Poems of the Past and the Present Thomas Hardy Poems of the Past and the Present Table of Contents Poems of the Past and the Present...........................................................................................................................1 Thomas Hardy................................................................................................................................................2 V.R. 1819−1901..........................................................................................................................................................5 A REVERIE...................................................................................................................................................6 WAR POEMS.............................................................................................................................................................7 EMBARCATION..........................................................................................................................................8 DEPARTURE................................................................................................................................................9 THE COLONEL'S SOLILOQUY...............................................................................................................10 THE GOING OF THE BATTERY..............................................................................................................12 AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON............................................................................................................14 A CHRISTMAS GHOST−STORY.............................................................................................................15 THE DEAD DRUMMER............................................................................................................................16 A WIFE IN LONDON.................................................................................................................................17 THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN.....................................................................................................................18 SONG OF THE SOLDIERS' WIVES.........................................................................................................22 THE SICK GOD..........................................................................................................................................24 POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE......................................................................................................................................26 GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN..................................................................................................27 SHELLEY'S SKYLARK.............................................................................................................................28 IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE..........................................................................................................29 ROME: ON THE PALATINE.....................................................................................................................30 ROME: BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER...................................................31 ROME: THE VATICAN−−SALA DELLE MUSE.....................................................................................32 ROME: AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS...............................................................................................33 LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN: 11−12 P.M.......................................................................34 ZERMATT: TO THE MATTERHORN......................................................................................................35 THE BRIDGE OF LODI {2}.......................................................................................................................36 ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES..................................................................................39 THE MOTHER MOURNS..........................................................................................................................40 "I SAID TO LOVE".....................................................................................................................................43 A COMMONPLACE DAY.........................................................................................................................44 AT A LUNAR ECLIPSE.............................................................................................................................46 THE LACKING SENSE..............................................................................................................................47 TO LIFE.......................................................................................................................................................49 DOOM AND SHE.......................................................................................................................................50 THE PROBLEM..........................................................................................................................................52 THE SUBALTERNS...................................................................................................................................53 THE SLEEP−WORKER..............................................................................................................................54 THE BULLFINCHES..................................................................................................................................55 GOD−FORGOTTEN...................................................................................................................................56 THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT TO AN UNKNOWING GOD..................................................................58 BY THE EARTH'S CORPSE......................................................................................................................59 MUTE OPINION.........................................................................................................................................61 TO AN UNBORN PAUPER CHILD..........................................................................................................62 TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER..............................................................................................64 ON A FINE MORNING..............................................................................................................................65 TO LIZBIE BROWNE................................................................................................................................66 SONG OF HOPE.........................................................................................................................................68 i Poems of the Past and the Present Table of Contents Poems of the Past and the Present THE WELL−BELOVED.............................................................................................................................69 HER REPROACH.......................................................................................................................................71 THE INCONSISTENT................................................................................................................................72 A BROKEN APPOINTMENT....................................................................................................................73 "BETWEEN US NOW"...............................................................................................................................74 "HOW GREAT MY GRIEF".......................................................................................................................75 "I NEED NOT GO".....................................................................................................................................76 THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER...............................................................................................................77 A SPOT........................................................................................................................................................78 LONG PLIGHTED......................................................................................................................................79 THE WIDOW..............................................................................................................................................80 AT A HASTY WEDDING..........................................................................................................................82 THE DREAM−FOLLOWER......................................................................................................................83 HIS IMMORTALITY..................................................................................................................................84 THE TO−BE−FORGOTTEN......................................................................................................................85 WIVES IN THE SERE................................................................................................................................87 THE SUPERSEDED....................................................................................................................................88 AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT.........................................................................................................................89