Her Apotheosis
Thomas Hardy * Track #105 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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Her Apotheosis by Thomas Hardy
Performed by
Thomas HardyHer Apotheosis Annotated
There was a spell of leisure,
  No record vouches when;
With honours, praises, pleasure
  To womankind from men.
But no such lures bewitched me,
  No hand was stretched to raise,
No gracious gifts enriched me,
  No voices sang my praise.
Yet an iris at that season
  Amid the accustomed slight
From denseness, dull unreason,
  Ringed me with living light.