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Short Title Wood Lark, 1765 
Title Wood-Lark, The 
Pages 194 
Publisher Bradford, William 
Location AoA 
Date 1765 
Place Philadelphia 
Data Place AoA: SM41600 
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Ye fair married dames, who so often deplore  I.1-I.2  5 
Come, chear up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer  I.2-I.3  4 
Britannia, Queen of Ocean, rise  I.3  6 
If those who live in shepherd's bower  I.4  2 
Shepherd's plain life, The  I.4-I.5  4 
As Colin rang'd early one morning in spring  I.5-I.6  7 
Resolv'd, as her poet, of Celia to sing  I.6-I.7   
What tho' his guilt my heart hath torn  I.7   
Away with soft sighs, for our danger alarms  I.8   
Ye fair who' shine thro' Britain's isle  I.9   
I seek my shepherd gone astray  I.10-I.11   
Cits of every occupation  I.11  1 
Come, fill the glass to the brink  I.12  1 
Let heroes, both by land and sea  I.12  1 
In June's fragrant month, where the silver Thames flows  I.13-I.14  6 
Fair Kitty beautiful and young  I.14-I.15  3 
When I enter'd my teens, and threw playthings aside  I.15-I.16  6 
I seek my shepherd gone astray  I.16-I.17  5 
Ye fair possess'd of every charm  I.17-I.18  3 
Hail Masonry, thou Craft divine  I.18-I.19  6 
While beaus to please the ladies whine  I.20-I.21  5 
Oh rare roast beef! lov'd by all mankind  I.21-I.22  2 
Ah, sacre Dieu! Vat do I see yonder  I.22  2 
Sweet beef, that now causes my stomach to rise  I.23  1 
How hard, Oh! Sawney, is thy lot  I.23  2 
As once on a time a young frog, pert and vain  I.24  5 
How few like you, would dare advise  I.25  2 
Fairest daughter of the day  I.25-I.26  6 
At night by moon light on the plain  I.26-I.27  8 
Sure a lass in her bloom at the age of nineteen  I.27-I.28  5 
Young Collin fishing near the mill  I.28-I.29  5 
When snow descends, and robe the fields  I.30  3 
No more the festive train I'll join  I.30-I.31  4 
Come Roger, and listen to where I've been  I.31  1 
First you must know  I.32  1 
Then they carried me  I.32  1 
To Guild-hall next we did repair  I.32  1 
And then to the tower away we all sroll'd  I.32-I.33  1 
Back to Westminster Abby we stray'd  I.33  1 
At play-house too I did admire  I.33  1 
But now the time, alas! was come  I.33  1 
Palaemon lov'd Pastora  I.34  6 
Pho! pox o' this nonsense, I prithee give o'er [sic]  I.35  5 
Amanda's fair, by all confess'd  I.36  2 
From the East breaks the morn  I.36-I.38  5 
When gentle Harriot first I saw  I.38-I.39  5 
One morning young Roger accosted me thus  I.39-I.40  6 
Attend ye nymphs, while I impart  I.40-I.41  5 
If wine and music have the pow'r  I.41  4 
Why will Delia thus retire  I.42-I.43  3 
Hark! the birds begin their lay  I.43-I.44  4 
What sadness reigns over the plain  I.44-I.45  4 
Come, my Laura, heav'nly maid  I.45-I.46  4 
Tho' Austria and Russia, France, Flanders and Prussia  I.46-I.48  6 
In Chloris all soft charms agree  I.48-I.49  4 
Fanny fairer than a flower  I.49  2 
Dearest Daphne, turn thine eyes  I.49-I.51  5 
Of wars let other rhymers talk  I.51-I.52  5 
Behold where Britannia points joyful her lance  I.52-I.54  12 
Long time my heart had rov'd  I.54-I.55  3 
I search'd the fields of ev'ry kind  I.55-I.56  4 
Long at thy altar, god of love  I.56  4 
When lovely Chloe's gentle touch  I.57  3 
How easy was Colin, how blithe and how gay!  I.57-I.58  6 
Fly hence, grim melancholy's train  I.59-I.60  9 
Come give your attention to what I unfold  I.60-I.61  5 
Heroes preparing to finish the war, The  I.62  2 
Ah! whence this impotence of mind  I.62-I.63  6 
Myrtilla, demanding the aid of my pen  I.63-I.64  4 
Youth, if I wou'd, I cou'd tell you his name, A  I.64-I.65  5 
Let the nymph still avoid, and be deaf to the swain  I.65  3 
Let others Damon's praise rehearse  I.66  6 
Leave, neighbours your work, and to sport and to play  I.67-I.68  5 
More bright the sun began to dawn  I.68-I.69  4 
That Jenny's my friend, my delight, and my pride  I.69-I.70  5 
Since we went out a maying, too late can I find  I.70-I.71  5 
Dear Phillis, sweet girl, be now kind to my pain  I.71-I.72  6 
From the man whom I love, tho' my heart I disguise  I.72-I.73  4 
Alexis, a pretty young swain  I.73  3 
As Chloe sat shelter'd and breath'd the cool air  I.74  3 
Shall I, wasting in despair  I.75  3 
Young Damon, am'rous and sincere  I.76  4 
Delia, Delia, leave the shade  I.76-I.77  5 
Her hair a net of beams would prove  I.77-I.78  3 
Ye true honest Britons, who love your own land  I.79  4 
I us'd, I remember it well  I.80--I.81  7 
With ev'ry sweet hope the fair can impart  I.81  2 
As Jamie gay, gang'd blithe his way  I.82-I.83  4 
Come. live with me, and be my love  I.83  3 
Says Damon to Phillis, suppose my fond eyes  I.84  4 
My Kitty cries, was Damon wise  I.84-I.85  4 
Oh what joy does conquest yield  I.85-I.86  1 
On a primrose bank by a murmuring stream  I.86-I.87  7 
Who'll buy a heart, Myrtilla cries  I.87  4 
When fairies dance round on the grass  I.88-I.89  4 
Come Roger and Nell, come Simkin and Bell  I.89  3 
Of all the girls in our town  I.90-I.91  4 
Ye woods and ye mountains unknown  I.91  2 
From those eternal regions bright  I.91-I.92  3 
While others strip the new fall'n snows  I.92-I.93  6 
Ye warblers, while Strephon I mourn  I.93-I.94  3 
Sweet Susan my dearest, while thus thou art coy  I.94-I.95  4 
Youth, adorn'd with every art, A  I.96   
Would you, with her you love be blest  I.96   
We've fought, we have conquer'd, and England once more  I.97-I.98  5 
O Sylvia, while you drive your cart  I.98-I.99  2 
When Phoebus, the tops of the hills does adorn  I.99-I.100  2 
When the rose is in bud, and blue vi'lets blow  I.100-I.101  2 
Ask if yon damask rose is sweet  I.101  3 
How blithe was I each morn to see  I.101-I.102  3 
Sure Sally is the loveliest lass  I.103-I.104  5 
Assist me ev'ry tuneful bard  I.104-I.105  6 
Alexis, a shepherd young, constant and kind  I.105-I.106  6 
As t' other day o'er the green meadow I past  I.106-I.107  3 
Dawn of hope my soul revives, A  I.107  4 
By Mason's art th' aspiring dome  I-107-I.108  3 
How blest has my time been! What days have I known  I.108-I.109  5 
Oh! how could I venture to love one like thee  I.109-I.111  8 
So sweet was young Damon, so gentle his look  I.111  4 
Since Jenny thinks it mean her love to deny  I.112-I.113  6 
Come, come, my dear nymph, now all nature looks gay  I.113-I.114  6 
When I liv'd in my grandmother's cot  I.114-I.115  3 
On ev'ry hill, in ev'ry grove  I.115-I.116  4 
Dear Sylvia no longer my passion despise  I.116-I.118  6 
Young Strephon a shepherd, the pride of the plain  I.118-I.119  6 
O keep my gentle Jesse  I.119  2 
Who has e'er been at Baldock, must needs know the mill  I.119-I.120  5 
Spring returns, the fawn advances  I.120-I.121  5 
Sure time and love are both asleep  I.121-I.122  2 
Well, if I continue but in the same mind  I.122-I.123  6 
On, on, my dear brethren  I.123-I.124  6 
Oh! Phillis, shame on you, to serve a swain so  I.125-I.126  6 
Near the side of a pond, at the foot of a hill  I.126-I.127  4 
Oh! would'st thou know what sacred charms  I.127-I.128  5 
Once more I'll tune the vocal shell  I.128-I.130  5 
Spring renewing, all things gay  I.130-I.131  4 
Come all you young lovers who wan with despair  I.131-I.132  5 
Vouchsafe, O power, thy healing aid  I.132-I.133  3 
Cast, my love, thine eyes around  I.133-I.134  5 
Sun was sleeping in the main, The  I.134-I.135  3 
Tell not me the joys that wait  I.135-I.136  2 
Let rakes for pleasures range the town  I.136-I.138  9 
Come listen a-while and I'll tickle your ears  I.138-I.139  10 
When here, Lucinda first we came  I.140  2 
Morning is charming, all nature is gay, The  I.140-I.142  6 
Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now  I.142  2 
Of good English beer our songs we'll raise  I.142-I.144  3 
Wherever I am going, and all the day long  I.144-I.145  4 
Streams that glides in murmurs by, The [sic]  I.145-I.147  4 
Go, rose, my Chloe's bosom grace  I.147  2 
Blithest bird that sings in May, The  I.148-I.149  4 
Why heaves my fond bosom, ah! what can it mean?  I.149  3 
Come, Rosalind, oh come and see  I.149-I.150  2 
Behold the sweet flowers around  I.150-I.151  4 
Morning fresh, the sun in East, The  I.151-I.152  3 
Stern winter has left us, the trees are in bloom  I.152-I.154  9 
When Britain first at Heaven's command  I.154-I.155  6 
Since Jockey he courted sweet Moggy so fair  [I.156-I.157]  6 
How blithe was I each morn to see  I.158   
As Chloe came into the room t' other day  I.159  2 
Would you taste the noon tide air  I.159-I.160  2 
Wanton God who pierces hearts, The  I.160-I.161  4 
Love, thou bane of soft content  I.161   
Preach not to me your musty rules  I.161   
By the gayly circling glass  I.162   
Now Phoebus sinketh in the west  I.162   
New flown birds, the shepherds sing, The  I.163   
Blithe Colin a pretty young swain  I.164   
See! from the silent grove Alexis flies  I.165   
Echoing horn calls the sportsmen abroad, The  I.165   
At the wake t' other even young Colin I met  I.166   
God save great George our King  I.167   
Tell me, lovely shepherd, where  I.168   
When I was a young one, what girl was like me  I.168   
On his face the vernal rose  I.169   
Fair Hebe I left with a cautious design  I.170   
Fair Sally lov'd a bonny seaman  I.171   
My fond shepherds of late were so blest  I.172   
Were I as poor as wretch can be  I.172   
  I.173   
  I.174   
For Florimel so fair of late  I.175   
Life's a garden rich in treasure  I.175   
Ladies look gay, when of beauty they boast, The  I.176   
Nymphs and shepherds come away  I.177   
That May day of life is for pleasure  I.177   
Can the weak taper's feeble rays  I.178   
Decrepit winter lip'd away [sic]  I.179   
Arise sweet messenger of morn  I.180   
All you that would wish to succeed with a lass  I.180-I.181   
Tuneful lark, who from her nest, The  I.181  2 
Born with the vices of my kind  I.181-I.182  2 
Silver moon's enamour'd beam, The  I.182-I.183  4 
From plowing the ocean and thrashing Mounseer  I.183-I.184  8 
When absent from the maid I love  I.185   
Says Plato, why should man be vain  I.186-I.187   
Oh! woud'st thou know what secret charm  I.187  4 
Auspicious spirits, guard my love  I.187-I.188  2 
I write to true Britons, I mean not the men  I.188-I.189  7 
Let the tempest of war  I.189  3 
Let fops pretend in flames to melt  I.190  5 
Tell me, Amintor, gentle swain  II.1-II.2  8 
I have rambl'd, I own it, whole years up and down  II.2-II.3  5 
Lark's shrill note awakes the morn, The  II.3  1 
Hark the loud drum!  II.3-II.4  3 
Now the snow-drops lift their heads  II.4-II.5  5 
Night, to lovers joys a friend  II.5-II.6  8 
When last we parted on the plain  II.6-II.7  8 
See Royal Edward land  II.8  3 
Britannia no longer, o'er injuries dreams  II.8-II-9  3 
French are a coming, as news-writers say, The  II.9-II.10  5 
Flame of love sincere I felt, The  II.11  8 
Haste, haste, ev'ry nymph, and each swain to the grove  II.12-II.13  6 
As Thyrsis reclin'd by her side he lov'd best  II.13-II.14  5 
Come thou rosy dimpl'd boy  II.14-II.15  3 
What, is he gone! and can it be  II.15-II.16  4 
From his close covert rous'd, the stag swiftly flies  II.16  2 
Genius of Albion! wake your Queen  II.17  3 
My mother cries, Betty be shy  II.18  6 
Let the philosophick wise  II.19  4 
Bring Phoebus from Parnassian bow'rs  II.20  6 
Beneath this grove, this silent shade  II.21  4 
Eye that beams with lambent light, The [sic]  II.22  5 
Hence painful pleasure, pleasing pain  II.23  3 
Oh! Damon, believe not your Jenny untrue  II.24  5 
Where's my swain, so blythe and clever  II.24-II.25  8 
Come, Chloe, and give me sweet kisses  II.26  6 
One midsummer morning when nature look'd gay  II.27  6 
As t'other day milking I sat in the vale  II.28-II.29  5 
Young Daphne made Damon a dupe to her pride  II.29-II.30  5 
I met in our village a swain t' other day  II.30-II.31  7 
When April day began to rise  II.31  3 
Haste away, haste away, my only dear  II.32  5 
He that a cuckold is, let it not grieve him  II.33-II.34  7 
Breed came forth frae the barn, The  II.34-II.36  6 
Young Molly who lives at the foot of the hill  II.36-II.37  7 
There lived a man in Ballenecrazy  II.37   
I told my nymph, I told her true  II.38  5 
As I went o'er the meadows, no matter the day  II.38-II.39  4 
Moon shone forth serenely bright, The  II.39-II.40  4 
All attendants apart  II.40-II.41  4 
When tutor'd under mamma's care  II.41-II.42  8 
Stint me not in love or wine  II.42-II.43  6 
Bright Sol, at length, by Thyrsis woo'd  II.43-II.44  3 
Long, long I despair'd a young shepherd to find  II.44  3 
Tell me, lasses, have you seen  II.45-II.46  5 
Young Jockey, who teas'd me a twelve-month, or more  II.46-II.47  5 
When first I saw my Delia's face  II.47  4 
As on Tay's banks I wander'd in search of my fair  II.48  6 
Young Thyrsis, ye shepherds, is gone  II.49  3 
Dearest Kitty! kind and fair!  II.49-II.50  4 
Sun in virgin lustre shone, The  II.50-II.52  10 
How little do the landmen know  II.52  3 
Give me but a wife; I expect not to find  II.53  6 
Come, come, my good shepherds, our flocks we must shear  II.53-II.54  5 
Why will you my passion reprove  II.54-II.55  6 
To take in good part the squeeze of the hand  II.55-II.56  4 
Soft pleasing pains, unknown before  II.56-II.57  3 
Confin'd to the house till the age of fifteen  II.57-II.58  5 
Young Daphne was the prettiest maid  II.58-II.59  8 
'Tis a twelvemonth ago, nay, perhaps they are twain  II.59-II.60  5 
Too long a giddy wand'ring youth  II.60-II.61  4 
Yes, Damon, yes, I can approve  II.61-II.62  4 
Ye belles, and ye flirts, and ye pert little things  II.63-II.64  4 
Had I, ye swains, the happy pow'r  II.64-II.65  8 
Blithe Collin's blest art  II.65-II.66  5 
Wicked wits, as fancy hits, The  II.66-II.68  5 
I am a young virgin, that oft have been told  II.68-II.69  6 
Young Collin sought my heart to gain  II.69-II.70  5 
Young Collin protests I'm his joy and delight [sic]  II.70-II.71  5 
No shepherd was like Strephon gay  II.71-II.73  6 
When the nymphs were contending for beauty and fame  II.73  4 
Well met, dearest Phoebe: ah! why in such haste?  II.74-II.75  7 
Fool that is wealthy is sure of a bride, The  II.75  3 
All on the pleasant banks of Tweed  II.76-II.77  4 
Since wedlock's in vogue, and stale virgins despis'd  II.77-II.78  3 
In all the sex some charms I find  II.78-II.79  4 
When Jockey was blest with your love and your truth  II.79-II.80  7 
Haste, haste, Phillis, haste, 'tis the first of the May!  II.81-II.82  9 
I'll sing of my lover all night and all day  II.82-II.83  6 
Assist me, all ye tuneful nine  II.84-II.85  4 
Ye chearful virgins, have ye seen  II.85-II.86  3 
Ye nymphs, who to the throne of love  II.86-II.87  3 
Ev'ry nymph and shepherd, bring  II.87-II.88  4 
By the dew-besprinkled rose  II.88-II.89  3 
While blossoms deck each verdant spray  II.89-II.90  5 
Well met, pretty Nymph, says a jolly young swain  II.90-II.91  4 
Cease, Cupid, cease thy fond alarms  II.91-II.92  4 
Where the jessamine sweetens the bow'r  II.92-II.94  4 
Tom loves Mary passing well  II.94-II.95  4 
Forgive, ye fair, nor take it wrong  II.95-II.96  5 
I seek not at once in a female to find  II.96-II.97  2 
Push about the brisk bowl  II.97-II.98  7 
When first by fond Damon Flavella was seen  II.98-II.99  4 
Did you see e'er a shepherd, ye nymphs, pass this way  II.99-II-101  5 
You tell me I'm handsome, I know not how true  II.101  3 
You say at your feet that I wept in despair  II.102  2 
Vain is ev'ry fond endeavour  II.102  2 
Three goddesses standing together  II.103-II.105  13 
Farewell, my Pastora, no longer your swain  II.105  3 
Declare, my pretty maid  II.106  5 
Women all tell me I'm false to my lass, The  II.106-II.108  10 
Ye medley of mortals, that make up this throng  II.108-II.110  11 
Tho' Chloe's out of fashion  II.110-II.111  3 
As blith as the linnet sings in the green wood  II.111-II-112  5 
When daisies py'd. and vi'lets blue  II.112  2 
How pleasant a sailor's life passes  II.113-II.114  3 
If love's a sweet passion how can it torment?  II.114  3 
My banks are all furnish'd with bees  II.115-II.117  8 
From sweet bewitching tricks of love  II.117-II.118  4 
Long, since, unto her native sky  II.118-II.120  4 
Thou traitor, who with the fair sex hast made war  II.122  10 
What med'cine can soften the bosom's keen smart?  II.122  4 
My fair, ye swains, is gone astray  II.123-II.124  10 
What beauteous scenes enchant my sight  II.124-II.125  3 
While Phillis is drinking, love and wine in alliance  II.125  4 
How happy a state does the miller possess  II.126  3 
Hark Daphne, from the hawthorn bush  II.127-II.128  4 
Love's a gentle, gen'rous passion  II.128  3 
Lawland lads think they are fine, The  II.128-II.129  7 
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd  II.130-II.131  8 
Happy the man whose wish and care  II.131-II.132  5 
Hounds are all out, and the morning does peep, The  II.132  3 
Ye mortals, whom fancies and troubles perplex  II.133  3 
'Twas when the seas were roaring  II.133-II.135  5 
When Damon first my eyes beheld  II.135-II.136  6 
Young Collin sought my heart to win  II.136-II.137  3 
Two ears at a time are too many for use  II.137-II.138  4 
By a prattling stream, on a midsummer's eve  II.138-II.139  5 
All you that would refine your blood  II.139-II.141  9 
Fair is the swan, the ermine white  II.141-II.142  3 
On the Tay's verdant banks a fair maid lay reclin'd  II.142-II.143  4 
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food  II.143-II.144  7 
In a small pleasant village, by nature compleat  II.144-II.145   
Blow, blow the winter's wind  II.145   
At sitting day and rising morn [sic]  II.146   
Fame's an echo, prattling double  II.147  1 
Live and love, enjoy the fair  II.147-II.148  2 
Come, come, bid adieu to fear  II.148   
Nor on beds of fading flow'rs  II.148  1 
Now lighter and gayer, ye tinkling strings sound  II.149  2 
By the rushy fringed bank  II.149  1 
Sylvia, wilt thou waste thy prime  II.150  3 
Young Roger of the mill, one morning very soon  II.151   
Let anbition fire the mind  II.152   
Dear Chloe, whilst thus beyond measure  II.153-II.154  5 
O Mary! soft in feature  II.154-II.156  6 
Defend my heart, ye virgin pow'rs  II.156  3 
Gay Damon long studied my heart to obtain  II.157  5 
Say, lovely peace, that grac'd our isle  II.158  5 
Gentle love, to paint my lover  II.159-II.160  7 
If from the lustre of the sun  II.160  3 
Dear madam, old Homer, an honest blind bard  II.161-II.162  5 
Come all ye young spirits of lively address  II.162   
Come hither, come hither, ye languishing swains  II.163   
When Fanny, blooming fair  II.164   
Hark! Away; 'tis the merry ton'd horn  II.165   
Ye shepherds, so chearful and gay  II.166-II.167  5 
Sick of the town at once I flew  II.168  3 
Busy, curious, thirsty fly  II.169  2 
Can love be controul'd by advice?  II.169-II-170  2 
Who, to win a woman's favour  II.170  2 
Let me wander not unseen  II.170-II.171  1 
Diogenes, surly and proud  II.171-II.174  13 
Dear Chloe, attend  II.174-II.175  5 
Lass that would know how to manage a man, The  II.175-II.176  6 
Sweet rosy morn, The  II.176-II.177  5 
Would you obtain the gentle air  II.177-II.178  5 
As May in all her youthful dress  II.178  2 
When you for me alone had charms  II.179-II.180  7 
With Phoebus I often arose  II.180  3 
Stella and Flavia, ev'ry hour  II.181  2 
Musick has pow'r to melt the soul  II.181-II.182  3 
O true content! secure from harms  II.182-II.183  6 
With swords on their thighs the bold yeomen are seen  II.183-II.184  5 
When all the Attic Fire was fled  II.184-II.185  2 
In notes sublime my daring muse  II.185  4 
Come here, fellow servants, and listen to me  II.186-II.187  6 
Term full as long as the siege of old Troy, A  II.187-II.188  5 
Rouse, Britons, rouse and face the foe  II.188-II.189  4 
Pretty, little, modest fair  II.189-II-190  2 
Now the happy knot is ty'd  II.190-II.191  6 
Lass of the West was witty and free, The  II.191-II.192  5 
In story we're told, how our monarchs of old  II.193-II.194  8 
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