Wives In The Sere
Thomas Hardy * Track #26 On Poems of the Past and the Present
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Album Poems of the Past and the Present
- #1V.R. 1819-1901 A Reverie
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- #2The Colonel’s Soliloquy
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- #3The Going Of The Battery Wives’ Lament
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- #4The Dead Drummer
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- #5The Souls Of The Slain
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- #6Song Of The Soldiers’ Wives
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- #7The Sick God
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- #8Rome: On The Palatine
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- #9Lausanne In Gibbon’s Old Garden
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- #10Zermatt To The Matterhorn
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- #11The Mother Mourns
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- #12The Lacking Sense
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- #13To Life
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- #14The Problem
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- #15The Subalterns
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- #16The Sleep-Worker
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- #17The Bedridden Peasant To An Unknowing God
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- #18To Flowers From Italy In Winter
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- #19To Lizbie Browne
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- #20The Well-Beloved
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- #21The Inconsistent
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- #22The Coquette, And After
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- #23The Widow
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- #24The Dream-Follower
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- #25The To-Be-Forgotten
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- #26Wives In The Sere
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- #27The Superseded
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- #28The Puzzled Game-Birds (Triolet)
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- #29Winter In Durnover Field
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- #30The Last Chrysanthemum
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- #31The Comet At Yalbury Or Yell’ham
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- #32The Dame Of Athelhall
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- #33The Seasons Of Her Year
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- #34The Milkmaid
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- #35The Levelled Churchyard
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- #36The Ruined Maid
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- #37The Respectable Burgher On “The Higher Criticism”
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- #38The Tenant-For-Life
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- #39The King’s Experiment
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- #40The Tree An Old Man’s Story
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- #41The Self-Unseeing
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- #42The Church-Builder
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- #43The Lost Pyx A Mediaeval Legend
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- #44Tess’s Lament
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- #45The Supplanter A Tale
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- #46Memory And I
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Wives In The Sere by Thomas Hardy
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Thomas HardyWives In The Sere Annotated
I
Never a careworn wife but shows,
If a joy suffuse her,
Something beautiful to those
Patient to peruse her,
Some one charm the world unknows
Precious to a muser,
Haply what, ere years were foes,
Moved her mate to choose her.
II
But, be it a hint of rose
That an instant hues her,
Or some early light or pose
Wherewith thought renews her -
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practised to abuse her -
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.