• Adlestrop – Yes, I remember Adlestrop -…
• After Rain – The rain of a night and a day and a night…
• After You Speak – After you speak…
• Ambition – Unless it was that day I never knew…
• And You, Helen – And you, Helen, what should I give you?…
• April – The sweetest thing, I thought…
• The Ash Grove – Half of the grove stood dead, and those that yet lived made…
• Aspens – All day and all night, save winter, every weather,…
• As the Clouds that are so Light – As the clouds that are so light,…
• The Barn – They should never have built a barn there, at all -…
• The Barn and the Down – It stood in the sunset sky…
• Beauty – What does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease,…
• Birds’ Nests – The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind,…
• The Bridge – I have come a long way to-day:…
• Bright Clouds – Bright clouds of may…
• The Brook – Seated once by a brook, watching a child…
• But These Things Also – But these things also are Spring’s -…
• A Cat – She had a name among the children;…
• Celandine – Thinking of her had saddened me at first,…
• The Chalk-Pit – ‘Is this the road that climbs above and bends…
• The Cherry Trees – The cherry trees bend over and are shedding,…
• The Child in the Orchard – ‘He rolls in the orchard: he is stained with moss…
• The Child on the Cliffs – Mother, the root of this little yellow flower…
• Cock-Crow – Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night…
• The Combe – The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark….
• The Cuckoo – That’s the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it….
• The Dark Forest – Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead;…
• Digging – What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,…
• Digging – To-day I think/Only with scents…
• A Dream – Over known fields with an old friend in dream…
• Early One Morning – Early one morning in May I set out,…
• Fifty Faggots – There they stand, on their ends, the fifty faggots…
• First Known when Lost – I never had noticed it until…
• For These – An acre of land between the shore and the hills,…
• The Gallows – There was a weasel lived in the sun…
• A Gentleman – ‘He has robbed two clubs. The judge at Salisbury…
• The Glory – The glory of the beauty of the morning, -…
• Gone, Gone Again – Gone, gone again,/May, June, July,…
• Good-Night – The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down;…
• The Green Roads – The green roads that end in the forest…
• The Gypsy – A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:…
• Haymaking – After night’s thunder far away had rolled…
• Health – Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,…
• Head and Bottle – The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum…
• The Hollow Wood – Out in the sun the goldfinch flits…
• Home – Not the end: but there’s nothing more….
• ‘Home’ – Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, and…
• Home – Often I had gone this way before…
• House and Man – One hour: as dim he and his house now look…
• How at Once – How at once should I know,…
• The Huxter – He has a hump like an ape on his back;…
• Interval – Gone the wild day:…
• If I Should Ever by Chance – If I should ever by chance grow rich…
• If I were to Own – If I were to own this countryside…
• In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) – The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood…
• It Rains – It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence….
• It Was Upon – It was upon a July evening….
• I Never Saw that Land Before – I Never Saw that Land Before,…
• I Built Myself a House of Glass – I Built Myself a House of Glass:…
• July – Naught moves but clouds, and in the glassy lake…
• The Lane – Some day, I think, there will be people enough…
• Liberty – The last light has gone out of the world, except…
• Lights Out – I have come to the borders of sleep,…
• Like the touch of rain – Like the touch of rain she was….
• Lob – At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travelling…
• The Lofty Sky – To-day I want the sky,…
• The Long Small Room – The long small room that showed willows in the west…
• Lovers – The two men in the road were taken aback….

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