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