Wild Flowers: Or, Pastoral and Local PoetryVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806 - 132 pages |
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Page 107 - With circumscribed, but not abated powers,— Play the great object of his infant hours,— In many a game he takes a noisy part, And shows the native gladness of his heart.
Page 77 - Where shapes and colours seatter'd lie In varying millions round my head> The soul rejoices when alone, And feels her glorious empire free ; Sees GOD in every shining stone, And revels in variety.
Page 37 - That look so clean upon the ledge, " ' And never mind a fall ; " ' Nor never turn a sharp knife's edge ;— " ' But fashion rules us all.' " Home came the jovial Horkey load, " Last of the whole year's crop ; " And Grace amongst the green boughs rode " Right plump upon the top. " This way and that the waggon reel'd, " And never queen rode higher ; " Her cheeks were colour'd in the field,
Page 29 - In Suffolk husbandry the man who (whether by merit or by sufferance I know not) goes foremost through the harvest with the scythe or the sickle, is honoured with the title of Lord, and at the Horkey or harvest-home feast collects what he can, for himself and brethren, from the farmers and visitors, to make a " frolic " afterwards, called
Page 89 - O most welcome, holy shade ! Thus I prove as years increase, My heart and soul for quiet made. Thus I fix my firm belief While rapture's gushing tears descend ; That every flower and every leaf Is moral Truth's unerring friend. I would not for a world of gold That Nature's lovely face should tire...
Page 30 - ... prove of good advantage: which nation remained here fifty years upon agreement, and have left many families in it, and the language of these parts had surely been more commixed and perplex, if the fleet of Hugo de Bones had not been cast away, wherein three-score thousand souldiers, out of Britany and Flanders, were to be wafted over, and were, by King John's appointment, to have a settled habitation in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Page 84 - The music was truly enchanting ! Right glad was I when I came near it ; But in fashion I found I was wanting : — 'Twas the fashion to walk and not hear it ! A fine youth, as beauty beset him, Look'd smilingly round on the train ; " The king's nephew," they cried, as they met him; Then — we went round and met him again.
Page 83 - What wonders were there to be found That a clown might enjoy or disdain ? First we trac'd the gay ring all around, Aye — and then we went round it again. * A jjrand Fcle, in honour of the peace of 1802.
Page 11 - Leave me, or take me and my horse ; " I've told thee truth, and all I know : " Truth should breed truth ; that comes of course ; " If I sow wheat, why wheat will grow.