Poems of the Past and the Present

by Thomas Hardy

97 chapters2h 55mEnglish1919

About this book

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)

Chapters (96)

1WAR POEMS: Embarkation

2Departure

3The Colonel's Soliloquy

166

4The Going of the Battery

190

5At the War Office

6A Christmas Ghost-Story

7The Dead Drummer

8A Wife in London

9The Souls of the Slain

249

10Song of the Soldiers' Wives

11The Sick God

140

12POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean

138

13Shelley's Skylark

108

14In the Old Theatre, Fiesole

15Rome: On the Palantine

16Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter

17Rome: the Vatican

140

18Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius

19Lausanne

136

20Zermatt

106

21The Bridge at Lodi

180

22An Invitation to the United States

23MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns

230

24"I Said to Love"

25A Commonplace Day

151

26At a Lunar Eclipse

27The Lacking Sense

227

28To Life

29Doom and She

168

30The Problem

31The Subalterns

32The Sleep-Worker

33The Bullfinches

146

34God-Forgotten

230

35The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God

111

36By the Earth's Corpse

137

37Mute Opinion

38To an Unborn Pauper Child

133

39To Flowers from Italy in Winter

40On a Fine Morning

41To Lizbie Brown

156

42Song of Hope

43The Well-Beloved

237

44Her Reproach

45The Inconsistent

46A Broken Appointment

47"Between us now"

48"How great my Grief"

49"I need not go"

50The Coquette and After

51A Spot

52Long Plighted

53The Widow

121

54At a Hasty Wedding

55The Dream Follower

56His Immortality

57The To-be-forgotten

100

58Wives in the Sere

59The Superseded

60An August Midnight

61The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again

62Birds at Winter Nightfall

63The Puzzled Game-Birds

64Winter in Durnover Field

65The Last Chrysanthemum

66The Darkling Thrush

121

67The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham

68Mad Judy

69A Wasted Illness

70A Man

152

71The Dame of Athelhall

199

72The Seasons of her Year

73The Milkmaid

74The Levelled Churchyard

75The Ruined Maid

124

76The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism"

113

77Architectural Masks

78The Tenant-for-Life

79The King's Experiment

182

80The Tree: an Old Man's Story

180

81Her Late Husband

104

82The Self-Unseeing

83De Profundis or In Tenebris

425

84The Church-Builder

220

85The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend

290

86Tess's Lament

156

87The Supplanter: A Tale

273

88IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment

89Catullus: XXXI

90After Schiller

91Song: from Heine

92From Victor Hugo

93Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael

94RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades"

95Memory and I

96ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.

103

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