POEMS FROM THE REMAINS OF ROBERT BLOOMFIELD (1824)

Contents

Kentish Mary: A Ballad

The Dawning of Day: A Hunting Song

On Repairing a Miniature Bust of Buonaparte for Mrs Palmer

The Maid of Dunstable

Sonnet: To Fifteen Gnats seen Dancing in the Sun-beams on Jan. 3

Good Nature

Hob’s Epitaph

The Soldier's Return

Happiness of Gleaners

Charity

The Flowers of the Mead

Fragment (‘‘Twas when the abbey rear’d its spires’)

‘Wine, beauty smiles, and social mirth’

Epitaph for a Young Lady

Aeolus

Irish News

Yield thee to Pleasure, Old Care

Song: Norah

Sent to a Lady who was Going to a Ball

On the Death of his Infant Son Robert

Introduction

The Remains of Robert Bloomfield, compiled after Bloomfield’s death by Joseph Weston and Bloomfield’s daughter, Hannah, brought together a mixture of poetry and prose by Bloomfield, the majority of which was either unpublished or uncollected elsewhere. Those poems first published in magazines and anthologies and collected in the Remains, have been removed hence and placed in their chronological position.