Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Second-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Blackmwore maïdens
- My orcha‘d in Lindèn Lea
- Bishop‘s Caundle
- Haÿ meäkèn—nunchen time
- A father out, an‘ mother hwome
- Riddles
- Day‘s work a-done
- Light or sheäde
- The waggon a-stooded
- Gwaïn down the steps vor water
- Ellen Brine ov Allenburn
- The motherless child
- The leädy‘s tower
- Fatherhood
- The Maïd o‘ Newton
- Childhood
- Meäry‘s smile
- Meäry wedded
- The stwonen bwoy upon the pillar
- The young that died in beauty
- Fair Emily of Yarrow Mill
- The scud
- Mindèn house
- The lovely maïd ov Elwell Meäd
- Our fathers‘ works
- The wold vo‘k dead
- Culver Dell and the squire
- Our be‘thplace
- The window freämed wi‘ stwone
- The water-spring in the leäne
- The poplars
- The linden on the lawn
- Our abode in Arby Wood
- Slow to come, quick agone
- The vier-zide
- Knowlwood
- Hallowed pleäces
- The wold wall
- Bleäke‘s house in Blackmwore
- John Bleäke at hwome at night
- Milkèn time
- When birds be still
- Ridèn hwome at night
- Zun-zet
- Spring
- The zummer hedge
- The water crowvoot
- The lilac
- The blackbird [II]
- The slantèn light o‘ fall
- Thissledown
- The maÿ-tree
- Lydlinch bells
- The stage coach
- Wayfeärèn
- The leäne
- The raïlroad [I]
- The raïlroad [II]
- Seats
- Sound o‘ water
- Trees be company
- A pleäce in zight
- Gwaïn to Brookwell
- Brookwell
- The shy man
- The winter‘s willow
- I know who
- Jessie Lee
- True love
- The beän vield
- Wold friends a-met
- Fifehead
- Ivy Hall
- False friends-like
- The bachelor
- Married peäir‘s love walk
- A wife a-praïs‘d
- The wife a-lost
- The thorns in the geäte
- Angels by the door
- Vo‘k a-comèn into church
- Woone rule
- Good Meäster Collins
- Herrenston
- Out at plough
- The bwoat
- The pleäce our own ageän
- Eclogue: John an‘ Thomas
- Pentridge by the river
- Wheat
- The meäd in June
- Early risèn
- Zellèn woone‘s honey to buy zome‘hat sweet
- Dobbin dead
- Happiness
- Gruffmoody Grim
- The turn o‘ the days
- The sparrow club
- Gammony Gaÿ
- The heäre
- Nanny Gill
- Moonlight on the door
- My love‘s guardian angel
- Leeburn Mill
- Praïse o‘ Do‘set
- Textual notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- By the same author
Mindèn house
from Second-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
- Second-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Blackmwore maïdens
- My orcha‘d in Lindèn Lea
- Bishop‘s Caundle
- Haÿ meäkèn—nunchen time
- A father out, an‘ mother hwome
- Riddles
- Day‘s work a-done
- Light or sheäde
- The waggon a-stooded
- Gwaïn down the steps vor water
- Ellen Brine ov Allenburn
- The motherless child
- The leädy‘s tower
- Fatherhood
- The Maïd o‘ Newton
- Childhood
- Meäry‘s smile
- Meäry wedded
- The stwonen bwoy upon the pillar
- The young that died in beauty
- Fair Emily of Yarrow Mill
- The scud
- Mindèn house
- The lovely maïd ov Elwell Meäd
- Our fathers‘ works
- The wold vo‘k dead
- Culver Dell and the squire
- Our be‘thplace
- The window freämed wi‘ stwone
- The water-spring in the leäne
- The poplars
- The linden on the lawn
- Our abode in Arby Wood
- Slow to come, quick agone
- The vier-zide
- Knowlwood
- Hallowed pleäces
- The wold wall
- Bleäke‘s house in Blackmwore
- John Bleäke at hwome at night
- Milkèn time
- When birds be still
- Ridèn hwome at night
- Zun-zet
- Spring
- The zummer hedge
- The water crowvoot
- The lilac
- The blackbird [II]
- The slantèn light o‘ fall
- Thissledown
- The maÿ-tree
- Lydlinch bells
- The stage coach
- Wayfeärèn
- The leäne
- The raïlroad [I]
- The raïlroad [II]
- Seats
- Sound o‘ water
- Trees be company
- A pleäce in zight
- Gwaïn to Brookwell
- Brookwell
- The shy man
- The winter‘s willow
- I know who
- Jessie Lee
- True love
- The beän vield
- Wold friends a-met
- Fifehead
- Ivy Hall
- False friends-like
- The bachelor
- Married peäir‘s love walk
- A wife a-praïs‘d
- The wife a-lost
- The thorns in the geäte
- Angels by the door
- Vo‘k a-comèn into church
- Woone rule
- Good Meäster Collins
- Herrenston
- Out at plough
- The bwoat
- The pleäce our own ageän
- Eclogue: John an‘ Thomas
- Pentridge by the river
- Wheat
- The meäd in June
- Early risèn
- Zellèn woone‘s honey to buy zome‘hat sweet
- Dobbin dead
- Happiness
- Gruffmoody Grim
- The turn o‘ the days
- The sparrow club
- Gammony Gaÿ
- The heäre
- Nanny Gill
- Moonlight on the door
- My love‘s guardian angel
- Leeburn Mill
- Praïse o‘ Do‘set
- Textual notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- By the same author
Summary
'TWER when the vo'k wer out to hawl folk
A vield o’ haÿ a day in June,
An’ when the zun begun to vall
Toward the west in afternoon,
Woone only wer a-left behind one
To bide indoors, at hwome, an’ mind
The house, an’ answer vo'k avore
The geäte or door,—young Fanny Deäne.
The aïr 'ithin the geärden wall
Wer deadly still, unless the bee
Did hummy by, or in the hall
The clock did ring a-hettèn dree, striking three
An’ there, wi’ busy hands, inside
The iron ceäsement, oben'd wide,
Did zit an’ pull wi’ nimble twitch
Her tiny stitch, young Fanny Deäne.
As there she zot she heärd two blows sat
A-knock'd upon the rumblèn door,
An’ laid azide her work, an’ rose,
An’ walk'd out feäir, athirt the vloor; across
An’ there, a-holdèn in his hand
His bridled meäre, a youth did stand, horse
An’ mildly twold his neäme and pleäce
Avore the feäce o’ Fanny Deäne.
He twold her that he had on hand
Zome business on his father's zide,
But what she didden understand; didn't
An’ zoo she ax'd en if he'd ride so, asked him
Out where her father mid be vound, might
Bezide the plow, in Cowslip Ground; wagon
An’ there he went, but left his mind
Back there behind, wi’ Fanny Deäne.
An’ oh! his hwomeward road wer gaÿ
In aïr a-blowèn, whiff by whiff,
While sheenèn water-weäves did plaÿ shining
An’ boughs did swaÿ above the cliff;
Vor Time had now a-show'd en dim him
The jaÿ it had in store vor him; joy
An’ when he went thik road ageän that
His errand then wer Fanny Deäne.
How strangely things be brought about
By Providence, noo tongue can tell,
She minded house, when vo'k wer out, folk
An’ zoo mus’ bid the house farewell; so
The bees mid hum, the clock mid call may
The lwonesome hours 'ithin the hall,
But in behind the woaken door, oak
There's now noo mwore a Fanny Deäne.
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 136 - 139Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017