Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporaries as his novels, Hardys poetry has been applauded considerably in recent years. Most of his poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and mankinds long struggle against indifference to human suffering.First Page:This etext was produced from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.ukMOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSESby Thomas HardyContents:Moments of Vision The Voice of Things "Why be at pains?" "We sat at the window" Afternoon Service at Mellstock At the Wicket gate In a Museum Apostrophe to an Old Psalm Tune At the Word "Farewell" First Sight of Her and After The Rival Heredity "You were the sort that men forget" She, I, and They Near Lanivet, 1872 Joys of Memory To the Moon Copying Architecture in an Old Minster To Shakespeare Quid hic agis? On a Midsummer Eve Timing Her Before Knowledge The Blinded Bird "The wind blew words" The Faded Face The Riddle The Duel At Mayfair Lodgings To my Father's Violin The Statue of Liberty The Background and the Figure The Change Sitting on the Bridge The Young Churchwarden "I travel as a phantom now" Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E flat Symphony "In the seventies" The Pedigree This Heart.
