Category: Poetry
The Subject proposed.--Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry.--A Tract of Country near the Coast described.--An Impoverished Borough.--Smugglers and their Assistants.--Rude Manners of the Inhabitants.--Ruinous Effects of an high Tide.--The Village Life more generally considered: Evils...
There was, ’tis said, and I believe, a Time, When humble Christians died with views sublime; When all were ready for their Faith to bleed, But few to write or wrangle for their...
6. PART I._The Child of the Miller’s Daughter, and relation of her Misfortune.--A frugal Couple: their kind of Frugality.--Plea of the Mother of a natural Child: her Churching.--Large Fam...
8. PART II.Dispos’d to wed, ev’n while you hasten, stay; There’s great Advantage in a small Delay: Thus OVID sang, and much the Wise approve This prudent Maxim of the Priest of Love: If Po...
2. BOOK I.The Village Life and every care that reigns O’er youthful Peasants and declining Swains; What labour yields and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at las...
4. BOOK II.No longer Truth, though shewn in Verse, disdain, But own the Village Life a life of pain; I too must yield, that oft amid these woes Are gleams of transient Mirth and hours of s...
9. PART III._True Christian Resignation not frequently to be seen.--The Register a melancholy Record.--A dying Man, who at length sends for a Priest: for what Purpose? answered.--Old Collet...
7. PART II._Previous Consideration necessary: yet not too long Delay.--Imprudent Marriage of Old Kirk and his Servant.--Comparison between an antient and youthful Partner to a Young Man.--...
3. BOOK II.There are found amid the Evils of a Laborious Life, some Views of Tranquillity and Happiness.--The Repose and Pleasure of a Summer Sabbath: interrupted by Intoxication and Dispu...
5. PART I.The Village Register considered, as containing principally the Annals of the Poor.--State of the Peasantry as meliorated by Frugality and Industry.--The Cottage of an industriou...
1. BOOK I.The Subject proposed.--Remarks upon Pastoral Poetry.--A Tract of Country near the Coast described.--An Impoverished Borough.--Smugglers and their Assistants.--Rude Manners of th...