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Born in February 22, 1801 / Died in October 7, 1886 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by William Barnes

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Beauty Undecked

...   An' thorns be bright when quiv'rèn studs ...

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Leady-Day, An’ Ridden House

...   Bwoth when he's beäre, or when the pleätes ...

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The Rwose That Deck’d Her Breast

...   Where stocks did grow, a-staïned wi' red, ...

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Zunday

...   Wi' neämes that tongues noo mwore do sound, ...

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Readen Ov A Head-Stwone

... "   Though she've a-lost, I thought, so much, ...

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The Mead A-Mow’d

...   Drough groun's wi' red thissle-heads a-blowèn, ...

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Pentridge By The River

...   But still the neäme do bide the seäme-- ...

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The Guide Post

...   An' there, wi' woone white eärm he show'd, ...

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Eclogue:--John An' Thomas

...   Aye, aye, that's true, but still your strip ...

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Eclogue:--Two Farms In Woone

...   They got machines to drashy wi', plague teäke em! ...

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Riden Hwome At Night

...   An' brooks that gleam'd below the light, ...

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Vellen O’ The Tree

...   Where the haÿ-meäkers put all their picks an' their reäkes, ...

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Fifehead

...   All brought us gwäin so vur's the stream ...

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The Water Crowvoot

...   An' there, at hand, the thin-heäir'd cows, ...

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Good Night

...   Still wer the shop that the smith meäde ring, ...