Poems of the Past and the Present
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Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Poems of the Past and the Present - Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Poems of the Past and the Present
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V.R. 1819–1901 A REVERIE
WAR POEMS
EMBARCATION (Southampton Docks : October , 1899)
DEPARTURE (Southampton Docks : October , 1899)
THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY (Southampton Docks : October , 1899)
THE GOING OF THE BATTERY WIVES’ LAMENT (November 2, 1899)
AT THE WAR OFFICE, LONDON (Affixing the Lists of Killed and Wounded : December , 1899)
A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY
THE DEAD DRUMMER
A WIFE IN LONDON (December , 1899)
THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN
SONG OF THE SOLDIERS’ WIVES
THE SICK GOD
POEMS OF PILGRIMAGE
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (March, 1887)
SHELLEY’S SKYLARK (The neighbourhood of Leghorn : March , 1887)
IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE (April , 1887)
ROME: ON THE PALATINE (April , 1887)
ROME BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER (April , 1887)
ROME THE VATICAN—SALA DELLE MUSE (1887)
ROME AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY AND KEATS (1887)
LAUSANNE IN GIBBON’S OLD GARDEN: 11–12 P.M. June 27, 1897
ZERMATT TO THE MATTERHORN (June - July , 1897)
THE BRIDGE OF LODI (Spring , 1887)
ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
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
(TRIOLET)
I NEED NOT GO
THE COQUETTE, AND AFTER (TRIOLETS)
A SPOT
LONG PLIGHTED
THE WIDOW
AT A HASTY WEDDING (TRIOLET)
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THE SUPERSEDED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 (VILLANELLE)
BIRDS AT WINTER NIGHTFALL (TRIOLET)
THE PUZZLED GAME-BIRDS (TRIOLET)
WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD
THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM
THE DARKLING THRUSH
THE COMET AT YALBURY OR YELL’HAM
MAD JUDY
A WASTED ILLNESS
A MAN (IN MEMORY OF H. OF M.)
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 (KING’S-HINTOCK, 182–.)
THE SELF-UNSEEING
DE PROFUNDIS
THE CHURCH-BUILDER
THE LOST PYX A MEDIÆVAL LEGEND
TESS’S LAMENT
THE SUPPLANTER A TALE
IMITATIONS, ETC.
SAPPHIC FRAGMENT
CATULLUS: XXXI (After passing Sirmione, April 1887.)
AFTER SCHILLER
SONG FROM HEINE
FROM VICTOR HUGO
CARDINAL BEMBO’S EPITAPH ON RAPHAEL
RETROSPECT
I HAVE LIVED WITH SHADES
MEMORY AND I
ΑΓΝΩΣΤΩ. ΘΕΩ.
V.R. 1819–1901
A REVERIE
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Moments
the mightiest pass uncalendared,
And when the Absolute
In backward Time outgave the deedful word
Whereby all life is stirred:
"Let one be born and throned whose mould shall constitute
The norm of every royal-reckoned attribute,"
No mortal knew or heard.
But in due days the purposed Life outshone—
Serene, sagacious, free;
—Her waxing seasons bloomed with deeds well done,
And the world’s heart was won . . .
Yet may the deed of hers most bright in eyes to be
Lie hid from ours—as in the All-One’s thought lay she—
Till ripening years have run.
Sunday Night
,
27th January 1901.
WAR POEMS
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EMBARCATION
(Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
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Here
, where Vespasian’s legions struck the sands,
And Cerdic with his Saxons entered in,
And Henry’s army leapt afloat to win
Convincing triumphs over neighbour lands,
Vaster battalions press for further strands,
To argue in the self-same bloody mode
Which this late age of thought, and pact, and code,
Still fails to mend.—Now deckward tramp the bands,
Yellow as autumn leaves, alive as spring;
And as each host draws out upon the sea
Beyond which lies the tragical To-be,
None dubious of the cause, none murmuring,
Wives, sisters, parents, wave white hands and smile,
As if they knew not that they weep the while.
DEPARTURE
(Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
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While
the far farewell music thins and fails,
And the broad bottoms rip the bearing brine—
All smalling slowly to the gray sea line—
And each significant red smoke-shaft pales,
Keen sense of severance everywhere prevails,
Which shapes the late long tramp of mounting men
To seeming words that ask and ask again:
"How long, O striving Teutons, Slavs, and Gaels
Must your wroth reasonings trade on lives like these,
That are as puppets in a playing hand?—
When shall the saner softer polities
Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land,
And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand
Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?"
THE COLONEL’S SOLILOQUY
(Southampton Docks: October, 1899)
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"
The
quay recedes. Hurrah! Ahead we go! . . .
It’s true I’ve been accustomed now to home,
And joints get rusty, and one’s limbs may grow
More fit to rest than roam.
"But I can stand as yet fair stress and strain;
There’s not a little steel beneath the rust;
My years mount somewhat, but here’s to’t again!
And if I fall,