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Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous VersesThomas Hardy

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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Original author: Thomas Hardy

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"Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses" by Thomas Hardy is a poetry collection published in 1917. Hardy's largest poetic volume explores consciousness, memory, and human emotion through introspective meditation. The collection includes wartime poems and approximately thirty pieces relating to his first wife Emma, along with tributes to friends and family. Opening with an examination of consciousness in a material world, these poems balance vivid memories against time's passage, representing some of Hardy's finest late work.

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, by Thomas Hardy. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #3255.

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25 Chapters

  1. 1.Front Matter1,346 words
  2. 2.Chapter I: MET you first—ah, when did I first meet you?541 words
  3. 3.Chapter I: AM the family face;151 words
  4. 4.Chapter I: WAS sitting,1,216 words
  5. 5.Chapter I: IDLY cut a parsley stalk,2,143 words
  6. 6.Chapter I: TRAVEL as a phantom now,313 words
  7. 7.Chapter I: BENT in the deep of night923 words
  8. 8.Chapter I: SAID and sang her excellence687 words
  9. 9.Chapter I: COULD hear a gown-skirt rustling1,668 words
  10. 10.Chapter I: SAW him pass as the new day dawned,786 words
  11. 11.Chapter I: KNOW not how it may be with others192 words
  12. 12.Chapter I: SAW it—pink and white—revealed1,300 words
  13. 13.Chapter I: TRAVEL on by barren farms,923 words
  1. 14.Chapter I: WENT and stood outside myself,1,016 words
  2. 15.Chapter I: WENT by footpath and by stile787 words
  3. 16.Chapter I: SHOULD not have shown in the flesh,139 words
  4. 17.Chapter I: THOUGHT, my Heart, that you had healed787 words
  5. 18.Chapter I: ROSE and went to Rou’tor Town655 words
  6. 19.Chapter I: FOUND me in a great surging space,1,160 words
  7. 20.Chapter I: WENT by the Druid stone227 words
  8. 21.Chapter I: HAVE done all I could1,314 words
  9. 22.Chapter I: DREAMT that people from the Land of Chimes190 words
  10. 23.Chapter I: WALKED in loamy Wessex lanes, afar1,216 words
  11. 24.Chapter I: MET a man when night was nigh,210 words
  12. 25.Chapter I: LOOKED up from my writing,455 words