A Maiden’s Pledge
Thomas Hardy * Track #42 On Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses
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- #1Apology
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- #2Weathers
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- #3The maid of Keinton Mandeville
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- #4Summer Schemes
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- #5The Garden Seat
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- #6The Curtains now are Drawn
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- #7The West-of-Wessex Girl
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- #8Welcome Home
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- #9Going and Staying
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- #10Read by Moonlight
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- #11A Wet August
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- #12The Dissemblers
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- #13To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning
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- #14A man was drawing near to me
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- #15The Strange House
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- #16As ’twere to-night
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- #17The Contretemps
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- #18A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady
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- #19The Old Gown
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- #20A night in November
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- #21A Duettist to her Pianoforte
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- #22Where three roads joined
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- #23And there was a great calm
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- #24Haunting Fingers
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- #25The Woman I Met
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- #26If it’s ever spring again
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- #27The Two Houses
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- #28On Stinsford Hill at Midnight
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- #29The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
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- #30The Selfsame Song
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- #31The Wanderer
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- #32A Wife Comes Back
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- #33A Young Man’s Exhortation
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- #34A Bygone Occasion
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- #35Two Serenades
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- #36The Wedding Morning
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- #37End of the Year 1912
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- #38The Chimes Play “Life’s a bumper!”
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- #39I worked no wile to meet you
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- #40Side by Side
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- #41Dream of the City Shopwoman
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- #42A Maiden’s Pledge
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- #43The Child and the Sage
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- #44Meditations on a Holiday
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- #45An Experience
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- #46The Beauty
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- #47The Collector Cleans his Picture
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- #48The Wood Fire
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- #49Saying Good-bye
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- #50On the tune called The Old-hundred-and-fourth
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- #51The Opportunity
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- #52Evelyn G. Of Christminster
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- #53The Rift
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- #54Voices from things growing in a Churchyard
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- #55On the Way
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- #56She did not turn
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- #57Growth in May
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- #58The Children and Sir Nameless
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- #59At the Royal Academy
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- #60Her Temple
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- #61A Two-years’ Idyll
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- #62By Henstridge Cross at the year’s end
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- #63Penance
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- #64I look in her face
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- #65After the War
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- #66If you had known
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- #67The Chapel-organist
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- #68Fetching Her
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- #69Could I but will
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- #70She revisits alone the church of her marriage
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- #71At the Entering of the New Year
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- #72They would not come
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- #73After a romantic day
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- #74The Two Wives
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- #75I knew a lady
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- #76A house with a History
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- #77A Procession of Dead Days
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- #78He Follows Himself
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- #79The Singing Woman
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- #80Without, not within her
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- #81O I won’t lead a homely life
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- #82In the small hours
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- #83The little old table
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- #84Vagg Hollow
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- #85The dream is - which?
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- #86The Country Wedding
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- #87First or Last
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- #88Lonely Days
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- #89What did it mean?
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- #90At the dinner-table
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- #91The marble tablet
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- #92The Master and the Leaves
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- #93A drizzling Easter morning
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- #94On one who lived and died where he was born
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- #95The Second Night
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- #96She who saw not
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- #97The old workman
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- #98The sailor’s mother
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- #99Outside the casement
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- #100The passer-by
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- #101I was the midmost
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- #102A sound in the night
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- #103On a discovered curl of hair
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- #104An old likeness
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- #105Her Apotheosis
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- #106Sacred to the memory
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- #107To a well-named dwelling
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- #108The Whipper-in
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- #109A military appointment
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- #110The milestone by the rabbit-burrow
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- #111The Lament of the Looking-glass
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- #112Cross-currents
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- #113The old neighbour and the new
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- #114The inscription
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- #115The marble-streeted town
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- #116A woman driving
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- #117A woman’s trust
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- #118Best times
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- #119The casual acquaintance
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- #120Intra Sepulchrum
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- #121The whitewashed wall
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- #122Just the same
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- #123The last time
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- #124The seven times
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- #125The sun’s last look on the country girl
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- #126In a London flat
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- #127Drawing details in an old church
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- #128Rake-hell muses
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- #129The Colour
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- #130Murmurs in the gloom
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- #131Epitaph
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- #132After reading psalms
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- #133Surview
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A Maiden's Pledge by Thomas Hardy
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Thomas HardyA Maiden’s Pledge Annotated
I do not wish to win your vow
To take me soon or late as bride,
And lift me from the nook where now
I tarry your farings to my side.
I am blissful ever to abide
In this green labyrinth - let all be,
If but, whatever may betide,
You do not leave off loving me!
Your comet-comings I will wait
With patience time shall not wear through;
The yellowing years will not abate
My largened love and truth to you,
Nor drive me to complaint undue
Of absence, much as I may pine,
If never another ‘twixt us two
Shall come, and you stand wholly mine.