Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
Slidèn
from Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
Summary
WHEN wind wer keen,
Where ivy-green
Did clwosely wind
Roun’ woak-tree rind, oak-tree bark
An’ ice shone bright,
An’ meäds wer white, wi’ thin-spread snow
Then on the pond, a-spreadèn wide,
We bwoys did zweep along the slide,
A-strikèn on in merry row.
There ruddÿ-feäced,
In busy heäste,
We all did wag move
A spankèn lag,
To win good speed,
When we, straïght-knee'd, wi’ foreright tooes, pointing straight forward
Should shoot along the slipp'ry track,
Wi’ grindèn sound, a-gettèn slack,
The slower went our clumpèn shoes.
Vor zome slow chap,
Did teäke mishap,
As he did veel
His hinder heel
A-het a thump, hit
Wi’ zome big lump, o’ voot an’ shoe.
Down vell the voremost wi’ a squall,
An’ down the next went wi’ a sprawl,
An’ down went all the laughèn crew.
As to an’ fro,
In merry row,
We all went round
On ice, on ground
The maïdens nigh
A-stannèn shy, did zee us slide,
An’ in their eäprons small, did vwold fold
Their little hands, a-got red-cwold,
Or slide on ice o’ two veet wide.
By leafless copse,
An’ beäre tree-tops, bare
An’ zun's low beams,
An’ ice-boun’ streams,
An’ vrost-boun’ mill,
A-stannèn still, come wind, blow on,
An’ gi'e the bwoys, this Chris'mas tide, give
The glitt'rèn ice to meäke a slide,
As we had our slide, years agone.
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 258 - 261Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017