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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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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.

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MY FIRST SONNET.

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THEY MET AGAIN.

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WITHERED WILD FLOWERS.

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SPIRITS AND MEN.

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THE VILLAGE PATRIARCH.

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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.

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CORN-LAW RHYMES.

THE DEATH FEAST.

THE RECORDING ANGEL.

THE TREE OF RIVELIN.

THE REVOLUTION OF 1832.

THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM.

THE EMIGRANT'S FAREWELL.

A POET'S PRAYER.

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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.

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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.

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.

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RHYMED RAMBLES.

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TO G. C. HOLLAND, M.D.

POWERS OF THE SONNET.

POET v. PARSON.

TREES AT BRIMHAM.

ROCK IDOL AT BRIMHAM.

FOUNTAINS ABBEY.

RETURN TO SHEFFIELD.

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TO THOMAS LISTER.

THE CHAINED EAGLE.

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

WORDS AND THINGS.

MAUSOLEUM AT WENTWORTH.

WENTWORTH HOUSE.

PORTRAIT AT WENTWORTH.

BUST AND PORTRAIT AT WENTWORTH.

PROSPECT FROM THRYBERG.

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CLOUDLESS STANAGE.

NOON ON GREAT KINDER.

TO THOMAS CROSSLEY.

CONISBOROUGH CASTLE.

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LYRICS FOR MY DAUGHTERS.

SONG.

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THE YEAR OF SEEDS.

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XXVII.

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XXXVII.

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XLIX.

L.

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ONE OF THE HOMES,

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SONG.

[When the pale worker faints]

[_]

Robin Adair.

When the pale worker faints,
Making no moan,
Though his unutter'd plaints
Rise to God's throne,

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What from despair can keep
Languor too tired to sleep,
Sorrow too sad to weep?
Music alone!

Milton, poor, old, and blind,
Fated to bear
Worst woes that scourge his kind,
Did not despair:
What, behind curtains worn,
Where his night knew no morn,
Held up his heart forlorn?
Music was there.

Then, to the hopeless one,
Thus, if you can,
Sing, weary wife or son,
Wasted and wan:
“Though pain our portion be,
High is our destiny:
Born thrall of poverty,
Still thou art Man!”

“Homer and Plato were
Kindred of thine;
With thee the angels share
Utt'rance divine;

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Heav'n hath thine image got;
Jesus partook thy lot;
And where night cometh not
Thy sun will shine.”

It costs nothing, and the starving man has nothing. Bring music to the poor man's hearth, and he will not seek it in the alehouse.