Poems of the Past and the Present

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Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Credits

David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. “Wessex Poems and Other Verses; Poems of the Past and the Present”

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

3168

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3168

Release Date

April 1, 2002

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.V.R. 1819–1901 A REVERIE
4. 4.WAR POEMS — EMBARCATION ( Southampton Docks : October , 1899) — DEPARTURE ( Southampton Docks : October , 1899) — THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY ( Southampton Docks : October , 1899) — THE GOING OF THE BATTERY WIVES’ LAMENT ( November 2, 1899) — AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON ( Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded : December , 1899) — A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY — THE DEAD DRUMMER — A WIFE IN LONDON ( December , 1899) — THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN — SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES — THE SICK GOD
5. 5.POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE — GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (March, 1887) — SHELLEY’S SKYLARK ( The neighbourhood of Leghorn : March , 1887) — IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE ( April , 1887) — ROME: ON THE PALATINE ( April , 1887) — ROME BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER ( April , 1887) — ROME THE VATICAN—SALA DELLE MUSE (1887) — ROME AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY AND KEATS (1887) — LAUSANNE IN GIBBON’S OLD GARDEN: 11–12 P.M. June 27, 1897 — ZERMATT TO THE MATTERHORN ( June - July , 1897) — THE BRIDGE OF LODI [290] ( Spring , 1887) — ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
6. 6.MISCELLANEOUS POEMS — THE MOTHER MOURNS — “I SAID TO LOVE” — A COMMONPLACE DAY — AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE — THE LACKING SENSE — TO LIFE — DOOM AND SHE — THE PROBLEM — THE SUBALTERNS — THE SLEEP-WORKER — THE BULLFINCHES — GOD-FORGOTTEN — THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN UNKNOWING GOD — BY THE EARTH’S CORPSE — MUTE OPINION — TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD — TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER — ON A FINE MORNING — TO LIZBIE BROWNE — SONG OF HOPE — THE WELL-BELOVED — HER REPROACH — THE INCONSISTENT — A BROKEN APPOINTMENT — “BETWEEN US NOW” — “HOW GREAT MY GRIEF” (TRIOLET) — “I NEED NOT GO” — THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER (TRIOLETS) — A SPOT — LONG PLIGHTED — THE WIDOW — AT A HASTY WEDDING (TRIOLET) — THE DREAM-FOLLOWER — HIS IMMORTALITY — THE TO-BE-FORGOTTEN — WIVES IN THE SERE — THE SUPERSEDED — AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT — THE CAGED THRUSH FREED AND HOME AGAIN (VILLANELLE) — BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL (TRIOLET) — THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS (TRIOLET) — WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD — THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM — THE DARKLING THRUSH — THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL’HAM — MAD JUDY — A WASTED ILLNESS — A MAN (IN MEMORY OF H. OF M.) — THE DAME OF ATHELHALL — THE SEASONS OF HER YEAR — THE MILKMAID — THE LEVELLED CHURCHYARD — THE RUINED MAID — THE RESPECTABLE BURGHER ON “THE HIGHER CRITICISM” — ARCHITECTURAL MASKS — THE TENANT-FOR-LIFE — THE KING’S EXPERIMENT — THE TREE AN OLD MAN’S STORY — HER LATE HUSBAND (KING’S-HINTOCK, 182–.) — THE SELF-UNSEEING — DE PROFUNDIS — I — II — THE CHURCH-BUILDER — THE LOST PYX A MEDIÆVAL LEGEND [457] — TESS’S LAMENT — THE SUPPLANTER A TALE
7. 7.IMITATIONS, ETC. — SAPPHIC FRAGMENT — CATULLUS: XXXI (After passing Sirmione, April 1887.) — AFTER SCHILLER — SONG FROM HEINE — FROM VICTOR HUGO — CARDINAL BEMBO’S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL
8. 8.RETROSPECT — “I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES” — MEMORY AND I — ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι.
9. 9.FOOTNOTES

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