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Poems of the Past and the Present

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)

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The Superseded (Winnifred Assmann)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