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
Zellèn woone‘s honey to buy zome‘hat sweet
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
WHY, his heart's lik’ a popple, so hard as a stwone, pebble
Vor 'tis money, an’ money's his ho, concern
An’ to handle an’ reckon it up vor his own,
Is the best o’ the jaÿs he do know. joys
Why, vor money he'd gi'e up his lags an’ be leäme, give, lame
Or would peärt wi’ his zight an’ be blind,
Or would lose vo'k's good will, vor to have a bad neäme, folk's
Or his peace, an’ have trouble o’ mind.
But wi’ ev'ry good thing that his meänness mid bring, might
He'd paÿ vor his money,
An’ only zell honey to buy zome'hat sweet.
He did whisper to me, ―You do know that you stood
By the Squier, wi’ the vote that you had,
You could ax en to help ye to zome'hat as good, ask him
Or to vind a good pleäce vor your lad.”
―Aye, aye, but if I wer beholdèn vor bread
To another,” I zaid, ―I should bind
All my body an’ soul to the nod of his head,
An’ gi'e up all my freedom o’ mind.” give
An’ then, if my païn wer a-zet wi’ my gaïn,
I should paÿ vor my money,
An’ only zell honey to buy zome'hat sweet.
Then, if my bit o’ brook that do wind so vur round, far
Wer but his, why, he'd straïghten his bed, its
An’ the wold stunpole woak that do stan’ in my ground, half-dead
Shoudden long sheäde the grass wi’ his head. [oak
But if I do vind jaÿ where the leaves be a-shook
On the limbs, wi’ their sheädes on the grass, shadows
Or below, in the bow o’ the withy-bound nook, bend, willow-
That the rock-washèn water do pass,
Then wi’ they jaÿs a-vled an’ zome goold in their stead, flown
I should paÿ vor my money,
An’ only zell honey to buy zome'hat sweet.
No, be my lot good work, wi’ the lungs well in plaÿ,
An’ good rest when the body do tire,
Vor the mind a good conscience, wi’ hope or wi’ jaÿ,
Vor the body, good lewth, an’ good vire, shelter
There's noo good o’ goold, but to buy what 'ull meäke
Vor our happiness here among men;
An’ who would gi'e happiness up vor the seäke give
O’ zome money to buy it ageän?
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 402 - 405Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017