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Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Genre(s): Lyric

Read by: Alan Mapstone, nighthawks, Agnes Robert Behr, Inkell, Rob E. Brown, Vinita, Stefan Von Blon, Kiera Abrienne, Nonulzzang, Stunning, Winnifred Assmann, Ronald Gardella, Bruce Kachuk, Amber H, Sydney M, Carol Galbraith, Mike Crampton, Nicole Wright, Algy Pug in English

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

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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