A Strange Stooary (John Hartley Poems)
Aw know some fowk will call it crime, To put sich stooaries into ryhme,But yet, contentedly aw chime Mi simple ditty:An if ...
Aw know some fowk will call it crime, To put sich stooaries into ryhme,But yet, contentedly aw chime Mi simple ditty:An if ...
Aifter the war, says the papers, they'll no be content at hame,The lads that hae feucht wi' death twae 'ear ...
I'se been upon de karpet,Fo' lo, dese many days;De men folks seem to sneer me,In der kin' ob way.But I ...
I wad ha'e gi'en him my lips tae kiss,Had I been his, had I been his;Barley breid and elder wine,Had ...
(REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMES)Waltz in, waltz in, ye little kids, and gather round my knee,And drop them books and first ...
Into our townlan' on a night of snowrode a man from God knows where; None of us bade him stay ...
Th' wynt wur still i'th shade o'th hill, An' stars began o' glowin'I'th' fadin' leet, one summer neet, ...
I seed a thowtful chap one day,His face were mild, his topping grey;Wi' wanderin' fuut he went astray, ...
Eh! Sam, whatever doesto meeon;Aw see thae'rt theer i'th nook again;Where aw've a gill thae's nine or ten: Thae ...
Me an' the old road, goin' along together,The old road listenin'—talkin' through the leather.Friends? Why, we are cobbers, the old ...
Ya summer day when I were mowin', When flooers of monny soorts were growin', Which fast befoor my scythe fell ...
I shut my eyes to rest 'em, just a bit ago it seems,An' back among the Cotswolds I ...
"OH, there 's mony a gate eawt ov eawr teawn-end, But nobbut one for me; It winds by a ...
Oh, there's mony a gate eawt ov eawr teawn-end, But nobbut one for me;It winds by a rindlin' wayter ...
There're mony a gate eawt of eaw teawnend,-But nobbut one for meIt winds by a rindlin' wayter side,An' o'er a ...
In the kingdom they call "Kerry" there's a "bohareen" goes climbin' Above the thatch o' cots at Ballymore-- A ...
Mother-in-law:IF I had knownAfore you wur wedT' sort that you wurI wud have saidLiefer nor wed youI'd see my son ...
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