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ON THE SPRING.
1 NOW winter, reluctant, the sway
2 Resigns to the genial spring;
3 Sol sheds an enlivening ray,
4 And warblers delightfully sing.
5 Fresh verdure adorns the gay plains,
6 So lately o'er-mantl'd with snow;
7 The rivers, releas'd from their chains,
8 Do now with soft murmuring flow.
9 The lark and the linnet unite,
10 The Cuckow too joins in the lay;
11 All nature's profuse of delight,
12 And soft fanning zephyrs now play.
13 How charming the garden appears?
14 Sweet primroses paint the gay vale:
15 Its head now the daffodil rears,
16 The sweetest of seasons to hail,
17 His team now the hind drives along;
18 Quite cheerful he ploughs the rude plain.
19 He hums his love's praise in a song,
20 Or whistling forgets her disdain.
21 The seed in the furrow he throws,
22 Indulg'd by bright Phoebus's rays;
23 Rich Ceres vast increase bestows,
24 When Autumn her bounty displays.
25 The lambkins now sport on the mead;
26 They skip round the heath-cover'd hill;
27 Their dams how securely they feed
28 By the side of yon murm'ring rill?
29 Near Damon appears with his lute,
30 And wakes the melodious lay;
31 The songsters, attentive and mute,
32 Are perch'd on the wav'ring spray.
33 As Phillis traverses the grove,
34 All nature more charming appears:
35 Leander's soft stories of love,
36 Still touchingly found in her ears.
37 They hand in hand trip o'er the plain;
38 No couple more cheerful and gay:
39 She counts him the lovelier swain;
40 He calls her the Queen of the May.
41 Of each others hearts they are sure;
42 The arts of no rival they dread.
43 From minds so unsulli'd and pure,
44 No treachery e'er can proceed.
45 Few princes partake of such joys,
46 Remov'd from all faction and strife:
47 Sure riches and honours are toys,
48 But their's the endearments of life.
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Author: Janet Little (later Richmond)
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mock heroic
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Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792, pp. [72]-74. (ESTC T126549) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.)
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Other works by Janet Little (later Richmond)
- AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER. ()
- ALCANZAR. ()
- ALMEDA AND FLAVIA. ()
- AMANDA: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. —, PERSONATING HER HUSBAND. ()
- ANOTHER EPISTLE TO NELL. ()
- THE CAPTIVATED SOLDIER. ()
- CELIA AND HER LOOKING GLASS. ()
- COLIN AND ALEXIS. ()
- DAMON AND PHILANDER. ()
- THE ENVIED KISS. ()
- AN EPISTLE TO A LADY. November, 1789. ()
- AN EPISTLE TO MR. ROBERT BURNS. ()
- EPISTLE TO NELL, WROTE FROM LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
- AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC. ()
- THE FICKLE PAIR. ()
- FROM ALONZO TO DELIA. ()
- FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. ()
- FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. WHO HAD SENT HER A SLIGHTING EPISTLE. ()
- FROM FLAVIA TO CARLOS. ()
- FROM PHILANDER TO EUMENES. ()
- FROM SNIPE, A FAVOURITE DOG, TO HIS MASTER. May, 1791. ()
- GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM. ()
- LOTHARIO. ()
- THE LOTTERY TICKET. ()
- LUCINA: AN ELEGY. ()
- THE MONTH'S LOVE. ()
- NELL'S ANSWER. ()
- ON A GENTLEMAN'S PROPOSING TO TRAVEL 300 MILES TO SEE J—. H—. ESQ.'S CHILD. ()
- ON A VISIT TO MR. BURNS. ()
- ON AN UNLOOKED-FOR SEPARATION FROM A FRIEND. ()
- ON HALLOWEEN. ()
- ON HAPPINESS. ()
- ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS. ()
- ON SEEING MR. — BAKING CAKES. ()
- ON THE BIRTH OF J—. H—. ESQ.'S SON. NOVEMBER 15, 1790. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF J—. H—. ESQ. JUNE, 1790. ()
- A POEM ON CONTENTMENT. INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WANDERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALL AT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TO BE VISITED BY THE COUNTESS. ()
- THE RIVAL SWAINS. ()
- SYLVIA AND ARMEDA. ()
- TO A LADY WHO SENT THE AUTHOR SOME PAPER WITH A READING OF SILLAR'S POEMS. ()
- TO A LADY, A PATRONESS OF THE MUSES, ON HER RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS. ()
- TO A YOUNG MAN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR FORGERY. FROM HIS MISTRESS. ()
- TO HOPE. ()
- TO MY AUNTY. ()
- TO NELL WHEN AT MOFFAT WELL. ()
- TO THE COUNTESS OF LOUDOUN. ()
- TO THE PUBLIC. ()
- THE UNFORTUNATE RAMBLER. ()
- UPON A YOUNG LADY'S BREAKING A LOOKING-GLASS. ()
- UPON A YOUNG LADY'S LEAVING LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
- VERSES WRITTEN ON A FOREIGNER'S VISITING THE GRAVE OF A SWISS GENTLEMAN, BURIED AMONG THE DESCENDENTS OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, GUARDIAN OF SCOTLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. ()
- WILLIAM AND MARY. ()
- WRITTEN JANUARY FIRST, 1792. ()
- A YOUNG LADY'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE. ()
- THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION. ()