RICHARD AND KATE; OR, FAIR-DAY. A SUFFOLK BALLAD
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‘Come, Goody, stop your humdrum wheel,
Sweep up your orts,
RURAL TALES, BALLADS AND SONGS (1802)
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.
ELEGY (1789)
ELEGY (1789)
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Published in Remains, where Bloomfield’s note is quoted:] ‘The following lines, written
in 1789, on the death of my half-brother, Isaac Glover, who died at the age of sixteen,
in 1789, on the death of my half-brother, Isaac Glover, who died at the age of sixteen,
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
Editorial Introduction
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Spring
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.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Summer
ARGUMENT.
Turnip sowing. Wheat ripening. Sparrows. Insects.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Autumn
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.
THE FARMER’S BOY (1800)
The Farmer’s Boy
Winter
ARGUMENT.
TO HIS MOTHER, with a copy of Farmer’s Boy (1800)
TO HIS MOTHER WITH A COPY OF ‘THE FARMER’S BOY’
AN HARVEST SCENE (1786)
AN HARVEST SCENE (1786)
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Lines 28–35 from this poem were published by Capel Lofft (‘with a slight correction
in a place or two where the distribution or mechanism of the lines was not exact’)
in a place or two where the distribution or mechanism of the lines was not exact’)