Transcribed from the 1919 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
TIME’S
LAUGHINGSTOCKS
AND OTHER VERSES
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 IN GREAT BRITAIN
BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH
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.