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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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VOL. I.
  
ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, ORDERED BY THE WORKING MEN OF SHEFFIELD. By Walter Savage Landor.
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JUVENILE POEMS.
  
Extract from “The Vernal Walk,” written in the Author's Seventeenth Year.
  
MIRANION.
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INSCRIPTIONS.
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II.
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III.
  
MY FIRST SONNET.
  
THE EXILE.
  
BOTHWELL:
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LOVE.
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BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
  
THE LETTER.
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THEY MET AGAIN.
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BOOK I.
  
INTRODUCTION.
  
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 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
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WITHERED WILD FLOWERS.
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BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
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SPIRITS AND MEN.
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BOOK I.
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THE VILLAGE PATRIARCH.
  
EXORDIUM.
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BOOK I.
 II. 
BOOK II.
 III. 
BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
 V. 
BOOK V.
 VI. 
BOOK VI.
 VII. 
BOOK VII.
 VIII. 
BOOK VIII.
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BOOK IX.
 X. 
BOOK X.
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THE SPLENDID VILLAGE.
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Part I. THE WANDERER RETURNED.
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Part II. THE WANDERER DEPARTED.
  
THEY MET IN HEAVEN.
  
WHAT ART THOU, MIND?
  
STEAM AT SHEFFIELD.
  
THE RANTER.
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CORN-LAW RHYMES.
  
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SONG.
  
SONG.
  
THE DEATH FEAST.
  
ELEGY.
  
THE RECORDING ANGEL.
  
THE TREE OF RIVELIN.
  
INSCRIPTION,
  
REFORM.
  
LINES
  
BATTLE SONG.
  
THE REVOLUTION OF 1832.
  
THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM.
  
THE PRESS.
  
THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL.
  
A POET'S PRAYER.
  
WIN-HILL;
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VOL. II.
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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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HE WENT.
  
HE WROTE.
  
HE CAME.
  
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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Part First.
  
TO G. C. HOLLAND, M.D.
  
POWERS OF THE SONNET.
  
EUGENE ARAM.
  
PLUMPTON.
  
BOLTON ABBEY.
  
THE VICARAGE.
  
POET v. PARSON.
  
BRIMHAM ROCKS.
  
TREES AT BRIMHAM.
  
ROCK IDOL AT BRIMHAM.
  
STUDLEY.
  
CRITICISM.
  
FOUNTAINS ABBEY.
  
PARTING TEARS.
  
RETURN TO SHEFFIELD.
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Part Second.
  
TO THOMAS LISTER.
  
THE CHAINED EAGLE.
  
CASTLE HOWARD.
  
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.
  
RETROSPECTION.
  
ROCH ABBEY.
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Part Third.
  
TO ELIZABETH.
  
CLOUDLESS STANAGE.
  
NOON ON GREAT KINDER.
  
TO THOMAS CROSSLEY.
  
A DREAM.
  
CONISBOROUGH CASTLE.
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LYRICS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
CHANT.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
PLAINT.
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THE YEAR OF SEEDS.
  
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XXIII.
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XXIV.
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XXVII.
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XXVIII.
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XXXIII.
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XXXVIII.
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XXXIX.
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L.
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BALLADS.
  
ONE OF THE HOMES,
  
DEVIL BYRON.
  
THE GIPSY.
  
EPISTLE.
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ETHELINE.
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BOOK I.
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BOOK II.
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BOOK III.
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BOOK IV.
  
LAST LINES.

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WOMAN.

What highest prize hath woman won
In science, or in art?
What mightiest work, by woman done,
Boasts city, field, or mart?
“She hath no Raphael!” Painting saith;
“No Newton!” Learning cries;
“Show us her Steam-ship! her Macbeth!
Her thought-won victories.”
Wait, boastful Man! Though worthy are
Thy deeds, when thou art true,
Things worthier still, and holier far,
Our sister yet will do;
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For this the worth of woman shows,
On every peopled shore,
That still as man in wisdom grows,
He honours her the more.
Oh, not for wealth, or fame, or power,
Hath man's meek angel striven,
But, silent as the growing flower,
To make of earth a heav'n!
And in her garden of the sun
Heaven's brightest rose shall bloom;
For woman's best is unbegun!
Her advent yet to come!
 

Educated woman, through her self-denying, self-aggrandising refusal to marry, without first securing a certain standard of comfort, is destined to save mankind, and in the language of St. Paul, “Lift us up!”

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