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The Life and Poetical Works of James Woodhouse

(1735-1820): Edited by the Rev. R. I. Woodhouse

Woodhouse, James (1735-1820)

I, II.

VOL: I., II.

The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus.

CORONATION OF GEORGE III. AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE.

TO WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Esq., IN HIS SICKNESS, By Mr. WOODHOUSE.

POEMS ON Several Occasions

POEMS ON Several Occasions ... WITH An Address to the Public.

Norbury Park, A Poem; With several others, written on various occasions.

LOVE LETTERS TO MY WIFE;

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Hence, busy observation, wandering wide,
Where fences, fring'd, in chequer'd squares, divide
The garnish'd Landscape, in luxuriance gay,
Unfolded bright, beneath Sol's southern ray;
Beholds the Earth's best riches, spread, profuse,
For Man's enjoyment, and for Cattles' use—
The noblest births that procreant Nature breeds,
Which, while Man fosters, Heaven clothes and feeds!
Sheep—horses—oxen, animate the fields—
Fair flow'rs and fruits each home-inclosure yields—
On hills the embryo bread abundant grows,
While every vale with milk and honey flows—
One spot exempt, which heightens every grace,
Like auburn eyebrows on fair Beauty's face.