Poems of the Past and the Present
by Thomas Hardy
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About This Book
Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1901. A wide-ranging collection, divided into five headings, it contains some of Hardy's most powerful and lasting poetic contributions.
Chapters (466)
- POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
- CONTENTS
- V.R. 1819–1901 A REVERIE
- WAR POEMS
- EMBARCATION (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
- DEPARTURE (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
- THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
- THE GOING OF THE BATTERY WIVES’ LAMENT (November 2, 1899)
- AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON (Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded: December, 1899)
- A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY
- THE DEAD DRUMMER
- A WIFE IN LONDON (December, 1899)
- THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN
- SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES
- THE SICK GOD
- POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE
- GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (March, 1887)
- SHELLEY’S SKYLARK (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March, 1887)
- IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE (April, 1887)
- ROME: ON THE PALATINE (April, 1887)
- ROME BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER (April, 1887)
- ROME THE VATICAN—SALA DELLE MUSE (1887)
- ROME AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY AND KEATS (1887)
- LAUSANNE IN GIBBON’S OLD GARDEN: 11–12 P.M. June 27, 1897
- ZERMATT TO THE MATTERHORN (June-July, 1897)
- THE BRIDGE OF LODI [290] (Spring, 1887)
- ON 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 BROWNE
- SONG OF HOPE
- THE WELL-BELOVED
- HER REPROACH
- THE INCONSISTENT
- A BROKEN APPOINTMENT
- “BETWEEN US NOW”
- “HOW GREAT MY GRIEF” (TRIOLET)
- “I NEED NOT GO”
- THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER (TRIOLETS)
- A SPOT
- LONG PLIGHTED
- THE WIDOW
- AT A HASTY WEDDING (TRIOLET)
- 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- THE SUPERSEDED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 (VILLANELLE)
- BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL (TRIOLET)
- THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS (TRIOLET)
- WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD
- THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
- THE DARKLING THRUSH
- THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL’HAM
- MAD JUDY
- A WASTED ILLNESS
- A MAN (IN MEMORY OF H. OF M.)
- 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 (KING’S-HINTOCK, 182–.)
- THE SELF-UNSEEING
- DE PROFUNDIS
- I
- II
- THE CHURCH-BUILDER
- THE LOST PYX A MEDIÆVAL LEGEND [457]
- TESS’S LAMENT
- THE SUPPLANTER A TALE
- IMITATIONS, ETC.
- SAPPHIC FRAGMENT
- CATULLUS: XXXI (After passing Sirmione, April 1887.)
- AFTER SCHILLER
- SONG FROM HEINE
- FROM VICTOR HUGO
- CARDINAL BEMBO’S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL
- RETROSPECT
- “I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES”
- MEMORY AND I
- ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.
- FOOTNOTES
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