The Riddle
Thomas Hardy * Track #23 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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- #70The Musical Box
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- #71On Sturminster Foot-Bridge (Onomatopoeic)
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- #72Royal Sponsors
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- #73Old Furniture
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- #74A Thought In Two Moods
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- #75The Last Performance
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- #76“You On The Tower”
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- #77The Interloper
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- #78Logs On The Hearth A Memory Of A Sister
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- #79The Sunshade
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- #80The Ageing House
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- #81The Caged Goldfinch
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- #82At Madame Tussaud’s In Victorian Years
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- #83The Ballet
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- #84The Five Students
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- #85The Wind’s Prophecy
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- #86He Prefers Her Earthly
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- #87The Dolls
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- #88Molly Gone
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- #89A Backward Spring
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- #90Looking Across
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- #91At A Seaside Town In 1869
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- #92The Glimpse
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- #93The Pedestrian An Incident Of 1883
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- #94“Who’s In The Next Room?”
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- #95At A Country Fair
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- #96The Memorial Brass: 186-
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- #97Her Love-Birds
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- #98Paying Calls
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- #99The Upper Birch-Leaves
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- #100“It Never Looks Like Summer”
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- #101Everything Comes
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- #102The Man With A Past
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- #103He Fears His Good Fortune
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- #104He Wonders About Himself
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- #105Jubilate
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- #106He Revisits His First School
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- #107“I Thought, My Heart”
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- #108Honeymoon Time At An Inn
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- #109The Robin
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- #110“I Rose And Went To Rou’tor Town”
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- #111The Nettles
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- #112In A Waiting-Room
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- #113The Clock-Winder
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- #114Old Excursions
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- #115The Masked Face
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- #116In A Whispering Gallery
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- #117The Something That Saved Him
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- #118The Enemy’s Portrait
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- #119Imaginings
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- #120On The Doorstep
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- #121Signs And Tokens
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- #122Paths Of Former Time
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- #123The Clock Of The Years
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- #124At The Piano
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- #125The Shadow On The Stone
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- #126In The Garden (M. H.)
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- #127The Tree And The Lady
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- #128An Upbraiding
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- #129The Young Glass-Stainer
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- #130Looking At A Picture On An Anniversary
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- #131The Choirmaster’s Burial
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- #132The Man Who Forgot
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- #133While Drawing In A Church-Yard
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- #134“For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly”
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- #135“Men Who March Away” (Song Of The Soldiers)
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- #136His Country
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- #137England To Germany In 1914
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- #138On The Belgian Expatriation
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- #139An Appeal To America On Behalf Of The Belgian Destitute
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- #140In Time Of Wars And Tumults
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- #141Cry Of The Homeless After The Prussian Invasion Of Belgium
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- #142Before Marching And After (In Memoriam F. W. G.)
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- #143“Often When Warring”
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- #144Then And Now
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- #145A Call To National Service
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- #146The Dead And The Living One
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- #147A New Year’s Eve In War Time
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- #148“I Met A Man”
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- #149“I Looked Up From My Writing”
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- #150The Coming Of The End
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- #151Afterwards
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The Riddle by Thomas Hardy
Performed by
Thomas HardyThe Riddle Annotated
I
Stretching eyes west
Over the sea,
Wind foul or fair,
Always stood she
Prospect-impressed;
Solely out there
Did her gaze rest,
Never elsewhere
Seemed charm to be.
II
Always eyes east
Ponders she now -
As in devotion -
Hills of blank brow
Where no waves plough.
Never the least
Room for emotion
Drawn from the ocean
Does she allow.