Beauties of the Country

Geese. Yellowhammer. -Turkey-cocks.
hoot. Insects swarm. - Stone-curlew.-Ravens build.-Woodpecker.—
Bullfinch. -Soft-billed Birds.-Blue Titmouse.-Wheatear.-Whinchat.
-Flowers.-Cowper. - Spring Flowers.-Clare's Poem. - Children and
Singing Birds.-English Peasants.-Omens.-Fortune-tellers.-Supersti-
tions.-Charms worn.-Tusser.-Jenner's Verses on Omens.-February,
origin of its name.-Remarks on the word Kele.-Pancake-day.-Foot-
ball.-Fogs and Mists.-Beauty of the Alder-tree.-Hazels.-English
Scenery.—Goldsmith's description of a Village.

MARCH.

Field-crickets.

APRIL.

Appearance of the Season.-March-many-weathers.-Rural Objects.-

Ploughing. Spring-green.-Shakspeare's Violets.-Sensations produced

by Spring. The Weather.-Poem on the Season.-Utility of March

Winds.-Birds building. — Migration of Birds.-Soland Geese.-Frogs

croak.-Smelts appear.-Bees venture forth.-Wood Butterfly.-Green

Rosechafer. — Hawk-moth appears.—Lambs.-Cottage Gardens.—Beauty

of Crocuses.—Primrose.-Knapp's beautiful description of Flowers.-

Ancient Uses and Poetry of Flowers.-Proverbs relating to March.-Owls

hooting, an ill omen.-Herrick's Spells.—Country Life favours Superstition.

-Advance of Spring.-Milton's Love of Spring.-Remarks on Rooks.—

The Throstle.-Variety of Crocuses.-Herrick's Daffodils.-Progress of

Flowers. Jonquils.-Narcissus.-March Marigold.-Beauty of March.

-The Elder.-Delights of Spring.-English Landscape.-Thoughts on

the Migration of Birds.

. Humorous

Origin of the name of March.

description of this Month.-The Mountain Daisy by Burns.

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Owls

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Appearance of the Season.-Beauty of Spring.-A Party in the Fields.
-"The Voice of Spring."-Village-green.-Evening Scene.-Village de-
scribed.-Beauty of Cottages.—Landscape.-Green Lane.-Wild Flowers.

---Snail-shells.-The Country.-Love of the Country.-Swallows.-Cow-
slips.-Holy Flowers.—A Stream, Rustic Bridge, Water-lilies, Water-
flags, &c.—Origin of the name of April. - Melody of Birds.-Mole-
cricket.-Horse-ant.-Snakes, Bats, and Snails appear.-Haunt of the
Bittern.-Bird's Nests.-Description of Spring by Gawain Douglas.-Song
of the Cuckoo.- Oldest English Poem on Spring.-Angling.-Village
Alehouse.-Lavender.-Izaak Walton.-An Angler's Breakfast.-Milk-

maid.-Fish fried in Flowers.-Happiness of Anglers.-The Angler's

Wish.-Leafing of Trees.-Beauty of the Beech-Birch.-The Study of

Trees.-Blossoms.-Herrick's Shower of Blossoms.-Chesnuts.-Beauty

of the Country.-Leigh Hunt.-Sturm.-Dress of Spring.-Shelley's

Sensitive Plant.
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MAY.

Appearance of the Season.-May the favourite Month of Poets.-

Children gathering Flowers.-Ladies in a Wood.--Beauty of Heaths.-

Lilies-of-the-Valley. - The Hawthorn.-Gathering May.—Ornament in

Cottage Parlours. Shakspeare's Song to Spring.-Beautiful appearance

of Woods.-Sylvan Brooks. -Wild-rose. - May-pole. Bringing home

May.-Flower Garlands.-May-day Game.-Love of old Customs.-

Chaucer's Love of Spring.-His Affection for the Daisy.—Washington

Irving's first Sight of a May-pole.-Henry the Eighth and his Queen rode

a-Maying. Milton.-Indicator's persuasions to revive old Customs.-

"Corinna's going a-Maying."-Habits of Bees.- Flower Gardens.-Fly-

catcher. Robin's Nest.-Farmhouse Employments.-A fair and happy

Milkmaid.-Rye.-Sap of Trees.-Felling Trees, a melancholy Sight.—

Old English Park.-Beauty of Flowers.-Flowers of Paradise.-A Rural

Description. Meadows. Forest Scenery.-Incidental Beauties. Day-

dawn.-Sunrise.-Landscape and Tempest.-Song of the Nightingale.—

Keats's Ode to a Nightingale.

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JUNE.

Appearance of the Season.-Roses in bloom.-Eve in Eden.-Emilie in

the Garden.-Herrick's Parliament of Roses.-Wars of the Roses.-

Juliet. Thoughts on Flowers.-Approach of Summer. — Landscape.-

Evening. Gipsies.-Players.-Izaak Walton's description of Gipsies.-

Contention among Beggars.-Beggars' Song.-Beauty of Trees.-Poppies.

-Pinks.-Perfume of Clover-fields.-Bean-fields.-Castle of Indolence.

-Luxury of lying on Flowers.-Stag-beetle.-Gad-fly.-Goatsucker.—

Grasses. — Young Birds.—Barn-owl. — Frogs.—Sunflowers.-Beauty of

Meadows.—Appearance of Wheat.-Scarlet Lychnis.—Canterbury Bells.

-Old Customs.-Sheep-washing.-Antiquity of Sheep-shearing-Clare's

description. Customs in Lincolnshire.-Happiness of a Country Life.-

Ancient Garden.-Flower Sylph.-Origin of Flowers.-Name of the

Month.—Grasshoppers.-The Moon. Music of Brooks.—Hot Day.—

Sonnet.-Moisture of Trees.-Ponds.-Herrick's "Country Life."

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-Sturm.

JULY.

Beauty of Summer.-Poetry of Old Woods.-Narcissus. — Jason.—
Ophelia. Una. - Gurth.-Christabel. Hay-Month.-Silence of Vil-
lages.-Mower.-Destruction of Flowers.-Smell of Hay.-Haymaking.—
Izaak Walton's Honeysuckle Hedge.- Milkmaid.-Heat of July.-
Flowers.-Animals.-Fruit. - Wild Deer.-Insects in Carnations.-
Mirror of the Months.-Wild Teasel.-Milton's description of Flowers.-
Silence of Birds.-Willow Wrens.-Golden-crested Wren.-Beauty of
the Oak.-Sweetness of Woodbine.-Spenser's description of Trees.-
Morning on the Mountains.-Sunrise on the Sea.-Poem to Summer.—
Cattle ruminating.- July, origin of its name. - Description of the
Season.-Pleasure of Bathing.-Milton's River-spirit.-Banks of Rivers.
- Pleasures of Walking.-Beauties of Nature.-Charms of
Summer.-English Landscape.-Comfort and Scenery.-Highland Scene.
-Colours of Nature.-Grandeur of Wild Scenery.-Sublimity of Moun-
tains.-Poetry.
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