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Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

Robert Bloomfield

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A ghost at Fakenham, a drover heading home, a market night in the rain: Robert Bloomfield turned village life into song. This collection of rural tales and ballads comes from the farm laborer poet whose verse charmed a nation. Simple, tuneful, and true to the people it describes. Poetry that smells of hay and hearth-smoke.

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18 chapters

  1. 1RURAL TALES, BALLADS, AND SONGS:
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3PEACE.
  4. 4ERRATA.
  5. 5CONTENTS.
  6. 6MARKET-NIGHT.
  7. 7THE FAKENHAM GHOST.
  8. 8THE FRENCH MARINER.
  9. 9DOLLY
  10. 10LINES OCCASIONED BY A VISIT TO WHITTLEBURY FOREST,
  11. 11SONG FOR A HIGHLAND DROVER RETURNING FROM ENGLAND.
  12. 12A WORD TO TWO YOUNG LADIES.
  13. 13ON HEARING THE TRANSLATION OF PART OF THE FARMER'S BOY INTO LATIN
  14. 14NANCY
  15. 15ROSY HANNAH.
  16. 16HUNTING SONG
  17. 17LUCY:
  18. 18WINTER SONG
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