Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses

CONTENTS

Time’s Laughingstocks—			PAGE
	The Revisitation		3
	A Trampwoman’s Tragedy		11
	The Two Rosalinds		17
	A Sunday Morning Tragedy		21
	The House of Hospitalities		27
	Bereft		28
	John and Jane		30
	The Curate’s Kindness		31
	The Flirt’s Tragedy		34
	The Rejected Member’s Wife		40
	The Farm-Woman’s Winter		42
	Autumn in King’s Hintock Park		43
	Shut out that Moon		45
	Reminiscences of a Dancing Man		47
	The Dead Man Walking		49
More Love Lyrics—
	1967		53
	Her Definition		54
	The Division		55
	On the Departure Platform		56
	In a Cathedral City		58
	“I say I’ll seek Her”		59
	Her Father		60
	At Waking		61
	Four Footprints		63
	In the Vaulted Way		65
	In the Mind’s Eye		66
	The End of the Episode		67
	The Sigh		68
	“In the Night She Came”		70
	The Conformers		72
	The Dawn after the Dance		74
	The Sun on the Letter		76
	The Night of the Dance		77
	Misconception		78
	The Voice of the Thorn		80
	From Her in the Country		82
	Her Confession		83
	To an Impersonator of Rosalind		84
	To an Actress		85
	The Minute before Meeting		86
	He abjures Love		87
A Set of Country Songs—
	Let me Enjoy		91
	At Casterbridge Fair:
	I.	The Ballad-Singer	93
	II.	Former Beauties	94
	III.	After the Club Dance	95
	IV.	The Market-Girl	95
	V.	The Inquiry	96
	VI.	A Wife Waits	97
	VII.	After the Fair	98
	The Dark-eyed Gentleman		100
	To Carrey Clavel		102
	The Orphaned Old Maid		103
	The Spring Call		104
	Julie-Jane		106
	News for Her Mother		108
	The Fiddler		110
	The Husband’s View		111
	Rose-Ann		113
	The Homecoming		115
Pieces Occasional and Various—
	A Church Romance		121
	The Rash Bride		122
	The Dead Quire		128
	The Christening		135
	A Dream Question		137
	By the Barrows		139
	A Wife and Another		140
	The Roman Road		144
	The Vampirine Fair		145
	The Reminder		150
	The Rambler		151
	Night in the Old Home		152
	After the Last Breath		154
	In Childbed		156
	The Pine Planters		158
	The Dear		161
	One We Knew		163
	She Hears the Storm		166
	A Wet Night		167
	Before Life and After		168
	New Year’s Eve		169
	God’s Education		171
	To Sincerity		172
	Panthera		173
	The Unborn		184
	The Man He Killed		186
	Geographical Knowledge		187
	One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes		189
	The Noble Lady’s Tale		191
	Unrealized		201
	Wagtail and Baby		203
	Aberdeen: 1905		204
	George Meredith, 1828–1909		205
	Yell’ham-wood’s Story		207
	A Young Man’s Epigram on Existence		208

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