William Barnes

"Where the bridge out at Woodley did stride, Wi' his wide arches' cool sheded bow, Up above the clear brook that did slide By the poppies, befoam'd"

"Last Easter Jim put on his blue Frock cwoat, the vust time-vier new; Wi yollow buttons all o brass, That glitterd in the zun lik glass; An p"

"Ov all the birds upon the wing Between the zunny showers o' spring, Vor all the lark, a-swingen high, Mid zing below a cloudless sky, An' sparrows"

"The girt woak tree that's in the dell ! There's noo tree I do love so well; Vor times an' times when I wer young I there've a-climb'd, an' there've a-"

"Since I noo mwore do zee your feace, Up steairs or down below, I’ll zit me in the lwonesome pleace, Where flat-bough’d beech do grow; Below the beeche"

"Last Easter Jim put on his blue Frock cwoat, the vu'st time-vier new; Wi' yollow buttons all o' brass, That glitter'd in the zun lik' glass; An' pok'd"

"If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e’thly light, An’ nothen better wer the cease, How comely still, in sheape an’ feace, Would many"

"When I led by zummer streams The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, While the zun, wi' evenen beams, Did cast our sheades athirt the water; Wind"

"When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I packed up my goods, all a-"

"When wintry weather's all a-done, An' brooks do sparkle in the zun, An' naisy-builden rooks do vlee Wi' sticks toward their elem tree; When birds"

"When I led by zummer streams The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her, While the zun, wi' evenen beams, Did cast our sheades athirt the water;"

"Ah! sad wer we as we did peace the wold church road, wi' downcast feace, the while the bells, that mwoaned so deep above our child a-left asleep,"

"A happy day at Whitsuntide, As soon s the zun begun to vall, We all strolld up the steep hill-zide To Meldon, gret an small; Out where the Cast"

"'Tis merry ov a zummer's day, When vo'k be out a-hauln hay, Where boughs, a-spread upon the ground, Do meke the staddle big an' round; An' grass"

"We zot bezide the leafy wall, Upon the bench at evenfall, While aunt led off our minds wrom ceare Wi' veairy teales, I can't tell where, An' vound"

"Id a dream to-night As I fell asleep, O! the touching sight Makes me still to weep: Of my little lad, Gone to leave me sad, Ay, the child I had"

"The girt woak tree that's in the dell! There's noo tree I do love so well; Vor times an' times when I wer young, I there've a-climbed, an' there've"

"Since I noo mwore do zee your fece, Up sters or down below, I'll zit me in the lwonesome plece, Where flat-bough'd beech do grow; Below the bee"

"Now the light o the west is a-turnd to gloom, An the men be at hwome vrom ground; An the bells be a-zendn all down the Coombe From tower, thei"

"A. Back here, but now, the jobber John Come by, an' cried, "Well done, zing on, I thought as I come down the hill, An' herd your zongs a-ringn s"

"When our downcast looks be smileless, Under others' wrongs an' slightens, When our daily deeds be guileless, An' do meet unkind requitens, You can"

"Green mwold on zummer bars do show That they've a-dripped in winter wet; The hoof-worn ring o' groun' below The tree do tell o' storms or het; The"

"The primrwose in the shade do blow, The cowslip in the zun, The thyme upon the down do grow, The clote where streams do run; An where do pretty m"

"As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with girls at play, By leafy boughs close-hemmed around, And ther"

"No, Im a man, Im vull a man, You beat my manhood, if you can. Youll be a man if you can teake All steates that household life do meake. The lov"

"News o' grief had overteaken Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken; There she zot, wi' breast a-heaven, While vrom zide to zide, wi' grieven, Vell her he"

"Ithin the woodlands, flowry gleaded, By the woak trees mossy moot, The sheenen grass-bleades, timber-sheaded, Now do quiver under voot; An bir"

"And passing here through evening dew, He hastened happy to her door, But found the old folk only two With no more footsteps on the floor To walk a"

"In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi vew a-left at hwome, When waggons rumbled out ov yard"

"We Doset, though we mid be hwomely, Bent asheamed to own our pleace; An weve zome women not uncomely; Nor asheamed to show their feace; Weve"

"Now the shiades o the elems da stratch muore an muore, Vrom the low-zinkn zun in the west o the sky; An the midens da stan out in clusters avor"

"O aye! they had woone child bezide, An' a finer your eyes never met, Twer a dear little fellow that died In the summer that come wi' such het; By"

"If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in ethly light, An nothen better wer the cease, How comely still, in sheape an feace, Would m"

"O! MARY, when the zun went down, Woone night in spring, w viry rim, Behind the nap wi woody crown, An left your smilen face so dim; Your li"