Poems by William Barnes
The Vier-Zide
... Vrom shere to shere, vrom pleäce to pleäce, ...
Zummer Winds
... By flow'ry knowl, or blue-feäcèd pool ...
Treat Well Your Wife
... Think how she left her childhood's pleäce, ...
Wayfearen
... Would leäve bezide the stwone vor lwoads, ...
The Woodlands
... O' warm-aïr'd spring-time, zunny woodlands! ...
Eclogue:--The Best Man In The Vield
... At any thing,--then, Bob, we'll teäke a pick a-piece, ...
Looks A-Knowd Avore
... In zome wold naïghbour's welcome vaïce, ...
Uncle An Aunt
... While birds did zing an' gnats did zwarm, ...
Nannys New Abode
... There, naïghbours wer vull wide a-spread, ...
The White Road Up Athirt The Hill
... An' luonesome in the wheelwright's shed ...
Zun-zet
... An while the gossamers light nettèn ...
The Beam In Grenley Church
... a tree That's longer than the church is wide, ...
Thatchen O The Rick
... My bwoys, that brought me thatch an' spars, ...
The Lilac
... 'Tis Spring, 'tis Maÿ, as Maÿ woonce shed ...
Eclogue:--A Ghost
... Lo'k there, he zaïd, there's zome girt dog a-prowlèn: ...