Volume 1

Poems / [Robert Bloomfield].

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1809
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Poems / [Robert Bloomfield]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hogs wander in the wood—Husbaridman'i prospective care v. 45. Seek some warm slope with shagged moss o'erspread, Dry'd leaves their copious covering and their bed, In vain may Giles, through gath'ring glooms that fall, And solemn silence, urge his piercing call: Whole days and nights they tarry midst their store, Nor quit the woods till oaks can yield no more. Beyond bleak TVinter% rage, beyond the Spring That rolling Earth's unvarying course will bring, Who tills the ground looks on with mental eye, And sees next Summers sheaves and cloudless sky; And even now, whilst Nature's beauty dies, Deposits Seed, and bids new Harvests rise ; Seed well prepar'd, and warm'd with glowing lime, 'Gainst earth-bred grubs, and cold, and lapse of time: For searching frosts and various ills invade, Whilst wintry months depress the springing blade. The plough moves heavily, and strong the soil, And clogging harnnvs with augmented toil