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Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses

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.

September 1909 T.H.

INDEX
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Time's Laughingstocks
 
Now available on the Members' Research Resources Page
  1. The Revisitation
  2. A Trampwoman's Tragedy
  3. The Two Rosalinds
  4. A Sunday Morning Tragedy
  5. The House of Hospitalities
  6. Bereft
  7. John and Jane
  8. The Curate's Kindness
  9. The Flirt's Tragedy
  10. The Rejected Member's Wife
  11. The Farmwoman's Winter
  12. Autumn in King's Hintock Park
  13. Shut Out That Moon
  14. Reminiscences of a Dancing Man
  15. The Dead Man Walking
  16. 1867
  17. Her Definition
  18. The Division
  19. On the Departure Platform
  20. In a Cathedral City
  21. I Say, 'I'll Seek Her'
  22. Her Father
  23. At Waking
  24. Four Footprints
  25. In the Vaulted Way
  26. In the Mind's Eye
  27. The End of the Episode
  28. The Sigh
  29. In the Night She Came
  30. The Conformers
  31. The Dawn After the Dance
  1. The Sun on the Letter
  2. The Night of the Dance
  3. Misconception
  4. The Voice of the Thorn
  5. From Her in the Country
  6. Her Confession
  7. To An Impersonator of Rosalind
  8. To an Actress
  9. The Minute Before Meeting
  10. He Abjures Love
  11. Let Me Enjoy
  12. The Ballad Singer
  13. Former Beauties
  14. After the Club-Dance
  15. The Market-Girl
  16. The Inquiry
  17. A Wife Waits
  18. After The Fair
  19. The Dark-Eyed Gentleman
  20. To Carrey Clavel
  21. The Orphaned Old Maid
  22. The Spring Call
  23. Julie-Jane
  24. News For Her Mother
  25. The Fiddler
  26. The Husband's View
  27. Rose-Ann
  28. The Homecoming
  29. A Church Romance
  30. The Rash Bride
  31. The Dead Quire
  1. The Christening
  2. A Dream Question
  3. By the Barrows
  4. A Wife and Another
  5. The Roman Road
  6. The Vampirine Fair
  7. The Reminder
  8. The Rambler
  9. Night in the Old Home
  10. After the Last Breath
  11. In Childbed
  12. The Pine Planters
  13. The Dear
  14. One We Knew
  15. She Hears the Storm
  16. A Wet Night
  17. Before Life and After
  18. New Year's Eve
  19. God's Education
  20. To Sincerity
  21. Panthera
  22. The Unborn
  23. The Man He Killed
  24. Geographical Knowledge
  25. One Ralph Blossom Soliloquizes
  26. The Noble Lady's Tale
  27. Unrealized
  28. Wagtail and Baby
  29. Aberdeen
  30. George Meredith
  31. Yell'ham-Wood's Story
  32. A Young Man's Epigram on Existence

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