Revulsion
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Revulsion
Though I waste watches framing words to fetter Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss, Out of the night there looms a sense 'twere better To fail obtaining whom one fails to miss.
For winning love we win the risk of losing, And losing love is as one's life were riven; It cuts like contumely and keen ill-using To cede what was superfluously given.
Let me then feel no more the fateful thrilling That devastates the love-worn wooer's frame, The hot ado of fevered hopes, the chilling That agonizes disappointed aim! So may I live no junctive law fulfilling, And my heart's table bear no woman's name.
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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