Poems of the Past and the Present - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Thomas Hardy,

Language: English

Genre(s): Lyric Poetry

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97 Chapter(s)

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 The Superseded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

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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)

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