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)

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V.R. 1819-1901 1:44 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
WAR POEMS: Embarkation 1:26 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Departure 1:29 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Colonel's Soliloquy 2:46 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Going of the Battery 3:10 Gelesen von nighthawks
At the War Office 1:18 Gelesen von nighthawks
A Christmas Ghost-Story 1:32 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Dead Drummer 1:15 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
A Wife in London 1:25 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
The Souls of the Slain 4:09 Gelesen von Inkell
Song of the Soldiers' Wives 1:37 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
The Sick God 2:20 Gelesen von Inkell
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE: Genoa and the Mediteranean 2:18 Gelesen von nighthawks
Shelley's Skylark 1:48 Gelesen von Rob E. Brown
In the Old Theatre, Fiesole 1:10 Gelesen von Vinita
Rome: On the Palantine 1:06 Gelesen von Inkell
Rome: building a new street in the ancient quarter 1:06 Gelesen von Inkell
Rome: the Vatican 2:20 Gelesen von Vinita
Rome: at the pyramid of Cestius 1:23 Gelesen von Inkell
Lausanne 2:16 Gelesen von Stefan Von Blon
Zermatt 1:46 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Bridge at Lodi 3:00 Gelesen von Kiera Abrienne
An Invitation to the United States 0:58 Gelesen von Kiera Abrienne
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: The Mother Mourns 3:50 Gelesen von Nonulzzang
"I Said to Love" 1:33 Gelesen von Stunning
A Commonplace Day 2:31 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
At a Lunar Eclipse 1:13 Gelesen von Stunning
The Lacking Sense 3:47 Gelesen von nighthawks
To Life 1:01 Gelesen von Stunning
Doom and She 2:48 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Problem 0:52 Gelesen von Stunning
The Subalterns 1:01 Gelesen von Ronald Gardella
The Sleep-Worker 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Bullfinches 2:26 Gelesen von nighthawks
God-Forgotten 3:50 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God 1:51 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
By the Earth's Corpse 2:17 Gelesen von nighthawks
Mute Opinion 1:18 Gelesen von nighthawks
To an Unborn Pauper Child 2:13 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
To Flowers from Italy in Winter 1:08 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
On a Fine Morning 0:54 Gelesen von Amber H
To Lizbie Brown 2:36 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Song of Hope 1:15 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Well-Beloved 3:57 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Her Reproach 1:20 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Inconsistent 0:50 Gelesen von Ronald Gardella
A Broken Appointment 1:18 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
"Between us now" 0:54 Gelesen von Sydney M
"How great my Grief" 0:36 Gelesen von Sydney M
"I need not go" 1:01 Gelesen von Amber H
The Coquette and After 1:00 Gelesen von Amber H
A Spot 1:06 Gelesen von Amber H
Long Plighted 1:22 Gelesen von Amber H
The Widow 2:01 Gelesen von Carol Galbraith
At a Hasty Wedding 1:02 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Dream Follower 0:45 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
His Immortality 0:56 Gelesen von Ronald Gardella
The To-be-forgotten 1:40 Gelesen von Inkell
Wives in the Sere 1:21 Gelesen von nighthawks
The Superseded 1:02 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
An August Midnight 1:08 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The Caged Thrush freed and Home Again 1:33 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Birds at Winter Nightfall 0:52 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Puzzled Game-Birds 0:46 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
Winter in Durnover Field 1:13 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
The Last Chrysanthemum 1:22 Gelesen von Agnes Robert Behr
The Darkling Thrush 2:01 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham 0:51 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Mad Judy 1:07 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
A Wasted Illness 1:31 Gelesen von Inkell
A Man 2:32 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Dame of Athelhall 3:19 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Seasons of her Year 0:54 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The Milkmaid 1:33 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Levelled Churchyard 1:22 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The Ruined Maid 2:04 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism" 1:53 Gelesen von Nicole Wright
Architectural Masks 1:05 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The Tenant-for-Life 1:33 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The King's Experiment 3:02 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Tree: an Old Man's Story 3:00 Gelesen von Carol Galbraith
Her Late Husband 1:44 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Self-Unseeing 0:42 Gelesen von Inkell
De Profundis or In Tenebris 7:05 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
The Church-Builder 3:40 Gelesen von Mike Crampton
The Lost Pyx: a Mediaeval Legend 4:50 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Tess's Lament 2:36 Gelesen von Winnifred Assmann
The Supplanter: A Tale 4:33 Gelesen von Algy Pug
IMITATIONS, ETC: Sapphic Fragment 0:52 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Catullus: XXXI 1:18 Gelesen von Algy Pug
After Schiller 0:39 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Song: from Heine 0:56 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
From Victor Hugo 1:06 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael 0:34 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone
RETROSPECT: "I Have Lived with Shades" 1:37 Gelesen von Inkell
Memory and I 1:30 Gelesen von Inkell
ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι. 1:43 Gelesen von Alan Mapstone