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Subject: ROBIN HOOD
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First Line: "come, listen to me, you gallants so free"
Last Line: "and so they returned to the merry green-wood, / amongst the leaves so green"
Subject(s): England;robin Hood; English


"ROBIN HOOD AND THE THREE WIDOW'S SONS [OR,THE THREE SQUIRES]", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are twelve months in all the year
Last Line: And they freed their own bold men
Variant Title(s): Robin Hood Ballads;robin Hood Rescuing The Widow's Three Sons
Subject(s): Robin Hood


BOLD PEDDLER AND ROBIN HOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There chanced to be a peddler bold
Subject(s): Robin Hood


DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There hangs the long bow, the strong bow
Subject(s): Robin Hood


DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me my bow,' said robin hood
Subject(s): Robin Hood


FORESTERS: KING RICHARD IN SHERWOOD FOREST, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no land like england
Last Line: All the birds in merry sherwood sing and sing him home again
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Robin Hood


FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From delphi to camden - little hoosier towns
Last Line: On this reckless road to ruin or to fame was -- dr. Smith!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Castles; Delphi; Forests; Robin Hood; Castri; Woods


FURRY-DAY SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Robin hood and little john
Last Line: "with halan to, sing merry, o!"
Subject(s): Robin Hood


GEST OF ROBYN HODE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lythe and listin, gentilmen
Subject(s): Robin Hood


GEST OF ROBYN HODE: FYTTE 8, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hast thou ony greencloth'
Subject(s): Robin Hood


GEST OF ROBYN HODE: LITTLE JOHN TRICKS SHERIFF NOTHINGHAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It fell upon a wednesday
Last Line: For all the golde in mery englonde %I wolde nat longe dwell her
Subject(s): Robin Hood


LITTLE JOHN AND THE RED FRIAR; A LAY OF SHERWOOD, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The deer may leap within the glade
Last Line: What sherwood once hath been?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Animals; Forests; Hunting; Robin Hood; Woods; Hunters


NESSMUK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hail thee, nessmuk, for the lofty
Last Line: To hail thee first and greet thee, as they should.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Robin Hood


ROBIN HOOD, by MARY HOVEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Have you heard the tale of robin hood?
Last Line: He was honored by his lion-hearted chief.
Subject(s): Robin Hood


ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "when shaws been sheene, and shradds full fayre"
Last Line: Did cleave his herte in twinne
Subject(s): Robin Hood


ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH [AND BURIAL] (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When robin hood and little john
Last Line: Here lies bold robin hood!
Variant Title(s): The Death Of Robin Hood
Subject(s): Murder;robin Hood


ROBIN HOOD'S PROGRESS TO NOTTINGHAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Robin hood he was a tall young man
Last Line: And they buried them in a row
Subject(s): Robin Hood


ROBIN HOOD, TO A FRIEND, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No! Those days are gone away
Last Line: Let us two a burden try.
Subject(s): Robin Hood


SONG OF SHERWOOD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sherwood in the twilight, is robin hood awake?
Last Line: In sherwood, in sherwood, about the break of day.
Variant Title(s): Sherwood
Subject(s): Robin Hood


THE BIRTH OF ROBIN HOOD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O willie's large o' limb and lith
Last Line: Amang the lily flower
Subject(s): Robin Hood


THE DESERTED GARDEN, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where robins walked with mincing steps
Last Line: To robins in my face.
Subject(s): Birds; Gardens & Gardening; Nature; Robin Hood; Spring


THE JOLLY PINDER OF WAKEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In wakefield there lives a jolly pinder
Last Line: As my master doth by me
Subject(s): Robin Hood