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Poems of the Past and the Present

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

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)

Genre(s): Lyric

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1787), English (113), hardy (7)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	V.R. 1819-1901	Alan Mapstone	00:01:44
Play 01	WAR POEMS: Embarkation	Alan Mapstone	00:01:26
Play 02	Departure	Alan Mapstone	00:01:29
Play 03	The Colonel's Soliloquy	Alan Mapstone	00:02:46
Play 04	The Going of the Battery	nighthawks	00:03:10
Play 05	At the War Office	nighthawks	00:01:18
Play 06	A Christmas Ghost-Story	nighthawks	00:01:32
Play 07	The Dead Drummer	Alan Mapstone	00:01:15
Play 08	A Wife in London	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:25
Play 09	The Souls of the Slain	Inkell	00:04:09
Play 10	Song of the Soldiers' Wives	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:37
Play 11	The Sick God	Inkell	00:02:20
Play 12	POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean	nighthawks	00:02:18
Play 13	Shelley's Skylark	Rob E. Brown	00:01:48
Play 14	In the Old Theatre, Fiesole	Vinita	00:01:10
Play 15	Rome: On the Palantine	Inkell	00:01:06
Play 16	Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter	Inkell	00:01:06
Play 17	Rome: the Vatican	Vinita	00:02:20
Play 18	Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius	Inkell	00:01:23
Play 19	Lausanne	Stefan Von Blon	00:02:16
Play 20	Zermatt	nighthawks	00:01:46
Play 21	The Bridge at Lodi	Kiera Abrienne	00:03:00
Play 22	An Invitation to the United States	Kiera Abrienne	00:00:58
Play 23	MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns	Nonulzzang	00:03:50
Play 24	"I Said to Love"	Stunning	00:01:33
Play 25	A Commonplace Day	Winnifred Assmann	00:02:31
Play 26	At a Lunar Eclipse	Stunning	00:01:13
Play 27	The Lacking Sense	nighthawks	00:03:47
Play 28	To Life	Stunning	00:01:01
Play 29	Doom and She	nighthawks	00:02:48
Play 30	The Problem	Stunning	00:00:52
Play 31	The Subalterns	Ronald Gardella	00:01:01
Play 32	The Sleep-Worker	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:23
Play 33	The Bullfinches	nighthawks	00:02:26
Play 34	God-Forgotten	nighthawks	00:03:50
Play 35	The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:51
Play 36	By the Earth's Corpse	nighthawks	00:02:17
Play 37	Mute Opinion	nighthawks	00:01:18
Play 38	To an Unborn Pauper Child	Agnes Robert Behr	00:02:13
Play 39	To Flowers from Italy in Winter	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:08
Play 40	On a Fine Morning	Amber H	00:00:54
Play 41	To Lizbie Brown	Alan Mapstone	00:02:36
Play 42	Song of Hope	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:15
Play 43	The Well-Beloved	Alan Mapstone	00:03:57
Play 44	Her Reproach	Winnifred Assmann	00:01:20
Play 45	The Inconsistent	Ronald Gardella	00:00:50
Play 46	A Broken Appointment	Alan Mapstone	00:01:18
Play 47	"Between us now"	Sydney M	00:00:54
Play 48	"How great my Grief"	Sydney M	00:00:36
Play 49	"I need not go"	Amber H	00:01:01
Play 50	The Coquette and After	Amber H	00:01:00
Play 51	A Spot	Amber H	00:01:06
Play 52	Long Plighted	Amber H	00:01:22
Play 53	The Widow	Carol Galbraith	00:02:01
Play 54	At a Hasty Wedding	nighthawks	00:01:02
Play 55	The Dream Follower	Alan Mapstone	00:00:45
Play 56	His Immortality	Ronald Gardella	00:00:56
Play 57	The To-be-forgotten	Inkell	00:01:40
Play 58	Wives in the Sere	nighthawks	00:01:21
Play 59	The Superseded	Winnifred Assmann	00:01:02
Play 60	An August Midnight	Mike Crampton	00:01:08
Play 61	The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again	Alan Mapstone	00:01:33
Play 62	Birds at Winter Nightfall	Alan Mapstone	00:00:52
Play 63	The Puzzled Game-Birds	Winnifred Assmann	00:00:46
Play 64	Winter in Durnover Field	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:13
Play 65	The Last Chrysanthemum	Agnes Robert Behr	00:01:22
Play 66	The Darkling Thrush	Alan Mapstone	00:02:01
Play 67	The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham	Alan Mapstone	00:00:51
Play 68	Mad Judy	Mike Crampton	00:01:07
Play 69	A Wasted Illness	Inkell	00:01:31
Play 70	A Man	Winnifred Assmann	00:02:32
Play 71	The Dame of Athelhall	Winnifred Assmann	00:03:19
Play 72	The Seasons of her Year	Mike Crampton	00:00:54
Play 73	The Milkmaid	Winnifred Assmann	00:01:33
Play 74	The Levelled Churchyard	Mike Crampton	00:01:22
Play 75	The Ruined Maid	Winnifred Assmann	00:02:04
Play 76	The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism"	Nicole Wright	00:01:53
Play 77	Architectural Masks	Mike Crampton	00:01:05
Play 78	The Tenant-for-Life	Mike Crampton	00:01:33
Play 79	The King's Experiment	Alan Mapstone	00:03:02
Play 80	The Tree: an Old Man's Story	Carol Galbraith	00:03:00
Play 81	Her Late Husband	Winnifred Assmann	00:01:44
Play 82	The Self-Unseeing	Inkell	00:00:42
Play 83	De Profundis or In Tenebris	Alan Mapstone	00:07:05
Play 84	The Church-Builder	Mike Crampton	00:03:40
Play 85	The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend	Alan Mapstone	00:04:50
Play 86	Tess's Lament	Winnifred Assmann	00:02:36
Play 87	The Supplanter: A Tale	Algy Pug	00:04:33
Play 88	IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment	Alan Mapstone	00:00:52
Play 89	Catullus: XXXI	Algy Pug	00:01:18
Play 90	After Schiller	Alan Mapstone	00:00:39
Play 91	Song: from Heine	Alan Mapstone	00:00:56
Play 92	From Victor Hugo	Alan Mapstone	00:01:06
Play 93	Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael	Alan Mapstone	00:00:34
Play 94	RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades"	Inkell	00:01:37
Play 95	Memory and I	Inkell	00:01:30
Play 96	ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.	Alan Mapstone	00:01:43

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