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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 PRESS.

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.

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THE YEAR OF SEEDS.

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L.

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ONE OF THE HOMES,

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THE PRESS.

WRITTEN FOR THE PRINTERS OF SHEFFIELD, ON THE PASSING OF THE REFORM BILL.

God said—“Let there be light!”
Grim darkness felt his might,
And fled away;
Then startled seas and mountains cold
Shone forth, all bright in blue and gold,
And cried—“'Tis day! 'tis day!”
“Hail, holy light!” exclaim'd
The thund'rous cloud, that flamed
O'er daisies white;
And, lo! the rose, in crimson dress'd,
Lean'd sweetly on the lily's breast;
And, blushing, murmur'd—“Light!”
Then was the skylark born;
Then rose th' embattled corn;
Then floods of praise
Flow'd o'er the sunny hills of noon;
And then, in stillest night, the moon
Pour'd forth her pensive lays.
Lo, heaven's bright bow is glad!
Lo, trees and flowers all clad
In glory, bloom!

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And shall the mortal sons of God
Be senseless as the trodden clod,
And darker than the tomb?
No, by the mind of man!
By the swart artisan!
By God, our Sire!
Our souls have holy light within,
And every form of grief and sin
Shall see and feel its fire.
By earth, and hell, and heav'n,
The shroud of souls is riven!
Mind, mind alone
Is light, and hope, and life, and power!
Earth's deepest night, from this bless'd hour,
The night of minds is gone!
“The Press!” all lands shall sing;
The Press, the Press we bring,
All lands to bless:
O pallid Want! O Labour stark!
Behold, we bring the second ark!
The Press! the Press! the Press!