Our Weekly Poem - List with links

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Our Weekly Poem:

An excellent resource for this is provided by the Thomas Hardy Society, which is based in his home town of Dorchester. On their website you can read many of Thomas Hardy's poems. Here is the home page https://www.hardysociety.org/

Our Weekly Poem is a regular feature of the group, for when we do not have an ongoing group read, such as a novel or short stories.

Thomas Hardy always viewed his poetry as his best work, and in fact he wrote nothing else for the final few years of his life, after the bitter outcry by some about his final two novels.

There are many collections of his poetry, and you may well have one or more already. Please use the website above if the weekly poem chosen is not in your collection. Alternatively, the kindle e-book on our shelves is a bargain (it cost me 49p!) and contains them all :)

If you have a favourite poem by Thomas Hardy, and would like to take over this slot for a fortnight (or more or less) - please just let me know. Each poem will have its own thread, and be moved to the Poetry folder after 2 weeks, to create a resource.

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Here is an ongoing alphabetical list of poems we have discussed. Each title links to the discussion thread, which begins with the poem itself in the first post. Ones which do not link are upcoming.

Please add your comments on any poem in the folder at any time!

by Title A-I

According to the Mighty Working (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 18.)

Afterwards

Ah, Are you digging on My Grave?

At a Lunar Eclipse

August Midnight, An

At Castle Boterel

At Day-Close in November

Beeny Cliff

Before and After Summer

Before My Friend Arrived (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 41.)

Burghers, The

By Her Aunt's Grave (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 18.)

Caged Goldfinch, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 45.)

Channel Firing

Chimes, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 4.)

Christmas: 1924

Commonplace Day, A

Convergence of the Twain, The

Dance at the Phœnix, The

Darkling Thrush, The

Ditty (E.L.G)

Drawing Details in an old Church

Drummer Hodge

During Wind And Rain

Epitaph On A Pessimist

Expectation and Experience

Farmer Dunman’s Funeral (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 18.)

Five Students, The

Forgotten Miniature, A

Hap

Haunter, The

He Never Expected Much

Her Death and After

The House of Hospitalities

I looked up From My Writing

In a Museum

In The Cemetery

In Time of The Breaking of Nations

Ivy-Wife, The

I Watched a Blackbird

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by Title J-R

Jezreel

June Leaves and Autumn

Last Signal, The

Lausanne in Gibbon's Old Garden: 11-12 pm

Lines To A Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony

Lodging House Fuchsias, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 18.)

Lost Pyx: A Mediaeval Legend, The

Man He Killed, The

Men Who March Away

Mock Wife, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 11.)

My Father's Violin

Nature's Questioning

Neutral Tones

New Years Eve in War Time, A

No Bell Ringing

No Buyers

Old Furniture

On a Discovered Curl of Hair (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 44.)

On A Midsummer Eve

On An Invitation To The United States

On Sturminster Foot-bridge

Oxen, The

Phantom Horsewoman, The

Prospect, The

Proud Songsters

Puzzled Gamebirds, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 45.)

Roman Gravemound

Roman Road, The

Rome At the Pyramid of Cestius Near the Graves of Shelley and Keats

Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter

Rome: on the Palatine

Ruined Maid, The

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by Title S-Z

Seen By The Waits

Selfsame Song, The (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 1.)

Self-Unseeing, The

Shadow on the Stone, The

Sheep Fair, A (also see The Mayor of Casterbridge ch 16.)

Shortening Days At The Homestead

Snow in the Suburbs

Something Tapped

Tess's Lament

Thoughts of Phena at News of Her Death

To A Lady Offended by a Book of the Writer’s

To Flowers from Italy in Winter

Transformations

Unkindly May, An

Voice, The

Weathers

We Field-Women

Wessex Heights

Wet Night, A

Yuletide in a Younger World