Jesse Kitchener’s Loughborough Poems

Little is known about the poet Jesse Kitchener, but he wrote three poems specifically about Charnwood: ‘A Glimpse at the Scenery round Loughborough’, ‘Charnwood, at the Approach of a Storm’, and ‘Normanton Spire’. These appeared in Translations from Casimir, &c. with Poems, Odes, and Specimens of Latin Prose, by J. Kitchener (‘late of Clare Hall, Cambridge’), London, 1821.

A Glimpse at the Scenery round Loughborough* 

*Partly excogitated in June, 1819

Hills where greenest herbage grows!
Vallies where the shepherd Soar
Counts at leisure while he flows
All his fleecy treasures o’er!

Sicken’d of the show and stir
Of the world’s more public road,
House a homeless traveller
In your undisturb’d abode.