ThomasHardy

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HREF="#the_darkling_thrush" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The Darkling Thrush</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="274"><div> <A HREF="#in_tenebris" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>In Tenebris</B></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#the_house_of_hospitalities" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The House of Hospitalities</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#in_time_of__the_breaking_of_nations_" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>In Time of (The Breaking of Nations)</U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="243"><div> <A HREF="#the_self_unseeing" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The Self Unseeing</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#the_cave_of_the_unborn" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The Cave of the Unborn</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="243"><div> <A HREF="#the_voice" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The Voice</B></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#the_convergence_of_twain" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>The Convergence of Twain</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#to_an_unborn_pauper_child" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U><B>To an Unborn Pauper Child</B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="drummer_hodge"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Drummer Hodge</div> <bR> <div> They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest</div> <div> Uncoffined -- just as found: </div> <div> His landmark is a kopje-crest </div> <div> That breaks the veldt around: </div> <div> And foreign constellations west </div> <div> Each night above his mound. </div> <div> Young Hodge the drummer never knew -- </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Fresh from his Wessex home -- </div> <div> The meaning of the broad Karoo, </div> <div> The Bush, the dusty loam, </div> <div> And why uprose to nightly view </div> <div> Strange stars amid the gloom. </div> <div> Yet portion of that unknown plain </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Will Hodge for ever be; </div> <div> His homely Northern breast and brain </div> <div> Grow to some Southern tree, </div> <div> And strange-eyed constellations reign</div> <div> His stars eternally. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="the_house_of_hospitalities"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>The House of Hospitalities</div> <bR> <div> Here we broached the Christmas barrel,</div> <div> . Pushed up the charred log-ends; </div> <div> Here we sang the Christmas carol, </div> <div> And called in friends. </div> <bR> <div> Time has tired me since we met here </div> <div> . . When the folk now dead were young, </div> <div> And the viands were outset here </div> <div> And quaint songs sung. </div> <bR> <div> And the worm has bored the viol </div> <div> That used to lead the tune, </div> <div> Rust eaten out the dial </div> <div> That struck night's noon.</div> <bR> <div> Now no Christmas brings in neighbors, </div> <div> . And the New Year comes unlit; </div> <div> Where we sang the mole now labors,</div> <div> And spiders knit. </div> <bR> <div> Yet at midnight if here walking, </div> <div> When the moon sheets wall and tree,</div> <div> I see forms of old time talking, </div> <div> Who smile on me. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="in_time_of__the_breaking_of_nations_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>In Time of (The Breaking of Nations)</div> <bR> <div> I</div> <div> Only a man harrowing clods</div> <div> In a slow silent walk </div> <div> With an old horse that stumbles and nods </div> <div> Half asleep as they stalk. </div> <bR> <div> II </div> <div> Only thin smoke without flame </div> <div> From the heaps of couch-grass; </div> <div> Yet this will go onwards the same </div> <div> Though Dynasties pass. </div> <bR> <div> III </div> <div> Yonder a maid and her wight </div> <div> Go whispering by: </div> <div> War's annals will cloud into night </div> <div> Ere their story die. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="to_an_unborn_pauper_child"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>To an Unborn Pauper Child</div> <bR> <div> Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, </div> <div> And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, </div> <div> Sleep the long sleep: </div> <div> The Doomsters heap </div> <div> Travails and teens around us here, </div> <div> And Time-Wraiths turn our songsingings to fear. </div> <bR> <div> Hark, how the peoples surge and sigh, </div> <div> And laughter's fail, and greetings die; </div> <div> Hopes dwindle; yea, </div> <div> Faiths waste away, </div> <div> Affections and enthusiasms numb: </div> <div> Thou canst not mend these things if thou dost come. </div> <bR> <div> Had I the ear of wombed souls </div> <div> Ere their terrestrial chart unrolls, </div> <div> And thou wert free </div> <div> To cease, or be, </div> <div> Then would I tell thee all I know, </div> <div> And put it to thee: Wilt thou take Life so? </div> <bR> <div> Vain vow! No hint of mine may hence </div> <div> To theeward fly: To thy locked sense </div> <div> Explain none can </div> <div> Life's pending plan: </div> <div> Thou wilt thy ignorant entry make </div> <div> Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.</div> <bR> <div> Fain would I, dear, find some shut plot </div> <div> Of earth's wide wold for thee, where not </div> <div> One tear, one qualm, </div> <div> Should break the calm. </div> <div> But I am weak as thou and bare; </div> <div> No man can change the common lot to rare. </div> <bR> <div> Must come and bide. And such are we -- </div> <div> Unreasoning, sanguine, visionary -- </div> <div> That I can hope </div> <div> Health, love, friends, scope</div> <div> In full for thee; can dream thou'lt find </div> <div> Joys seldom yet attained by humankind! </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="in_tenebris"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>In Tenebris</B></div> <bR> <div> Wintertime nighs;</div> <div> But my bereavement-pain</div> <div> It cannot bring again:</div> <div> Twice no one dies.</div> <bR> <div> Flower-petals flee; </div> <div> But since it once hath been,</div> <div> No more that severing scene </div> <div> Can harrow me. </div> <bR> <div> Birds faint in dread: </div> <div> I shall not lose old strength</div> <div> In the lone frost's black length:</div> <div> Strength long since fled!</div> <bR> <div> Leaves freeze to dun; </div> <div> But friends cannot turn cold</div> <div> This season as of old </div> <div> For him with none. </div> <bR> <div> Tempests may scath; </div> <div> But love cannot make smart</div> <div> Again this year his heart </div> <div> Who no heart hath. </div> <bR> <div> Black is night's cope; </div> <div> But death will not appal </div> <div> One, who past doubtings all, </div> <div> Waits in unhope. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_darkling_thrush"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Darkling Thrush</B></div> <bR> <div> I leant upon a coppice gate</div> <div>    When Frost was spectre-grey, </div> <div> And Winter's dregs made desolate</div> <div>     The weakening eye of day. </div> <div> The tangled bine-stems scored the sky</div> <div>     Like strings of broken lyres, </div> <div> And all mankind that haunted nigh</div> <div>     Had sought their household fires. </div> <bR> <div> The land's sharp features seemed to be</div> <div>     The Century's corpse outleant,</div> <div> His crypt the cloudy canopy,</div> <div>     The wind his death-lament. </div> <div> The ancient pulse of germ and birth</div> <div>     Was shrunken hard and dry, </div> <div> And every spirit upon earth</div> <div>     Seemed fervourless as I. </div> <bR> <div> At once a voice arose among</div> <div>     The bleak twigs overhead </div> <div> In a full-hearted evensong</div> <div>     Of joy illimited;</div> <div> And age`d thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,</div> <div>     In blast-beruffled plume,</div> <div> Had chosen thus to fling his soul</div> <div>     Upon the growing gloom. </div> <bR> <div> So little cause for carolings</div> <div>     Of such ecstatic sound</div> <div> Was written on terrestrial things</div> <div>     Afar or nigh around,</div> <div> That I could think there trembled through</div> <div>     His happy good-night air </div> <div> Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew</div> <div>     And I was unaware.</div> <div>             (31 December 1900) </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_convergence_of_twain"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Convergence of Twain</B></div> <bR> <div> I</div> <div> In a solitude of the sea </div> <div> Deep from human vanity,</div> <div> And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. </div> <bR> <div> II </div> <div> Steel chambers, late the pyres </div> <div> Of her salamandrine fires, </div> <div> Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres. </div> <bR> <div> III </div> <div> Over the mirrors meant </div> <div> To glass the opulent</div> <div> The sea-worm crawls -- grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent. </div> <bR> <div> IV</div> <div> Jewels in joy designed </div> <div> To ravish the sensuous mind</div> <div> Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind. </div> <bR> <div> V </div> <div> Dim moon-eyed fishes near </div> <div> Gaze at the gilded gear </div> <div> And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" ... </div> <bR> <div> VI </div> <div> Well: while was fashioning </div> <div> This creature of cleaving wing,</div> <div> The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything </div> <bR> <div> VII</div> <div> Prepared a sinister mate </div> <div> For her -- so gaily great -- </div> <div> A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate. </div> <bR> <div> VIII </div> <div> And as the smart ship grew </div> <div> In stature, grace and hue,</div> <div> In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. </div> <bR> <div> IX </div> <div> Alien they seemed to be: </div> <div> No mortal eye could see </div> <div> The intimate welding of their later destiny, </div> <bR> <div> X</div> <div> Or sign that they were bent </div> <div> By paths coincident </div> <div> On being anon twin halves of one august event, </div> <bR> <div> XI </div> <div> Till the Spinner of the Years </div> <div> Says "Now!" And each one hears, </div> <div> And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_cave_of_the_unborn"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Cave of the Unborn</B></div> <bR> <div> I rose at night and visited </div> <div> The Cave of the Unborn, </div> <div> And crowding shapes surrounded me </div> <div> For tidings of the life to be, </div> <div> Who long had prayed the silent Head</div> <div> To speed their advent morn. </div> <bR> <div> Their eyes were lit with artless trust; </div> <div> Hope thrilled their every tone: </div> <div> "A place the loveliest, is it not? </div> <div> A pure delight, a beauty-spot </div> <div> Where all is gentle, pure and just</div> <div> And ??violence?? is unknown?" </div> <bR> <div> My heart was anguished for their sake; </div> <div> I could not frame a word; </div> <div> But they descried my sunken face</div> <div> And seemed to read therein, and trace </div> <div> The news which Pity would not break </div> <div> Nor Truth leave unaverred. </div> <bR> <div> And as I silently retired </div> <div> I turned and watched them still: </div> <div> And they came helter-skelter out, </div> <div> Driven forward like a rabble rout </div> <div> Into the world they had so desired, </div> <div> By the all-immanent Will. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_self_unseeing"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Self Unseeing</B></div> <bR> <div> Here is the ancient floor, </div> <div> Footworn and hollowed and thin,</div> <div> Here was the former door </div> <div> Where the dead feet walked in. </div> <bR> <div> She sat here in her chair, </div> <div> Smiling into the fire; </div> <div> He who played stood there, </div> <div> Bowing it higher and higher. </div> <bR> <div> Childlike, I danced in a dream; </div> <div> Blessings emblazoned that day; </div> <div> Everything glowed with a gleam; </div> <div> Yet we were looking away! </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="the_voice"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>The Voice</B></div> <bR> <div> Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, </div> <div> Saying that now you are not as you were </div> <div> When you had changed from the one who was all to me, </div> <div> But as at first, when our day was fair. </div> <bR> <div> Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then,</div> <div> Standing as when I drew near to the town </div> <div> Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then, </div> <div> Even to the original air-blue gown! </div> <bR> <div> Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness </div> <div> Travelling across the wet mead to me here, </div> <div> You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness, </div> <div> Heard no more again far or near? </div> <bR> <div> Thus I; faltering forward, </div> <div> Leaves about me falling, </div> <div> Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward, </div> <div> And the woman calling.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="hardy_m.htm" TITLE="ThomasHardy"><U>Back to Top</U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=30 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="516" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 14 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Liquid Thoughts"><U><I>Liquid Thoughts</I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="47"><div> <A HREF="angst.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Angst "><U><I>Angst </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="42"><div> <A HREF="dark.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dark"><U><I>Dark</I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="45"><div> <A HREF="humor.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Humor "><U><I>Humor </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="inspirational.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Inspirational "><U><I>Inspirational </I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="35"><div> <A HREF="life.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Life "><U><I>Life </I></U></A><I> </I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="love.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romantic"><U><I>Romantic</I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="48"><div> <A HREF="nature.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nature "><U><I>Nature </I></U></A></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="48"><div> <A HREF="people.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="People "><U><I>People </I></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>