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Sixteen Sonnets

[by J. C. Bampfylde]

Bampfylde, John (1754-1797)

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I.

SONNET I. To the RED-BREAST.

II.

SONNET II. On having dined at Trinity College, Oxford.

III.

IV.

SONNET IV. On the MORNING.

V.

SONNET V. On the EVENING.

VI.

SONNET VI. On a Stormy SEA-PROSPECT.

VII.

SONNNET VII. On a Calm SEA-PROSPECT.

VIII.

SONNET VIII. On the Abbé REYNALL's History of the Establishments in the East and West Indies.

IX.

SONNET IX. On hearing the Torture was suppressed throughout the Austrian dominions, in consequence of Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments.

X.

SONNET X. To Mr. WARTON, on reading his History of English Poetry.

XI.

SONNET XI. To Mr JACKSON of Exeter.

XII.

SONNET XII. Written at a Farm.

XIII.

SONNET XIII. On a Frightful Dream.

XIV.

SONNET XIV. To the Evening.

XV.

SONNET XV. On Christmas.

XVI.

SONNET XVI. On a Wet Summer.

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SONNET XV. On Christmas.

With footstep slow, in fury pall yclad,
His brows enwreath'd with holly never-sear,
Old Christmas comes, to close the wained year;
And ay the Shepherd's heart to make right glad;
Who, when his teeming flocks are homeward had,
To blazing hearth repairs, and nut-brown beer,
And views, well-pleas'd, the ruddy prattlers dear
Hug the grey mungrel; meanwhile maid and lad
Squabble for roasted crabs.—Thee, Sire, we hail,
Whether thine aged limbs thou dost enshroud,
In vest of snowy white, and hoary veil,
Or wrap'st thy visage in a sable cloud;
Thee we proclaim with mirth and cheer, nor fail
To greet thee well with many a carol loud.