Identifier: twocenturiesofso00thor (find matches)
Title: Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
Subjects: English poetry
Publisher: London : Sampson, Low, Son and Marston
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A WILLIAM COWPER. 1731—1800. Who can read the poets delightful Letters to Lady Hesketh with-out loving the writer? So gentle and good —so tender and sowitty, he pours forth his heart in all simplicity and love, withoutrestraint, affectation, or even one selfish thought. )t<) 2, C\ K^, ^^- sTd- ^ THE POPLAR FIELD. The poplars arc felled : farewell to the shade,And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade;The winds play no longer and sin; in the leaves,Nor Ouse on his bosom their image receives. Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a viewOf my favourite Held and the bank where they grew;And now in the grass behold they arc laid,And the tree is my scat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat.Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat,And the scene where his melody chamied me beforeResounds witli his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all hasting away.And I must ere long lie as lowly as they,With a turf on my breast, and

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