The rural poetry of the English language; illustrating the seasons and months of the year
Joseph William Jenks
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, March 4, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...shrubs, and wood, The tuneful thicket and the murmuring flood; Our blushing fruits, that softer colors grace, Our humbler flocks, and Flora's modest race; And' poor of plumage, but of richest voice, Again let Philomel our woods rejoice. MAN AND HIS ART GIVE INTEREST TO PICTURES OF NATURE. Suffice it not to paint the seenes you view; As well as paint them, you mu#t interest toe. Oft be spectators in your pictures seen, And frequent actors tread your sylvan seene. Let man see man in every line you trace; The world's chief honor is the human race. Deprived of man, the first and best abode Is a lone temple, that demands its God. But life and culture, movement and delight, Are born anew, and wanton in his sight. In every picture man we still desire, And Art, like Nature, shall his nid require. On yonder slope, where golden vineyards shine, Place then the rustic fair, who slrip tho vine; Let daneing swains the flowery valley tread, And bathing nymphs adorn the river's bed, That trembling still, and filled with vain alarms, Searee to the wave will thrust their secret charms; At every noise they start with wild affright, Blush at themselves, and dread each other's sight. Some Faun bo near, that eyes the lucid tide, And rashly draws the leafy fenee aside. ANIMALS SHOULD ENLIVEN LANDSCAPE DESURIPTIONS.--FLOCES CATTLE J DRER THE HORSE. Should man be wanting to thy rustic strain, Supply his absenee with the bestial train; Whether through woods, in savage pride, they roam, Or, with mankind, prefor the peaceful home; Those that as generous friends or slaves attend, That rise rebellious, or submissive bend; That cowards live, or shine in hardy deed; Whose wool arrays us or whose milk may feed. If those which Berghem's laughing seenes diselose, Or from the tints of Wouverm...