GOOD TIDINGS; OR, NEWS FROM THE FARM (1804)
Introduction
A FIRST VIEW OF THE SEA (1805)
A FIRST VIEW OF THE SEA (1805)
Mr. Editor,
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
WILD FLOWERS; OR, PASTORAL AND LOCAL POETRY (1806)
CONTENTS
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
ABNER AND THE WIDOW JONES, A FAMILIAR BALLAD
Well! I’m determin’d; that’s enough:—
Gee, Bayard! move your poor old bones.
I’ll take to-morrow, smooth or rough,
To go and court the Widow Jones.
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
THE HORKEY. A PROVINCIAL BALLAD
advertisement.
In the descriptive ballad which follows, it will be evident that I have endeavoured
to preserve the style of a gossip, and to transmit the memorial of a custom, the extent
or antiquity of which I am not acquainted with, and pretend not to inquire.
RURAL TALES, BALLADS AND SONGS (1802)
WINTER SONG
1
Dear Boy, throw that Icicle down,
And sweep this deep Snow from the door:
Old Winter comes on with a frown;
A terrible frown for the poor.
In a Season so rude and forlorn,5
How can age, how can infancy bear