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Minor Poems

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A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun213

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!52

Ah! Jeane, my maid, I stood to you20

Ah! my heart is weary waiting91

All houses wherein men have lived and died73

As an unperfect actor on the stage50

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay69

A steed! a steed of matchlesse speed132

As upland fields were sunburnt brown43

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still175

Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead161

Before I trust my fate to thee46

Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull201

Between the dark and the daylight152

Bird of the wilderness104

Break, break, break53

By the waters of Life we sat together84

Close his eyes; his work is done!134

Come, all ye jolly shepherds30

Come in the evening, or come in the morning35

Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer46

Could we but know220

Could ye come back to me, Douglas, Douglas167

Deep on the convent-roof the snows215

Drawn by horses with decorous feet185

Eyes which can but ill define88

Farewell! since nevermore for thee173

Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea112

From Stirling castle we had seen93

"Give us a song!" the soldiers cried130

God makes sech nights, all white an' still26

Go, Soul, the body's guest204

Green be the turf above thee169

Hail to thee, blithe spirit!106

He clasps the crag with hookéd hands105

He is gone on the mountain133

Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling168

He wiled me through the furzy croft59

Ho! pretty page with the dimpled chin115

Ho, sailor of the sea!150

How sleep the brave who sink to rest139

I arise from dreams of thee42

I cannot make him dead!154

I fill this cup to one made up21

I have had playmates, I have had companions66

I heard the trailing garments of the night103

I mourn no more my vanished years221

I'm sittin' on the stile, Mary158

I'm wearin' awa', John156

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan16

I remember, I remember72

I saw her once,—so freshly fair67

I saw him once before117

It was the calm and silent night217

I wandered by the brookside36

I was thy neighbor once, thou rugged pile!209

Just for a handful of silver he left us119

Life! I know not what thou art193

Like as the damask rose you see189

Like to the falling of a star192

Look at me with thy large brown eyes149

Love not, love not! ye hapless sons of clay!51

Maid of Athens, ere we part45

Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning32

My boat is on the shore110

My fairest child, I have no song to give you199

My glass shall not persuade me I am old49

My heid is like to rend, Willie56

My life is like the summer rose113

My mother bore me in the southern wild181

Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew104

No bird-song floated down the hill82

O, a dainty plant is the ivy green90

Oft in the stilly night64

O little feet! that such long years227

O Mary, go and call the cattle home102

O, sing unto my roundelay!171

Our bugles sang truce; for the night-cloud had lowered127

Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass140

Over the river they beckon to me78

O, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?177

O Woman of Three Cows, agragh! don't let your tongue thus rattle!196

O World! O Life! O Time!192

Prithee tell me, Dimple-Chin228

September strews the woodland o'er63

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?50

She died in beauty,—like a rose164

She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps170

She walks in beauty like the night84

She was a phantom of delight18

She was not fair, nor full of grace165

Slave of the dark and dirty mine183

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves136

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn123

Stars of the summer night!41

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright203

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean65

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkinde125

That which her slender waist confined23

The glories of our birth and state182

The glow and the glory are plighted24

The heath this night must be my bed124

The maid who binds her warrior's sash142

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year100

There sat an old man on a rock120

These years! these years! these naughty years!114

The shadows lay along Broadway207

The splendor falls on castle walls40

The sunlight fills the trembling air86

The winds that once the Argo bore144

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall193

They are all gone into the world of light80

They grew in beauty, side by side174

They sleep so calm and stately137

This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling146

This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign214

This sweet child which hath climbed upon my knee219

Thou lingering star, with lessening ray61

Thou still unravished bride of quietness!199

Three fishers went sailing out into the west143

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright96

'Tis a fearful night in the winter time97

'Tis pleasant business making books231

'Tis the last rose of summer111

To him who in the love of nature holds75

Touch us gently, Time!122

Tread softly,—bow the head208

Weave no more the marriage-chain!163

We count the broken lyres that rest229

We left behind the painted buoy13

We watched her breathing through the night160

We were not many,—we who stood128

What constitutes a state?148

What hid'st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells?212

What was he doing, the great god Pan?11

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow48

When I consider how my light is spent143

When I do count the clock that tells the time49

When Liberty lives loud on every lip179

When the latest strife is lost, and all is done with54

Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?133

Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed71

With blackest moss the flower-pots37

With what clear guile of gracious love enticed224

Ye banks, and braes, and streams around166

You ask me, why, though ill at ease126

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