Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

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Title: Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
Author: William Barnes
Release Date: June 9, 2007 [EBook #21785]
Language: English
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_POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET DIALECT._
BY WILLIAM BARNES.
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LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TR��BNER & Co., LTD. 1903
_TO THE READER._
KIND READER,
Two of the three Collections of these Dorset Poems have been, for some time, out of print, and the whole of the three sets are now brought out in one volume.
I have little more to say for them, than that the writing of them as glimpses of life and landscape in Dorset, which often open to my memory and mindsight, has given me very much pleasure; and my happiness would be enhanced if I could believe that you would feel my sketches to be so truthful and pleasing as to give you even a small share of pleasure, such as that of the memories from which I have written them.
This edition has a list of such Dorset words as are found in the Poems, with some hints on Dorset word shapes, and I hope that they will be found a fully good key to the meanings of the verse.
Yours kindly,
W. BARNES
_June 1879._
CONTENTS.
FIRST COLLECTION.
SPRING.
The Spring 3
The Woodlands 4
Le?dy-Day, an' Ridd��n House 5
Easter Zunday 8
Easter Monday 9
Dock-Leaves 9
The Blackbird 10
Woodcom' Fe?st 12
The Milk-Ma?d o' the Farm 13
The Girt Woak Tree that's in the Dell 15
Vell��n o' the Tree 16
Bring��n Woone Gwa?n o' Zundays 17
Even��n Twilight 18
Even��n in the Village 20
May