Rejected (John Hartley Poems)
Gooid bye, lass, aw dunnot blame, Tho' mi loss is hard to bide!For it wod ha' been a shame, Had tha ivver ...
Gooid bye, lass, aw dunnot blame, Tho' mi loss is hard to bide!For it wod ha' been a shame, Had tha ivver ...
(Written on seeing a wealthy townsman rudely pusha poor little girl off the pavement.)Gently, gently, shoo's thi sister, Tho' her clooas ...
Ov all th' enjoyments' at sweeten man's life, Ther's nooan can come up to a sweet tempered wife; An' he must be ...
Who is it at lives i' that cot on the lea,Joy o' my heart an' leet o' my ee?Who is ...
Ye may bring me gowd bi t' bowlful, Gie me lands bi t' mile,Fling me dewy roses, Stoor set on my smile.Ye ...
Let us have a jolly spree, An' wi' joy an' harmonie, Let the merry moments flee, For mi love's come back. O, the days ...
I is i' truth a coontry youth,Nean used to Lunnon fashions;Yet vartue guides, an' still presidesOwer all my steps an' ...
Elphi bandy-legs, Bent, an' wide apart,Nea yan i' this deale Awns a kinder heart.Elphi, great-heead, Greatest iver seen,Nea yan i' this deale Awns a ...
Six score there were, six score and ten, From Hald that rode that day;And when they came to Brattingsborg They ...
Cambodunum, Cambodunum, how I love the sound o' t' name! Roman sowdiers belt a fort here, ...
An old dalewoman speaks:"JAPONICA! Ay, it makes a brave show,But none on 'em grow as they used to grow!It's goin' ...
Coom all you cutlin' heroes, where'ersome'er you be, All you what works at flat-backs, coom listen unto me; ...
Nay, I'm moithered, fairly maddled, What's a "nicker-peck" to do? My owd brain's a egg that's addled, Tryin' ...
A song I sing o' t' Yorkshire dales, That Winnd frae t' moors to t' sea; Frae t' ...
The auld man had a girnin' wife,An' she was aye compleenin',For a' kin' o' orra thingsThe body aye was greenin'.It's ...
FORGET 'at iver I ran barefootAn' danced round a brushwood fire,An' oot of our vardo window watchedStars dim a poplar ...
IT'S hard to see all bonnie thingsAlone 'at once we shared;Yon buddin' thorn, yon flutteringsOf blue-tits newly paired;Yon lapwing callin' ...
EMMA JANE, Emma Jane, did iver you seeLikes o' her! Some folk is terrible proudOf a piano an' all. I'll ...
T' Owd .Nurse speaks:THOO climbs at dusk to brekkon hillsA-seekin' a dancin' star,An' nobody will iver larnThoo to see things ...
Thoo has no call to worry;Theer's niver, niver a oneIn ony dale, fur me, but theeSin' Time itsen begun:As Yore ...
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