The pieces are in a large degree dramatic or personative in conception; and this even where they are not obviously so.

The dates attached to some of the poems do not apply to the rough sketches given in illustration, which have been recently made, and, as may be surmised, are inserted for personal and local reasons rather than for their intrinsic qualities.

T. H.

September 1898.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Temporary the All [1]
Amabel [4]
Hap [7]
“In Vision I Roamed” [9]
At a Bridal [11]
Postponement [13]
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble [15]
Neutral Tones [17]
She [19]
Her Initials [21]
Her Dilemma [23]
Revulsion [27]
She, To Him, I. [31]
,, ,, II. [33]
,, ,, III. [35]
,, ,, IV. [37]
Ditty [39]
The Sergeant’s Song [43]
Valenciennes [45]
San Sebastian [51]
The Stranger’s Song [59]
The Burghers [61]
Leipzig [67]
The Peasant’s Confession [79]
The Alarm [91]
Her Death and After [103]
The Dance at the Phœnix [115]
The Casterbridge Captains [125]
A Sign-Seeker [129]
My Cicely [133]
Her Immortality [143]
The Ivy-Wife [147]
A Meeting with Despair [149]
Unknowing [153]
Friends Beyond [155]
To Outer Nature [159]
Thoughts of Phena [163]
Middle-Age Enthusiasms [167]
In a Wood [169]
To a Lady [173]
To an Orphan Child [175]
Nature’s Questioning [177]
The Impercipient [181]
At an Inn [187]
The Slow Nature [191]
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury [195]
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley’s [201]
Heiress and Architect [211]
The Two Men [217]
Lines [223]
“I Look into my Glass” [227]

THE TEMPORARY THE ALL

Change and chancefulness in my flowering youthtime,
Set me sun by sun near to one unchosen;
Wrought us fellow-like, and despite divergence,
Friends interlinked us.