The Farmer's Boy;: A Rural PoemVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, ... at the Union Printing-Office, 1806 - Country life - 99 pages |
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AUSONIUS Austin Author beautiful Bell-alley bends Beneath Benevolence Bird bless blow boards boast bosom bough Brother brow BUNBURY CAPEL LOFFT character charming cheer cheese clouds David Carey delight doom'd DRAKE e'en Edition elegant fame Farmer's Boy feels field fill'd flies flock flower flows Foolscap 8vo fragrance Genius GEORGE BLOOMFIELD GEORGIC Giles ginal glowing green groves HADLEIGH hail head heart Heaven HONINGTON hues Ixworth labour Lambs at play light Love LUCRETIUS Mastiff merits Midst milk mind morn Nature Nature's night nightly numbers o'er PASTORAL POETRY pastures path plain pleasure Poet Poet's Corner poetic poor pow'r praise pride Printed Poem reign rest rise Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Rooks round RURAL POEM SAPISTON scene seen shadows play shower smiles snow song soul spect spreads Spring Suffolk SUMMER sweet taste thee thine Thomson thou treads Troston verse Village warm Whilst wild Wood Cuts Zephyrus
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Page 18 - Away they scour, impetuous, ardent, strong, The green turf trembling as they bound along ; Adown the slope, then up the hillock climb, Where every molehill is a bed of thyme ; There panting stop ; yet scarcely can refrain ; A bird, a leaf, will set them off again : Or, if a gale with strength unusual blow, Scattering the wild-briar roses into snow, Their little limbs increasing efforts try, Like the torn flower the fair assemblage fly.
Page xl - 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 17 - Or gazed in merry clusters by your side ? 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 8 - And strew'd with corn to crown the rising year ; And o'er the whole Giles once transverse again. In earth's moist bosom buries up the grain. The work is done ; no more to man is given ; The grateful farmer trusts the rest to Heaven. Yet oft with anxious heart he looks around, And marks the first green blade that breaks the ground...
Page 30 - To turn the swath, the quivering load to rear, Or ply the busy rake the land to clear. Summer's light garb itself now cumbrous grown, Each his thin doublet in the shade throws down, Where oft the mastiff...
Page 30 - Here Wisdom's placid eye delighted sees His frequent intervals of lonely ease, And with one ray his infant soul inspires, Just kindling there her never-dying fires, Whence solitude derives peculiar charms, And heaven-directed thought his bosom warms. Just where the parting bough's light shadows play, Scarce in the shade...
Page 82 - In part these nightly terrors to dispel, Giles, ere he sleeps, his little flock must tell. From the fireside with many a shrug he hies, Glad if the full-orb'd moon salute his eyes, And through th' unbroken stillness of the night Shed on his path her beams of cheering light.
Page 4 - Live, trifling incidents, and grace my song, That to the humblest menial belong : To him whose drudgery unheeded goes, His joys unreckon'd...
Page 74 - Fills the tall racks, and leaves a scatter'd road; Where oft the swine from ambush warm and dry Bolt out, and scamper headlong to their sty, When Giles with well-known voice, already there, Deigns them a portion of his evening care.
Page 23 - FARMER'S life displays in every part A moral lesson to the sensual heart. Though in the lap of Plenty, thoughtful still, He looks beyond the present good or ill ; Nor estimates alone one blessing's worth, From changeful seasons, or capricious earth ; But views the future with the present hours, And looks for failures as he looks for showers ; For casual as for certain want prepares, And round his yard the reeking haystack rears ; Provident turn of the Farmer's mind.