He Prefers Her Earthly
Thomas Hardy * Track #86 On Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
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Album Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses
- #1The Voice Of Things
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- #2“Why Be At Pains?”
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- #3“We Sat At The Window”
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- #4Afternoon Service At Mellstock
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- #5At The Wicket-Gate
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- #6Apostrophe To An Old Psalm Tune
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- #7At The Word “Farewell”
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- #8First Sight Of Her And After
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- #9The Rival
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- #10“You Were The Sort That Men Forget”
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- #11She, I, And They
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- #12Joys Of Memory
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- #13To The Moon
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- #14Copying Architecture In An Old Minster
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- #15To Shakespeare After Three Hundred Years
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- #16Quid Hic Agis?
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- #17On A Midsummer Eve
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- #18Timing Her
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- #19Before Knowledge
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- #20The Blinded Bird
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- #21“The Wind Blew Words”
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- #22The Faded Face
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- #23The Riddle
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- #24The Duel
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- #25At Mayfair Lodgings
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- #26To My Father’s Violin
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- #27The Statue Of Liberty
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- #28The Background And The Figure
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- #29The Change
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- #30Sitting On The Bridge
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- #31The Young Churchwarden
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- #32“I Travel As A Phantom Now”
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- #33Lines To A Movement In Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony
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- #34“In The Seventies”
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- #35The Pedigree
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- #36This Heart A Woman’s Dream
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- #37Where They Lived
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- #38The Occultation
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- #39Life Laughs Onward
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- #40The Peace-Offering
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- #41“Something Tapped”
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- #42The Wound
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- #43A Merrymaking In Question
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- #44“I Said And Sang Her Excellence”
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- #45A January Night (1879)
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- #46A Kiss
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- #47The Announcement
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- #48The Oxen
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- #49The Tresses
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- #50The Photograph
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- #51On A Heath
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- #52An Anniversary
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- #53“By The Runic Stone”
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- #54The Pink Frock
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- #55Transformations
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- #56In Her Precincts
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- #57The Last Signal
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- #58The House Of Silence
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- #59Great Things
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- #60The Chimes
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- #61The Figure In The Scene
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- #62“Why Did I Sketch”
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- #63Conjecture
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- #64The Blow
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- #65Love The Monopolist
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- #66At Middle-Field Gate In February
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- #67The Youth Who Carried A Light
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- #68The Head Above The Fog
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- #69Overlooking The River Stour
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- #70On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic)
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- #71Royal Sponsors
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- #72Old Furniture
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- #73A Thought In Two Moods
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- #74The Last Performance
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- #75“You On The Tower”
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- #76The Interloper
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- #77Logs On The Hearth A Memory Of A Sister
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- #78The Sunshade
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- #79The Ageing House
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- #80The Caged Goldfinch
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- #81At Madame Tussaud’s In Victorian Years
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- #82The Ballet
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- #83The Five Students
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- #84The Wind’s Prophecy
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- #85He Prefers Her Earthly
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- #86The Dolls
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- #87Molly Gone
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- #88A Backward Spring
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- #89Looking Across
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- #90At A Seaside Town In 1869
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- #91The Pedestrian An Incident Of 1883
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- #92“Who’s In The Next Room?”
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- #93At A Country Fair
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- #94The Memorial Brass: 186-
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- #95Her Love-Birds
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- #96Paying Calls
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- #97The Upper Birch-Leaves
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- #98“It Never Looks Like Summer”
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- #99Everything Comes
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- #100The Man With A Past
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- #101He Fears His Good Fortune
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- #102He Wonders About Himself
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- #103Jubilate
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- #104He Revisits His First School
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- #105“I Thought, My Heart”
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- #106Honeymoon Time At An Inn
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- #107The Robin
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- #108“I Rose And Went To Rou’tor Town”
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- #109The Nettles
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- #110In A Waiting-Room
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- #111The Clock-Winder
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- #112Old Excursions
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- #113The Masked Face
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- #114In A Whispering Gallery
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- #115The Something That Saved Him
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- #116The Enemy’s Portrait
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- #117Imaginings
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- #118On The Doorstep
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- #119Signs And Tokens
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- #120Paths Of Former Time
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- #121The Clock Of The Years
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- #122At The Piano
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- #123The Shadow On The Stone
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- #124In The Garden (M. H.)
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- #125The Tree And The Lady
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- #126An Upbraiding
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- #127The Young Glass-Stainer
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- #128Looking At A Picture On An Anniversary
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- #129The Choirmaster’s Burial
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- #130The Man Who Forgot
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- #131While Drawing In A Church-Yard
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- #132“For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”
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- #133“Men Who March Away” (Song Of The Soldiers)
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- #134His Country
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- #135England To Germany In 1914
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- #136On The Belgian Expatriation
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- #137An Appeal To America On Behalf Of The Belgian Destitute
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- #138In Time Of Wars And Tumults
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- #139Cry Of The Homeless After The Prussian Invasion Of Belgium
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- #140Before Marching And After (In Memoriam F. W. G.)
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- #141“Often When Warring”
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- #142Then And Now
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- #143A Call To National Service
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- #144The Dead And The Living One
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- #145A New Year’s Eve In War Time
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- #146“I Met A Man”
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- #147“I Looked Up From My Writing”
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- #148The Coming Of The End
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- #149Afterwards
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He Prefers Her Earthly by Thomas Hardy
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Grieving over the real, earthly memory of someone lost in death is better than imagining that they turn into some inhuman spiritual glory like the glory seen in the clouds after the sun has gone below the horizon.
A beautiful after-life would be for these lost ones of ours to become splendidly beau...
He Prefers Her Earthly Annotated
This after-sunset is a sight for seeing,
Cliff-heads of craggy cloud surrounding it.
—And dwell you in that glory-show?
You may; for there are strange strange things in being,
Stranger than I know.
Yet if that chasm of splendour claim your presence
Which glows between the ash cloud and the dun,
How changed must be your mortal mould!
Changed to a firmament-riding earthless essence
From what you were of old:
All too unlike the fond and fragile creature
Then known to me . . . Well, shall I say it plain?
I would not have you thus and there,
But still would grieve on, missing you, still feature
You as the one you were.