Poems

Song of the Soldier’s Wifes. I At last! In sight of home again, Of home again; No more to range and roam again As at that […]

The Alarm In a ferny byway Near the great South-Wessex Highway, A homestead raised its breakfast-smoke aloft; The dew-damps still lay steamless, for the sun had […]

The Bridge of Lodi. I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain “The Bridge of Lodi” Brought a strange […]

The Burghers THE sun had wheeled from Grey’s to Dammer’s Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I sought the High-street to […]

The Casterbridge Captains THREE captains went to Indian wars, And only one returned: Their mate of yore, he singly wore The laurels all had earned. At […]

The Cave of the Unborn I rose at night and visited The Cave of the Unborn, And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the life […]

The Church-Builder The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all in hand and hoard; […]

The Colonel’s Soliloquy “The quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . . It’s true I’ve been accustomed now to home, And joints get rusty, and […]

The Contretemps A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the woman whom I had […]

The Convergence Of The Twain I In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches […]