The Farmer's BoySampson Low, Son, 1858 - 68 pages |
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abroad the Fox art thou behold bend beneath bids Birket Foster blast bless blow boast bosom bough BREAD STREET brow chase cheer climbs clods cloud cockade cold Cooper coverts dairy dark Delight doom'd door e'en ewes field flame flies flock flow'rs flows G. E. Hicks gale gazer Giles green groves harrows head heart Heaven hide hill HOTH joy she views labour LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS load loud mastiff mead midnight Midst morn Nature's night nightly o'er pasture path peace pheasant playmates plenteous reeking store plough poor pow'r praise pride rage rapture reign rest rise roar round S. V. Slader shade shadows play shower side SKYLARK sloes smiles snow song soul spreads Spring sting stream stroll Summer's sunbeams sweet tempests tender thee thine thou throng toil tow'ring treads TURNIP views her plenteous warm Weir Whilst far abroad wood yields
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Page 46 - She hears th' unwelcome foot advancing nigh ; Nor quite unconscious of her wretched plight, Gives one sad look and hurries out of sight. — • Fair promised sunbeams of terrestrial bliss, Health's gallant hopes, — and are ye sunk to this ? For in life's road, though thorns abundant grow, There still are joys poor Poll can never know ; Joys which the gay companions of her prime Sip as they drift along the stream of time : At eve to hear beside their tranquil home The lifted latch, that speaks...
Page 9 - 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 ; SPRING.
Page 19 - 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...
Page 13 - Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know ; The strong press on, the weak by turns succeed, And one superior always takes the lead ; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray; Allow'd precedence, undisputed sway; With jealous pride her station is maintain'd, For many a broil that post of honour gain'd.
Page 35 - No blood-stain'd victory, in story bright, Can give the philosophic mind delight ; No triumph please, while rage and death destroy : Reflection sickens at the monstrous joy. And where the joy, if rightly understood, Like cheerful praise for universal good ? The soul nor check nor doubtful anguish knows, But free and pure the grateful current flows.
Page 65 - Others, detach'd in ranges through the air, Spotless as snow, and countless as they're fair ; Scatter'd immensely wide from east to west, The beauteous 'semblance of a Flock at rest.
Page 36 - tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; ! Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements, as man to man : Wealth flows around him, Fashion lordly reigns ; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains.
Page 15 - CHEESE, O Giles! Whose very name alone engenders smiles; Whose fame abroad by every tongue is spoke, The well-known butt of many a flinty joke, That pass like current coin the nation through; And, ah! experience proves the satire true. Provision's grave, thou ever-craving mart.
Page 25 - ... flirts his filmy wings, and looks around, Exulting in his distance from the ground. The tender speckled moth here dancing seen, The vaulting grasshopper of glossy green, And all prolific Summer's sporting train, Their little lives by various pow'rs sustain.