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Wessex Poems

Name: Wessex Poems
Author: Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Read by Libby Gohn · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface (1:32)
The Temporary The All (1:52)
Amabel (1:37)
Hap (1:13)
In Vision I Roamed to - (1:21)
At a Bridal to - (1:17)
Postponement (1:10)
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble (1:17)
Neutral Tones (1:17)
She at His Funeral (0:50)
Her Initials (0:45)
Her Dilemma (In --- Church) (1:27)
Revulsion (1:16)
She, To Him I-IV (4:10)
Ditty (E. L. G.) (2:09)
The Sargeant's Song (1:27)
Valenciennes (3:12)
San Sebastian (4:17)
The Stranger's Song (1:14)
The Burghers (4:39)
Leipzig (7:15)
The Peasant's Confession (8:09)
The Alarm (6:35)
Her Death and After (6:48)
The Dance at the Phoenix (7:05)
The Casterbridge Captains (1:42)
A Sign-Seeker (3:14)
My Cicely (5:29)
Her Immortality (2:44)
The Ivy-Wife (1:28)
A Meeting with Despair (1:48)
Unknowing (1:32)
Friends Beyond (3:14)
To Outer Nature (1:24)
Thoughts of Phena at News of Her Death (1:41)
Middle-Aged Enthusiasms (1:31)
In a Wood (1:59)
To a Lady Offended by a Book of the Writer's (1:16)
To an Orphan Child a Whimsey (1:08)
Nature's Questioning (1:51)
The Impercipient (At a Cathedral Service) (1:49)
At an Inn (1:39)
The Slow Nature (An Incident of Froom Valley) (1:56)
In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury (1:23)
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's (6:53)
Heiress and Architect for A. W. B. (3:14)
The Two Men (4:25)
Lines (2:58)
I Look into My Glass (0:57)