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The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Elliott

Edited by his Son Edwin Elliott ... A New and Revised Edition: Two Volumes
Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
  
HYMN
  
THE PRIMROSE.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
SPRING.
  
A SHADOW.
  
ANTICIPATION.
  
PRESTON MILLS.
  
FAMINE IN A SLAVE SHIP.
  
THE DYING BOY TO THE SLOE BLOSSOM.
  
THE WONDERS OF THE LANE.
  
SLEEP.
  
THE FATAL BIRTH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
HYMN,
  
THE EXCURSION.
  
SONG.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
MAY.
  
THE POLISH FUGITIVES.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
COME AND GONE.
  
A THUNDER STORM IN WINTER.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE CORN-LAW RHYMES.
  
FROM GOETHE.
  
CANNING.
  
FOREST WORSHIP.
  
A SONG IN EXILE.
  
ON AN ORIGINAL SKETCH,
  
SONG.
  
TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER.
  
SPENSERIAN.
  
THOMAS.
  
BIGOTRY.
  
DON AND ROTHER.
  
FUNERAL HYMN.
  
FLOWERS FOR THE HEART.
  
TO FANNY.
  
A POET'S EPITAPH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
THE DEATH-HUNTED.
  
LINES
  
ELEGY ON WILLIAM COBBETT.
  
LINES
  
RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING.
  
THE MALTBY YEWS.
  
BURNS.
  
THE TRICOLOR CROSS.
  
THE PILGRIM FATHERS.
  
A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE.
  
THE BALLOT.
  
ROCH ABBEY GATEWAY.
  
LEAVES AND MEN.
  
WILLIAM.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
FOOTPATHS.
  
TO HOFLAND, THE ARTIST.
  
ON A HEARTLESS SLANDERER.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
A POET.
  
THE SINLESS CAIN.
  
EPISTLE TO G. C. HOLLAND, ESQ., M.D.,
  
THE BROKEN HEART.
  
SATURDAY.
  
HOLIDAY.
  
SONG.
  
RUB OR RUST.
  
THE HOME OF TASTE.
  
THE SUMMER-HOUSE.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
THE WINTER SPEEDWELL.
  
A GHOST AT NOON.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
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ON THE DEATH OF EARL FITZWILLIAM.
  
SABBATH MORNING.
  
TASTE.
  
THE WOODBINES OF JUNE.
  
THE REJECTED.
  
RAINBOWED MAY.
  
THE SPIRIT OF THE FIRST EMIGRANT.
  
HANNAH RATCLIFFE.
  
THE WAY BROAD-LEAF.
  
PROLOGUE TO WATT TYLER.
  
SONG.
  
CORONATION ODE.
  
VERSES
  
HYMN.
  
TRAFALGAR.
  
HYMN.
  
LINES.
  
HYMN.
  
[The present, future, past]
  
[Wrong not the labouring poor by whom ye live!]
  
[Lord! not for vengeance rave the wrong'd]
  
THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
  
EPITAPH.
  
EPITAPH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
COLONEL THOMPSON IN PALACE YARD.
  
PELHAM.
  
INSCRIPTION.
  
ANN.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN DARTFIELD CHURCHYARD.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
STEAM IN THE DESERT.
  
GRACE BEFORE MEAT.
  
GRACE AFTER MEAT.
  
EPITAPH ON A SKILFUL WORKMAN.
  
HE IS NOT HERE.
  
BEWARE OF DOGMAS.
  
WHO HATH A DEVIL?
  
LET ME REST.
  
BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
YOUNG ENGLAND.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
POOR CHARLES.
  
ON A ROSE IN DECEMBER.
  
WAR.
  
SONNET ON A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.
  
TO FANNY ANN.
  
LAW.
  
MONODY ON JOHN KEATS.
  
TO A LADY,
  
TO WED, OR NOT TO WED.
  
NOT FOR NOUGHT.
  
THOMAS HOBBES IN 1651.
  
ADAM SMITH 1766.
  
TURGOT IN 1774.
  
SONG.
  
OH, TELL US!
  
RELIGION.
  
SONNET.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
TAKE v. GIVE.
  
SONNET.
  
ON THE CORONATION OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.
  
FAREWELL TO RIVILIN.
  
THE DEAD ARE LIVING.
  
A COWARD'S BLOW.
  
IVY.
  
EPITAPH,
  
EPIGRAM.
  
WRITTEN AFTER READING GOETHE'S FAUST.
  
EPITAPH.
  
WOMAN.
  
LENT AND LOST.
  
LAND.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
THE PEOPLE'S ANTHEM.
  
LOVE STRONG IN DEATH.
  
TO THOMAS LISTER.
  
BULLY IDLE'S PRAYER.
  
HYMN.
  
WILL IT RAIN?
  
GOOD MEN'S GRAVES.
  
YOUNG POET'S PLAINT.
  
ARTISAN'S OUTDOOR HYMN.
  
THE POOR MAN'S DAY.
  
HYMN.
  
PRAYER.
  
THE IMITATED LANE.
  
ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.
  
THE SUN'S BIRD.
  
SCOTSMEN TO SCOTLAND,
  
ERIN, A DIRGE, FOR APRIL, 1847.
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RHYMED RAMBLES.
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LYRICS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.
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THE YEAR OF SEEDS.
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BALLADS.
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ETHELINE.
  
LAST LINES.

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EPIGRAM.

[The scoundrel's virtues Candid takes on trust]

The scoundrel's virtues Candid takes on trust,
But sifts for good men's faults their very dust.
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