Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes

Bezide the he'th ov Ivy Hall.

There leafy stems do clim' around

The mossy stwonèn eaves;

An' there be window-zides a-bound

Wi' quiv'rèn ivy-leaves.

But though the sky is dim 'ithout,

An' feäces mid be grim 'ithout,

Still I ha' smiles when I do call,

At evenèn-tide, at Ivy Hall.