A Song

By Somerville, William

Book Id: WPLBN0000661671
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	A Song
Author:	Somerville, William
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Poetry, Verse drama
Collections:	Poetry Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Description
Poetry

Excerpt
Excerpt: AS o'er Asteria's fields I rove, // The blissful seat of peace and love, // Ten thousand beauties round me rise, // And mingle pleasure with surprise. // By Nature blest in every part, // Adorn'd with every grace of Art, // This paradise of blooming joys // Each raptur'd sense, at once, employs. // But when I view the radiant queen, // Who form'd this fair enchanting scene; // Pardon, ye grots! ye crystal floods! // Ye breathing flowers! ye shady woods! // Your coolness now no more invites; // No more your murmuring stream delights; // Your sweets decay, your verdure's flown; // My soul's intent on her alone.

Table of Contents
Contents o Introduction o Poems S The Plain-Dealing Man. S The Vanities of Life. S The Life and Age of Man. S The Young Man's Wish. S The Midnight Messenger; or, a sudden call from an earthly glory to the cold grave. S A Dialogue Betwixt an Exciseman and Death. S The Messenger of Mortality; or Life and Death Contrasted in a Dialogue Betwixt Death and a Lady. S England's Alarm; or the Pious Christian's Speedy Call to Repentance S Smoking Spiritualized. S The Masonic Hymn. S God Speed the plow, and Bless the Corn-mow. A Dialogue Between the Husbandman and Servingman. S A Dialogue Between the Husbandman and the Servingman. S The Three Knights. S The Blind Beggar of Bednall Green. o Ballads S The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood. S The Outlandish Knight. S Lord Delaware. S Lord Bateman. S The Golden Glove; or, The Squire of Tamworth. S King James I And the Tinkler. S The Keach i' the Creel. S The Merry Broomfield; or, The West Country Wager. S Sir John Barleycorn. S Blow the Winds, I-ho! S The Beautiful Lady of Kent; or, The Seaman of Dover. S The Berkshire Lady's Garland. S The Nobleman's Generous Kindness. S The Drunkard's Legacy. S The Bowes tragedy. S The Crafty Lover; or, The Lawyer Outwitted. S The Death of Queen Jane. S The Wandering Young Gentlewoman; or, Catskin. S The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England's Daughter. S The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove; or, The Old Man and His Three Sons. S Lady Alice. S The Felon Sewe of Rokeby and the Freeres of Richmond. S Arthur o'Bradley's wedding. S The Painful Plough. S The Useful Plow; or, the Plough's Praise. S The Farmer's Son. S The Farmer's Boy. S Richard of Taunton Dean; or, Dumble Dum Deary. S Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kent's Sonne. 2 S The Clown's Courtship. S Harry's Courtship. S Harvest-home Song. S Harvest-home. S The Mow. S The Barley-Mow Song. S The Barley-Mow Song. (Suffolk Version.) S The Craven Churn-Supper Song. S The Rural Dance About The May-pole. S The Hitchin May-Day Song. S The Helstone Furry-Day Song. S Cornish Midsummer Bonfire Song S Suffolk Harvest-Home Song. S The Haymaker's Song S The Sword-Dancers' Song. S The Sword-Dancers' Song and Interlude. S The Maskers' Song. S Gloucestershire Wassailers' Song. S The Mummers' Song; or, The Poor Old Horse. S Fragment of the Hagmena Song. S The Greenside Wakes Song. S The Swearing-in Song or Rhyme. S Fairlop Fair Song. S As Tom Was A-walking. S The Miller and His Sons. S Jack and Tom. S Joan's Ale Was New. S George Ridler's Oven. S The Carrion Crow. 3 S The Leathern Bottel. S The Farmer's Old Wife. S Old Wichet and his Wife. S The Jolly Waggoner. S The Yorkshire Horse-Dealer. S The King and the Countryman. S Jone o' Greenfield's Ramble. S Thornehagh-Moor Woods. S The Lincolnshire Poacher. S Somersetshire Hunting Song. S The Trotting Horse. S The Seeds of Love. S The Garden-Gate. S The New-Mown Hay. S The Praise of a Dairy. S The Milk-Maid's Life. S The Milking-Pail. S The Summer's Morning. S Old Adam. S Tobacco. S The Spanish Ladies. S Harry the Tailor. S Sir Arthur and Charming Mollee. S There Was an Old Man Came Over the Lea. S Why Should We Quarrel For Riches. S The Merry Fellows; or, He That Will Not Merry, Merry Be. S Robin Hood's Hill. S Begone Dull Care. S Full Merrily Sings the Cuckoo. 4 S Jockey to the Fair. S Long Preston Peg. S The Sweet Nightingale; or, Down in Those Valleys Below. S The Old Man and his Three Sons. S A Begging We Will Go.