A Gentleman's Epitaph
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A Gentleman's Epitaph
ON HIMSELF AND A LADY, WHO WERE BURIED TOGETHER
I dwelt in the shade of a city,
She far by the sea,
With folk perhaps good, gracious, witty;
But never with me.
Her form on the ballroom's smooth flooring
I never once met,
To guide her with accents adoring
Through Weippert's "First Set." {1}
I spent my life's seasons with pale ones
In Vanity Fair,
And she enjoyed hers among hale ones
In salt-smelling air.
Maybe she had eyes of deep colour,
Maybe they were blue,
Maybe as she aged they got duller;
That never I knew.
She may have had lips like the coral,
But I never kissed them,
Saw pouting, nor curling in quarrel,
Nor sought for, nor missed them.
Not a word passed of love all our lifetime,
Between us, nor thrill;
We'd never a husband-and-wife time,
For good or for ill.
Yet as one dust, through bleak days and vernal,
Lie I and lies she,
This never-known lady, eternal
Companion to me!
About Thomas Hardy
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Summary
Apology
Weathers
The Maid of Keinton Mandeville
Summer Schemes
Epeisodia
Faintheart In A Railway Train
At Moonrise and Onwards
The Garden Seat
Barthelemon At Vauxhall
I Sometimes Think
Jezreel
A Jog-Trot Pair
The Curtains Now Are Drawn
According To The Mighty Working
I Was Not He
The West-of-Wessex Girl
Welcome Home
Going And Staying
Read By Moonlight
At A House In Hampstead
A Woman's Fancy
Her Song
A Wet August
The Dissemblers
To A Lady
A Man Was Drawing Near To Me
The Strange House
As `TWere To-Night
The Contretemps
A Gentleman's Epitaph
The Old Gown
A Night In November
A Duettist To Her Pianoforte
Where Three Roads Joined
And There Was A Great Calm
Haunting Fingers
The Woman I Met
If It's Ever Spring Again
The Two Houses
On Stinsford Hill
The Fallow Deer
The Self-Same Song
The Wanderer
A Wife Comes Back
A Young Man's Exhortation
At Lulworth Cove
A Bygone Occasion
Two Serenades
The Wedding Morning
End Of The Year 1912
The Chimes Play
I Worked No Wile To Meet You
At The Railway Station, Upway
Side By Side
Dream Of The City Shopoman
A Maiden's Pledge
The Child And The Sage
Mismet
An Autumn Rain-Scene
Meditations On A Holiday
An Experience
The Beauty
The Collector Cleans His Picture
The Wood Fire
Saying Good-Bye
On The Tune
The Opportunity
Evelyn G.
The Rift
Voices From Things
On The Way
She Did Not Turn
Growth In May
The Children And Sir Nameless
At The Royal Academy
Her Temple
A Two-Year's Idyll
By Henstridge Cross
Penance
I Look In Her Face
After The War
If You Had Known
The Chapel-Organist
Fetching Her
Could I But Will
She Revisits Alone
At The Entering Of The New Year
They Would Not Come
After A Romantic Day
The Two Wives
I Knew A Lady
A House With A History
A Procession Of Dead Days
He Follows Himself
The Singing Woman
Without, Not Within Her
O I Won't Lead A Homely Life
In The Small Hours
The Little Old Table
Vagg Hollow
The Dream Is--Which?
The Country Wedding
First Or Last
Lonely Days
What Did It Mean?
At The Dinner-Table
The Marble Tablet
The Master And The Leaves
Last Words To A Dumb Friend
A Drizzling Easter Morning
On One Who Lived
The Second Night
She Who Saw Not
The Old Workman
The Sailor's Mother
Outside The Casement
The Passer-By
I Was The Midmost
A Sound In The Night
On A Discovered Curl Of Hair
An Old Likeness
Her Apotheosis
Sacred To The Memory
To A Well-Named Dwelling
The Whipper-In
A Military Appointment
The Milestone
The Lament
Cross-Currents
The Old Neighbour
The Chosen
The Inscription
The Marble-Streeted Town
A Woman Driving
A Woman's Trust
Best Times
The Casual Acquaintance
Intra Sephulcrum
The Whitewashed Wall
Just The Same
The Last Time
The Seven Times
The Sun's Last Look
In A London Flat
Drawing
Rake-Hell Muses
The Colour
Murmers In The Gloom
Epitaph
An Ancient To Ancients
After Reading
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