A Pastoral in Three Parts (John Cunningham Poems)
Day.In the barn the tenant cock,Close to Partlet perch'd on high,Briskly crows, (the shepherd's clock!)Jocund that morning's nigh.Swiftly, from the ...
John Cunningham Poems (5 Poems)
A Landscape (John Cunningham Poems)
Now that summer's ripen'd bloomFrolics where the winter frown'd,Stretch'd upon these banks of broom,We command the landscape round.Nature in the ...
Content (John Cunningham Poems)
O'er moorlands and mountains, rude, barren, and bare,As wilder'd and weary'd I roam,A gentle young shepherdess sees my despair,And leads ...
The Hawthorn Bower (John Cunningham Poems)
Palemnon, in the hawthorn bower,With fond impatience lay,He counted every anxious hourThat stretch'd the tedious day.The rosy dawn, Pastora nam'd,And ...
The Sheep And The Bramble-Bush (John Cunningham Poems)
A Thick-Twisted brake, in the time of a storm,Seem'd kindly to cover a sheep:So snug, for a while, he lay ...