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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes. Third Collection
Barnes, William (1801-1886)

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WOONE SMILE MWORE.
 
THE ECHO.
 
VULL A MAN.
 
NAIGHBOUR PLAYMEATES.
 
THE LARK.
 
THE TWO CHURCHES.
 
WOAK HILL.
 
THE HEDGER.
 
IN THE SPRING.
 
THE FLOOD IN SPRING.
 
COMEN HWOME.
 
GRAMMER A-CRIPPLED.
 
THE CASTLE RUINS.
 
Eclogue. JOHN, JEALOUS AT SHROTON FEAIR.
 
EARLY PLAYMEATE.
 
PICKEN O' SCROFF.
 
GOOD NIGHT.
 
WENT HWOME.
 
THE HOLLOW WOAK.
 
CHILDERN'S CHILDERN.
 
THE RWOSE IN THE DARK.
 
ZUMMER WINDS.
 
THE NEAME LETTERS.
 
THE NEW HOUSE A-GETTEN WOLD.
 
ZUNDAY.
 
THE PILLAR'D GEATE.
 
ZUMMER STREAM.
 
LINDA DEANE.
 
Eclogue. COME AND ZEE US IN THE ZUMMER.
 
LINDENORE.
 
ME'TH BELOW THE TREE.
 
TREAT WELL YOUR WIFE.
 
THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS.
 
THE LOVE CHILD.
 
HAWTHORN DOWN.
 
OPEN VIELDS.
 
WHAT JOHN WER A-TELLEN HIS MIS'ESS OUT IN THE CORN-GROUND.
 
SHEADES.
 
TIMES O' YEAR.
 
Eclogue. RACKETEN JOE.
 
ZUMMER AN' WINTER.
 
TO ME.
 
TWO AN' TWO.
 
THE LEW O' THE RICK.
 
THE WIND IN WOONE'S FEACE.
 
TOKENS.
 
TWEIL.
 
FANCY.
 
THE BROKEN HEART.
 
EVENEN LIGHT.
 
VIELDS BY WATERVALLS.
 
THE WHEEL ROUTS.
 
NANNY'S NEW ABODE.
 
LEAVES A-VALLEN.
 
BLESSENS A-LEFT.
 
FALL TIME.
 
FALL.
 
THE ZILVER-WEED.
 
THE WIDOW'S HOUSE.
 
THE CHILD'S GREAVE.
 
WENT VROM HWOME.
 
THE FANCY FEAIR AT MAIDEN NEWTON.
 
THINGS DO COME ROUND.
 
ZUMMER THOUGHTS IN WINTER TIME.
 
I'M OUT O' DOOR.
 
GRIEF AN' GLADNESS.
 
SLIDEN.
 
LWONESOMENESS.
 
A SNOWY NIGHT.
 
THE YEAR-CLOCK.
 
NOT GOO HWOME TO NIGHT.
 
THE HUMSTRUM.
 
SHAFTESBURY FEAIR.
 
THE BEATEN PATH.
 
RUTH A-RIDEN.
 
BEAUTY UNDECKED.
 
MY LOVE IS GOOD.
 
HEEDLESS O' MY LOVE.
 
DON'T CEARE.
 
CHANGES.
 
KINDNESS.
 
WITHSTANDERS.
 
DANIEL DWITHEN, THE WISE CHAP.
 
TURNEN THINGS OFF.
 
THE GIANTS IN TREADES.
 
THE LITTLE WOROLD.
 
BAD NEWS.
 
THE TURNSTILE.
 
THE BETTER VOR ZEEN O' YOU.
 
PITY.
 
A LOT O' MAIDENS A-RUNNEN THE VIELDS.
 
JOHN BLOOM IN LON'ON.

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VIELDS BY WATERVALLS.

When our downcast looks be smileless,
Under others' wrongs an' slightèns,
When our daily deeds be guileless,
An' do meet unkind requitèns,
You can meäke us zome amends
Vor wrongs o' foes, an' slights o' friends;—
O flow'ry-gleäded, timber-sheäded
Vields by flowèn watervalls!
Here be softest aïrs a-blowèn
Drough the boughs, wi' zingèn drushes,
Up above the streams, a-flowèn
Under willows, on by rushes.
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Here below the bright-zunn'd sky
The dew-bespangled flow'rs do dry,
In woody-zided, stream-divided
Vields by flowèn watervalls.
Waters, wi' their giddy rollèns;
Breezes wi' their plaÿsome wooèns;
Here do heal, in soft consolèns,
Hearts a-wrung wi' man's wrong doèns.
Day do come to us as gaÿ
As to a king ov widest swaÿ,
In deäisy-whitèn'd, gil'cup-brightèn'd
Vields by flowèn watervalls.
Zome feäir buds mid outlive blightèns,
Zome sweet hopes mid outlive sorrow,
A'ter days of wrongs an' slightèns
There mid break a happy morrow.
We mid have noo ea'thly love;
But God's love tokens vrom above
Here mid meet us, here mid greet us,
In the vields by watervalls.
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