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POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
By Thomas Hardy
Contents:
V.R. 1819-1901
WAR POEMS -
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
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE -
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
SHELLEY'S
SKYLARK
IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE
ROME: ON
THE PALATINE
ROME: BUILDING A NEW STREET IN
THE ANCIENT QUARTER
ROME: THE VATICAN--SALA
DELLE MUSE
ROME: AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS

LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN
ZERMATT: TO
THE MATTERHORN
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 TO AN
UNKNOWING GOD
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THE SUPERSEDED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: AN OLD MAN'S
STORY
HER LATE HUSBAND
THE SELF-UNSEEING
DE
PROFUNDIS I.
DE PROFUNDIS II.
DE PROFUNDIS III.

THE CHURCH-BUILDER
THE LOST PYX: A MEDIAEVAL
LEGEND
TESS'S LAMENT
THE SUPPLANTER: A TALE

IMITATIONS, ETC. -
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