Poems of the Past and the Present
Thomas Hardy
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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 | 4:09 | 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 | 3:47 | 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 | 0:56 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
From Victor Hugo | 1:06 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael | 0:34 | 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. | 1:43 | Read by Alan Mapstone |