“Poetry”
“When furious up from mines the water pours” [“The Steam Engine”]
poem I
o The hunt by day
Theyg r
when furious up from mines the water pours
Ths
and clears fr
om rusty moisture all the ores
then may
cloud e
s gather then may
thunder[roar
the
then m
ay n
the li
ghtnings
flash and
rainmay pour [sigh
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t
yet
undisturbed the power alone will raise
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the
water from the engine might nowbe formed a phrase
when as it drags the weight of fragmentlarge
it also drags the weight of smokey barge
called by us steam boat and a steamboat saves
the beings scattered on the furious
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by boilers bursting but a steamboat[can
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be the most useful engine brought[to man
the grinding stones that by its forceare whil
r
led
and by their force the yellow grains[are twirled
Bruised ground and thrown away
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While it doth thunder near the[echoing wall
The whirring wheels arranged in[whirling rows
And on the wheels the spinner ws
cotton
[ throws
Next moves the noisy beam thewheels do whirl
And next the wheels the cotton
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The moving bellows that are made|to roar
By its huge strength that meltthe red hot ore
The copper mines that by it|emptied are
nd their blue metal now isbrought from far
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then it puts forth its power
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the rollers
squeeze
the metal then another partThe regretted ghost
doth seize
the flattened metal quickAnd flies the circle round
And all is stamped at onceBrittannia and the ground
then showers the waterfrom the reserw
vo
ir
and round the town it rush
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then runs to cisterns largeand fills them all
and turns back homewardin quantinty
ty
but small
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then forms the lengthening chainand putting link to link
makes a small chain and
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leaves of that flower the pink
and so I end
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“On Scotland”
poem IIon scotland
O what a change frompretty perth so near
to dreary heather and to
streams so clear
to rocks and stones upon thedreary way
dreary way
no sun is shining as on sprigsprightly may
again it changes to the
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tis shallow water but it hasi
n
o fern
but it is precious for its
shining pearls
drops
and tis a river that has
sometimes from the
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river a fish pops
again it changes to a steepsteep hill
and it is cold do any thig
n
g
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in short such changesscotland does m
no
w take
that I canʼt tell them an I
d I
quickly end
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“The Defiance of War”
poem III
The defiatllnce of warwoe
War war thou art beating thy[drum
but we wish thee not to come
we like better our peaceful home
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you like better than us to come
but weʼll conquer in spite of thee
you like better a king to be
than us to conquer but shall not he
the strongest of us the conqueror be
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Y
es yes he shall be so
thy army shall to us cry oh
we will make thy army know
whats a warrior and whats a doe
fly fly make thy army fly
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else thy army here shall die
thy army here shall mercy cry
or else they here shall suffering die
“The Needless Alarm”
The needless alarm poem IIII
the needless alarm
am
Am
ong the rushes lived a mouse
with a pretty little house
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made of rushes tall and high
that to the skies were heard to|sigh
a
while one night while she was|sleeping
b
comes a dog that then was peeping
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and had found her out in spite
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of her good wall for thenhis sight
was better than our mousesso
she was obliged to yield tofoe
when frightened was thedog just then
at the scratching of a hen
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so of he ran and little mouse
was left in safety withher house
Margaret Ruskin's Gloss on the Dating of MS I
Jany 1826
This book begun about Sept. or Oct 1826finished about Jany 1827
"On Papa's Leaving Home"
poem IIIIV
on papas leaveeing home
Papas leaving home was a moment[of sorrow
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because he was not to comeback to‐morrow
but we thought that the wo
h
ole
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he might come back in days
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with the ladies that bow
The ladies that bow are the pictures andpresents
and we thought that we mighthave a peep at the peasants
so we cheered our se
sel
ves upwith the hope of the days
when papa might come back
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and d
p
lease him and pleasehim till all was so well
that from joy to his sorrowhe never has fell.
"On the Rainbow: In Blank Verse"
poem V
on the ra
poem VI
on the rainbow
in blank verse
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The rainbows beautiesare my joy.
in rains where rainbows are the be/,
d
and shoot s
t
hose rays of light to me/,
e
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when
re
all the beauties of them are,
and those that see them allr
r
eflect.
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g
and those that have the colours best,
show me those rays of light that all
reflect upon. And
h
all that know
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about the rainbow will reflectthose rays
of light that come towards themalways are
The ornament of all the sky
but those that don
n
ot
i
know about that light
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reflect not on it. and in all that light
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not one ofall
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the colours do they know
but all that see it justly think upon
The maker of it
k
justly is not he
best of the rainbows b
.B
ut what lightis that
which to us from that god does flow.
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all of the men that from that godsee light
Will say. what light is this
brown is the rainbow whencompared with this
and all the men that see it all reflect
upon The
l
beauties of the rainbow
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