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| A Chronology | |
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| A Note on This Selection | |
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| Early Poems | |
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| To the Fox Fern | |
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| Schoolboys in Winter | |
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| To an Infant Sister in Heaven | |
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| A Moment's Rapture While Bearing the Lovely Weight of A. S--r--s | |
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| A Ramble | |
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| Dedication to Mary | |
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| from Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) | |
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| from Helpstone | |
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| What is Life? | |
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| Dawnings of Genius | |
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| Patty | |
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| The Primrose | |
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| The Gypsies' Evening Blaze | |
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| The River Gwash | |
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| The Meeting | |
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| from The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems (1821) | |
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| from The Village Minstrel | |
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| Song ("Swamps of wild rush-beds and sloughs' squashy traces") | |
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| To an Infant Daughter | |
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| Langley Bush | |
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| The Last of March (written at Lolham Brigs) | |
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| To my Cottage | |
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| In Hilly Wood | |
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| To Autumn | |
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| from The Parish | |
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| [Miss Peevish Scornful] | |
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| The Progress of Cant | |
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| The Overseer | |
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| from The Shepherd's Calendar (1827) | |
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| January | |
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| from March | |
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| from May | |
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| from June | |
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| from July [manuscript version] | |
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| from September | |
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| from October [manuscript draft] | |
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| from December | |
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| The Moors | |
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| from The Midsummer Cushion | |
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| Shadows of Taste | |
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| Childhood | |
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| The Moorhen's Nest | |
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| The Progress of Rhyme | |
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| Remembrances | |
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| Swordy Well | |
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| Emmonsails Heath in Winter | |
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| Love and Memory | |
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| The Fallen Elm | |
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| The Landrail | |
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| Pastoral Poesy | |
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| The Wren | |
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| Wood Pictures in Spring | |
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| The Hollow Tree | |
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| The Sand Martin | |
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| from The Rural Muse (1835) | |
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| from To the Rural Muse | |
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| Autumn | |
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| The Nightingale's Nest | |
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| The Eternity of Nature | |
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| Emmonsales Heath | |
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| Decay: A Ballad | |
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| The Pettichap's Nest | |
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| The Yellowhammer's Nest | |
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| The Skylark | |
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| First Love's Recollections | |
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| Summer Moods | |
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| Evening Schoolboys | |
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| The Shepherd Boy | |
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| Lord Byron | |
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| To the Memory of Bloomfield | |
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| Beans in Blossom | |
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| To De Wint | |
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| Sudden Shower | |
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| Stepping Stones | |
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| Pleasant Places | |
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| On Leaving the Cottage of my Birth | |
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| Poems Written at Northborough | |
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| To the Snipe | |
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| [The Lament of Swordy Well] | |
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| Snowstorm | |
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| Bumbarrel's Nest | |
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| Open Winter | |
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| [Double Sonnet on the Marten] | |
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| [Sonnet Sequence on Fox and Badger] | |
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| [Field-Mouse's Nest] | |
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| [Birds at Evening] | |
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| [Trespass] | |
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| Glinton Spire | |
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| Poems Written at the High Beach Asylum | |
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| A Walk in the Forest | |
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| London versus Epping Forest | |
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| The Gypsy Camp | |
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| Two songs and some stanzas from Child Harold: Song ("The sun has gone down with a veil on his brow") | |
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| [stanzas] ("Mary, thou ace of hearts, thou muse of song") | |
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| [song] Written in a Thunderstorm July 15th 1841 | |
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| Don Juan: A Poem | |
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| Poems and Prose Written at Northborough, Between Two Asylums | |
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| Recollections of Journey from Essex [prose account] | |
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| Two songs for Child Harold: Song a ("I've wandered many a weary mile") | |
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| Song b ("Here's where Mary loved to be") | |
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| [Prose sketch]: "Closes of greensward" | |
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| [Lines Written on St Martin's Day, 11 November 1841, manuscript text] | |
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| Poetry Written While an Inmate of the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum | |
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| Graves of Infants | |
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| Stanzas ("Black absence hides upon the past") | |
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| To Mary | |
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| A Vision | |
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| Sonnet ("Poets love nature") | |
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| An Invite to Eternity | |
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| The Dying Child | |
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| The Invitation | |
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| Lines: "I Am" | |
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| Sonnet: "I Am" | |
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| Song ("True love lives in absence") | |
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| My Early Home Was This | |
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| The Winter's Spring | |
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| Sonnet: Wood Anemone | |
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| Sonnet: The Crow | |
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| Pleasant Sounds | |
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| Clock-a-clay | |
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| Childhood | |
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| To be Placed at the Back of his Portrait | |
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| The Yellowhammer | |
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| How Can I Forget | |
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| To John Clare | |
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| Birds' Nests | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |