The farmer's boy; a rural poem / By Robert Bloomfield. With ornaments engraved in wood by Anderson.

  • Bloomfield, Robert, 1766-1823
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The farmer's boy; a rural poem / By Robert Bloomfield. With ornaments engraved in wood by Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v. -2-13. Swine.... Repose of Twilight. As when by turns the strolling Sivine 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 stretcht at ease along, Enjoys the insults of the gabbling throng, That march exulting round his fallen 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 mould'ring tow'rs; Or craggy coasts just rising into view, Midst jav'lins dire, and darts of streaming blue. Anon tir'd labourers bless their shelt'ring home, When Midnight, and the frightful Tempest come.