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  • The Touchstone
    A man there came, whence none could tell,
    Bearing a Touchstone in his hand;
    38 lines
  • The Elf Singing
    An Elf sat on a twig,
    He was not very big,
    34 lines
  • These Little Songs
    These little Songs,
    Found here and there,
    27 lines
  • The Winter Pear
        Is always Age severe?
          Is never Youth austere?
    9 lines
  • Wayside Flowers
    Pluck not the wayside flower,
    It is the traveller's dower;
    16 lines
  • The Winding Banks Of Erne
    Adieu to Belashanny!
    where I was bred and born;
    160 lines
  • The Little Dell
    Doleful was the land,
    Dull on, every side,
    61 lines
  • The Bubble
        See the pretty planet!
          Floating sphere!
    28 lines
  • The Maids Of Elfin-Mere
    When the spinning-room was here
    Came Three Damsels, clothed in white,
    40 lines
  • The Lepracaun Or Fairy Shoemaker
    Little Cowboy, what have you heard,
    Up on the lonely rath's green mound?
    71 lines
  • The Nobleman's Wedding
    I once was a guest at a Nobleman's wedding;
    Fair was the Bride, but she scarce had been kind,
    32 lines
  • The Abbot Of Innisfallen
    The Abbot of Innisfallen
    awoke ere dawn of day;
    108 lines
  • The Ruined Chapel
        By the shore, a plot of ground
        Clips a ruined chapel round,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • Wishing
    Ring-Ting! I wish I were a Primrose,
    A bright yellow Primrose, blowing in the spring!
    24 lines
  • The Eviction
    In early morning twilight, raw and chill,
    Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill,
    58 lines
  • The Lover And Birds
    Within a budding grove,
    In April's ear sang every bird his best,
    49 lines
  • Writing
    A man who keeps a diary, pays
    Due toll to many tedious days;
    6 lines
  • St. Margaret's Eve
        Saint Margaret's Eve it did befall,
          The waves roll so gayly O,
    53 lines
  • Song. O spirit Of The Summer-time!
      O spirit of the Summer-time!
          Bring back the roses to the dells;
    14 lines
  • To The Author Of 'Hesperides
    Hayrick some do spell thy name,
    And thy verse approves the same;
    4 lines
  • Daffodil
        Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
          Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill
    14 lines
  • On A Forenoon Of Spring
    I'm glad I am alive, to see and feel
    The full deliciousness of this bright day,
    14 lines
  • Down On The Shore
    Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
    Where the salt smell cheers the land;
    30 lines
  • Late Autumn
    October - and the skies are cool and gray
    O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf,
    15 lines
  • Half-waking
    I thought it was the little bed
    I slept in long ago;
    20 lines
  • Kate O'Belashanny
    Seek up and down, both fair and brown,
    We've purty lasses many, O;
    48 lines
  • Let Me Sing Of What I Know
    A wild west Coast, a little Town,
    Where little Folk go up and down,
    8 lines
  • Places And Men
    In Sussex here, by shingle and by sand,
    Flat fields and farmsteads in their wind-blown trees,
    14 lines
  • Adieu To Belshanny
    Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born;
    Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as night and morn.
    88 lines
  • In A Spring Grove
    Here the white-ray'd anemone is born,
    Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup;
    13 lines
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