The Farmer's Boy: A Rural PoemVernor and Hood, 1802 - 128 pages |
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acquir'd admirable AUSONIUS Austin Author behold Bell-alley bends beneath benevolence birds blank verse bless boast bosom bough brow BURY character charm cheer clouds Cows dairy delight DRAKE Duke of GRAFTON e'en Fame Farmer's Boy feels fields fill'd flies Flock flow flower fragrance Friend Garret Genius GEORGE BLOOMFIELD Giles glowing green HADLEIGH happy head heart Heaven HONINGTON imagery Ixworth James Swan labour Lambs litterary loud Love LUCRETIUS manner Mastiff MER'S BOY merits midst mind morn Nature Nature's night nightly numbers o'er pains pasture pathetic peace pleas'd pleasure Poet Poet's Corner poor pow'r praise pride rest rise Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Rooks round SAILOR'S RETURN SAPISTON scene scenery sentiment shower smiles snow song soul spreads Spring Suffolk Summer sweet taste tender thee Theocritus thine thou thought tion toil treads TROSTON us'd verse Village Village Maids warm Whilst wild wood yields Zephyrus
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Page 22 - 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 47 - The widening distance which I daily see, Has Wealth done this? - then Wealth's a foe to me; Foe to our rights ; that leaves a powerful few The paths of emulation to pursue: For emulation stoops to us no more: The hope of humble industry is o'er; The blameless hope, the cheering sweet presage Of future comforts for declining age.
Page 35 - Here, midst the boldest triumphs of her worth, NATURE herself invites the REAPERS forth; Dares the keen sickle from its twelvemonth's rest. And gives that ardour which in every breast From infancy to age alike appears, When the first sheaf its plumy top uprears.
Page 46 - 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...
Page 19 - ... 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 ; All nature feels her renovating sway ; The sheep-fed pasture, and the meadow gay ; And trees, and shrubs, no longer budding seen, Display the new-grown branch of lighter green ; On airy downs the shepherd idling lies, And sees to-morrow in the marbled skies.
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...
Page 27 - THE 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...
Page 16 - He drains the pump, from him the faggot burns ; From him the noisy Hogs demand their food ; While at his heels run many a chirping brood, Or down his path in expectation stand, With equal claims upon his strewing hand. Thus wastes the morn, till each with pleasure sees The bustle o'er, and press'd the new-made cheese.
Page 30 - Loud chirping sparrows welcome on the day, And from the mazes of the leafy thorn Drop one by one upon the bending corn.
Page 48 - Is quite discarded from the realms of taste. Where unaffected freedom charm'd the soul, The separate table and the costly bowl, Cool as the blast that checks the budding Spring, A mockery of gladness round them fling.