Copy 1, Volume 1

Miscellaneous poems / By John Byrom.

  • John Byrom
Date:
1773
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellaneous poems / By John Byrom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    23/378 (page 3)
    V. My Dog I was ever well pleafed to fee Come wagging his Tail to my Fair one and me; And Phebe was pleas’d too, and to my Dog faid, Come hither poor Fellow; and patted his Head. But now, when he’s fawning, I with a four look Cry Sirrah ; and give him a blow with my Crook : And I’ll give him another; for why fliould not Tray Be as dull as his Maher, when Phebe s away ? VI. \ When walking with Phebe, what fights have I feen ! Flow fair was the Flower, how frefh was the Green ! What a lovely Appearance the Trees and the Shade, The Corn-fields and Hedges, and ev’ry Thing made! But now7 fhe has left me, tho’ all are Hill there, They none of them now fo delightful appear : ’Twas naught but the Magic, I find, of her Eyes, Made fo many beautiful ProfpeHs arife. VII. Sweet Mufick went with us both all the Wood thro’, The Lark, Linnet, Throftle, and Nightingale too; Winds over us whifper’d. Flocks by us did Bleat, And chirp went the Grafshopper under our Feet. But now fhe is abfent, tho5 Hill they fing on. The Woods are but lonely, the Melody’s gone : Her Voice in the Confort, as now I have found, Gavp ev’ry Thing elfe its agreeable Sound. A % Hofe