LONDON: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry; and Longman and Rees, Paternoster-Row The Poems here offered to the Public were chiefly written during the interval between the concluding and the publishing of THE FARMER'S BOY, an interval of nearly two years. The pieces of a later date are, _the Widow to her Hour-Glass, the Fakenham Ghost, Walter and Jane_, &c. At the tune of publishing the Farmer's Boy, circumstances occurred which rendered it necessary to submit these Poems to the perusal of my Friends: under whose approbation I now give them, with some confidence as to their moral merit, to the judgment of the Public. And as they treat of village manners, and rural scenes, it appears to me…
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