Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to  Jude the Obscure , but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his numerous collections published between 1898 and 1928. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. According To The Mighty Working After A Journey After The Last Breath (j.h. 1813-1904) Afternoon Service At Mellstock Afterwards Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? An Ancient To Ancients An Anniversary At A Country Fair At A Hasty Wedding; Triolet At Casterbridge Fair: 1. The Ballad-singer At Casterbridge Fair: 2. Former Beauties At Casterbridge Fair: 3. After The Club-dance At Casterbridge Fair: 4. The Market-girl At Casterbridge Fair: 5. The Inquiry At Casterbridge Fair: 6. A Wife Waits At Casterbridge Fair: 7. After The Fair At Castle Boterel At Day-close In November At Middle-field Gate In February At The Word 'farewell' An August Midnight A Backward Spring The Ballet Before And After Summer A Bird-scene At A Rural Dwelling The Blinded Bird The Caged Goldfinch The Calf Channel Firing The Choirmaster's Burial A Church Romance Coming Up Oxford Street: Evening The Contretemps The Convergence Of The Twain; Lines On Loss Of The Titanic The Darkling Thrush The Division Domicilium The Dream Is - Which? Drummer Hodge During Wind And Rain Embarcation Exeunt Omnes Expectation And Experience The Fallow Deer At The Lonely House Fetching Her The Five Students A Forgotten Miniature Friends Beyond 'a Gentleman's Second-hand Suit' The Going Going And Staying Great Things Hap The Harbour Bridge The Haunter He Prefers Her Earthly Henley Regatta Heredity His Immortality His Visitor The Homecoming The House Of Hospitalities A Hurried Meeting I Am The One Whom The Ringdoves See I Look Into My Glass I Need Not Go I Say, 'i'll Seek Her Side' Ice On The Highway In A Eweleaze Near Weatherbury In Tenebris: 1 In The Days Of Crinoline In The Garden In The Moonlight 'in The Night She Came' In The Small Hours In Time Of 'the Breaking Of Nations' Jubilate Lament The Last Chrysanthemum Last Love-word The Last Signal Last Words To A Dumb Friend A Leaving Life And Death At Sunrise (near Dogbury Gate, 1867) Logs On The Hearth; A Memory Of A Sister Lonely Days (versified From A Diary) Lying Awake Mad Judy The Man He Killed The Marble Tablet The Master And The Leaves Midnight On The Great Western The Missed Train The Moon Looks In My Spirit Will Not Haunt The Mound Nature's Questioning Near Lanivet, 1872 Neutral Tones A Night In November The Night Of The Dance No Buyers (a Street Scene) Nobody Comes Old Furniture On Sturminster Foot-bridge On The Tune Called The Old-hundred-and-fourth One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes One We Knew (m.h. 1772-1857) One Who Married Above Him The Orphaned Old Maid The Oxen The Pedigree The Photograph A Procession Of Dead Days Proud Songsters Rain On A Grave The Rejected Member's Wife The Respectable Burgher, On 'the Higher Criticism' Retty's Phases Rome. At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley Rose-ann The Ruined Maid Satires Of Circumstance. 6. In The Cemetery Satires Of Circumstance: 1. At Tea Satires Of Circumstance: 10. In The Nuptial Chamber Satires Of Circumstance: 11. In The Restaurant Satires Of Circumstance: 12. At The Draper's Satires Of Circumstance: 13. On The Death-bed Satires Of Circumstance: 14. Over The Coffin Satires Of Circumstance: 2. In Church Satires Of Circumstance: 3. By Her Aunt's Grave Satires Of Circumstance: 4. In The Room Of The Bride-elect Satires Of Circumstance: 5. At A Watering-place Satires Of Circumstance: 7. Outside The Window Satires Of Circumstance: 8. In The Study Satires Of Circumstance: 9. At The Altar-rail The Schreckhorn The Self-unseeing The Shadow On The Stone She Charged Me She Hears The Storm She, To Him: 2 A Sheep Fair Shortening Days At The Homestead Shut Out That Moon Snow In The Suburbs Something Tapped The Souls Of The Slain The Sundial On A Wet Day Ten Years Since A Thought In Two Moods Throwing A Tree Timing Her To An Unborn Pauper Child To Carrey Clavel To Lizbie Browne To My Father's Violin To The Moon A Trampwoman's Tragedy Transformations A Two-years' Idyll An Upbraiding The Voice Voices From Things Growing In A Churchyard Waiting - Both The Walk We Sat At The Win