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  • Letter In Verse
    Like boys that run behind the loaded wain
    For the mere joy of riding back again,
    19 lines
  • Farewell And Defiance To Love
    Love and thy vain employs, away
    From this too oft deluded breast!
    87 lines
  • The Cellar Door
    By the old tavern door on the causey there lay
    A hogshead of stingo just rolled from a dray,
    174 lines
  • The Cottager
    True as the church clock hand the hour pursues
    He plods about his toils and reads the news,
    103 lines
  • To Napoleon
    The heroes of the present and the past
      Were puny, vague, and nothingness to thee:
    13 lines
  • The Beautiful Stranger
    I cannot know what country owns thee now,
    With France's forest lilies on thy brow.
    14 lines
  • The Tramp
    He eats (a moment's stoppage to his song)
    The stolen turnip as he goes along;
    13 lines
  • Merry Maid
    Bonny and stout and brown, without a hat,
    She frowns offended when they call her fat--
    13 lines
  • Market Day
    With arms and legs at work and gentle stroke
    That urges switching tail nor mends his pace,
    13 lines
  • The Frightened Ploughman
    I went in the fields with the leisure I got,
    The stranger might smile but I heeded him not,
    23 lines
  • Peggy
    Peggy said good morning and I said good bye,
    When farmers dib the corn and laddies sow the rye.
    18 lines
  • The Maid Of Jerusalem
    Maid of Jerusalem, by the Dead Sea,
    I wandered all sorrowing thinking of thee,--
    23 lines
  • Mary Bateman
    My love she wears a cotton plaid,
      A bonnet of the straw;
    26 lines
  • Graves Of Infants
    Infant' graves are steps of angels, where
          Earth's brightest gems of innocence repose.
    18 lines
  • Impromptu
    "Where art thou wandering, little child?"
      I said to one I met to-day.--
    16 lines
  • Spring's Messengers
    Where slanting banks are always with the sun
      The daisy is in blossom even now;
    13 lines
  • The Vanities Of Life
    Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_
    What are life's joys and gains?
    180 lines
  • Wild Bees
    These children of the sun which summer brings
    As pastoral minstrels in her merry train
    36 lines
  • Farmer's Boy
    He waits all day beside his little flock
    And asks the passing stranger what's o'clock,
    13 lines
  • The Sailor-Boy
    Tis three years and a quarter since I left my own fireside
    To go aboard a ship through love, and plough the ocean wide.
    33 lines
  • Invitation To Eternity
    Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid,
    Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
    34 lines
  • Rural Morning
    Soon as the twilight through the distant mist
    In silver hemmings skirts the purple east,
    163 lines
  • Nobody Cometh To Woo
    On Martinmas eve the dogs did bark,
      And I opened the window to see,
    52 lines
  • The Soldier
    Home furthest off grows dearer from the way;
    And when the army in the Indias lay
    13 lines
  • Ploughman Singing
    Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met
      Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,
    13 lines
  • Grasshoppers
    Grasshoppers go in many a thumming spring
    And now to stalks of tasseled sow-grass cling,
    5 lines
  • The Fens
    Wandering by the river's edge,
    I love to rustle through the sedge
    100 lines
  • Idle Fame
    I would not wish the burning blaze
      Of fame around a restless world,
    7 lines
  • Love
    Love, though it is not chill and cold,
      But burning like eternal fire,
    43 lines
  • Sunday Dip
    The morning road is thronged with merry boys
    Who seek the water for their Sunday joys;
    13 lines
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