Thomas Gent (Томас Гент)

Morning

   Sonnet

Light as the breeze that hails the infant morn
  The Milkmaid trips, as o'er her arm she slings
  Her cleanly pail, some fav'rite lay she sings
As sweetly wild and cheerful as the horn.
O! happy girl I may never faithless love,
  Or fancied splendour, lead thy steps astray;
  No cares becloud the sunshine of thy day,
Nor want e'er urge thee from thy cot to rove.
What though thy station dooms thee to be poor,
  And by the hard-earn'd morsel thou art fed;
  Yet sweet content bedecks thy lowly bed,
And health and peace sit smiling at thy door:
Of these possess'd—thou hast a gracious meed,
Which Heaven's high wisdom gives, to make thee rich indeed!

1. The Grave of Dibdin
2. Written in the Album of the Lady of Counsellor D. Pollock
3. The Heliotrope
4. Sonnet On seeing a Young Lady I had previously known, confined in a Madhouse
5. The Sibyl

Mary Robinson (Мэри Робинсон) Morning ("O’ER fallow plains and fertile meads")

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