Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
Excerpt
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
