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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes. Second Collection. Second Edition

Barnes, William (1801-1886)

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BLACKMWORE MAIDENS.

MY ORCHA'D IN LINDEN LEA.

BISHOP'S CAENDLE.

HAY MEAKEN—NUNCHEN TIME.

A FATHER OUT, AN' MOTHER HWOME.

DAY'S WORK A-DONE.

THE WAGGON A-STOODED.

GWAIN DOWN THE STEPS VOR WATER.

ELLEN BRINE OF ALLENBURN.

THE MOTHERLESS CHILD.

THE LEADY'S TOWER.

THE MAID O' NEWTON.

THE STWONEN BWOY UPON THE PILLAR.

THE YOUNG THAT DIED IN BEAUTY.

FAIR EMILY OV YARROW MILL.

THE LOVELY MAID OV ELWELL MEAD.

OUR FATHERS' WORKS.

THE WOLD VO'K DEAD.

CULVER DELL AND THE SQUIRE.

THE WINDOW FREAMED WI' STWONE.

THE WATER-SPRING IN THE LEANE.

THE LINDEN ON THE LAWN.

OUR ABODE IN ARBY WOOD.

HALLOWED PLEACES.

BLEAKE'S HOUSE IN BLACKMWORE.

JOHN BLEAKE AT HWOME AT NIGHT.

WHEN BIRDS BE STILL.

RIDEN HWOME AT NIGHT.

THE ZUMMER HEDGE.

THE WATER CROWVOOT.

THE SLANTEN LIGHT O' FALL.

LYDLINCH BELLS.

THE STAGE COACH.

SOUND O' WATER.

TREES BE COMPANY.

A PLEACE IN ZIGHT.

GWAIN TO BROOKWELL.

THE WINTER'S WILLOW.

THE BEAN VIELD.

WOLD FRIENDS A-MET.

FALSE FRIENDS-LIKE.

MARRIED PEAIR'S LOVE WALK.

A WIFE A-PRAISED.

THE WIFE A-LOST.

THE THORNS IN THE GEATE.

ANGELS BY THE DOOR.

VO'K A-COMEN INTO CHURCH.

GOOD MEASTER COLLINS.

THE PLEACE OUR OWN AGEAN.

JOHN AN' THOMAS.

PENTRIDGE BY THE RIVER.

THE MEAD IN JUNE.

ZELLEN WOONE'S HONEY TO BUY ZOME'HAT SWEET.

GRUFFMOODY GRIM.

THE TURN O' THE DAYS.

THE SPARROW CLUB.

MOONLIGHT ON THE DOOR.

MY LOVE'S GUARDIAN ANGEL.

PRAISE O' DORSET.

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Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

by William Barnes. Second Collection. Second Edition

William Barnes

1801-1886

John Russell Smith

London

1863