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, TRÜBNER & 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
Leädy-Day, an' Riddèn House 5
Easter Zunday 8
Easter Monday 9
Dock-Leaves 9
The Blackbird 10
Woodcom' Feäst 12
The Milk-Maïd o' the Farm 13
The Girt Woak Tree that's in the Dell 15

Vellèn o' the Tree 16
Bringèn Woone Gwaïn o' Zundays 17
Evenèn Twilight