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