Category: Poetry
PAGE Moments of Vision 1 The Voice of Things 2 “Why be at pains?” 3 “We sat at the window” 4 Afternoon Service at Mellstock 5 At the Wicket-gate 6 In a Museum 7 Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune 8 At the Word “Farewell” 11 First Sight of Her and After 13 The Rival 14 Heredity 15...
SHE sped through the door And, following in haste, And stirred to the core, I entered hot-faced; But I could not find her, No sign was behind her. “Where is she?” I said: —“Who?...
3. Chapter 3IN the seventies I was bearing in my breast, Penned tight, Certain starry thoughts that threw a magic light On the worktimes and the soundless hours of rest In the seventies; ay...
6. Chapter 6I FOUND me in a great surging space, At either end a door, And I said: “What is this giddying place, With no firm-fixéd floor, That I knew not of before?” “It is Life,” said a m...
4. Chapter 4They load the leafless hedge hard by, And the blades of last year’s grass, While the fallow ploughland turned up nigh In raw rolls, clammy and clogging lie— Too clogging for fee...
2. Chapter 2I take my holiday then and my rest Away from the dun life here about me, Old hours re-greeting With the quiet sense that bring they must Such throbs as at first, till I house wi...
1. Chapter 1PAGE Moments of Vision 1 The Voice of Things 2 “Why be at pains?” 3 “We sat at the window” 4 Afternoon Service at Mellstock 5 At the Wicket-gate 6 In a Museum 7 Apostrophe to an...
7. Chapter 7“Nay: a richer malediction!— Rather let this thing befall In time’s hurling and unfurling On the night when comes thy call; That compassion dew thy pillow And bedrench thy sense...