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To Anna Three Years Old
To Anna Three Years Old
My Anna, summer laughs in mirth,
And we will of the party be,
And leave the crickets in the hearth
For green fiel…
To John Milton
To John Milton
_'From his honoured friend, William Davenant'_
Poet of mighty power, I fain
Would court the muse that honoured thee,
The Wood-Cutter's Night Song
The Wood-Cutter's Night Song
Welcome, red and roundy sun,
Dropping lowly in the west;
Now my hard day's work is done,
I'm as happy as the…
Thou Flower Of Summer
Thou Flower Of Summer
When in summer thou walkest
In the meads by the river,
And to thyself talkest,
Dost thou think of one ever--
…
The Winter's Come
The Winter's Come
Sweet chestnuts brown like soling leather turn;
The larch trees, like the colour of the Sun;
That paled sky in the Autumn seeme…
The Vanities Of Life
The Vanities Of Life
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_
What are life's joys and gains?
What pleasures crowd its ways,
…
The Stranger
The Stranger
When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?
No, rather smile away despair;
For those have been more sad than I,
With burthens more …
The Thrush's Nest
The Thrush's Nest
Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush
That overhung a molehill large and round,
I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush <…
The Sleep Of Spring
The Sleep Of Spring
O for that sweet, untroubled rest
That poets oft have sung!--
The babe upon its mother's breast,
The bird upon its you…
The Shepherd's Tree
The Shepherd's Tree
Huge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred,
Like to a warrior's destiny! I love
To stretch me often on thy shadowed …
The Shepherds Calendar - May
The Shepherds Calendar - May
Come queen of months in company
Wi all thy merry minstrelsy
The restless cuckoo absent long
And twittering s…
The Shepherd's Calendar - October
The Shepherd's Calendar - October
Nature now spreads around in dreary hue
A pall to cover all that summer knew
Yet in the poets solitary way
The Shepherds Calendar - July
The Shepherds Calendar - July
Daughter of pastoral smells and sights
And sultry days and dewy nights
July resumes her yearly place
Wi her…
The Shepherd's Calendar - June
The Shepherd's Calendar - June
Now summer is in flower and natures hum
Is never silent round her sultry bloom
Insects as small as dust are never …
The Shepherds Calendar - February - A Thaw
The Shepherds Calendar - February - A Thaw
The snow is gone from cottage tops
The thatch moss glows in brighter green
And eves in quick successio…
The Shepherds Calendar - April
The Shepherds Calendar - April
The infant april joins the spring
And views its watery skye
As youngling linnet trys its wing
And fears at…
The Peasant Poet
The Peasant Poet
He loved the brook's soft sound,
The swallow swimming by.
He loved the daisy-covered ground,
The cloud-bedappled sky.
The Sailor-Boy
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.
I crossed …
The Old Cottagers
The Old Cottagers
The little cottage stood alone, the pride
Of solitude surrounded every side.
Bean fields in blossom almost reached the wall;
The Mores
The Mores
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene
Bespread with rush and one eternal green
That never felt the rage of blundering plough
The Maid Of Ocram, Or, Lord Gregory
The Maid Of Ocram, Or, Lord Gregory
Gay was the Maid of Ocram
As lady eer might be
Ere she did venture past a maid
To love Lord Gregory. …
The Lout
The Lout
For Sunday's play he never makes excuse,
But plays at taw, and buys his Spanish juice.
Hard as his toil, and ever slow to speak,
…
The Gipsy's Camp
The Gipsy's Camp
How oft on Sundays, when I'd time to tramp,
My rambles led me to a gipsy's camp,
Where the real effigy of midnight hags,
…
The Landrail
The Landrail
How sweet and pleasant grows the way
Through summer time again
While Landrails call from day to day
Amid the grass and grain…