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John Frederick Freeman

January 29, 1880 – September 23, 1929


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: Absence Distance no grace can lend you, but for me 23430
2: Against The Cold Pale Sky Against the cold pale sky 30502
3: All That I Was I Am Hateful it seems now, yet was I not happy? 13693
4: Alone And Cold Do not, O do not use me 18451
5: Asking Forgiveness I did not say, "Yes, we had better part 18431
6: At Evening's Hush Now pipe no more, glad Shepherd, 20412
7: At The Dock They loiter round the Dock that holds yon Ship 28444
8: Beechwood Hear me, O beeches! You 222405
9: Beyond The Barn I rose up with the sun 32403
10: Bring Your Beauty Bring your beauty, bring your laughter, bring even your fears, 15440
11: But Most Thy Light I know how fire burns, 40490
12: Caterpillars Of caterpillars Fabre tells how day after day 1624
13: Change Just as this wood, cast on the snaky fire, 13421
14: Change A late and lonely figure stains the snow, 24443
15: Change I am that creature and creator who 1426
16: Childhood Calls Come over, come over the deepening river, 8450
17: Comfortable Light Most comfortable Light, 44415
18: Dark And Strange When first Love came, then was I but a boy 4562
19: Dark Chestnut Thou shaking thy dark shadows down, 18453
20: Delight Winter is fallen On the wretched grass, 24415
21: Discovery Beauty walked over the hills and made them bright. 25428
22: Earth To Earth What is the soul? Is it the wind 22437
23: England's Enemy She stands like one with mazy cares distraught. 14367
24: English Hills O that I were Where breaks the pure cold light 25491
25: Evening Beauty: Blackfriars Nought is but beauty weareth, near and far, 30385
26: Eyes A winter sky of pale blue and pale gold, 15483
27: Fair And Brief So fair, that all the morning aches 20455
28: Fair Eve Fair Eve, as fair and still 32402
29: Fear Surely I must have ailed On that dark night, 40437
30: Fear There was a child that screamed, 39400
31: First Love No, no! Leave me not in this dark hour, 69405
32: Foreboding O linger late, poor yellow whispering leaves! 20395
33: From Piccadilly In August Now the trees rest: the moon has taught them sleep, 15421
34: From Wear To Thames Is it because Spring now is come 40413
35: Fulfilment Happy are they whom men and women love, 47357
36: Grasses O cover me, long gentle grasses, 24414
37: Hallo! Hallo, hallo!" impatiently he cried, 17416
38: Hands Your hands, your hands, 14439
39: Happiness I have found happiness who looked not for it. 36448
40: Happy Death Bugle and battle-cry are still, 24404
41: Happy Is England Now There is not anything more wonderful 24358
42: He Still'd He still'd All sounds in air; and left so free mine ears 5384
43: Hector Sleep, sleep, you great and dim trees, sleeping on 24384
44: Home For Love Because the earth is vast and dark 28439
45: Homecoming When I came home from wanderings 25419
46: I Have Never Loved You Yet I have never loved you yet, if now I love. 22451
47: I Heard A Voice Upon The Window Beat I heard a voice upon the window beat 18396
48: I Will Ask I will ask primrose and violet to spend for you 24387
49: Imagination To make a fairer, A kinder, a more constant world than this; 32422
50: In That Dark Silent Hour In that dark silent hour 40429
51: In The Lane The birds return, The blossom brightens again the cherry bough. 15421
52: In Those Old Days In those old days you were called beautiful, 27382
53: Inevitable Change Young as the Spring seemed life when she 16351
54: It Was The Lovely Moon It was the lovely moon--she lifted 17436
55: Judgment Day When through our bodies our two spirits burn 73379
56: Justification From far-off it came near 20380
57: Lambourn Town The rain beat on me as I walked, 36367
58: Last Hours A gray day and quiet, 16411
59: Let Honour Speak Let Honour speak, for only Honour can 14349
60: Lighting The Fire You were a gipsy as you bent 18400
61: Listening There is a place of grass 20395
62: Loneliness How green and strange the light is, 12438
63: Lonely Airs Ah, bird singing late in the gloam 8430
64: Memorial The wild October sky 15392
65: Merrill's Garden There is a garden where the seeded stems of thin long grass are bowed 48404
66: Moon-Bathers Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink burning 1932
67: More Than Sweet The noisy fire, The drumming wind, 21418
68: Music Comes Music comes Sweetly from the trembling string 38500
69: Nearness Thy hand my hand, Thine eyes my eyes, 24383
70: Night And Night The earth is purple in the evening light, 1221
71: Nightfall Eve goes slowly Dancing lightly 72481
72: No More Adieu Unconscious on thy lap I lay, 54426
73: Not With These Eyes Let me not see your grief! 35436
74: November Skies Than these November skies 19396
75: Nowhere, Everywhere Flesh and blood, bone and skin, 36404
76: O Hide Me In Thy Love O hide me in Thy love, secure 16410
77: O Muse Divine O thou, my Muse, 4417
78: Old Fires The fire burns low Where it has burned ages ago, 36361
79: On A Piece Of Silver So! the fierce acid licks the silver clean, 25394
80: Once There Was Time Let no tears fall If then they fell not. 24387
81: Out Of The East When man first walked upright and soberly 459392
82: Perversities I Now come, And I that moment will forget you. 33446
83: Perversities II Yet when I am alone my eyes say, Come. 18469
84: Prayer To My Lord If ever Thou didst love me, love me now, 16430
85: Presage Of Victory Then first I knew, seeing that bent grey head, 140356
86: Queens The red sun stared unwinking at the East 19379
87: Rapture If thou hast grief And passion vex the spirit that is in thee 44457
88: Recovery Where are you going with eyes so dull, 18384
89: Revisitation It is here--the lime-tree in the garden path, 14357
90: Sailing Of The Glory Merrily shouted all the sailors 32443
91: Scatter The Silver Ash Like Snow O, what insect is it 30391
92: Shadows The shadow of the lantern on the wall, 14392
93: Sleep Not a dream brush your sleep, 16415
94: Sleeping Sea The sea Was even as a little child that sleeps 14398
95: Smoke They stood like men that hear immortal speech 20416
96: Snows Now the long-bearded chilly-fingered winter 19391
97: Some Hurt Thing I came to you quietly when you were lying 26405
98: Stars The naked stars, deep beyond deep, 20429
99: Stay Stay, thou desired one, stay! 24400
100: Stone Trees Last night a sword-light in the sky 35447
101: Stones Small yellow stones That, lifted, through my idle fingers fall 13468
102: Strife The wind fought with the angry trees. 20357
103: Sweet England I heard a boy that climbed up Dover's Hill 78410
104: Take Care, Take Care Bind up, bind up your dark bright hair 15385
105: Talk So many were there talking that I heard 44455
106: Ten O'Clock And Four O'Clock It stands there Tall and solitary on the edge 26409
107: Ten O'Clock No More [1] The wind has thrown The boldest of trees down. 45410
108: The Alde How near I walked to Love, 24407
109: The Answer O, my feet have worn a track 10384
110: The Ash The undecaying yew has shed his flowers 41410
111: The Beam The dead white on the fields' dead white 21396
112: The Body When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was, 40449
113: The Bright Rider All the night through I drank 38417
114: The Brightness Away, away Through that strange void and vast 71437
115: The Call Is it the wind that stirs the trees, 24413
116: The Candle Time like a cloud Has risen from the East 32381
117: The Caves Like the tide--knocking at the hollowed cliff 24387
118: The Chair The chair was made By hands long dead, 52401
119: The Creeper It covered all The cold east wall, 32402
120: The Crowns Cherry and pear are white, 21410
121: The Dark Fire Love me not less Yet ease me of this fever, 32392
122: The Dark Night Of The Mind I could not love if my thought loved not too, 34431
123: The Darksome Nightingale Why dost thou, darksome Nightingale, 24377
124: The Enemies The angry wind That cursed at me 12412
125: The Escape Like one who runs 28401
126: The Evening Sky Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'd 40414
127: The Fall From that warm height and pure, 36383
128: The Fire Near the house flowed, or paused, the black Canal, 38472
129: The First House That is the earliest thing that I remember 33421
130: The Flute It was a night of smell and dew 35395
131: The Fugitive In the hush of early even 16372
132: The Full Tide Now speaks the wave, whispering me of you; 12351
133: The Glass Your face has lost The clearness it once wore, 18388
134: The Haunted Shadow Fair Trees, O keep from chattering so 16381
135: The Herd The roaming sheep, forbidden to roam far, 2925
136: The Holy Mountains The holy mountains, The gay streams, 16384
137: The Hounds Far off a lonely hound 12379
138: The Human Music At evening when the aspens rustled soft 200408
139: The Idiot He stands on the kerb Watching the street. 40414
140: The Image I am a river flowing round your hill, 18438
141: The Kestrel In a great western wind we climbed the hill 27385
142: The Kite It was a day All blue and lifting white, 51444
143: The Lamp The lamp shone golden where she slept, 25381
144: The Last Time For the last time, The last, last time, 46412
145: The Light That Never Was On Sea Or Land O gone are now those eager great glad days of days, but I remember 20348
146: The Lime Tree That lime tree on the distant rising ground 25344
147: The Men Who Loved The Cause That Never Dies O come you down from the far hills 20386
148: The Mouse Standing close by you In the cold light 28421
149: The Native Country Where is that country? The unresting mind 32383
150: The Night Watch Beneath the trees with heedful step and slow 40376
151: The Other House That other house, in the same crowded street, 33378
152: The Physician She comes when I am grieving and doth say, 12354
153: The Pigeons The pigeons, following the faint warm light, 114339
154: The Pond Gray were the rushes 30390
155: The Red House On the wide fields the water gleams like snow, 23368
156: The Return I heard the rumbling guns. I saw the smoke, 8367
157: The Second Flood How could I know, how could I guess 30368
158: The Shade I saw him as he went 14355
159: The Shock Thinking of these, of beautiful brief things, 36356
160: The Silvery One Clear from the deep sky pours the moon 15345
161: The Slaves The tall slaves bow if that capricious King 24354
162: The Snare Loose me and let me go! I am not yours. 28381
163: The Song Of The Forest To Thee, Most Holy, Most Obscure, light-hidden, 107377
164: The Stars In Their Courses And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocks 80413
165: The Streets Marlboro' and Waterloo and Trafalgar, 27397
166: The Swing It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam 36435
167: The Thorn The days of these two years like busy ants 72399
168: The Thrush Sings Singeth the Thrush, forgetting she is dead 15361
169: The Tossing Mountains They were like dreams that in a drowsy hour 44375
170: The Tree Oh, like a tree Let me grow up to Thee! 20372
171: The Undying In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by 105378
172: The Unloosening Winter was weary. All his snows were failing 48398
173: The Unthrift Here in the shade of the tree 9382
174: The Unuttered For so long and so long had I forgot, 20412
175: The Valley Between the beechen hill and the green down 20385
176: The Visit I reached the cottage. I knew it from the card 91402
177: The Waits Frost in the air and music in the air, 16365
178: The Wakers The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass 24436
179: The Wanderer Over the pool of sleep 24382
180: The Weaver Of Magic Weave cunningly the web 16448
181: The Winds In these green fields, in this green spring, 30368
182: The Wish That you might happier be than all the rest, 16336
183: The Wren Within the greenhouse dim and damp 30348
184: The Yew The moon gave no light. 18334
185: Thy Hill Leave Not Thy hill leave not, O Spring, 53361
186: Time From His Grave When the south-west wind came 44388
187: To My Mother No foreign tribute from a stranger-hand, 23359
188: To The Heavenly Power When this burning flesh 104308
189: Travelling They talked of old campaigns, nineteen-fourteen 15375
190: Under The Linden Branches Under the linden branches 16376
191: Unpardoned Gentle as the air that kisses 24369
192: Vision And Echo I have seen that which sweeter is 30373
193: Waiting Rich in the waning light she sat 20387
194: Waking Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep 48388
195: Walking At Eve Walking at eve I met a little child 14355
196: When Childhood Died I can recall the day When childhood died. 36479
197: Who Is It That Answers? The clouds no more are flocking 24303
198: Wild Heart Wild heart, wild heart, 24382
199: Wilder Music Came the same cuckoo's cry 24415
200: Wisdom And A Mother Why, mourner, do you mourn, nor see 12380
201: Wonder Following upon the faint wind's fickle courses 24352
202: You That Were You that were Half my life ere life was mine; 33382
203: Your Shadow From Swindon out to White Horse Hill 30355




About:
John Frederick Freeman, was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full time.


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