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 208
Existence