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THE FRENCH MARINER: A BALLAD

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AN Old French Mariner am I,

Whom Time hath render’d poor and gray;

Hear, conquering Britons, ere I die,

What anguish prompts me thus to say.

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SONG FOR A HIGHLAND DROVER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND

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[First published as ‘Song, for a Highland Drover, returning from England’ in The Monthly
Mirror, 12 (September 1801), 195–96.]

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A WORD TO TWO YOUNG LADIES

WHEN tender Rose-trees first receive

On half-expanded Leaves, the Shower;

Hope’s gayest pictures we believe,

And anxious watch each coming flower.

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Then, if beneath the genial Sun 5

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TO GENERAL LOYD. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE OLD ELMS AT THE WEST END OF WOOLWICH BARRACKS
(1800–1).

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Bloomfield does not date the poem, but the building of a new barrack block at Woolwich

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EMMA’S KID

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First published in The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine and Review, 1 (1810), 50–52, and
collected in Remains with Bloomfield’s note: ‘Originally accompanying a pair of kid-leather

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RURAL TALES, BALLADS AND SONGS (1802)

CONTENTS.

Editors’ Introduction

Prefaces

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RICHARD AND KATE; OR, FAIR-DAY. A SUFFOLK BALLAD

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‘Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel,

Sweep up your orts,

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Walter AND Jane: OR, THE POOR BLACKSMITH. A COUNTRY TALE

BRIGHT was the summer sky, the Mornings gay,

And Jane was young and chearful as the Day.

Not yet to Love but Mirth she paid her vows;

And Echo mock’d her as she call’d her Cows.