ARGUMENT.
ARGUMENT.
Acorns. Hogs in the wood. Wheat-sowing. The Church. Village girls. The mad girl. the
bird-boy’s hut. Disappointments; reflections, &c. Euston-hall. Fox-hunting. Old Trouncer,
Long nights. A welcome to Winter.
AUTUMN.
ARGUMENT.
Turnip sowing. Wheat ripening. Sparrows. Insects.
ARGUMENT.
Invocation, &c. Seed time. Harrowing. Morning walks. Milking. The Dairy. Suffolk Cheese.
Spring coming forth. Sheep fond of changing. Lambs at play. The Butcher, &c.
SPRING.
I.
Editorial Introduction
THE
FARMER’S BOY;
A RURAL POEM,
IN FOUR BOOKS
BY
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD.
‘A Shepherd’s Boy....he seeks no better name.’
With Ornaments engraved in Wood by Anderson.
LONDON:
