Category: Poetry
The Poems here offered to the Public were chiefly written during the interval between the concluding and the publishing of THE FARMER'S BOY, an interval of nearly two years. The pieces of a later date are, _the Widow to her Hour-Glass, the Fakenham Ghost, Walter and Jane_, &c....
'Where have you stay'd? put down your load. How have you borne the storm, the cold? What horrors did I not forebode-- That Beast is worth his weight in gold.'
1. Chapter 1The Poems here offered to the Public were chiefly written during the interval between the concluding and the publishing of THE FARMER'S BOY, an interval of nearly two years. The...
2. Chapter 2Announc'd a guest, who bore with winning grace His well-tim'd errand pictur'd in his face. Around with silent reverence they stood; A blameless reverence--the man was good. Weal...
4. Chapter 4O the pleasures of neighbourly chat, If you can but keep scandal away, To learn what the world has been at, And what the great Orators say; Though the Wind through the crevices...