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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)

VOL. I.

ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, ORDERED BY THE WORKING MEN OF SHEFFIELD. By Walter Savage Landor.

JUVENILE POEMS.

Extract from “The Vernal Walk,” written in the Author's Seventeenth Year.

MIRANION.

INSCRIPTIONS.

II.

III.

II.

II.

III.

WITHERED WILD FLOWERS.

II.

III.

THE VILLAGE PATRIARCH.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

THE SPLENDID VILLAGE.

Part I. THE WANDERER RETURNED.

II.

Part II. THE WANDERER DEPARTED.

THE REVOLUTION OF 1832.

THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM.

THE PRESS.

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL.

II.

FAMINE IN A SLAVE SHIP.

THE DYING BOY TO THE SLOE BLOSSOM.

THE WONDERS OF THE LANE.

SLEEP.

THE FATAL BIRTH.

EPIGRAM.

TRANSPLANTED FLOWERS.

THE POLISH FUGITIVES.

SPENSERIAN.

COME AND GONE.

A THUNDER STORM IN WINTER.

PROLOGUE TO THE CORN-LAW RHYMES.

ON AN ORIGINAL SKETCH,

SONG.

TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER.

FLOWERS FOR THE HEART.

ELEGY ON WILLIAM COBBETT.

LINES

RIBBLEDIN; OR THE CHRISTENING.

A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE.

TO HOFLAND, THE ARTIST.

ON A HEARTLESS SLANDERER.

EPIGRAM.

A POET.

THE SINLESS CAIN.

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

THE WINTER SPEEDWELL.

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.

[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.

EPIGRAM.

COLONEL THOMPSON IN PALACE YARD.

WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN DARTFIELD CHURCHYARD.

EPITAPH ON A SKILFUL WORKMAN.

BRITISH RURAL COTTAGES IN 1842.

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.

EPIGRAM.

ON THE CORONATION OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.

WRITTEN AFTER READING GOETHE'S FAUST.

LOVE STRONG IN DEATH.

ARTISAN'S OUTDOOR HYMN.

ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF VICTORIA THE FIRST.

THE SUN'S BIRD.

SCOTSMEN TO SCOTLAND,

ERIN, A DIRGE, FOR APRIL, 1847.

RHYMED RAMBLES.

Part First.

TO G. C. HOLLAND, M.D.

POWERS OF THE SONNET.

ROCK IDOL AT BRIMHAM.

THE THREE MARYS AT CASTLE HOWARD, IN 1812 AND 1837.

WALKLEY.

WORDS AND THINGS.

MAUSOLEUM AT WENTWORTH.

WENTWORTH HOUSE.

PORTRAIT AT WENTWORTH.

BUST AND PORTRAIT AT WENTWORTH.

THRYBERG.

PROSPECT FROM THRYBERG.

NOON ON GREAT KINDER.

TO THOMAS CROSSLEY.

A DREAM.

CONISBOROUGH CASTLE.

LYRICS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XIX.

XX.

XXI.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXII.

XXXIII.

XXXIV.

XXXV.

XXXVI.

XXXVII.

XXXVIII.

XXXIX.

XL.

XLI.

XLII.

XLIII.

XLIV.

XLV.

XLVI.

XLVII.

XLVIII.

XLIX.

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III.

IV.

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EPIGRAM.

[Free Trade means work for beef, not bone]

Free Trade means work for beef, not bone;
It means that men are brothers;
That every man should have his own,
And nobody another's.