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토마스 하디의 두 번째 시집으로 1901년에 출판되었다. 5개 제목으로 구성된 시집으로 하디의 강렬하고 지속적인 시적 공헌 작품으로 인정 받는다.
하디는 이 시집 서문에서 "조정되지 않은 인상에는 그 가치가 있습니다..."라고 덧붙이며 그 안에 조직된 철학을 부인하는데 집중하고 있다.

CONTENTS


V.R. 1819?1901
WAR POEMS?

Embarcation
Departure
The Colonel’s Soliloquy
The Going of the Battery
At the War Office
A Christmas Ghost-Story
The Dead Drummer
A Wife in London
The Souls of the Slain
Song of the Soldiers’ Wives
The Sick God

POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE?
Genoa and the Mediterranean
Shelley’s Skylark
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole
Rome: on the Palatine
Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
The Vatican: Sala Delle Muse
At the Pyramid of Cestius
Lausanne: In Gibbon’s Old Garden
Zermatt: To the Matterhorn
The Bridge of Lodi
On an Invitation to the United States

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS?
The Mother Mourns
“I said to Love”
A Commonplace Day
At a Lunar Eclipse
The Lacking Sense
To Life
Doom and She
The Problem
The Subalterns
The Sleep-worker
The Bullfinches
God-Forgotten
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God
By the Earth’s Corpse
Mute Opinion
To an Unborn Pauper Child
To Flowers from Italy in Winter
On a Fine Morning
To Lizbie Browne
Song of Hope
The Well-Beloved
Her Reproach
The Inconsistent
A Broken Appointment
“Between us now”
“How great my Grief”
“I need not go”
The Coquette, and After
A Spot
Long Plighted
The Widow
At a Hasty Wedding
The Dream-Follower
His Immortality
The To-be-Forgotten
Wives in the Sere
The Superseded
An August Midnight
The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again
Birds at Winter Nightfall
The Puzzled Game-Birds
Winter in Durnover Field
The Last Chrysanthemum
The Darkling Thrush
The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham
Mad Judy
A Wasted Illness
A Man
The Dame of Athelhall
The Seasons of her Year
The Milkmaid
The Levelled Churchyard
The Ruined Maid
The Respectable Burgher on “the Higher Criticism”
Architectural Masks
The Tenant-for-Life
The King’s Experiment
The Tree: an Old Man’s Story
Her Late Husband
The Self-Unseeing
De Profundis i.
De Profundis ii.
De Profundis iii.
The Church-Builder
The Lost Pyx: a Mediæval Legend
Tess’s Lament
The Supplanter: A Tale

IMITATIONS, Etc.?
Sapphic Fragment
Catullus: xxxi
After Schiller
Song: From Heine
From Victor Hugo
Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael

RETROSPECT?
“I have Lived with Shades”
Memory and I
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