Thomas Hardy Poems

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1.
"I Said To Love"

I said to Love,
"It is not now as in old days
When men adored thee and thy ways
   All else above;
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2.
"Between Us Now"

Between us now and here -
   Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
   Life's flushest feather -
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3.
A Broken Appointment

You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
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4.
I Need Not Go

I need not go
Through sleet and snow
To where I know
She waits for me;
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5.
The Darkling Thrush

I leant upon a coppice gate,
When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
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6.
'How Great My Grief' (Triolet)

How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!
- Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
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7.
A Meeting With Despair

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.
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8.
Drummer Hodge

They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined -- just as found:
His landmark is a kopje-crest
That breaks the veldt around:
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9.
The Man He Killed

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!
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10.
'I Have Lived With Shades'

I

I have lived with shades so long,
And talked to them so oft,
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