Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfield
Robert Bloomfieldwas an English labouring class poet whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 December 1766
beside bridge conscious love safe shelter shower stream sweet
Love in a shower safe shelter took, In a rosy bower beside a brook, And winked and nodded with conscious pride, To his votaries drenched on the other side. Come hither, sweet maids, there's a bridge below, The toll-keeper, Hymen, will let you through. Come over the stream to me.
branches build feelings fly governs great green kindred lie permit press rural spirit
Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel. That One Great Spirit governs all. O Heaven, permit that I may lie Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave.
bashful fields nature strange wore
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, / The fields his study, Nature was his book.
boast hence horrors nor peace private proud seen thou worst
Proud crested Fiend, the World's worst foe, Ambition, canst thou boast one deed, hence no unsightly horrors flow, Nor private peace is seen to bleed?
bashful fields nature strange wore
Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, Nature was his book.
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