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  • A Day-Dream's Reflection
    Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay
    Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam,
    14 lines
  • A Dream
    I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night;
    I went to the window to see the sight;
    33 lines, 4 comments
  • A Gravestone
    Far from the churchyard dig his grave,
    On some green mound beside the wave;
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • A Memory
    Four ducks on a pond,
    A grass-bank beyond,
    7 lines
  • A Seed
    See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,
    And through the Winter neglected lay,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • A Singer
    That which he did not feel, he would not sing;
    What most he felt, religion it was to hide
    14 lines
  • Abbey Assaroe
    Gray, gray is Abbey Assaroe, by Belashanny town,
    It has neither door nor window, the walls are broken down;
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • 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
  • Aeolian Harp
    O pale green sea,
    With long, pale, purple clouds above -
    19 lines
  • After Sunset
    The vast and solemn company of clouds
    Around the Sun's death, lit, incarnadined,
    14 lines
  • Amy Margaret's Five Year Old
    Amy Margaret's five years old,
    Amy Margaret's hair is gold,
    12 lines
  • An Evening
    A sunset's mounded cloud;
    A diamond evening-star;
    8 lines
  • Autumnal Sonnet
    Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
    And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,
    14 lines
  • The Boy
    The Boy from his bedroom-window
    Look'd over the little town,
    16 lines
  • Down On The Shore
    Down on the shore, on the sunny shore!
    Where the salt smell cheers the land;
    30 lines
  • The Eviction
    In early morning twilight, raw and chill,
    Damp vapours brooding on the barren hill,
    58 lines
  • The Fairies
    Up the airy mountain,
    Down the rushy glen,
    56 lines, 1 comment
  • Half-waking
    I thought it was the little bed
    I slept in long ago;
    20 lines
  • In A Spring Grove
    Here the white-ray'd anemone is born,
    Wood-sorrel, and the varnish'd buttercup;
    13 lines
  • In Snow
    O English mother, in the ruddy glow
    Hugging your baby closer when outside
    14 lines
  • Late Autumn
    October - and the skies are cool and gray
    O'er stubbles emptied of their latest sheaf,
    15 lines
  • The Little Dell
    Doleful was the land,
    Dull on, every side,
    61 lines
  • The Ruined Chapel
        By the shore, a plot of ground
        Clips a ruined chapel round,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • The Winter Pear
        Is always Age severe?
          Is never Youth austere?
    9 lines
  • Song. O spirit Of The Summer-time!
      O spirit of the Summer-time!
          Bring back the roses to the dells;
    14 lines
  • The Bubble
        See the pretty planet!
          Floating sphere!
    28 lines
  • St. Margaret's Eve
        Saint Margaret's Eve it did befall,
          The waves roll so gayly O,
    53 lines
  • Daffodil
        Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
          Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill
    14 lines
  • The Elf Singing
    An Elf sat on a twig,
    He was not very big,
    34 lines
  • To The Author Of 'Hesperides
    Hayrick some do spell thy name,
    And thy verse approves the same;
    4 lines
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