Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces

by Thomas Hardy

Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

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SATIRES
OF CIRCUMSTANCE
LYRICS AND REVERIES
WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

BY
THOMAS HARDY

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1919

COPYRIGHT

First Edition 1914
Reprinted 1915, 1919
Pocket Edition 1919

CONTENTS

Lyrics andReveries—			PAGE
	In Front of the Landscape		[3]
	Channel Firing		[7]
	The Convergence of the Twain		[9]
	The Ghost of the Past		[12]
	After the Visit		[14]
	To Meet, or Otherwise		[16]
	The Difference		[18]
	The Sun on the Bookcase		[19]
	“When I set out for Lyonnesse”		[20]
	A Thunderstorm in Town		[21]
	The Torn Letter		[22]
	Beyond the Last Lamp		[25]
	The Face at the Casement		[27]
	Lost Love		[30]
	“My spirit will not haunt themound”		[31]
	Wessex Heights		[32]
	In Death divided		[35]
	The Place on the Map		[37]
	Where the Picnic was		[39]
	The Schreckhorn		[41]
	A Singer asleep		[42]
	A Plaint to Man		[45]
	God’s Funeral		[47]
	Spectres that grieve		[52]
	“Ah, are you digging on mygrave?”		[54]
Satires ofCircumstance—
	I.	At Tea	[59]
	II.	In Church	[60]
	III.	By her Aunt’s Grave	[61]
	IV.	In the Room of the Bride-elect	[62]
	V.	At the Watering-place	[63]
	VI.	In the Cemetery	[64]
	VII.	Outside the Window	[65]
	VIII.	In the Study	[66]
	IX.	At the Altar-rail	[67]
	X.	In the Nuptial Chamber	[68]
	XI.	In the Restaurant	[69]
	XII.	At the Draper’s	[70]
	XIII.	On the Death-bed	[71]
	XIV.	Over the Coffin	[72]
	XV.	In the Moonlight	[73]
Lyrics and Reveries(continued)—
	Self-unconscious		[77]
	The Discovery		[80]
	Tolerance		[81]
	Before and after Summer		[82]
	At Day-close in November		[83]
	The Year’s Awakening		[84]
	Under the Waterfall		[85]
	The Spell of the Rose		[88]
	St. Launce’s revisited		[90]
Poems of1912–13–
	The Going		[95]
	Your Last Drive		[97]
	The Walk		[99]
	Rain on a Grace		[100]
	“I found her out there”		[102]
	Without Ceremony		[104]
	Lament		[105]
	The Haunter		[107]
	The Voice		[109]
	His Visitor		[110]
	A Circular		[112]
	A Dream or No		[113]
	After a Journey		[115]
	A Death-ray recalled		[117]
	Beeny Cliff		[119]
	At Castle Boterel		[121]
	Places		[123]
	The Phantom Horsewoman		[125]
MiscellaneousPieces—
	The Wistful Lady		[129]
	The Woman in the Rye		[131]
	The Cheval-Glass		[132]
	The Re-enactment		[134]
	Her Secret		[140]
	“She charged me”		[141]
	The Newcomer’s Wife		[142]
	A Conversation at Dawn		[143]
	A King’s Soliloquy		[152]
	The Coronation		[154]
	Aquae Sulis		[157]
	Seventy-four and Twenty		[160]
	The Elopement		[161]
	“I rose up as my custom is”		[163]
	A Week		[165]
	Had you wept		[167]
	Bereft, she thinks she dreams		[169]
	In the British Museum		[170]
	In the Servants’ Quarters		[172]
	The Obliterate Tomb		[175]
	“Regret not me”		[183]
	The Recalcitrants		[185]
	Starlings on the Roof		[186]
	The Moon looks in		[187]
	The Sweet Hussy		[188]
	The Telegram		[189]
	The Moth-signal		[191]
	Seen by the Waits		[193]
	The Two Soldiers		[194]
	The Death of Regret		[195]
	In the Days of Crinoline		[197]
	The Roman Gravemounds		[199]
	The Workbox		[201]
	The Sacrilege		[203]
	The Abbey Mason		[210]
	The Jubilee of a Magazine		[222]
	The Satin Shoes		[224]
	Exeunt Omnes		[227]
	A Poet		[228]
Postscript—
	“Men who march away”		[229]

LYRICS AND REVERIES