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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    Swine—Kcpose of Twilight.. ..v. 215. As when by turns the strolling- Swine engage The utmost efforts of the bully's rage, Whose nibbling warfare on the grunter's side Is welcome pleasure to his bristly hide ; Gently he stoops, or stretch'd at ease along,; Enjoys the insults of the gabbling throng. That march exulting round his fallei, head, As human victors trample on their dead. Still Twilight, welcome! Rest, how sweet art thou Now eve o'erhangs the western cloud's thick brow : The far-stretch'd curtain of retiring light, With fiery treasures fraught; that on the sight Flash from its bulging sides, where darkness lours, In Fancy's eye, a chain of niould'ring tow'rs ; Or craggy coasts just rising into view. Midst jav'lins dire, and darts of streaming blue. Anon tir'd laborers bless their shelt'ring home, ^Vhen Midnight, and the frightful Tempest come. E J