The Village Minstrel and Other Poems

Original text edited by John Goodridge

Online text edited by Simon Kövesi



Introduction


Part 1: The Village Minstrel, Stanzas I to LX


Part 2: The Village Minstrel, Stanzas LXI to CXIX


Part 3:
Effusion
Address to my Father
Holywell
Description of a Thunder-Storm
To an early Cowslip
After reading in a Letter proposals for building a Cottage
Autumn


Part 4:
Ballad - "A weedling wild"
On the Sight of Spring
A Pastoral - "Surely, Lucy, love returns"
Ballad - "Where the dark ivy"
Song - "Swamps of wild rush - beds"
Song - "The sultry day"
Cowper Green
Song - "One gloomy eve"
The Gipsy's Camp
Recollections after a Ramble
A Sigh - "Again freckled cowslips"


Part 5:
To a Bower
Ballad - "When nature's beauty shone complete"
To Poesy
To the Clouds
Song - " Dropt here and there upon the flower"
To a dead Tree
The Disappointment
To an infant Daughter
Langley Bush
Sorrows for a favourite tabby Cat
The Widower's Lament
Sunday
A look at the Heavens
To a city Girl
To Health
Absence


Part 6:

May-Day
William and Robin
Ballad - "I love thee, sweet Mary "
Winter Rainbow
The Request
Solitude


Part 7:

ROSY JANE
Childish Recollections
Song - "A beautiful flower"
The Woodman
Impromptu - "Where art thou wandering, little child?"
Recollections after an evening Walk,
Ballad - "Winter's gone, the summer breezes"
A Sigh in a Play - ground
Narrative Verses


Part 8:

Song - "Of all the days in memory's list"
Helpstone Green
To the Violet
The Wood-cutter's night Song
Song of Praise
To the Butterfly
Rural Morning
Rural Evening


Part 9:

The Cross Roads; or, the Haymaker's Story
Rustic Fishing
Sunday Walks
The Cress Gatherer


Part 10:

The Last of March
Man's Mortality
To the Right Honourable Admiral Lord Radstock
The Wild - Flower Nosegay
Song - "There was a time"
Song - "There's the daisy"
Song - "Mary, the day of love's pleasure"
Song - "Fill the foaming cups again"
To the Rural Muse
Sonnets
1. Home
2. The Tomb
3. Sorrows for a Friend
4. My Cottage
5. Poverty
6. To My Mother
7. The Snowdrop
8. Life
9. Written in Autumn
10. On Death


Part 11:

11. Native Scenes
12. Peace
13. Morning
14. To an Hour - Glass
15. To on Angry Bee
16. Day - Break
17. To the Ivy
18. Hope
19. The Arbour
20. Nature
21. A Wish
22. The Last of April
23. Hereafter
24. Early Spring
25. Summer
26. The Ants
27. Milton Abbey
28. In Hilly - Wood
29. A Copse in Winter
30. To a Red Clover Blossom
31. Night
32. Noon
33. Autumn
34. To Time
35. Winter
36. Twilight
37. Spring
38. Early Sorrows
39. Evening
40. Expression
41. Childhood
42. A Lair at Noon
43. Woman
44. On Seeing a Picture of Sacred Contemplation
45. Written in November
46. Summer Tints
47. On Hearing a Lady Play on the Musical Glasses
48. Summer Morning
49. Joys of Youth
50. Wild Nosegays


Part 12:

51. Sabbath Walks
52. On Taste
53. May - Noon
54. Summer Evening
55. To ******
56. Pleasures Past
57. Helpstone Church-yard
58. To an early Butterfly
59. To the Memory of John Keats
60. To Autumn

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