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Poems of the Past and the Present

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1V.R. 1819–1901 — A Reverie
  2. 2War Poems
  3. 3Departure — (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
  4. 4The Colonel’s Soliloquy — (Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
  5. 5The Going of the Battery Wives’ Lament — (November 2, 1899)
  6. 6At the War Office, London — (Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wound…
  7. 7A Christmas Ghost-Story
  8. 8The Dead Drummer
  9. 9A Wife in London — (December, 1899)
  10. 10The Souls of the Slain
  11. 11Song of the Soldiers’ Wives
  12. 12The Sick God
  13. 13Poems of Pilgrimage
  14. 14Shelley’s Skylark — (The Neighbourhood of Leghorn: March, 1887)
  15. 15In the Old Theatre, Fiesole — (April, 1887)
  16. 16Rome: On the Palatine — (April, 1887)
  17. 17Rome — Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter — (April, 1887)
  18. 18Rome — The Vatican — Sala delle Muse (1887)
  19. 19Rome at the Pyramid of Cestius — Near the Graves of Shelley and Kea…
  20. 20Lausanne in Gibbon’s Old Garden: 11–12 P.M. — June 27, 1897
  21. 21Zermatt to the Matterhorn — (June-July, 1897)
  22. 22The Bridge of Lodi — (Spring, 1887)
  23. 23On an Invitation to the United States
  24. 24Miscellaneous Poems
  25. 25A Commonplace Day
  26. 26At a Lunar Eclipse
  27. 27The Lacking Sense
  28. 28To Life
  29. 29Doom and She
  30. 30The Problem
  31. 31The Subalterns
  32. 32The Sleep-Worker
  33. 33The Bullfinches
  34. 34God-Forgotten
  35. 35The Bedridden Peasant to an Unknowing God
  36. 36By the Earth’s Corpse
  37. 37Mute Opinion
  38. 38To an Unborn Pauper Child
  39. 39To Flowers From Italy in Winter
  40. 40On a Fine Morning
  41. 41To Lizbie Browne
  42. 42Song of Hope
  43. 43The Well-Beloved
  44. 44Her Reproach
  45. 45The Inconsistent
  46. 46A Broken Appointment
  47. 47“Between Us Now”
  48. 48“How Great My Grief” (Triolet)
  49. 49“I Need Not Go”
  50. 50The Coquette, and After (Triolets)
  51. 51A Spot
  52. 52Long Plighted
  53. 53The Widow
  54. 54At a Hasty Wedding (Triolet)
  55. 55The Dream-Follower
  56. 56His Immortality
  57. 57The To-Be-Forgotten
  58. 58Wives in the Sere
  59. 59The Superseded
  60. 60An August Midnight
  61. 61The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again (Villanelle)
  62. 62Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet)
  63. 63The Puzzled Game-Birds (Triolet)
  64. 64Winter in Durnover Field
  65. 65The Last Chrysanthemum
  66. 66The Darkling Thrush
  67. 67The Comet at Yalbury or Yell’ham
  68. 68Mad Judy
  69. 69A Wasted Illness
  70. 70A Man (in Memory of H. of M.)
  71. 71The Dame of Athelhall
  72. 72The Seasons of Her Year
  73. 73The Milkmaid
  74. 74The Levelled Churchyard
  75. 75The Ruined Maid
  76. 76The Respectable Burgher on “The Higher Criticism”
  77. 77Architectural Masks
  78. 78The Tenant-for-Life
  79. 79The King’s Experiment
  80. 80The Tree — An Old Man’s Story
  81. 81Her Late Husband (King’s-Hintock, 182–.)
  82. 82The Self-Unseeing
  83. 83De Profundis
  84. 84The Church-Builder
  85. 85The Lost Pyx — A Mediæval Legend
  86. 86Tess’s Lament
  87. 87The Supplanter — A Tale
  88. 88Imitations, etc.
  89. 89Catullus: XXXI — (After Passing Sirmione, April 1887.)
  90. 90After Schiller
  91. 91Song From Heine
  92. 92From Victor Hugo
  93. 93Cardinal Bembo’s Epitaph on Raphael — Retrospect
  94. 94Memory and I
  95. 95ἈΓΝΩΣΤΩι ΘΕΩι

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