Poems of the Past and the Present

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2012
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775560807
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

Though best remembered as one of the foremost Victorian realists who created classic works of fiction like Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy always considered himself to be more a poet than a novelist at heart. Over time, critics and fans alike have warmed to Hardy's verse, and his influence has been cited by several acclaimed contemporary poets, including Philip Larkin. This poetry collection brings together some of Hardy's most accomplished works.

Table of contents

• POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
• Contents
• V. R. 1819-1901
• Embarcation
• Departure
• The Colonel's Soliloquy
• The Going of the Battery
• At the War Office, London
• A Christmas Ghost-Story
• The Dead Drummer
• A Wife in London
• The Souls of the Slain
• Song of the Soldiers' Wives
• The Sick God
• Genoa and the Mediterranean
• Shelley's Skylark
• In the Old Theatre, Fiesole
• Rome: On the Palatine
• Rome
• Rome
• Rome
• Lausanne
• Zermatt
• The Bridge of Lodi
• On an Invitation to the United States
• The Mother Mourns
• "I Said to Love"
• A Commonplace Day
• At a Lunar Eclipse
• The Lacking Sense
• To Life
• Doom and She
• The Problem
• The Subalterns
• The Sleep-Worker
• The Bullfinches
• God-Forgotten
• The Bedridden Peasant
• By the Earth's Corpse
• Mute Opinion
• To an Unborn Pauper Child
• To Flowers from Italy in Winter
• On a Fine Morning
• To Lizbie Browne
• Song of Hope
• The Well-Beloved
• Her Reproach
• The Inconsistent
• A Broken Appointment
• "Between Us Now"
• "How Great My Grief"
• "I Need Not Go"
• The Coquette, and After
• A Spot
• Long Plighted
• The Widow
• At a Hasty Wedding
• The Dream-Follower
• His Immortality
• The to-Be-Forgotten
• Wives in the Sere
• The Superseded
• An August Midnight
• The Caged Thrush Freed and Home Again
• Birds at Winter Nightfall
• The Puzzled Game-Birds
• Winter in Durnover Field
• The Last Chrysanthemum
• The Darkling Thrush
• The Comet at Yalbury or Yell'ham
• Mad Judy
• A Wasted Illness
• A Man
• The Dame of Athelhall
• The Seasons of Her Year
• The Milkmaid
• The Levelled Churchyard
• The Ruined Maid
• The Respectable Burgher on "the Higher Criticism"
• Architectural Masks
• The Tenant-For-Life
• The King's Experiment
• The Tree
• Her Late Husband
• The Self-Unseeing
• De Profundis
• The Church-Builder
• The Lost Pyx
• Tess's Lament
• The Supplanter
• Sapphic Fragment
• Catullus: XXXI
• After Schiller
• Song from Heine
• From Victor Hugo
• Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael
• "I Have Lived with Shades"
• Memory and I
• "To the Unknown God”
• Endnotes