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
The waggon a-stooded
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
Dree o'm a-ta'kèn o't. three of them talking about it
(1) WELL, here we be, then, wi’ the vu'st poor lwoad first
O’ vuzz we brought, a-stoodèd in the road. furze (gorse)
(2) The road, George, no. There's na'r a road. That's wrong. never a
If we'd a road, we mid ha’ got along. might
(1) Noo road! Ees 'tis, the road that we do goo. yes
(2) Do goo, George, no. The pleäce we can't get drough. through
(1) Well, there, the vu'st lwoad we 've a-haul'd to day
Is here a-stoodèd in theäse bed o’ clay. this
Here's rotten groun’! an’ how the wheels do cut!
The little woone's a-zunk up to the nut. one's
(3) An’ yeet this rotten groun’ don't reach a lug. yet, is no bigger than
a pole (5½ yards)
(1) Well, come, then, gi'e the plow another tug. give the wagon
(2) They meäres wull never pull the waggon out, horses
A-lwoaded, an’ a-stoodèd in thik rout. that rut
(3) We'll try. Come, Smiler, come! C’ up, Whitevoot, gee!
(2) White-voot wi’ lags all over mud! Hee! Hee!
(3) 'Twoon't wag. We shall but snap our gear, move
An’ overstraïn the meäres. 'Twoon't wag, 'tis clear.
(1) That's your work, William. No, in coo'se, 'twoon't wag. of course
Why did ye drēve en into theäse here quag? drive it, this, bog
The vore-wheels be a-zunk above the nuts.
(3) What then? I coulden leäve the beäten track,
To turn the waggon over on the back
Ov woone o’ theäsem wheel-high emmet-butts. one, these, ant-hills
If you be sich a drēver, an’ do know't, driver
You drēve the plow, then; but you'll overdrow 't. wagon, turn it over
(1) I drēve the plow, indeed! Oh! ees, what, now yes
The wheels woont wag, then, I mid drēve the plow! move, may
We'd better dig away the groun’ below
The wheels. (2) There's na'r a speäde to dig wi’. never a
(1) An’ teäke an’ cut a lock o’ frith, an’ drow brushwood, throw it
Upon the clay. (2) Nor hook to cut a twig wi’.
(1) Oh! here's a bwoy a-comèn.
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 72 - 79Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017