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WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES
by Thomas Hardy
Contents
Preface?The Temporary The All?Amabel?Hap?"In Vision I Roamed"?At a Bridal?Postponement?A Confession to a Friend in Trouble?Neutral Tones?She?Her Initials?Her Dilemma?Revulsion?She, To Him, I.
" " II.?" " III.?" " IV.?Ditty?The Sergeant's Song?Valenciennes?San Sebastian?The Stranger's Song?The Burghers?Leipzig?The Peasant's Confession?The Alarm?Her Death and After?The Dance at the Phoenix?The Casterbridge Captains?A Sign-Seeker?My Cicely?Her Immortality?The Ivy-Wife?A Meeting with Despair?Unknowing?Friends Beyond?To Outer Nature?Thoughts of Phena?Middle-Age Enthusiasms?In a Wood?To a Lady?To an Orphan Child?Nature's Questioning?The Impercipient?At An Inn?The Slow Nature?In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury?ADDITIONS:
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's?Heiress and Architect?The Two Men?Lines?"I Look into my Glass"
PREFACE
Of the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having been unanticipated at that time that they might see the light.
Whenever an ancient and legitimate word of the district, for which there was no equivalent in received English, suggested itself as the most natural, nearest, and often only expression of a thought, it has been made use of, on what seemed good grounds.
The pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception; and this even where they are not obviously so.
The dates attached to some of the poems do not apply to the rough sketches given in illustration, which have been recently made, and, as may be surmised, are inserted for personal and local reasons rather than for their intrinsic qualities.
T. H.?September 1898.
THE TEMPORARY THE ALL
Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime,?Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen;?Wrought us fellow-like, and despite divergence,
Friends interlinked us.
"Cherish him can I while the true one forthcome -?Come the rich fulfiller of my prevision;?Life is roomy yet, and the odds unbounded."
So self-communed I.
Thwart my wistful way did a damsel saunter,?Fair, the while unformed to be all-eclipsing;?"Maiden meet," held I, "till arise my