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James Henry Leigh Hunt
October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859
Poetry Listing
Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.
Please, if you find an error, let me know.
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Fish Answers | Amazing monster! that, for aught I know, | | | 1146 | | 2: | A Night-Rain in Summer | Open the window, and let the air | | | 1142 | | 3: | A Thought Of The Nile | It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, | | | 1144 | | 4: | A Thought Or Two On Reading Pomfret's 'choice' | I have been reading Pomfret’s “Choice” this spring, | | | 1026 | | 5: | Abou Ben Adhem | Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) | | | 1092 | | 6: | An Angel In The House | How sweet it were, if without feeble fright, | | | 1134 | | 7: | Death | Death is a road our dearest friends have gone; | | | 1146 | | 8: | Fairies' Song | We the fairies blithe and antic | | | 1375 | | 9: | How Robin And His Outlaws Lived In The Woods | Robin and his merry men | | | 1011 | | 10: | Jenny Kissed Me | Jenny kissed me when we met, | | | 1135 | | 11: | May And The Poets | There is May in books forever; | | | 1052 | | 12: | On Receiving A Crown Of Ivy From John Keats | It is a lofty feeling, yet a kind, | | | 1268 | | 13: | Robin Hood's Flight | Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now, | | | 1231 | | 14: | Robin Hood, A Child. | It was the pleasant season yet, | | | 1175 | | 15: | Robin Hood, An Outlaw. | Robin Hood is an outlaw bold | | | 1304 | | 16: | Rondeau | Jenny kiss'd me when we met, | | | 1436 | | 17: | Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard | We, the Fairies, blithe and antic, | | | 1366 | | 18: | Sudden Fine Weather | Reader! what soul that loaves a verse can see | | | 1202 | | 19: | The Glove and The Lions | King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, | | | 1282 | | 20: | The Negro Boy | Cold blows the wind, and while the tear | | | 1377 | | 21: | The Nile | It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, | | | 1374 | | 22: | To A Fish | You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, | | | 1318 | | 23: | To Robert Batty, M.D., On His Giving Me A Lock Of Milton's Hair | It lies before me there, and my own breath | | | 1454 | | 24: | To The Grasshopper And The Cricket | Green little vaulter in the sunny grass, | | | 1473 |
About:
James Henry Leigh Hunt (October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859) was an English essayist, poet and writer.
He was born at Southgate, London, Middlesex, where his parents had settled after leaving the USA. His father, a Philadelphia lawyer, and his mother, a merchant's daughter and a devout Quaker, had been forced to come to Britain because of their loyalist sympathies during the American War of Independence. Leigh Hunt's father took holy orders, and became a popular preacher, but was unsuccessful in obtaining a permanent living. He was employed by James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos as tutor to his nephew, James Henry Leigh, after whom Leigh Hunt was named.
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