Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

Moorman, Frederic William

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9782819943921
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Compiled with an Historical Introduction

A Song 1.

Thomas Browne (1771-1798)

Ye loit'ring minutes faster flee,

Y' are all ower slow by hauf for me,

That wait impatient for the mornin';

To-morn's the lang, lang-wish'd-for fair,

I'll try to shine the fooremost there,

Misen in finest claes adornin',

To grace the day.

I'll put my best white stockings on,

An' pair o' new cauf-leather shoon,

My clane wash'd gown o' printed cotton;

Aboot my neck a muslin shawl,

A new silk handkerchee ower all,

Wi' sike a careless air I'll put on,

I'll shine this day.

My partner Ned, I know, thinks he,

He'll mak hiss en secure o' me,

He's often said he'd treat me rarely;

But I's think o' some other fun,

I'll aim for some rich farmer's son,

And cheat oor simple Neddy fairly,

Sae sly this day.

Why mud not I succeed as weel,

An' get a man full oot genteel,

As awd John Darby's daughter Nelly?

I think misen as good as she,

She can't mak cheese or spin like me,

That's mair 'an(1) beauty, let me tell ye,

On onny day.

Then hey! for sports and puppy shows,

An' temptin' spice-stalls rang'd i' rows,

An' danglin' dolls by t' necks all hangin';

An' thousand other pratty seets,

An' lasses traul'd(2) alang the streets,

Wi' lads to t' yal-hoose gangin'

To drink this day.

Let's leuk at t' winder, I can see 't,

It seems as tho' 't was growin' leet,

The cloods wi' early rays adornin';

Ye loit'ring minutes faster flee,

Y' are all ower slow be hauf for me,

At(3) wait impatient for the mornin'

O' sike a day.

1. Than 2. Trailed 3. That

A Song 2.

Thomas Browne (1771— 1798)

When I was a wee laatle totterin' bairn,

An' had nobbud just gitten short frocks,

When to gang I at first was beginnin' to lairn,

On my brow I gat monny hard knocks.

For sae waik, an' sae silly an' helpless was I

I was always a tumblin' doon then,

While my mother would twattle me(1) gently an' cry,

“Honey Jenny, tak care o' thisen. ”

When I grew bigger, an' got to be strang,

At I cannily ran all about

By misen, whor I liked, then I always mud gang

Bithout(2) bein' tell'd about ought;

When, however, I com to be sixteen year awd,

An' rattled an' ramp'd amang men,

My mother would call o' me in an' would scaud,

An' cry— “ Huzzy, tak care o' thisen. ”

I've a sweetheart cooms noo upo' Setterday nights,

An' he swears at he'll mak me his wife;

My mam grows sae stingy, she scauds an' she flytes, (3)

An' twitters(4) me oot o' my life.

Bud she may leuk sour, an' consait hersen wise,

An' preach agean likin' young men;

Sen I's grown a woman her clack(5) I'll despise,

An' I's— marry! — tak care o' misen.

1. Prattle to me. 2. Without. 3. Argues,

4. Worries. 5. Talk

The Invasion: An Ecologue

Thomas Browne (1771— 1798)

Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit? — Virgil.

A wanton wether had disdain'd the bounds

That kept him close confin'd to Willy's grounds;

Broke through the hedge, he wander'd far astray,

He knew not whither on the public way.

As Willy strives, with all attentive care,

The fence to strengthen and the gap repair,

His neighbour, Roger, from the fair return'd,

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Table of contents

• YORKSHIRE DIALECT POEMS
• Preface
• Preface (To the Second Edition)
• INTRODUCTION
• POEMS.
• An Honest Yorkshireman
• From “Snaith Marsh” (1754)
• When at Hame wi' Dad
• I'm Yorkshire too
• The Wensleydale Lad
• A Song 1.
• A Song 2.
• The Invasion: An Ecologue
• Elegy on the Death of a Frog (1815)
• Sheffield Cutler's Song (1887)
• Address to Poverty
• The Collingham Ghost
• The Lucky Dream
• The Milkin'-Time
• I Niver can call Her my Wife
• Come to thy Gronny, Doy(1)
• Owd Moxy
• Dean't mak gam o' me (1875)
• Coom, stop at yam to-neet Bob
• Ode to t' Mooin
• Aunt Nancy
• Coom, don on thy Bonnet an' Shawl (1867)
• My awd hat
• Reeth Bartle Fair(1) (1870)
• The Christmas Party (1876)
• Nelly o' Bob's
• Bite Bigger
• Rollickin' Jack
• Jim's Letter
• A Yorkshire Farmer's Address to a Schoolmaster
• The Window on the Cliff Top (1888)
• Aar Maggie
• Pateley Reaces 1874
• Play Cricket (1909)
• The File-cutter's Lament to Liberty (1910)
• A Kuss (1912)
• Huntin' Song
• Spring (1914)
• Heam, Sweet Heam (1914)
• Then an' Nae
• Owd England
• Love and Pie
• I's Gotten t' Bliss (1914)
• A Natterin' Wife
• O! What do ye Wesh i' the Beck
• Part II
• Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge
• A Dree Neet(1)
• The Bridal Bands
• The Bridal Garter(1)
• Nance and Tom
• The Witch's Curse(1)
• Ridin' t' Stang(1)
• Elphi Bandy-legs(1)
• Singing Games
• Hagmana Song(1)
• Round the Year
• Candlemas
• February Fill-Dike
• Palm Sunday
• Good Friday
• Royal Oak Day
• Harvest Home and the Mell-Sheaf(1)
• Guy Fawkes Day
• Christmas
• Cleveland Christmas Song(1)
• A Christmas Wassail(1)
• Sheffield Mumming Song(1)
• Charms, “Nominies,” and Popular Rhymes
• The Miller's Thumb
• Hob-Trush Hob
• Nanny Button-Cap
• The New Moon
• Friday Unlucky
• An Omen
• A Charm
• The Lady-bird
• The Magpie
• The Bat
• The Snail
• Hallamshire
• Harrogate(1)
• The River Don
• Copyright