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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... loud alarm , Warn the whole flock to shun th ' impending harm . This task had Giles , in fields remote from home : Oft has he wish'd the rosy morn to come : Yet never fam'd was he nor foremost found To break the seal of sleep ; his ...
... loud alarm , Warn the whole flock to shun th ' impending harm . This task had Giles , in fields remote from home : Oft has he wish'd the rosy morn to come : Yet never fam'd was he nor foremost found To break the seal of sleep ; his ...
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... Loud chirping sparrows welcome on the day , And from the mazes of the leafy thorn Drop one by one upon the bending corn . Giles with a pole assails their close retreats , And round the grass grown dewy border beats , On either side ...
... Loud chirping sparrows welcome on the day , And from the mazes of the leafy thorn Drop one by one upon the bending corn . Giles with a pole assails their close retreats , And round the grass grown dewy border beats , On either side ...
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... louder breathes , and in the face of day Mounts up , and calls on Giles to mark his way . Close to his eyes his hat he instant bends , And forms a friendly telescope , that lends Just aid enough to dull the glaring light , And place the ...
... louder breathes , and in the face of day Mounts up , and calls on Giles to mark his way . Close to his eyes his hat he instant bends , And forms a friendly telescope , that lends Just aid enough to dull the glaring light , And place the ...
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... loud roar , And stedfast columns , may astonish more , Where the charm'd gazer long delighted stays , Yet trac'd but to the architect the praise ; Whilst here , the veriest clown that treads the sod , Without one scruple gives the ...
... loud roar , And stedfast columns , may astonish more , Where the charm'd gazer long delighted stays , Yet trac'd but to the architect the praise ; Whilst here , the veriest clown that treads the sod , Without one scruple gives the ...
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... loud , at eve and morn The swineherd's halloo , or the huntsman's horn . No more the fields with scatter'd grain supply The restless wandering tenants of the STY ; Wood - scenery .... Swine and pigs feeding on fallen ...
... loud , at eve and morn The swineherd's halloo , or the huntsman's horn . No more the fields with scatter'd grain supply The restless wandering tenants of the STY ; Wood - scenery .... Swine and pigs feeding on fallen ...
Common terms and phrases
AUSONIUS Author behold Bell-alley bends beneath Benevolence Bird bless blow boast bosom bough Brother brow BUNBURY CAPEL LOFFT character charming cheer cheese clouds dairy dark delight doom'd DRAKE e'en Eclogue Euston fame Farmer's Boy feels field fill'd flies flock flower flows fragrance Garret Genius GEORGE BLOOMFIELD GEORGIC Giles ginal glowing green HADLEIGH head heart Heaven HONINGTON hues Ixworth labour Lambs at play light load loud LUCRETIUS Mastiff merits Midst milk mind morn Nature's night nightly numbers o'er PASTORAL POETRY pastures path peace pierce plain pleasure Poet Poet's Corner poor pow'r praise pride Printed Poem reign rest rise roar Robert ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Rooks round rural SAPISTON seen shadows play shower smiles snow song soul spreads Spring stor❜d stream Suffolk SUMMER sweet taste tender thee thine Thomson thorn thou treads Troston verse village warm Whilst wild wood yields Zephyrus