Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.

We pictured the meek mild creatures where
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
Nor did it occur to one of us there
To doubt they were kneeling then.

So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
"Come; see the oxen kneel

"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,"
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

("The Oxen")

The Thomas Hardy Society of Japan

President: Suguru Fukasawa (Chuo University)

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Works and E-texts

  1. "How I Built Myself a House" (1865)
  2. Desperate Remedies (1871)
  3. Under the Greenwood Tree (1872)
  4. A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)
  5. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
  6. The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)
  7. The Return of the Native (1878)
  8. The Trumpet-Major (1880)
  9. A Laodicean (1881)
  10. Two on a Tower (1882)
  11. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
  12. The Woodlanders (1887)
  13. Wesses Tales (1888)
  14. A Group of Noble Dames (1891)
  15. Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
  16. Life's Little Ironies (1894)
  17. Jude the Obscure (1896) (Gutenberg)
  18. The Well-Beloved (1897)
  19. Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)
  20. Poems of the Past and the Present (1902)
  21. The Dynasts (1903-8)
  22. Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)
  23. A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid (1913)
  24. Satires of Circumstances (1914)
  25. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)
  26. Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses (1922)
  27. The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse (1923)
  28. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles (1925)
  29. Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)
  30. An Indiscretion in the Life of an Heiress (1976)

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