Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems. F. W. Moorman
Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge(1)
Harvest Home and the Mell-Sheaf(1)
Charms, "Nominies," and Popular Rhymes
(1673–1915)
and Traditional Poems
Compiled with an Historical Introduction
By F. W. Moorman
(Professor of English Language, University of Leeds)
London
Published for the Yorkshire Dialect Society
by Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., 1916, 1917
To
The Yorkshiremen Serving their
Country in Trench or on Battleship
I respectfully dedicate
this collection
of Songs from the Homeland
CONTENTS AND AUTHORS
Preface to Etext Edition
Preface
Preface (To the Second Edition)
Introduction
Poems
A Yorkshire Dialogue between an awd Wife a Lass and a butcher .
Anonymous
An Honest Yorkshireman. Henry Carey
From "Snaith Marsh" Anonymous
When at Hame wi' Dad Anonymous
I'm Yorkshire too Anonymous
The Wensleydale Lad Anonymous
A Song 1. Thomas Browne
A Song 2. Thomas Browne
The Invasion: An Ecologue Thomas Browne
Elegy on the Death of a Frog David Lewis
Sheffield Cutler's Song Abel Bywater
Address to Poverty Anonymous
The Collingham Ghost Anonymous
The Yorkshire Horse Dealers Anonymous
The Lucky Dream John Castillo
The Milkin'-Time J. H. Dixon
I Niver can