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  • In Memoriam
    The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
    This Eastertide call into mind the men,
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • Like the Touch of Rain
    Like the touch of rain she was
    On a man's flesh and hair and eyes
    0 lines
  • Rain
    Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
    On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • The Owl
    Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not starved;
    Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof
    0 lines
  • If I Should Ever by Chance
    If I should ever by chance grow rich
    I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
    13 lines
  • The Dark Forest
    Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead
    Hang stars like seeds of light
    12 lines
  • Celandine
    Thinking of her had saddened me at first,
    Until I saw the sun on the celandines lie
    23 lines
  • The New House
    Now first, as I shut the door,
    I was alone
    0 lines
  • Unknown
    She is most fair,
    And when they see her pass
    0 lines
  • October
    The green elm with the one great bough of gold
    Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by one, --
    21 lines
  • Cock-crow
    Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night
    To be cut down by the sharp axe of light, -
    0 lines
  • The Lane
    Some day, I think, there will be people enough
    In Froxfield to pick all the blackberries
    15 lines
  • Sowing
    It was a perfect day
    For sowing; just
    16 lines
  • Snow
    In the gloom of whiteness,
    In the great silence of snow,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Manor Farm
    The rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills
    Ran and sparkled down each side of the road
    24 lines
  • Thaw
    Over the land half freckled with snow half-thawed
    The speculating rooks at their nests cawed,
    0 lines
  • When First
    When first I came here I had hope,
    Hope for I knew not what. Fast beat
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Tall Nettles
    Tall nettles cover up, as they have done
    These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough
    8 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 Path
    Running along a bank, a parapet
    That saves from the precipitous wood below
    22 lines
  • Old Man
    Old Man, or Lads-Love, - in the name there’s nothing
    To one that knows not Lads-Love, or Old Man,
    0 lines
  • Two Pewits
    Under the after-sunset sky
    Two pewits sport and cry,
    15 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
  • Adlestrop
    Yes, I remember Adlestrop,
    The name, because one afternoon
    16 lines
  • Over The Hills
    Often and often it came back again
    To mind, the day I passed the horizon ridge
    18 lines
  • For These
    An acre of land between the shore and the hills,
    Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,
    18 lines
  • Words
    Out of us all
    That make rhymes
    59 lines
  • And You, Helen
    And you, Helen, what should I give you?
    So many things I would give you
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
    This is no case of petty right or wrong
    That politicians or philosophers
    25 lines
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