YORKSHIRE DIALECT POEMS

By F.W. Moorman


CONTENTS


[ Preface ]

[ Preface (To the Second Edition) ]

[ INTRODUCTION ]


[ POEMS. ]


[ An Honest Yorkshireman ]

[ From "Snaith Marsh" (1754) ]

[ When at Hame wi' Dad ]

[ I'm Yorkshire too ]

[ The Wensleydale Lad ]

[ A Song 1. ]

[ A Song 2. ]

[ The Invasion: An Ecologue ]

[ Elegy on the Death of a Frog (1815) ]

[ Sheffield Cutler's Song (1887) ]

[ Address to Poverty ]

[ The Collingham Ghost ]

[ The Lucky Dream ]

[ The Milkin'-Time ]

[ I Niver can call Her my Wife ]

[ Come to thy Gronny, Doy(1) ]

[ Owd Moxy ]

[ Dean't mak gam o' me (1875) ]

[ Coom, stop at yam to-neet Bob ]

[ Ode to t' Mooin ]

[ Aunt Nancy ]

[ Coom, don on thy Bonnet an' Shawl (1867) ]

[ My awd hat ]

[ Reeth Bartle Fair(1) (1870) ]

[ The Christmas Party (1876) ]

[ Nelly o' Bob's ]

[ Bite Bigger ]

[ Rollickin' Jack ]

[ Jim's Letter ]

[ A Yorkshire Farmer's Address to a Schoolmaster ]

[ The Window on the Cliff Top (1888) ]

[ Aar Maggie ]

[ Pateley Reaces 1874 ]

[ Play Cricket (1909) ]

[ The File-cutter's Lament to Liberty (1910) ]

[ A Kuss (1912) ]

[ Huntin' Song ]

[ Spring (1914) ]

[ Heam, Sweet Heam (1914) ]

[ Then an' Nae ]

[ Owd England ]

[ Love and Pie ]

[ I's Gotten t' Bliss (1914) ]

[ A Natterin' Wife ]

[ O! What do ye Wesh i' the Beck ]


[ Part II ]


[ TRADITIONAL POEMS ]

[ Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge(1) ]

[ Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge ]

[ A Dree Neet(1) ]

[ The Bridal Bands ]

[ The Bridal Garter(1) ]

[ Nance and Tom ]

[ The Witch's Curse(1) ]

[ Ridin' t' Stang(1) ]

[ Elphi Bandy-legs(1) ]

[ Singing Games ]

[ Hagmana Song(1) ]

[ Round the Year ]

[ New Year's Day ]

[ Candlemas ]

[ February Fill-Dike ]

[ Palm Sunday ]

[ Good Friday ]

[ Royal Oak Day ]

[ Harvest Home and the Mell-Sheaf(1) ]

[ Guy Fawkes Day ]

[ Christmas ]

[ Cleveland Christmas Song(1) ]

[ A Christmas Wassail(1) ]

[ Sheffield Mumming Song(1) ]

[ Charms, "Nominies," and Popular Rhymes ]

[ The Miller's Thumb ]

[ Hob-Trush Hob ]

[ Nanny Button-Cap ]

[ The New Moon ]

[ Friday Unlucky ]

[ An Omen ]

[ A Charm ]

[ The Lady-bird ]

[ The Magpie ]

[ The Bat ]

[ The Snail ]

[ Hallamshire ]

[ Harrogate(1) ]

[ The River Don ]