Thomas Hardy as a poet wrote mature lyric poetry, Poems of 1912-13, which has been called poems of mourning or an ‘expiation’to escape in imagination and memory from the grim reality of his wife, Emma`s death. In these 21 elegies in Satires of Circumstance(1914), Hardy told us stories of past and present, recalling the different phases of their 40 years of married life, the happy years of their courtship and early marriage as well as the later painful period of estrangement between them which he didn`t solve positively, like “traces of an ancient flame”. In this process of the quest for the woman he once loved, starting with opening cry of Emma`s death in “The Going”, he remembered her revisiting old haunts such as Dorcet of Cornwall in “I Found Her Out There”, “The Voice”, “After a Journey”, “Beeny Cliff”, “At Castle Boterel”, and experienced sudden ecstasy of recapturing joy in “The Phantom Horsewoman”, but finally ended with his own acceptance of anguish of loss with the full understanding of past and present. Poems of 1912-13 can be regarded as Hardy`s superb personal love poems. But he gives to these poems what is called the impersonality of great art, which makes his personal marital bitterness be placed in the larger perspective of common human experience.