Possible Clues:

• Ordered leaderless Liberals to make the country work!
• Pastoral poem from first Izak Dinesen yarn, long lost
• Over in gully, discovers peaceful scene
• Pastoral prose
• Quiet period: well opposite houses duly drained
• Romantic poem
• Poem - charming scene
• Hostile dandy heartlessly interrupts that peaceful scene
• Might DIY get you anything so rustic with a couple of pounds?
• That will get one idly into the country before half a century