- Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
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Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), 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.
- Chapters
- In Front of the Landscape
- Channel Firing
- The Convergence of the Twain
- The Ghost of the Past
- After the Visit
- To Meet, or Otherwise
- The Difference
- The Sun on the Bookcase
- 'When I set out for Lyonnesse'
- A Thunderstorm in Town
- The Torn Letter
- Beyond the Last Lamp
- The Face at the Casement
- Lost Love
- 'My Spirit will not haunt the mound'
- Wessex Heights
- In Death divided
- The Place on the Map
- Where the Picnic was
- The Schreckhorn
- A Singer asleep
- A Plaint to Man
- God's Funeral
- Spectres that grieve
- 'Ah, are you digging on my grave?'
- I. At Tea
- II. In Church
- III. By her Aunt's Grave
- IV. In the Room of the Bride-elect
- V. At the Watering-place
- VI. In the Cemetery
- VII. Outside the Window
- VIII. In the Study
- IX. At the Altar-rail
- X. In the Nuptial Chamber
- XI. In the Restaurant
- XII. At the Draper's
- XIII. On the Death-bed
- XIV. Over the Coffin
- XV. In the Moonlight
- Self-unconscious
- The Discovery
- Tolerance
- Before and after Summer
- At Day-close in November
- The Year's Awakening
- Under the Waterfall
- The Spell of the Rose
- St. Launce's revisited
- The Going
- Your Last Drive
- The Walk
- Rain on a Grave
- 'I found her out there'
- Without Ceremony
- Lament
- The Haunter
- The Voice
- His Visitor
- A Circular
- A Dream or No
- After a Journey
- A Death-day recalled
- Beeny Cliff
- At Castle Boterel
- Places
- The Phantom Horsewoman
- The Wistful Lady
- The Woman in the Rye
- The Cheval-Glass
- The Re-enactment
- Her Secret
- 'She charged me'
- The Newcomer's Wife
- A Conversation at Dawn
- A King's Soliloquy
- The Coronation
- Aquae Sulis
- Seventy-four and Twenty
- The Elopment
- 'I rose up as my custom is'
- A Week
- Had you wept
- Bereft, she thinks she dreams
- In the British Museum
- In the Servants Quarters
- The Obliterate Tomb
- 'Regret not me'
- The Recalcitrants
- Starlings on the Roof
- The Moon looks in
- The Sweet Hussy
- The Telegram
- The Moth-signal
- Seen by the Waits
- The Two Soldiers
- The Death of Regret
- In the Days of the Crinoline
- The Roman Gravemounds
- The Workbox
- The Sacrilege
- The Abbey Mason
- The Jubilee of a Magazine
- The Satin Shoes
- Exeunt Omnes
- A Poet
- 'Men who march away'