Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses. Томас Харди
THE MARBLE TABLET
ON ONE WHO LIVED AND DIED WHERE HE WAS BORN
OUTSIDE THE CASEMENT (A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR)
THE PASSER-BY (L. H. RECALLS HER ROMANCE)
A SOUND IN THE NIGHT (WOODSFORD CASTLE: 17–)
AN OLD LIKENESS (RECALLING R. T.)
HER APOTHEOSIS “Secretum meum mihi” (FADED WOMAN’S SONG)
“SACRED TO THE MEMORY” (MARY H.)
A MILITARY APPOINTMENT (SCHERZANDO)
THE MILESTONE BY THE RABBIT-BURROW (ON YELL’HAM HILL)
THE LAMENT OF THE LOOKING-GLASS
THE SUN’S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL (M. H.)
DRAWING DETAILS IN AN OLD CHURCH
MURMURS IN THE GLOOM (NOCTURNE)
AFTER READING PSALMS XXXIX., XL., ETC.
WEATHERS
I
This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly:
And the little brown nightingale bills his best,
And they sit outside at “The Travellers’ Rest,”
And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest,
And citizens dream of the south and west,
And so do I.
II
This is the weather the shepherd shuns,
And so do I;
When beeches drip in browns and duns,
And thresh, and ply;
And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe,
And meadow rivulets overflow,
And drops on gate-bars hang in a row,
And rooks in families homeward go,
And so do I.
THE MAID OF KEINTON MANDEVILLE
(A TRIBUTE TO SIR