Poems of the Past and the Present

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Authors: Thomas Hardy In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

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V.R. 1819-1901
WAR POEMS: Embarkation
Departure
The Colonel's Soliloquy
The Going of the Battery
At the War Office
A Christmas Ghost-Story
The Dead Drummer
A Wife in London
The Souls of the Slain
Song of the Soldiers' Wives
The Sick God
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean
Shelley's Skylark
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole
Rome: On the Palantine
Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter
Rome: the Vatican
Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius
Lausanne
Zermatt
The Bridge at Lodi
An Invitation to the United States
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns
"I Said to Love"
A Commonplace Day
At a Lunar Eclipse
The Lacking Sense
To Life
Doom and She
The Problem
The Subalterns
The Sleep-Worker
The Bullfinches
God-Forgotten
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God
By the Earth's Corpse
Mute Opinion
To an Unborn Pauper Child
To Flowers from Italy in Winter
On a Fine Morning
To Lizbie Brown
Song of Hope
The Well-Beloved
Her Reproach
The Inconsistent
A Broken Appointment
"Between us now"
"How great my Grief"
"I need not go"
The Coquette and After
A Spot
Long Plighted
The Widow
At a Hasty Wedding
The Dream Follower
His Immortality
The To-be-forgotten
Wives in the Sere
The Superseded
An August Midnight
The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again
Birds at Winter Nightfall
The Puzzled Game-Birds
Winter in Durnover Field
The Last Chrysanthemum
The Darkling Thrush
The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham
Mad Judy
A Wasted Illness
A Man
The Dame of Athelhall
The Seasons of her Year
The Milkmaid
The Levelled Churchyard
The Ruined Maid
The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism"
Architectural Masks
The Tenant-for-Life
The King's Experiment
The Tree: an Old Man's Story
Her Late Husband
The Self-Unseeing
De Profundis or In Tenebris
The Church-Builder
The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend
Tess's Lament
The Supplanter: A Tale
IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment
Catullus: XXXI
After Schiller
Song: from Heine
From Victor Hugo
Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael
RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades"
Memory and I
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Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by Thomas Hardy published in 1901. It is divided into 5 sections, War Poems, Poems of Pilgrimage, Miscellaneous Poems, Imitations and Retrospect.

The first poem is a tribute to Queen Victoria written in the week of her death. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)