The Poetical Works of Robert Bloomfield |
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Andrew Hall bade beneath bless Bloomfield Blorenge boast bosom bough breath bright brow charm cheek cheer Chepstow child clouds courser cried dark dear delight door dread e'en Faerie Queene Fakenham fame fancy Farmer's Boy feel flowers friends gave gazing George Bloomfield Giles girl glow green hand happy head hear heard heart Heaven hill honour hope hour Jennet light live look'd loud maid mark'd midst mind morn mountain muse Nature's never night o'er pain pass'd peace Phoebe poor pride racter rapture rest rise roar ROBERT ARIS ROBERT BLOOMFIELD rose round Sapiston scene seem'd shade sigh sight Sir Ambrose smile song soul spread spring stranger stream stretch'd Suffolk summer's sweet tale tears tell tender thee thine thou thought trembling truth turn'd Twas Uley vale vex'd warm watch'd wealth Whilst Widow Jones wild woods young youth
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Page 154 - Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied.
Page 36 - With sunburnt hands and ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale.
Page 209 - A glorious harvest filled my eager sight, Half shocked, half waving in a flood of light ; On that poor cottage roof where I was born, The sun looked down as In life's early morn. I gazed around, but not a soul...
Page 56 - Another Year ! with promised blessings rise !— Eternal Power! from whom those blessings flow, Teach me still more to wonder, more to know : Seed-time and Harvest let me see again ; Wander the leaf-strewn wood, the frozen plain: Let the first flower, corn-waving field, plain, tree,' Here round my home, still lift my soul to thee ; And let me ever, midst thy bounties, raise An humble note of thankfulness and praise !" (1) These two lines ran in the MS.:— " Pierce the dark wood and brave the sultry...
Page 36 - Here once a year Distinction, low'rs its crest, The master, servant, and the merry guest, Are equal all ; and round the happy ring The reaper's eyes exulting glances fling, And, warm'd with gratitude, he quits his place, With sun-burnt hands and...
Page 53 - The rising vapours catch the silver light ; Thence fancy measures, as they parting fly, Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.
Page 134 - twas his fate to thrive : And long he lived and spread his fame, And kept the joke alive. For many a laugh went through the vale, And some conviction too : Each thought some other goblin tale, Perhaps, was just as true.
Page 210 - Beneath my elbow, on the solid frame, Appeared the rough initials of my name, Cut forty years before ! The same old clock Struck the same bell, and gave my heart a shock I never can forget. A short breeze sprung, And while a sigh was trembling on my tongue, Caught the old dangling almanacs...
Page 26 - Ye who can smile, to wisdom no disgrace, At the arch meaning of a Kitten's face : If spotless innocence, and infant mirth, Excites to praise, or gives reflection birth ; In shades like these pursue your fav'rite joy, 'Midst Nature's revels, sports that never cloy.
Page 25 - Neglected now the early daisy lies : Nor thou, pale primrose, bloom'st the only prize : Advancing Spring profusely spreads abroad Flowers of all hues, with sweetest fragrance stored; Where'er she treads, Love gladdens every plain, Delight on tiptoe bears her lucid train ; Sweet Hope with conscious brow before her flies, Anticipating wealth from summer skies...