BARNHAM WATER
Fresh from the Hall of Bounty sprung,
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
THE WOODLAND HALLÓ. (Perhaps) adapted for Music.
In our cottage, that peeps from the skirts of the wood,
I am mistress, no mother have I;
Yet blithe are my days, for my father is good,
And kind is my lover hard by;
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
LOVE OF THE COUNTRY. WRITTEN AT CLARE-HALL, HERTS. June 1804
Welcome silence! welcome peace!
O most welcome, holy shade!
Thus I prove as years increase,
My heart and soul for quiet made.
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
A VISIT TO RANELAGH
To Ranelagh, once in my life,
By good-natur’d force I was driv’n;
The nations had ceas’d their long strife,
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
SHOOTER’S HILL
(1)
All editions include a footnote by Bloomfield:] Sickness may be often an incentive
to poetical composition; I found it so; and I esteem the following lines only because
to poetical composition; I found it so; and I esteem the following lines only because
WILD FLOWERS (1806)
THE BROKEN CRUTCH. A TALE
‘I tell you, Peggy,’ said a voice behind
A hawthorn hedge, with wild briars thick entwin’d,
Where unseen trav’llers down a shady way
Journey’d beside the swaths of new-mown hay,
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.
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)
WILD FLOWERS; OR, PASTORAL AND LOCAL POETRY (1806)
CONTENTS