A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
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A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
Your troubles shrink not, though I feel them less Here, far away, than when I tarried near; I even smile old smiles--with listlessness - Yet smiles they are, not ghastly mockeries mere.
A thought too strange to house within my brain Haunting its outer precincts I discern: - That I will not show zeal again to learn Your griefs, and sharing them, renew my pain . . .
It goes, like murky bird or buccaneer That shapes its lawless figure on the main, And each new impulse tends to make outflee The unseemly instinct that had lodgment here; Yet, comrade old, can bitterer knowledge be Than that, though banned, such instinct was in me!
1866.
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About Thomas Hardy
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Summary
Author's Preface
The Temporary The All
Amabel
Hap
"In Vision I Roamed"
At a Bridal
Postponement
A Confession to a Friend in Trouble
Neutral Tones
She
Her Initials
Her Dilemma
Revulsion
She, To Him
Ditty
The Sergeant's Song
Valenciennes
San Sebastian
The Stranger's Song
The Burghers
Leipzig
The Peasant's Confession
The Alarm
Her Death and After
The Dance at the Phoenix
The Casterbridge Captains
A Sign-Seeker
My Cicely
Her Immortality
The Ivy-Wife
A Meeting with Despair
Unknowing
Friends Beyond
To Outer Nature
Thoughts of Phena
Middle-Age Enthusiasms
In a Wood
To a Lady
To an Orphan Child
Nature's Questioning
The Impercipient
At An Inn
The Slow Nature
In a Eweleaze Near Weatherbury
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's
Heiress and Architect
The Two Men
Lines
"I Look into my Glass"
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