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Poems of the Past and the Present

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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) (2 hr 55 min)

Chapters

V.R. 1819-1901

1:44

Read by Alan Mapstone

WAR POEMS: Embarkation

1:26

Read by Alan Mapstone

Departure

1:29

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Colonel's Soliloquy

2:46

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Going of the Battery

3:10

Read by nighthawks

At the War Office

1:18

Read by nighthawks

A Christmas Ghost-Story

1:32

Read by nighthawks

The Dead Drummer

1:15

Read by Alan Mapstone

A Wife in London

1:25

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Souls of the Slain

4:08

Read by Inkell

Song of the Soldiers' Wives

1:37

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Sick God

2:20

Read by Inkell

POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean

2:18

Read by nighthawks

Shelley's Skylark

1:48

Read by Rob E. Brown

In the Old Theatre, Fiesole

1:10

Read by Vinita

Rome: On the Palantine

1:06

Read by Inkell

Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter

1:06

Read by Inkell

Rome: the Vatican

2:20

Read by Vinita

Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius

1:23

Read by Inkell

Lausanne

2:16

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Zermatt

1:46

Read by nighthawks

The Bridge at Lodi

3:00

Read by Kiera Abrienne

An Invitation to the United States

0:58

Read by Kiera Abrienne

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns

3:50

Read by Nonulzzang

"I Said to Love"

1:33

Read by Stunning

A Commonplace Day

2:31

Read by Winnifred Assmann

At a Lunar Eclipse

1:13

Read by Stunning

The Lacking Sense

3:46

Read by nighthawks

To Life

1:01

Read by Stunning

Doom and She

2:48

Read by nighthawks

The Problem

0:52

Read by Stunning

The Subalterns

1:01

Read by Ronald Gardella

The Sleep-Worker

1:23

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The Bullfinches

2:26

Read by nighthawks

God-Forgotten

3:50

Read by nighthawks

The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God

1:51

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

By the Earth's Corpse

2:17

Read by nighthawks

Mute Opinion

1:18

Read by nighthawks

To an Unborn Pauper Child

2:13

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

To Flowers from Italy in Winter

1:08

Read by Bruce Kachuk

On a Fine Morning

0:54

Read by Amber H

To Lizbie Brown

2:36

Read by Alan Mapstone

Song of Hope

1:15

Read by Bruce Kachuk

The Well-Beloved

3:57

Read by Alan Mapstone

Her Reproach

1:20

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Inconsistent

0:50

Read by Ronald Gardella

A Broken Appointment

1:18

Read by Alan Mapstone

"Between us now"

0:54

Read by Sydney M

"How great my Grief"

0:36

Read by Sydney M

"I need not go"

1:01

Read by Amber H

The Coquette and After

1:00

Read by Amber H

A Spot

1:06

Read by Amber H

Long Plighted

1:22

Read by Amber H

The Widow

2:01

Read by Carol Galbraith

At a Hasty Wedding

1:02

Read by nighthawks

The Dream Follower

0:45

Read by Alan Mapstone

His Immortality

0:56

Read by Ronald Gardella

The To-be-forgotten

1:40

Read by Inkell

Wives in the Sere

1:21

Read by nighthawks

The Superseded

1:02

Read by Winnifred Assmann

An August Midnight

1:08

Read by Mike Crampton

The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again

1:33

Read by Alan Mapstone

Birds at Winter Nightfall

0:52

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Puzzled Game-Birds

0:46

Read by Winnifred Assmann

Winter in Durnover Field

1:13

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Last Chrysanthemum

1:22

Read by Agnes Robert Behr

The Darkling Thrush

2:01

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham

0:51

Read by Alan Mapstone

Mad Judy

1:07

Read by Mike Crampton

A Wasted Illness

1:31

Read by Inkell

A Man

2:32

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Dame of Athelhall

3:19

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Seasons of her Year

0:54

Read by Mike Crampton

The Milkmaid

1:33

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Levelled Churchyard

1:22

Read by Mike Crampton

The Ruined Maid

2:04

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism"

1:53

Read by Nicole Wright

Architectural Masks

1:05

Read by Mike Crampton

The Tenant-for-Life

1:33

Read by Mike Crampton

The King's Experiment

3:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Tree: an Old Man's Story

3:00

Read by Carol Galbraith

Her Late Husband

1:44

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Self-Unseeing

0:42

Read by Inkell

De Profundis or In Tenebris

7:05

Read by Alan Mapstone

The Church-Builder

3:40

Read by Mike Crampton

The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend

4:50

Read by Alan Mapstone

Tess's Lament

2:36

Read by Winnifred Assmann

The Supplanter: A Tale

4:33

Read by Algy Pug

IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment

0:52

Read by Alan Mapstone

Catullus: XXXI

1:18

Read by Algy Pug

After Schiller

0:39

Read by Alan Mapstone

Song: from Heine

0:55

Read by Alan Mapstone

From Victor Hugo

1:06

Read by Alan Mapstone

Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael

0:33

Read by Alan Mapstone

RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades"

1:37

Read by Inkell

Memory and I

1:30

Read by Inkell

ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.

1:42

Read by Alan Mapstone