This is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy, who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Similar to his novels, the underlying themes of the majority of the poems in this collection are death, departure and unfulfilled love, while the central piece is comprised of the 15 short "Satires of Circumstance," funny poems with a bittersweet touch.
The poems have been recorded by our trio of readers John Burlinson, Tomas Peter and Sonia. As an interesting touch, some poems can be considered short dramatic readings, and as such have been performed as dialogues.
By : Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
001 - In Front of the Landscape
002 - Channel Firing
003 - The Convergence of the Twain
004 - The Ghost of the Past
005 - After the Visit
006 - To Meet, or Otherwise
007 - The Difference
008 - The Sun on the Bookcase
009 - 'When I set out for Lyonnesse'
010 - A Thunderstorm in Town
011 - The Torn Letter
012 - Beyond the Last Lamp
013 - The Face at the Casement
014 - Lost Love
015 - 'My Spirit will not haunt the mound'
016 - Wessex Heights
017 - In Death divided
018 - The Place on the Map
019 - Where the Picnic was
020 - The Schreckhorn
021 - A Singer asleep
022 - A Plaint to Man
023 - God's Funeral
024 - Spectres that grieve
025 - 'Ah, are you digging on my grave?'
026 - I. At Tea
027 - II. In Church
028 - III. By her Aunt's Grave
029 - IV. In the Room of the Bride-elect
030 - V. At the Watering-place
031 - VI. In the Cemetery
032 - VII. Outside the Window
033 - VIII. In the Study
034 - IX. At the Altar-rail
035 - X. In the Nuptial Chamber
036 - XI. In the Restaurant
037 - XII. At the Draper's
038 - XIII. On the Death-bed
039 - XIV. Over the Coffin
040 - XV. In the Moonlight
041 - Self-unconscious
042 - The Discovery
043 - Tolerance
044 - Before and after Summer
045 - At Day-close in November
046 - The Year's Awakening
047 - Under the Waterfall
048 - The Spell of the Rose
049 - St. Launce's revisited
050 - The Going
051 - Your Last Drive
052 - The Walk
053 - Rain on a Grave
054 - 'I found her out there'
055 - Without Ceremony
056 - Lament
057 - The Haunter
058 - The Voice
059 - His Visitor
060 - A Circular
061 - A Dream or No
062 - After a Journey
063 - A Death-day recalled
064 - Beeny Cliff
065 - At Castle Boterel
066 - Places
067 - The Phantom Horsewoman
068 - The Wistful Lady
069 - The Woman in the Rye
070 - The Cheval-Glass
071 - The Re-enactment
072 - Her Secret
073 - 'She charged me'
074 - The Newcomer's Wife
075 - A Conversation at Dawn
076 - A King's Soliloquy
077 - The Coronation
078 - Aquae Sulis
079 - Seventy-four and Twenty
080 - The Elopment
081 - 'I rose up as my custom is'
082 - A Week
083 - Had you wept
084 - Bereft, she thinks she dreams
085 - In the British Museum
086 - In the Servants Quarters
087 - The Obliterate Tomb
088 - 'Regret not me'
089 - The Recalcitrants
090 - Starlings on the Roof
091 - The Moon looks in
092 - The Sweet Hussy
093 - The Telegram
094 - The Moth-signal
095 - Seen by the Waits
096 - The Two Soldiers
097 - The Death of Regret
098 - In the Days of the Crinoline
099 - The Roman Gravemounds
100 - The Workbox
101 - The Sacrilege
102 - The Abbey Mason
103 - The Jubilee of a Magazine
104 - The Satin Shoes
105 - Exeunt Omnes
106 - A Poet
107 - 'Men who march away'
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