THE DRUNKEN FATHER
Poor Ellen married Andrew Hall,
Who dwells beside the moor,
Where yonder rose-tree shades the wall,
And woodbines grace the door.
Who does not know how blest, how loved5
MAY-DAY WITH THE MUSES (1822)
THE FORESTER
Born in a dark wood’s lonely dell,
Where echoes roar’d, and tendrils curl’d
Round a low cot, like hermit’s cell,
Old Salcey Forest
MAY-DAY WITH THE MUSES (1822)
THE SHEPHERD’S DREAM: OR, FAIRIES’ MASQUERADE
I had folded my flock, and my heart was o’erflowing,
I loiter’d beside the small lake on the heath;
The red sun, though down, left his drapery glowing,
And no sound was stirring, I heard not a breath:
MAY-DAY WITH THE MUSES (1822)
THE SOLDIER’S HOME
My untried muse shall no high tone assume,
Nor strut in arms;—farewell my cap and plume:
Brief be my verse, a task within my power,
I tell my feelings in one happy hour;
But what an hour was that! when from the main5
THE BUTCHER’S HORSE AND THE BEES (1807)
THE BUTCHER’S HORSE AND THE BEES.
A VILLAGE TRAGEDY (1807)
(1)
Published in The Monthly Mirror, NS 1 (January 1807), 59, The Sporting Magazine, 29
(1807), 308, and in The History of Little Davy’s New Hat.
(1807), 308, and in The History of Little Davy’s New Hat.
NEWS FROM WORTHING (1807)
NEWS FROM WORTHING, IN A LETTER FROM A BEAST OF BURDEN TO HER BROTHER JACK (1807).
NATURE’S MUSIC (1808)
Nature’s Music. Consisting of Extracts From Several Authors: With Practical Observations,
and Poetical Testimonies, in Honour of the Harp of Æolus (1808)
Introduction
NATURE’S MUSIC (1808)
NATURE’S MUSIC.
consisting of
EXTRACTS FROM SEVERAL AUTHORS;
with
PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS,
and
POETICAL TESTIMONIES,
in honour of
FIVE MONTHS I WILL GETTING SHE MARRIED (1808)
FIVE MONTHS I WILL GETTING SHE MARRIED (1808)
City Road, Dec. 1807
SENT TO MR SHARP (1809–10)
SENT TO MR. SHARP, AS AN APOLOGY FOR NOT DINING WITH HIM (1809–10)
(1)
1808. Sent to Charles Sharp on 8 September 1808. See Letter 233. Undated in Remains,
where it was published for the first time.
where it was published for the first time.