Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

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.