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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.

FAMINE IN A SLAVE SHIP.

THE DYING BOY TO THE SLOE BLOSSOM.

THE WONDERS OF THE LANE.

THE FATAL BIRTH.

TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS.

THE POLISH FUGITIVES.

A THUNDER STORM IN WINTER.

PROLOGUE TO THE CORN-LAW RHYMES.

FOREST WORSHIP.

A SONG IN EXILE.

ON AN ORIGINAL SKETCH,

TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER.

DON AND ROTHER.

FLOWERS FOR THE HEART.

A POET'S EPITAPH.

THE DEATH-HUNTED.

ELEGY ON WILLIAM COBBETT.

RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING.

THE MALTBY YEWS.

THE TRICOLOR CROSS.

THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE.

ROCH ABBEY GATEWAY.

LEAVES AND MEN.

TO HOFLAND, THE ARTIST.

ON A HEARTLESS SLANDERER.

THE SINLESS CAIN.

EPISTLE TO G. C. HOLLAND, ESQ., M.D.,

THE BROKEN HEART.

THE HOME OF TASTE.

THE SUMMER-HOUSE.

THE WINTER SPEEDWELL.

A GHOST AT NOON.

ON THE DEATH OF EARL FITZWILLIAM.

SABBATH MORNING.

THE WOODBINES OF JUNE.

THE SPIRIT OF THE FIRST EMIGRANT.

HANNAH RATCLIFFE.

THE WAY BROAD-LEAF.

PROLOGUE TO WATT TYLER.

CORONATION ODE.

[The present, future, past]

[Wrong not the labouring poor by whom ye live!]

[Lord! not for vengeance rave the wrong'd]

THE UNWRITTEN WORD.

COLONEL THOMPSON IN PALACE YARD.

WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN DARTFIELD CHURCHYARD.

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?

BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842.

ON A ROSE IN DECEMBER.

SONNET ON A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.

MONODY ON JOHN KEATS.

TO WED, OR NOT TO WED.

NOT FOR NOUGHT.

THOMAS HOBBES IN 1651.

ADAM SMITH 1766.

TURGOT IN 1774.

ON THE CORONATION OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.

FAREWELL TO RIVILIN.

THE DEAD ARE LIVING.

A COWARD'S BLOW.

WRITTEN AFTER READING GOETHE'S FAUST.

LAND.

THE PEOPLE'S ANTHEM.

LOVE STRONG IN DEATH.

TO THOMAS LISTER.

BULLY IDLE'S PRAYER.

GOOD MEN'S GRAVES.

YOUNG POET'S PLAINT.

ARTISAN'S OUTDOOR HYMN.

THE POOR MAN'S DAY.

THE IMITATED LANE.

ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.

THE SUN'S BIRD.

SCOTSMEN TO SCOTLAND,

ERIN, A DIRGE, FOR APRIL, 1847.

RHYMED RAMBLES.

LYRICS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.

THE YEAR OF SEEDS.

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LAND.

He ties up hands
Who locks up lands:
The lands which can't be sold and bought
Bring men and states to worse than nought:
The lands which can be freely sold
Are worth a world of barren gold.

Land, in Britain, is withdrawn from competition by the law of primogeniture, and in France by that of equal division among all the children of a marriage, to the great danger of both countries.