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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes. First Collection. Fourth Edition

Barnes, William (1801-1886)

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FIRST COLLECTION.

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LEADY-DAY, AN' RIDDEN HOUSE.

WOODCOM' FEAST.

THE MILK-MAID O' THE FARM.

THE GRE'T WOAK TREE THAT'SIN THE DELL.

VELLEN THE TREE.

BRINGEN WOONE GWAIN O' ZUNDAYS.

EVENEN TWILIGHT.

EVENEN IN THE VILLAGE.

BOB THE FIDDLER

HOPE IN SPRING.

THE WHITE ROAD UP ATHIRT THE HILL.

THE WOODY HOLLOW.

JENNY'S RIBBONS.

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EVENEN, AN' MAIDENS OUT AT DOOR.

THE SHEPHERD O' THE FARM.

VIELDS IN THE LIGHT.

WHITSUNTIDE AN' CLUB WALKEN.

THE BROOK THAT RAN BY GRAMFER'S.

SLEEP DID COME WI' THE DEW.

SWEET MUSIC IN THE WIND.

UNCLE AN' AUNT.

HAVEN WOONES FORTUNE A-TWOLD.

JEANES WEDDEN DAY IN MORNEN.

RIVERS DON'T GI'E OUT.

MEAKEN UP A MIFF.

WHERE WE DID KEEP OUR FLAGON.

WEEK'S END IN ZUMMER, IN THE WOLD VO'K'S TIME.

THE MEAD A-MOWN.

THE SKY A-CLEAREN

THE EVENEN STAR O' ZUMMER.

I GOT TWO VIEL'S.

POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM.

THATCHEN O' THE RICK.

BEES A-ZWARMEN.

READEN OV A HEAD-STWONE.

ZUMMER EVENEN DANCE.

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CORN A-TURNEN YOLLOW.

A ZONG OV HARVEST HWOME.

POLL'S JACK-DAW.

THE WELSHNUT TREE.

JENNY OUT VROM HWOME.

THE VEAIRY VEET THAT I DO MEET.

TEAKEN IN APPLES.

MEAPLE LEAVES BE YOLLOW.

NIGHT A-ZETTEN IN.

THE WEATHER-BEATEN TREE.

GUY FAUX'S NIGHT.

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FANNY'S BE'TH-DAY.

WHAT DICK AN' I DID.

GRAMMER'S SHOES.

ZUNSHEEN IN THE WINTER.

THE WEEPEN LEADY.

THE HAPPY DAYS WHEN I WER YOUNG.

IN THE STILLNESS O' THE NIGHT.

THE SETTLE AN' THE GRE'T WOOD VIRE.

CHRISTMAS INVITATION.

KEEPEN UP O' CHRIS'MAS.

ZITTEN OUT THE WOLD YEAR.

WOAK WER GOOD ENOUGH WOONCE.

MEARY-ANN'S CHILD.

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Miscellaneous Pieces.

THE MAID VOR MY BRIDE.

THE HWOMESTEAD.

THE FARMER'S WOLDEST DA'TER.

UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN OUT O DANGER.

THE CHURCH AN' HAPPY ZUNDAY.

THE WOLD WAGGON.

THE COMMON A-TOOK IN.

THE RWOSE THAT DECK'D HER BREAST

THE SHEP'ERD BWOY.

HOPE A-LEFT BEHIND.

THE BEAM IN GRENLEY CHURCH.

THE VAICES THAT BE GONE.

LOOKS A-KNOWN AVORE.

THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD.

THE PLEACE A TEALE'S A-TWOLD O'.

AUNT'S TANTRUMS.

THE STWONEN PWORCH.

THE DREE WOAKS.

THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND.

THE GUIDE POST.

GWAIN TO FEAIR.

JEANE O' GRENLEY MILL.

THE BELLS OV ALDERBURNHAM.

THE GIRT WOLD HOUSE O'MOSSY STWONE.

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“Vita rustica, sine dubitatione, proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiæ.”—Columella 1. 1.