Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses. Thomas Hardy

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       MOMENTS OF VISION

       THE VOICE OF THINGS

       “WHY BE AT PAINS?” (Wooer’s Song)

       “WE SAT AT THE WINDOW” (Bournemouth , 1875)

       AFTERNOON SERVICE AT MELLSTOCK (Circa 1850)

       AT THE WICKET-GATE

       IN A MUSEUM

       APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD PSALM TUNE

       AT THE WORD “FAREWELL”

       FIRST SIGHT OF HER AND AFTER

       THE RIVAL

       HEREDITY

       “YOU WERE THE SORT THAT MEN FORGET”

       SHE, I, AND THEY

       NEAR LANIVET, 1872

       JOYS OF MEMORY

       TO THE MOON

       COPYING ARCHITECTURE IN AN OLD MINSTER (Wimborne)

       TO SHAKESPEARE AFTER THREE HUNDRED YEARS

       QUID HIC AGIS?

       ON A MIDSUMMER EVE

       TIMING HER (Written to an old folk-tune)

       BEFORE KNOWLEDGE

       THE BLINDED BIRD

       “THE WIND BLEW WORDS”

       THE FADED FACE

       THE RIDDLE

       THE DUEL

       AT MAYFAIR LODGINGS

       TO MY FATHER’S VIOLIN

       THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

       THE BACKGROUND AND THE FIGURE (Lover’s Ditty)

       THE CHANGE

       SITTING ON THE BRIDGE (Echo of an old song)

       THE YOUNG CHURCHWARDEN

       “I TRAVEL AS A PHANTOM NOW”

       LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART’S E-FLAT SYMPHONY

       “IN THE SEVENTIES”

       THE PEDIGREE

       THIS HEART A WOMAN’S DREAM

       WHERE THEY LIVED

       THE OCCULTATION

       LIFE LAUGHS ONWARD

       THE PEACE-OFFERING

       “SOMETHING TAPPED”

       THE WOUND

       A MERRYMAKING IN QUESTION

       “I SAID AND SANG HER EXCELLENCE” (Fickle Lover’s Song)

       A JANUARY NIGHT (1879)

       A KISS

       THE ANNOUNCEMENT

       THE OXEN

       THE TRESSES