Beauties of the Country

Appearance of the Season.Beauty of Spring. A Party in the Fields.
“The Voice of Spring.”—Village-green.-Evening Scene.- Village de-
scribed.-Beauty of Cottages.-Landscape.-Green Lane.-Wild Flowers.

- Suail-shells.—The Country.—Love of the Country.-Swallows.-Cow-

slips.—Holy Flowers.-A Stream, Rustic Bridge, Water-lılies, Water-

flags, &c.—Origin of the name of April. – Melody of Birds.—Mole-

cricket.- Horse-ant.-Snakes, Bats, and Snails appear.-Haunt of the

Bittern.-Bird's Nests.-Description of Spring by Gawain Douglas.--Song

of the Cuckoo. - Oldest English Poem on Spring.–Angling.–Village

Alehouse.- Lavender.--Izaak Walton.-An Angler's Breakfast.-Milk-

maid.-Fish fried in Flowers.--Happiness of Anglers.-The Angler's

Wish.-Leafing of Trees.-Beauty of the Beech-Birch.-The Study of

Trees.-Blossoms.—Herrick’s Shower of Blossoms.-Chesnuts.—Beauty

of the Country. -Leigh Hunt.-Sturm.-Dress of Spring.–Shelley's

Sensitive Plant.

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MAY.

Appearance of the Season.--May the favourite Month of Poets.

Children gathering Flowers.-Ladies in a Wood.--Beauty of Heaths.-

Lilies-of-the-Valley. - The Hawthorn.-Gathering May.--Ornament in

Cottage Parlours.—Shakspeare's Song to Spring.-- Beautiful appearance

of Woods.—Sylvan Brooks. _Wild-rose. - May-pole. - Bringing home

May.--Flower Garlands.-May-day Game.—Love of old Customs.-

Chaucer's Love of Spring.–His Affection for the Daisy.-Washington

Irving's first Sight of a May-pole.--Henry the Eighth and his Queen rode

a-Maying.-Milton.-Indicator's persuasions to revive old Customs.-

“Corinna's going a-Maying."-Habits of Bees. - Flower Gardens.-Fly-

catcher.—Robin's Nest.-Farmhouse Employments.--A fair and happy

Milkmaid.-Rye.-Sap of Trees.- Felling Trees, a melancholy Sight.-

Old English Park.-Beauty of Flowers.-Flowers of Paradise.—A Rural

Description.—Meadows. — Forest Scenery.-Incidental Beauties. — Day-

dawn.-Sunrise.--Landscape and Tempest.—Song of the Nightingale.-

Keats's Ode to a Nightingale.

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JUNE.

Appearance of the Season.—Roses in bloom.-Eve in Eden.—Emilie in

the Garden.-Herrick's Parliament of Roses.-Wars of the Roses.-

Juliet.—Thoughts on Flowers.-Approach of Summer. — Landscape.

Evening.–Gipsies.—Players.-Izaak Walton's description of Gipsies.-

Contention among Beggars.—Beggars' Song.–Beauty of Trees.-Poppies.

-Pinks.—Perfume of Clover-fields.-Bean-fields.—Castle of Indolence.

-Luxury of lying on Flowers.—Stag-beetle.—Gad-fly.-Goatsucker.-

Grasses. -Young Birds.-Barn-owl. — Frogs..Sunflowers.—Beauty of

Meadows.- Appearance of Wheat.-Scarlet Lychnis.—Canterbury Bells.

-Old Customs.--Sheep-washing.–Antiquity of Sheep-shearing—Clare's

description.-Customs in Lincolnshire.--Happiness of a Country Life.-

Ancient Garden.-Flower Sylph.-Origin of Flowers.—Name of the

Month.-Grasshoppers.—The Moon.—Music of Brooks.-Hot Day.-

Sonnet.—Moisture of Trees.-Ponds.--Herrick's “ Country Life.”

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JULY.

Beauty of Summer.—Poetry of Old Woods.-Narcissus. - Jason.

Ophelia. — Una.

- Gurth.-Christabel. - Hay-Month.-Silence of Vil-

lages.—Mower.-Destruction of Flowers.—Smell of Hay.—Haymaking.-

Izaak Walton's Honeysuckle Hedge.— Milkmaid.—Heat of July.--

Flowers.—Animals.-Fruit. Wild Deer.— Insects in Carnations,

Mirror of the Months.-Wild Teasel.-Milton's description of Flowers.-

Silence of Birds.-Willow Wrens.-Golden-crested Wren.-Beauty of

the Oak.-Sweetness of Woodbine.-Spenser's description of Trees.

Morning on the Mountains.-Sunrise on the Sea.-Poem to Summer.

Cattle ruminating. - July, origin of its name. Description of the

Season. Pleasure of Bathing.–Milton's River-spirit.-Banks of Rivers.

-Sturm. — Pleasures of Walking.—Beauties of Nature.—Charms of

Summer.—English Landscape.-Comfort and Scenery.—Highland Scene.

-Colours of Nature.-Grandeur of Wild Scenery.–Sublimity of Moun-

tains.-Poetry.

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AUGUST.

Beauty of August-Spenser's description.-Picture of Harvesting.-- Ruth
and Naomi. — Ruth, the Reapers, and Boaz.—Harvest-home.-Herrick's
Hock Cart—Stevenson's description.-Remarks on Gleaning.- Privileges
of the Poor. - Old Customs. — China-Aster.—Hollyhock.- Amaranth ;
Milton, Moore. — Flowers.—August, origin of its name.- Decline of
Summer. Appearance of Scenery.- Folding of Flocks. - Willows, and
Water.—The Skylark.-Departure of Martlets.—The Ladybird.—Old Song.
- Appearance of the Sky.- Moles.-Blue Butterfly.-Lapwings.- Linnets.

-Harvest-mouse.—Love of the Athenians for Grasshoppers. — Falling-

stars.--Figures of Clouds.—Beauty of Solitude.—Trees.-Fallow.deer.-

Copse.- Description of a Glen.—Beautiful Scenery.— Fountain.-Water-

fall.–Sound of Waters.-Leigh Hunt's description of August.-Wind by

the Sea-shore.-Night-scene by Byron.

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SEPTEMBER.

Approach of Autumn.-Silence of the Fields.— Nutting in the Woods.-

Partridge-shooting.–Cottage Beauties.-Scenery and Sportsmen.—Plea-

sures of Hunting.–Spiders' Webs.--Shower of Cobwebs.-Autumnal Skies.

-Days shorten.-Hop-gathering.-Beauty of Hop-grounds.-Appearances

of Autumn.-Changing of the Leaf.—Oak.-Beech.—Sherwood Forest.-

Wild Heaths.—Beauty of Forest Scenery.–Stubble Fields.-Michaelmas

Daisy.-Thomson, Clare, Moore. — Deserted Harvest-field. — Absence

of Flowers.-Sunsets of September.-Fruits.-West Wind.—Sounds of

Autumn.- Naturalist's Walk.-Wild Berries.-Rich Colours of Fungi.-

Emblematical Representation of the Months. — The Twelve Signs.-

Spenser's description of the Months. - English Emblems suggested.-

Pleasure derived from the Seasons.--Emotions awakened by Nature.-

Scenery of Loch Katrine.-Celtic Poetry.—Effects of Music.-Poetry :

The Lover's Journey, from Crabbe.

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OCTOBER

Beautiful appearance of Pheasants. - Imaginary Scenes in Woods.-

Feeding Hogs on Acorns.-Government of Hogs; their Sociability.-

Hogs in New Forest.-Bloomfield's description.—Gurth the Swineherd,

and Wamba.—Poetry on Autumn.-Migratory Birds.-Cranes, Ducks.-

Flight of Wild Geese; their form of flying.--Anecdote of a Woodcock.

Milton's Poetry on Birds.—Migration of Swallows witnessed ; Invalids

left.—Poetry : The Swallow.-Woodcocks arrive ; land in the Night ;

their Haunts.—The Snipe.-Evening in Autumn.—Leaves, Emblems of

Mankind.-Ossian.-Sonnet.-Sturm.-Change in the Earth.--Consola-

tion in Autumn.-Poetry : The Hamlet. — Pleasures of Hawking.—The

Fox-Chaucer.—Mirror of the Months.—Picturesque Beauty of Autumn.

-Wild Fruit.—The last Flowers.-Rural Occupations. --Mists.—The

Orchard.-Bee-hives. - Virginian Creeper. - The Robin.—Poetry : The

Happy Man.

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NOVEMBER.

Appearance of the Season.-Desolate Gardens.-Fox-hunting.–Scent.
-Quaint description of Autumn.-Drake's Autumnal Evenings.—Poetry ;
Southey.-Plenty.-Poachers.-Snaring Game.—Jack Woodcock's Defence
on Poaching.–Poetry ; Sir Walter Scott's Poacher.— The Stag.-Tiger and
Stag.-" Lady of the Lake.”—Poem.—Royal Stag-hunt.-Deer-stalkers.
-Fallow-deer.- New Forest Borderers. --Anecdote.-Fatal Mistake.-
Forests.—Pliny.-Man originally inhabited Forests. Ancient Britons.-
Julius Cæsar.-Old British Town.-Progress of Civilisation.—Mirror of
the Months, -Trees. - - Autumnal Landscape. — Evergreens. – Village
Church. - Old Birds' Nests. — Felling Wood.—Threshing.–Birds.-
Farmers.—Sheep.-Rains.-Winter Flowers.—Poetry,

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