The New Englishman (F W Moorman Poems)
I've lived all my life i' Keighley, I'm a Yorkshire artisan;An' when I were just turned seventy I ...
I've lived all my life i' Keighley, I'm a Yorkshire artisan;An' when I were just turned seventy I ...
I niver thowt when I grew owd I'd tak to leetin' lamps; I sud have said, I'd rayther ...
Granny Mat: Doves are in ther cotes, T' cow ...
It's hard when fowks can't finnd their wark Wheer they've bin bred an' born; When I were young ...
Aw've just mended th' fire wi' a cob;Owd Swaddle has brought thi new shoon;There's some nice bacon-collops o'th hobAn' a ...
"OWD PINDER were a rackless foo, An' spent his days i' spreein'; At th' end ov every drinkin'-do, ...
One yeer owder, one yeer dearer: That's what I sal awlus say.Draw thy chair a little nearer, Put ...
Last night, when I was listenin'Alone, to wind and rain,He took the chair beside me,Himself - come home again.His kind ...
O, you shall live in a great stone hall,In a parkland fair and wide,With many a servant to do your ...
I've lit the Christmas candle,As we used to long agoWhen it shone through cabin windowsOn Holly-hedge and snow.In this fine ...
When I were but a striplin' An' bare a scoor year owd, I thowt I'd gotten brains enew ...
Neaw what does the word "gradely" mean? Well I'll do my gradely best To gie yo' a gradely hint on ...
Yo were but a little un, Crowner my lad,When th' huntsman he said yo'd be t' spit o' yo'r dad,An' ...
Todlin' whoam fro' th' market rantTodlin' whoam content an' cantWi' mi' yed I' mi hatan' mi feet i' mi shoonTodim' ...
Darby speaksALISON, don thi bonnet, Put on thi Sunday shawlAn' we will go to Hirings to buy thee ...
On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she ...
Come round me, little childer; There, don't fling stones at me Because I mutter as I go; But pity Moll ...
Toil's a tunnel, there's no way out For fellows, the like o' me; A beggar wi' only a crust an' ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
The widow sought the lawyer's room with children three in tow, She told the lawyer man her tale in tones ...
Oh, Mr Gilhooley he turned up his toes, As most of you know, soon or late; And Jones was a ...
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