Prime October (John Hartley Poems)
Ther's some fowk like watter, An others like beer;It doesn't mich matter, If ther heead is kept clear.But to guzzle an swill, As ...
Ther's some fowk like watter, An others like beer;It doesn't mich matter, If ther heead is kept clear.But to guzzle an swill, As ...
Whew!--Tha'rt in a famous hurry! Awm nooan baan to try to catch thi!Aw've noa dogs wi' me to worry Thee poor thing,--aw ...
This world is net a paradise, Tho' railly aw dooant see,What fowk should growl soa mich abaat;-- Its gooid enuff for me.It's ...
The tyme of youthe is to be spent;But vice in it shuld be forfent.Pastymes ther be I nought treulyeWhych one ...
(VITA NOBILISSIMI DEFENSORIS SCOTIE WILELMI WALLACE MILITIS)Book IOur antecessowris that we suld of reideAnd hald in mynde, thar nobille worthi ...
Fitt I.In schomer, when the leves spryng,The bloschoms on every bowe,So merey doyt the berdys syngYn wodys merey now. Herkens, ...
In somer, when the shawes be sheyne,And leves be large and long,Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here ...
The Perse owt off Northombarlonde,And a vowe to God mayd heThat he wold hunte in the mowntaynsOff Chyviat within days ...
When old ADAM bit the apple, And thereafter had to grappleWith hard toil to earn ...
Cambodunum, Cambodunum, how I love the sound o' t' name! Roman sowdiers belt a fort here, ...
Has eawr Jammy bin here to-neet?Oh! theaw'rt theer, theau great drunken slotchIt's strange if au nowt elze to doBo' ha' ...
Ya summer day when I were mowin', When flooers of monny soorts were growin', Which fast befoor my scythe fell ...
I ALLUS hated goin' to t' kirk, An' preachin' doant do owtTo help a man 'at's gone astray; To sermons, ...
How's the wind, Skipper?"It's nobbut a leet air;If it doan't freshenYou'd like to cuss?Well, a fluky windWean't shift for us."How's ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy? Proputty, proputty, proputty--that's what I 'ears 'em saäy. Proputty, proputty, ...
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