# Wessex Poems and Other Verses

- Author: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy.md)
- Quotes: 16
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-hardy/wessex-poems-and-other-verses

## Quotes

> All the vast various moils that mean a world alive.

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> Yet saw he something in the lives
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> Of those who'd ceased to live
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> That rounded them with majesty
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> Which living failed to give.

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> For incensed love breathes quick and dies,
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> When famished love a-lingering lies.

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> These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
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> Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

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> O, doth a bird deprived of wings
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> Go earth-bound wilfully!

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> William Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough,
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> Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's,
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> And the Squire, and Lady Susan, lie in Mellstock churchyard now!

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> You may prate of your prowess in lusty times,
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> But as years gnaw inward you blink your bays,
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> And see too well your crimes!

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> "Gone," I call them, gone for good, that group of local hearts and heads;
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> Yet at mothy curfew-tide,
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> And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads, They've a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet abide.

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> Numb as a vane that cankers on its point,
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> True to the wind that kissed ere canker came.

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> For winning love we win the risk of losing,
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> And losing love is as one's life were riven.

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> Love is lovelier
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> The more it shapes its moan in selfish-wise.

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> Those house them best who house for secrecy.

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> If but some vengeful god would call to me
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> From up the sky, and laugh: "Thou suffering thing,
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> Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
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> That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

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> I look into my glass,
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> And viewing wasting skin,
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> And say, ‘Would God it came to pass
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> My heart had shrunk as thin!’For then, I, undistrest
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> By hearts grown cold to me,
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> Could lonely wait my endless rest
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> With equanimity.But Time, to make me grieve,
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> Part steals, lets part abide;
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> And shakes this fragile frame at eve
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> With throbbings of noontide.

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> Like chastened children sitting silent in a school.

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> When Lawyers strive to heal a breach,
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> And Parsons practise what they preach.

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