Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto I. (John Gay Poems)
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
Soon as the twilight through the distant mistIn silver hemmings skirts the purple east,Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles ...
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
The snowdrop, Winter's timid child,Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears;And flings around its fragrance mild,And where no rival flow'rets bloom,Amid ...
Around th' adjoining brook, that purls alongThe vocal grove, now fretting o'er a rock,Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool,Now ...
LET us live, live! for, being dead,The pretty spots,Ribbons and knots,And the fine French dress for the head,No lady wears ...
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
With tears I leave these academic bowers, And cease to cull the scientific flowers; With tears I hail the fair ...
WELCOME, sweet season of delight,What beauties charm the wond'ring sightIn thy enchanting reign!How fresh descends the morning dew,Whilst op'ning flow'rs ...
When you will the mountains roam And your pack are making,Put therein not much from home, Light shall be your ...
Blue weather, blue weather abroad on the moors, And the cry of the wind that elates and allures; Sing ...
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