Yorkshire Lyrics : Poems by John Hartley

Yorkshire Lyrics is a collection of poems written by John Hartley in the dialect as spoken in the west riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect

The collection was published by William Nicholson & Sons, London & Wakefield in 1898 and includes

• Mi Darling Muse
• To a Daisy, Found blooming March 7th
• Mi Bonny Yorksher Lass
• Give it 'em Hot
• A Tale for th' Childer, on Christmas Eve
• Words ov Kindness
• A Brussen Bubble
• Th' Little Stranger
• Th' Traitle Sop
• Once agean Welcome
• Still true to Nell
• Bide thi Time
• A Cold Dooas
• A Jolly Beggar
• Aw Wodn't for all aw Could See
• Come thi Ways!
• What is it?
• Awst Nivver be Jaylus
• Lamentin' an Repentin'
• Bite Bigger
• Second Thowts
• A Neet when aw've Nowt to do
• Ther's much Expected
• Coortin Days
• Sweet Mistress Moore
• Waivin Mewsic
• Jimmy's Choice
• Old Moorcock
• Th' Short-Timer
• Sol an' Doll
• Their Fred
• Love an' Labor
• Nooan so Bad
• Th' Honest Hard Worker
• Peevish Poll
• The Old Bachelor's Story
• Did yo Ivver!
• A Quiet Tawk
• Lines, on Startling a Rabbit
• Nivver Heed
• Gronfayther's Days
• Awr Dooad
• Whear Natur Missed it
• That's All
• Mary Hanner's Peanner
• Grondad's Lullaby
• Sixty, Turned, To-day
• That Lad Next Door
• A Summer Shaar
• Awr Lad
• Bonny Mary Ann
• That Christmas Puddin
• A Bad Sooart
• Fairly Weel-off
• A Warnin
• To W. F. Wallett. The Queen's Jester
• Lads an Lasses
• A New Year's Gift
• Matty's Reason
• Uncle Ben
• A Hawporth
• Th' Better Part
• Th' Lesser Evil
• Take Heart!
• They all do it
• To Let
• Lost Love
• Drink
• Duffin Johnny (A Rifleman's Adventure)
• Plenty o' Brass
• The New Year's Resolve
• A Strange Stooary
• What Wor it?
• Billy Bumble's Bargain
• Aght o' Wark
• That's a Fact
• Babby Burds
• Queen ov Skircoit Green
• Th' Little Black Hand
• My Native Twang
• Sing On
• Shoo's thi Sister
• Another Babby
• To a Roadside Flower
• An Old Man's Christmas Morning
• Settin Off
• To th' Swallow
• A Wife
• Heart Brokken
• Lines, on finding a butterfly in a weaving shed
• Rejected
• Persevere
• A Pointer
• An Acrostic
• Help Thisen
• Bless 'em!
• Act Square
• His Dowter Gate Wed
• All We Had
• Th' First o'th Sooart
• Poor Old Hat
• Done Agean
• What it is to be a Mother
• What they say
• Young Jockey
• Missed his Mark
• When Lost
• Mak a Gooid Start
• Stop at Hooam
• Advice to Jenny
• Jockey an Dolly
• Dooant Forget the Old Fowks
• Soa Bonny
• The Linnet
• Mary Jane
• Aw Dooant Care
• My Lass
• A Gooid Kursmiss Day
• Mi Love's Come Back
• A Wife
• All Tawk
• Aw Can't Tell
• Happen Thine
• Contrasts
• To Mally
• Th' State o' th' Poll. A nop tickle illusion
• Try a Smile
• Growin Old
• Gooid Bye, Old Lad
• That Drabbled Brat
• Song for th' Hard Times (1879)
• Stir thi Lass!
• Tother Day
• Happy Sam's Song
• Gradely Weel off
• Is it Reight?
• A Yorksher Bite
• Lily's Gooan
• What aw Want
• Latter Wit
• A Millionaire
• Mi Fayther's Pipe
• Let th' Lasses Alooan!
• A Breet Prospect
• Missin Yor Way
• Heather Bells
• A Lucky Dog
• My Doctrine
• That Lass
• Mi Old Umberel
• What it Comes to
• Hold up yer Heeads
• A Quiet Day
• Lass o'th Haley Hill
• Ditherum Dump
• My Polly
• Love one Another
• Dick an Me
• Briggate at Setterdy Neet
• Awr Annie
• Peter Prime's Principles
• Cuckoo!
• Fowk Next Door
• Dad's Lad
• Willie's Weddin
• Somdy's Chonce
• To a True Friend
• Warmin Pan
• It may be Soa
• A Safe Investment
• Red Stockin
• Plain Jane
• Cash V. Cupid
• Ahr Mary's Bonnet
• Prime October
• Old Dave to th' New Parson
• Tom Grit
• Th' Demon o' Debt
• Th' Lad 'at Loves his Mother
• Matilda Jane
• Modest Jack o' Wibsey Slack
• Work Lads!
• Bonny Yorksher
• Sixty an Sixteen
• Come thi Ways in
• Horton Tide
• Mi Old Slippers
• A Friend to Me
• A Pair o' Black Een
• A Screw Lawse
• A Sad Mishap
• If
• A True Tale
• Peter's Prayer
• Mak th' Best Ont
• On Strike
• Be Happy
• Its True
• Natty Nancy
• Fugitive poems
• Angels of Sunderland. In Memoriam, June 16th, 1893
• Trusting Still
• Shiver the Goblet
• Little Sunshine
• Passing Events
• Those Days have Gone
• I'd a Dream
• To my Harp
• Backward Turn, Oh! Recollection
• Alice
• Looking Back
• I Know I Love Thee
• Bachelors Quest
• Waiting at the Gate
• Love
• Do your Best and Leave the Rest
• To my Daughter on her Birthday
• Remorse
• My Queen
• Now and Then
• The Open Gates
• Blue Bells
• A Song of the Snow
• Hide not thy Face
• In my Garden of Roses
• The Match Girl
• De Profundis
• Nettie
• The Dean's Brother
• I Would not Live Alway
• Too Late
• On the Banks of the Calder
• Lines on Receiving a Bunch of Wild Hyacinths by Post
• November's Here
• Mary
• When Cora Died
• The Violet
• Repentant
• Sunset
• Poetry and Prose
• Years Ago
• Somebody's
• Claude
• All on a Christmas Morning
• Once Upon a Time
• Nearing Home
• Those Tiny Fingers
• Lilly-White Hand
• Shut Out
• Charming May
• Who Cares?

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