Hardy | | A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom,
And we clasped, and almost kissed;
But she was not the woman whom
I had promised to meet in the thawing br... |
| 1359. | A Meeting With Despair by Thomas Hardy | | AS evening shaped I found me on a moor
Which sight could scarce sustain:
The black lean land, of featureless contour,
Was like a tract in pain.
... |
| 1360. | The Puzzled Game-Birds by Thomas Hardy | | They are not those who used to feed us
When we were young--they cannot be -
These shapes that now bereave and bleed us?
They are not those who u... |
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