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  • Man and Dog
    ''Twill take some getting.' 'Sir, I think 'twill so.'
    The old man stared up at the mistletoe
    42 lines
  • To-Night
    Harry, you know at night
    The larks in Castle Alley
    12 lines
  • The Other
    The forest ended. Glad I was
    To feel the light, and hear the hum
    119 lines
  • Two Pewits
    Under the after-sunset sky
    Two pewits sport and cry,
    15 lines
  • Over The Hills
    Often and often it came back again
    To mind, the day I passed the horizon ridge
    18 lines
  • If I were to Own
    f I were to own this countryside
    As far as a man in a day could ride,
    30 lines
  • House and Man
    One hour: as dim he and his house now look
    As a reflection in a rippling brook,
    21 lines
  • The Huxter
    He has a hump like an ape on his back;
    He has of money a plentiful lack;
    10 lines
  • How at Once
    How at once should I know,
    When stretched in the harvest blue
    14 lines
  • The Barn and the Down
    t stood in the sunset sky
    Like the straight-backed down,
    24 lines
  • The Hollow Wood
    Out in the sun the goldfinch flits
    Along the thistle-tops, flits and twits
    14 lines
  • Interval
    Gone the wild day:
    A wilder night
    32 lines
  • Home 2
    Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and
    We had seen nothing fairer than that land,
    37 lines
  • Home 3
    Often I had gone this way before
    But now it seemed I never could be
    24 lines
  • The Ash Grove
    Half of the grove stood dead, and those that yet lived made
    Little more than the dead ones made of shade.
    16 lines
  • The New House
    Now first, as I shut the door,
    I was alone
    0 lines
  • It Was Upon
    It was upon a July evening.
    At a stile I stood, looking along a path
    14 lines
  • Liberty
    The last light has gone out of the world, except
    This moonlight lying on the grass like frost
    27 lines
  • The Barn
    They should never have built a barn there, at all -
    Drip, drip, drip! - under that elm tree,
    24 lines
  • The Long Small Room
    The long small room that showed willows in the west
    Narrowed up to the end the fireplace filled,
    0 lines
  • The Cuckoo
    That's the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it.
    When last I heard it I cannot recall; but I know
    12 lines
  • The Child on the Cliffs
    Mother, the root of this little yellow flower
    Among the stones has the taste of quinine.
    25 lines
  • If I Should Ever by Chance
    If I should ever by chance grow rich
    I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
    13 lines
  • Unknown
    She is most fair,
    And when they see her pass
    0 lines
  • The Child in the Orchard
    'He rolls in the orchard: he is stained with moss
    And with earth, the solitary old white horse.
    25 lines
  • The Combe
    The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark.
    Its mouth is stopped with brambles, thorn, and briar;
    12 lines
  • The Gypsy
    A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:
    Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to the fair.
    28 lines
  • The Brook
    Seated once by a brook, watching a child
    Chiefly that paddled, I was thus beguiled.
    28 lines
  • In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)
    The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
    This Eastertide call into mind the men,
    4 lines
  • The Gallows
    There was a weasel lived in the sun
    With all his family,
    32 lines
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