Poems of the Past and the Present
Thomas Hardy
97 chapters · 2 h 55 min · English
Read by Alan Mapstone, nighthawks, Agnes Robert Behr, Inkell, Rob E. Brown, Vinita and others
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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.
Chapters
1 V.R. 1819-1901 2 min 2 WAR POEMS: Embarkation 1 min 3 Departure 1 min 4 The Colonel's Soliloquy 3 min 5 The Going of the Battery 3 min 6 At the War Office 1 min 7 A Christmas Ghost-Story 2 min 8 The Dead Drummer 1 min 9 A Wife in London 1 min 10 The Souls of the Slain 4 min 11 Song of the Soldiers' Wives 2 min 12 The Sick God 2 min 13 POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean 2 min 14 Shelley's Skylark 2 min 15 In the Old Theatre, Fiesole 1 min 16 Rome: On the Palantine 1 min 17 Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter 1 min 18 Rome: the Vatican 2 min 19 Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius 1 min 20 Lausanne 2 min 21 Zermatt 2 min 22 The Bridge at Lodi 3 min 23 An Invitation to the United States 1 min 24 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns 4 min 25 I Said to Love 2 min 26 A Commonplace Day 3 min 27 At a Lunar Eclipse 1 min 28 The Lacking Sense 4 min 29 To Life 1 min 30 Doom and She 3 min 31 The Problem 1 min 32 The Subalterns 1 min 33 The Sleep-Worker 1 min 34 The Bullfinches 2 min 35 God-Forgotten 4 min 36 The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God 2 min 37 By the Earth's Corpse 2 min 38 Mute Opinion 1 min 39 To an Unborn Pauper Child 2 min 40 To Flowers from Italy in Winter 1 min 41 On a Fine Morning 1 min 42 To Lizbie Brown 3 min 43 Song of Hope 1 min 44 The Well-Beloved 4 min 45 Her Reproach 1 min 46 The Inconsistent 1 min 47 A Broken Appointment 1 min 48 Between us now 1 min 49 How great my Grief 1 min 50 I need not go 1 min 51 The Coquette and After 1 min 52 A Spot 1 min 53 Long Plighted 1 min 54 The Widow 2 min 55 At a Hasty Wedding 1 min 56 The Dream Follower 1 min 57 His Immortality 1 min 58 The To-be-forgotten 2 min 59 Wives in the Sere 1 min 60 The Superseded 1 min 61 An August Midnight 1 min 62 The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again 2 min 63 Birds at Winter Nightfall 1 min 64 The Puzzled Game-Birds 1 min 65 Winter in Durnover Field 1 min 66 The Last Chrysanthemum 1 min 67 The Darkling Thrush 2 min 68 The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham 1 min 69 Mad Judy 1 min 70 A Wasted Illness 2 min 71 A Man 3 min 72 The Dame of Athelhall 3 min 73 The Seasons of her Year 1 min 74 The Milkmaid 2 min 75 The Levelled Churchyard 1 min 76 The Ruined Maid 2 min 77 The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism" 2 min 78 Architectural Masks 1 min 79 The Tenant-for-Life 2 min 80 The King's Experiment 3 min 81 The Tree: an Old Man's Story 3 min 82 Her Late Husband 2 min 83 The Self-Unseeing 1 min 84 De Profundis or In Tenebris 7 min 85 The Church-Builder 4 min 86 The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend 5 min 87 Tess's Lament 3 min 88 The Supplanter: A Tale 5 min 89 IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment 1 min 90 Catullus: XXXI 1 min 91 After Schiller 1 min 92 Song: from Heine 1 min 93 From Victor Hugo 1 min 94 Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael 1 min 95 RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades" 2 min 96 Memory and I 2 min 97 ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι 2 min
