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TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES
by Thomas Hardy
Contents:
Preface
TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS -
The Revisitation
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
The Two Rosalinds
A Sunday Morning Tragedy
The House of Hospitalities
Bereft
John and Jane
The Curate's Kindness
The Flirt's Tragedy
The
Rejected Member's Wife
The Farm-Woman's Winter
Autumn in
King's Hintock Park
Shut out that Moon
Reminiscences of a
Dancing Man
The Dead Man Walking
MORE LOVE LYRICS -
1967
Her Definition
The Division
On the Departure Platform
In
a Cathedral City
"I say I'll seek Her"
Her Father
At Waking
Four Footprints
In the Vaulted Way
In the Mind's Eye
The End of
the Episode
The Sigh
"In the Night She Came"
The Conformers
The Dawn after the Dance
The Sun on the Letter
The Night of
the Dance
Misconception
The Voice of the Thorn
From Her in
the Country
Her Confession
To an Impersonator of Rosalind
To
an Actress
The Minute before Meeting
He abjures Love
A SET
OF COUNTRY SONGS -
Let me Enjoy
At Casterbridge Fair:
I. The Ballad-Singer
II. Former Beauties
III. After the Club Dance
IV. The Market-Girl
V. The Inquiry
VI. A Wife Waits
VII.
After the Fair
The Dark-eyed Gentleman
To Carrey Clavel
The
Orphaned Old Maid
The Spring Call
Julie-Jane
News for Her
Mother
The Fiddler
The Husband's View
Rose-Ann
The
Homecoming
PIECES OCCASIONAL AND VARIOUS -
A Church Romance
The Rash Bride
The Dead Quire
The
Christening
A Dream Question
By the Barrows
A Wife and
Another
The Roman Road
The Vampirine Fair
The Reminder
The Rambler
Night in the Old Home
After the Last Breath
In
Childbed
The Pine Planters
The Dear
One We Knew
She Hears
the Storm
A Wet Night
Before Life and After
New Year's Eve
God's Education
To Sincerity
Panthera
The Unborn
The Man
He Killed
Geographical Knowledge
One Ralph Blossom
Soliloquizes
The Noble Lady's Tale
Unrealized
Wagtail and Baby
Aberdeen: 1905
George Meredith, 1828-1909
Yell'ham-wood's
Story
A Young Man's Epigram on Existence
PREFACE
In collecting the following poems I have to thank the editors and
proprietors of the periodicals in which certain of them have appeared
for permission to reclaim them.
Now that the miscellany is brought together, some lack of concord in
pieces written at widely severed dates, and in contrasting moods and
circumstances, will be obvious enough. This I cannot help, but the
sense of disconnection, particularly in respect of those lyrics penned in
the first person, will be immaterial when it is borne in mind that they
are to be regarded, in the main, as dramatic monologues by different
characters.
As a whole they will, I hope, take the reader forward, even if not far,
rather than backward. I should add that some lines in the early-dated
poems have been rewritten, though they have been left substantially
unchanged.
T. H.
September 1909.
THE REVISITATION
As I lay awake at night-time
In an ancient country barrack known to
ancient cannoneers,
And recalled the hopes that heralded each
seeming brave and bright time
Of my
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