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Moments of Vision

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2The Voice of Things
  3. 3“Why Be at Pains?” — (Wooer’s Song)
  4. 4“We Sat at the Window” — (Bournemouth, 1875)
  5. 5Afternoon Service at Mellstock — (Circa 1850)
  6. 6At the Wicket-Gate
  7. 7In a Museum
  8. 8Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune
  9. 9At the Word “Farewell”
  10. 10First Sight of Her and After
  11. 11The Rival
  12. 12Heredity
  13. 13“You Were the Sort That Men Forget”
  14. 14She, I, and They
  15. 15Near Lanivet, 1872
  16. 16Joys of Memory
  17. 17To the Moon
  18. 18Copying Architecture in an Old Minster (Wimborne)
  19. 19To Shakespeare After Three Hundred Years
  20. 20Quid Hic Agis?
  21. 21On a Midsummer Eve
  22. 22Timing Her (Written to an Old Folk-Tune)
  23. 23Before Knowledge
  24. 24The Blinded Bird
  25. 25“The Wind Blew Words”
  26. 26The Faded Face
  27. 27The Riddle
  28. 28The Duel
  29. 29At Mayfair Lodgings
  30. 30To My Father’s Violin
  31. 31The Statue of Liberty
  32. 32The Background and the Figure — (Lover’s Ditty)
  33. 33The Change
  34. 34Sitting on the Bridge — (Echo of an Old Song)
  35. 35The Young Churchwarden
  36. 36“I Travel as a Phantom Now”
  37. 37Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony
  38. 38“In the Seventies”
  39. 39The Pedigree
  40. 40This Heart — A Woman’s Dream
  41. 41Where They Lived
  42. 42The Occultation
  43. 43Life Laughs Onward
  44. 44The Peace-Offering
  45. 45“Something Tapped”
  46. 46The Wound
  47. 47A Merrymaking in Question
  48. 48“I Said and Sang Her Excellence” — (Fickle Lover’s Song)
  49. 49A January Night (1879)
  50. 50A Kiss
  51. 51The Announcement
  52. 52The Oxen
  53. 53The Tresses
  54. 54The Photograph
  55. 55On a Heath
  56. 56An Anniversary
  57. 57“By the Runic Stone” — (Two Who Became a Story)
  58. 58The Pink Frock
  59. 59Transformations
  60. 60In Her Precincts
  61. 61The Last Signal — (Oct. 11, 1886) — A Memory of William Barnes
  62. 62The House of Silence
  63. 63Great Things
  64. 64The Chimes
  65. 65The Figure in the Scene
  66. 66“Why Did I Sketch”
  67. 67Conjecture
  68. 68The Blow
  69. 69Love the Monopolist — (Young Lover’s Reverie)
  70. 70At Middle-Field Gate in February
  71. 71The Youth Who Carried a Light
  72. 72The Head Above the Fog
  73. 73Overlooking the River Stour
  74. 74The Musical Box
  75. 75On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic)
  76. 76Royal Sponsors
  77. 77Old Furniture
  78. 78A Thought in Two Moods
  79. 79The Last Performance
  80. 80“You on the Tower”
  81. 81The Interloper
  82. 82Logs on the Hearth — A Memory of a Sister
  83. 83The Sunshade
  84. 84The Ageing House
  85. 85The Caged Goldfinch
  86. 86At Madame Tussaud’s in Victorian Years
  87. 87The Ballet
  88. 88The Five Students
  89. 89The Wind’s Prophecy
  90. 90During Wind and Rain
  91. 91He Prefers Her Earthly
  92. 92The Dolls
  93. 93Molly Gone
  94. 94A Backward Spring
  95. 95Looking Across
  96. 96At a Seaside Town in 1869 — (Young Lover’s Reverie)
  97. 97The Glimpse
  98. 98The Pedestrian — An Incident of 1883
  99. 99“Who’s in the Next Room?”
  100. 100At a Country Fair
  101. 101The Memorial Brass: 186
  102. 102Her Love-Birds
  103. 103Paying Calls
  104. 104The Upper Birch-Leaves
  105. 105Everything Comes
  106. 106The Man With a Past
  107. 107He Fears His Good Fortune
  108. 108He Wonders About Himself
  109. 109Jubilate
  110. 110He Revisits His First School
  111. 111“I Thought, My Heart”
  112. 112Fragment
  113. 113Midnight on the Great Western
  114. 114Honeymoon Time at an Inn
  115. 115The Robin
  116. 116“I Rose and Went to Rou’tor Town” — (She, Alone)
  117. 117The Nettles
  118. 118In a Waiting-Room
  119. 119The Clock-Winder
  120. 120Old Excursions
  121. 121The Masked Face
  122. 122In a Whispering Gallery
  123. 123The Something That Saved Him
  124. 124The Enemy’s Portrait
  125. 125Imaginings
  126. 126On the Doorstep
  127. 127Signs and Tokens
  128. 128Paths of Former Time
  129. 129The Clock of the Years
  130. 130At the Piano
  131. 131The Shadow on the Stone
  132. 132In the Garden (M. H.)
  133. 133The Tree and the Lady
  134. 134An Upbraiding
  135. 135The Young Glass-Stainer
  136. 136Looking at a Picture on an Anniversary
  137. 137The Choirmaster’s Burial
  138. 138The Man Who Forgot
  139. 139While Drawing in a Church-Yard
  140. 140“For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”
  141. 141Poems of War and Patriotism
  142. 142Finale

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