Introduction xiii
Chronology xxv
Note on the Text xxviii
from Wessex Poems
Hap 1(1)
Neutral Tones 1(1)
The Ivy-Wife 2(1)
A Meeting with Despair 3(1)
Friends Beyond 4(1)
Thoughts of Phena 5(1)
Nature's Questioning 6(1)
The Impercipient 7(1)
In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury 8(1)
The Bride-Night Fire 9(3)
`I look into my glass' 12(2)
from Poems of the Past and the Present
War Poems
A Christmas Ghost-Story 14(1)
Drummer Hodge 14(1)
Poems of Pilgrimage
Shelley's Skylark 15(1)
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden 16(1)
The Mother Mourns 16(3)
A Commonplace Day 19(1)
Doom and She 20(2)
The Subalterns 22(1)
The Sleep-Worker 23(1)
God-Forgotten 23(2)
To an Unborn Pauper Child 25(1)
To Lizbie Browne 26(2)
A Broken Appointment 28(1)
`Between us now' 28(1)
A Spot 29(1)
An August Midnight 30(1)
Birds at Winter Nightfall 31(1)
The Puzzled Game-Birds 31(1)
Winter in Durnover Field 31(1)
The Darkling Thrush 32(1)
The Levelled Churchyard 33(1)
The Ruined Maid 34(1)
The Self-Unseeing 35(1)
In Tenebris I 35(1)
In Tenebris II 36(1)
In Tenebris III 37(1)
Tess's Lament 38(2)
'AγνωστΘεω 40(1)
from Time's Laughingstocks
A Trampwoman's Tragedy 41(3)
A Sunday Morning Tragedy 44(4)
The Curate's Kindness 48(2)
The Farm-Woman's Winter 50(1)
Bereft 51(1)
She Hears the Storm 51(1)
Autumn in King's Hintock Park 52(1)
Reminiscences of Dancing Man 53(1)
The Dead Man Walking 54(1)
The Division 55(1)
The End of the Episode 56(1)
The Night of the Dance 56(1)
At Casterbridge Fair: 57(4)
The Ballad-Singer 57(1)
Former Beauties 58(1)
After the Club-Dance 58(1)
The Market-Girl 59(1)
The Inquiry 59(1)
A Wife Waits 60(1)
After the Fair 60(1)
The Fiddler 61(1)
A Church Romance 62(1)
The Roman Road 62(1)
The Reminder 63(1)
Night in the Old Home 63(1)
The Pine Planters 64(2)
One We Knew 66(1)
A Wet Night 67(1)
New Year's Eve 68(1)
God's Education 69(1)
The Man He Killed 69(1)
Yell'ham-Wood's Story 70(1)
from Satires of Circumstance
Channel Firing 71(1)
The Convergence of the Twain 72(1)
`When I set out for Lyonnesse' 72(2)
A Thunderstorm in Town 74(1)
Wessex Heights 74(2)
`Ah, are you digging on my grave?' 76(1)
Before and After Summer 77(1)
At Day-Close in November 78(1)
The Year's Awakening 78(1)
Poems of 1912--13 79(20)
The Going 79(1)
Your Last Drive 80(1)
The Walk 81(1)
Rain on a Grave 82(1)
`I found her out there' 83(1)
Without Ceremony 84(1)
Lament 85(1)
The Haunter 86(1)
The Voice 87(1)
His Visitor 88(1)
A Circular 88(1)
A Dream or No 89(1)
After a Journey 90(1)
A Death-Day Recalled 91(1)
Beeny Cliff 91(1)
At Castle Boterel 92(1)
Places 93(1)
The Phantom Horsewoman 94(1)
The Spell of the Rose 95(2)
St Launce's Revisited 97(1)
Where the Picnic Was 98(1)
Breft, She Thinks She Dreams 99(1)
In the Servants' Quarters 99(2)
The Moth-Signal 101(1)
Exeunt Omnes 102(1)
Satires of Circumstance 103(8)
At Tea 103(1)
In Church 103(1)
By Her Aunt's Grave 104(1)
In the Room of the Bride-Elect 104(1)
At a Watering-Place 104(1)
In the Cemetery 105(1)
Outside the Window 105(1)
In the Study 106(1)
At the Altar-Rail 107(1)
In the Nuptial Chamber 107(1)
In the Restaurant 108(1)
At the Draper's 108(1)
On the Death-Bed 109(1)
Over the Coffin 109(1)
In the Moonlight 110(1)
from Moments of Vision
At the Word `Farewell' 111(1)
First Sight of Her and After 112(1)
Near Lanivet, 1872 112(1)
Quid Hic Agis? 113(2)
`I travel as a phantom now' 115(1)
A Merrymaking in Question 116(1)
A January Night 116(1)
The Oxen 117(1)
Transformations 117(1)
Great Things 118(1)
At Middle-Field Gate in February 119(1)
The Last Performance 119(1)
The Interloper 120(1)
Logs on the Hearth 121(1)
The Five Students 122(1)
During Wind and Rain 123(1)
A Backward Spring 123(1)
He Fears His Good Fortune 124(1)
He Revisits His First School 125(1)
Midnight on the Great Western 125(1)
Signs and Tokens 126(2)
The Shadow on the Stone 128(1)
An Upbraiding 128(1)
While Drawing in a Churchyard 129(1)
`For Life I had never cared greatly' 130(1)
Poems of War and Patriotism
`Men who march away' 131(1)
The Pity of It 132(1)
In Time of `the Breaking of Nations' 132(1)
Before Marching and After 133(1)
A New Year's Eve in War Time 134(1)
Afterwards 135(2)
from Late Lyrics and Earlier
Weathers 137(1)
Summer Schemes 137(1)
Faintheart in a Railway Train 138(1)
The Garden Seat 138(1)
`The curtains now are drawn' 139(1)
`According to the Mighty Working' 140(1)
Going and Staying 140(1)
At a House in Hampstead 141(1)
A Wet August 142(1)
A Night in November 142(1)
`And there was a Great Calm' 143(2)
Haunting Fingers 145(2)
`If it's ever spring again' 147