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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Page 6
... warm with toil , his panting horses browse Their shelt'ring canopy of pendent boughs ; Till rest , delicious , chase each transient pain , And new - born vigour swell in every vein . Hour after hour , and day to day succeeds ; Till ...
... warm with toil , his panting horses browse Their shelt'ring canopy of pendent boughs ; Till rest , delicious , chase each transient pain , And new - born vigour swell in every vein . Hour after hour , and day to day succeeds ; Till ...
Page 45
... warm'd with gratitude , he quits his place , With sun - burnt hands and ale - enliven❜d face , Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend , To serve at once the master and the friend ; Proud thus to meet his smiles , to share his tale ...
... warm'd with gratitude , he quits his place , With sun - burnt hands and ale - enliven❜d face , Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend , To serve at once the master and the friend ; Proud thus to meet his smiles , to share his tale ...
Page 56
... warm slope with shagged moss o'erspread , Dry'd leaves their copious covering and their bed , In vain may Giles , through gath'ring glooms that fall , And solemn silence , urge his piercing call : Whole days and nights they tarry midst ...
... warm slope with shagged moss o'erspread , Dry'd leaves their copious covering and their bed , In vain may Giles , through gath'ring glooms that fall , And solemn silence , urge his piercing call : Whole days and nights they tarry midst ...
Page 61
... warm walls , unhous'd to lie , Or share the swine's impure and narrow sty The damp night air her shiv'ring limbs assails ; In dreams she moans , and fancied wrongs bewails . When morning wakes , none earlier rous'd than she , When ...
... warm walls , unhous'd to lie , Or share the swine's impure and narrow sty The damp night air her shiv'ring limbs assails ; In dreams she moans , and fancied wrongs bewails . When morning wakes , none earlier rous'd than she , When ...
Page 68
... warm , Till lo ! a plot portends their coming harm . In earliest hours of dark and hooded morn , Ere yet one rosy cloud bespeaks the dawn , Whilst far abroad THE Fox pursues his prey , He's doom'd to risk the perils of the day , From ...
... warm , Till lo ! a plot portends their coming harm . In earliest hours of dark and hooded morn , Ere yet one rosy cloud bespeaks the dawn , Whilst far abroad THE Fox pursues his prey , He's doom'd to risk the perils of the day , From ...
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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