That Lass (John Hartley Poems)
Awm nobbut a poor workin man, An mi wage leeavs me little to spare;But aw strive to do th' best 'at ...
Awm nobbut a poor workin man, An mi wage leeavs me little to spare;But aw strive to do th' best 'at ...
It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer ...
When I'm out among the fellows, with the work to hold my mind,Then there's heaps of joy in livin' an' ...
'Eroes? Orright. You 'ave it 'ow yeh like. Throw up yer little 'at an' come the glad;But not too much ...
Sowin' things an' growin' things, an' watchin' of 'em grow;That's the game, my father said, an' father ought to know."Settin' ...
At any other time of yearIt might have passed, but Spring is queer. He says somethin' - I dunno - ...
Merry voices chatterin',Nimble feet dem patterin',Big an' little, faces gay,Happy day dis market day.Sateday, de marnin' break,Soon, soon market-people wake;An' ...
I 'ave written Mick a letter in reply to one uv 'is,Where 'e arsts 'ow things is goin' where the ...
Ses Cullen, the cockie, he ses to me:"Now, I puts it to you in this way:If a feller....(Woah, Ginger! Come ...
Dreamin'? I sez to Digger Smith. "Buck up, ole sport, an' smile.Ain't there enough uv joy to-dayTo drive the bogey ...
The thrush is in the wattle tree, an', "O, you pretty dear!"He's callin' to his little wife for all the ...
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
The burn was big wi' spate,An' there cam' tum'lin' doonTapsalteerie the half o' a gate,Wi' an auld fish-hake an' a ...
What's prayin'? Prayin's wantin' things, And wishin' we had less or much, And after people's prayed for 'em, They've got ...
Owd John's got past his work, said they,Last week as ever was — "don't payTo send by him. ...
It's funny 'bout a feller's hat--He can't remember where it's at,Or where he took it off, or when,The time he's ...
All that sort o' guff, said Bill, "they may keepAbout 'ow nice it is bein' buried at sea,For I don't ...
Thoo's varra fain to meet meWhen work is done at t' Mill,To let me arm thee, an' theer's timesThoo'll kiss ...
The lawyer, are you? Well! I ain't got nothin' to say. Nothin'! I told the perlice I hadn't nothin'. They ...
The bachelor 'e fights for one As joyful as can be; But the married man don't call it fun, Because ...
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble ...
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