Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by DavidPrice,
BY
THOMAS HARDY
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1928
First Edition 1909
Reprinted 1910
Second Edition 1915
Reprinted 1919
Pocket Edition 1919
Reprinted 1923, 1924, 1928
PRINTED INGREAT BRITAIN
BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED,EDINBURGH
In collecting the following poems Ihave to thank the editors and proprietors of the periodicals inwhich certain of them have appeared for permission to reclaimthem.
Now that the miscellany is brought together, some lack ofconcord in pieces written at widely severed dates, and incontrasting moods and circumstances, will be obviousenough. This I cannot help, but the sense of disconnection,particularly in respect of those lyrics penned in the firstperson, will be immaterial when it is borne in mind that they areto be regarded, in the main, as dramatic monologues by differentcharacters.
As a whole they will, I hope, take the reader forward, even ifnot far, rather than backward. I should add that some linesin the early-dated poems have been rewritten, though they havebeen left substantially unchanged.
T. H.
September 1909.
Time’sLaughingstocks— | PAGE | ||
| 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 | ||