Shepherd’s Funeral (Dorothy Una Ratcliffe Poems)
A lile wind kindly blaws to-day;They're takin' Dick, fra' ower t' way,To Dallow. Dick 'ud be reet fainTo rest theer, ...
A lile wind kindly blaws to-day;They're takin' Dick, fra' ower t' way,To Dallow. Dick 'ud be reet fainTo rest theer, ...
T' ground rises brantly to nor'-east,Wi' t' walls zigzaggin' ower t' intake-T' walls 'at wur builded first by t' Danes,Girt ...
Thoo doesn't think I luve theeTho' I write thee every dayWi' all t' larnin' 'at I have!I'll finnd anuther way:I'll ...
I'SE coomin' back fra' furrin parts,An', Aa! I'se varra fainTo see my lile steean hooseIn Wensleydale again.It's grand to finnd ...
FORGET 'at iver I ran barefootAn' danced round a brushwood fire,An' oot of our vardo window watchedStars dim a poplar ...
MRS. CARTER speaks:We came oot here in '87, A lang, lang way ower sea;A renky chap wur my Bill an* ...
IT isn't fair to take my becks,My lile hidden tarn,My mossy springs, my waterfall,An' make all on 'em larnThi songs. ...
I SIT aside thi Croodle BeckWatchin' its waiters flow,At t' bend wheer t' willows 'at thoo luvedStand weepin' in a ...
I wrote a letter to my luveAn' posted it yestreen,In lile red pillar box 'at standsNigh Wesdale village green,I watched ...
No matter wheer thoo wander,Be't North, South, East or West,In hot lands or in cool lands,Thi heart will find no ...
Ho! my Jerry, to-day we goAfore sun-up, afore cock-crow,Five good miles, by farms we know,Away, my Jerry, away!Ho! my Jerry, ...
THOO knaws, dear Lord, I wurn't oneFor ever begging on Thee,'At when my lile sorrows cameI suffered silently;For folk so ...
LULLA, O Lullaby,Doy, my ain doy,Trees nod goodneetAn' lile birds sleep,Dad's on t' intakeFoldin' his sheep.Whisht, lile boy!Lulla, O Lullaby,Doy, ...
NOO, mak' a lile crossWi' sticks 'at 'll bend,Then four pebbles takeAn' place at each end;On seein' a cross,Them rainbows ...
WIND is soughin'Thro' sycamore top;Beck is cryin'Without a stop:But thoo mun whistAn' close thine eyes;Thoo's bound for moorsWheer Whisper Dale ...
COOM, Cush-Luve, coom, thoo should be in thi byreBy t' edge o' dark,Instead o' gettin' thisen mucked in mire.Noo, just ...
WHEN I came back from Hell Fire PassMinus a leg an' a hand,How glad I was to see green fieldsAfter ...
LILE bonnie calf I hand-reared When t' white cow wur taken away,Thoo followed me round our fold-yard Like a puppy ...
Under my cherry-tree when work is doneI smoke an' watch lile birds. They have begunTo build again: an' as I ...
UP on t' moor-tops,Wheer cotton-grass grow,On pitch-black bogs,Like patches of snow,A laverock's singin'High oot of seet-Aa! but his singin'Falls varra ...
The winds came out of the west one day, And hurried the clouds before them; And drove the shadows and ...
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