Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses
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Thomas Hardy. Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses
PREFACE
TIME’S LAUGHINGSTOCKS
THE REVISITATION
A TRAMPWOMAN’S TRAGEDY (182–)
THE TWO ROSALINDS
A SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY (circa 186–)
THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES
BEREFT
JOHN AND JANE
THE CURATE’S KINDNESS. A WORKHOUSE IRONY
THE FLIRT’S TRAGEDY (17–)
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
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 (Mellstock circa 1835)
THE RASH BRIDE. An Experience of the Mellstock Quire
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 (J. H. 1813–1904)
IN CHILDBED
THE PINE PLANTERS (Marty South’s Reverie)
THE DEAR
ONE WE KNEW (M. H. 1772–1857)
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 (A Memory of Christiana C – )
ONE RALPH BLOSSOM SOLILOQUIZES
THE NOBLE LADY’S TALE (circa 1790)
UNREALIZED
WAGTAIL AND BABY
ABERDEEN (April: 1905)
GEORGE MEREDITH. 1828–1909
YELL’HAM-WOOD’S STORY
A YOUNG MAN’S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE
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Notes. – “Windwhistle” (Stanza iv.). The highness and dryness of Windwhistle Inn was impressed upon the writer two or three years ago, when, after climbing on a hot afternoon to the beautiful spot near which it stands and entering the inn for tea, he was informed by the landlady that none could be had, unless he would fetch water from a valley half a mile off, the house containing not a drop, owing to its situation. However, a tantalizing row of full barrels behind her back testified to a wetness of a certain sort, which was not at that time desired.
“Marshal’s Elm” (Stanza vi.) so picturesquely situated, is no longer an inn, though the house, or part of it, still remains. It used to exhibit a fine old swinging sign.
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“Blue Jimmy” (Stanza x.) was a notorious horse-stealer of Wessex in those days, who appropriated more than a hundred horses before he was caught, among others one belonging to a neighbour of the writer’s grandfather. He was hanged at the now demolished Ivel-chester or Ilchester jail above mentioned – that building formerly of so many sinister associations in the minds of the local peasantry, and the continual haunt of fever, which at last led to its condemnation. Its site is now an innocent-looking green meadow.
April 1902.
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