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Songs of the Ridings
by F. W. Moorman
Contents:
Dedication?Preface?A Dalesman's Litany?Cambodunum?Telling the Bees?The Two Lamplighters?Our Beck?Lord George?Jenny Storm?The New Englishman?The Bells of Kirkby Overblow?The gardener and the Robin?Lile Doad?His last Sail?One Year Older?The Hungry Forties?The Flowers of Knaresborough Forest?The Miller by the Shore?The Bride's Homecoming?The Artist?Marra to Bonney??Mary Mecca?The Local Preacher?The Courting Gate?Fieldfares?A Song of the Yorkshire Dales?The Flower of Wensleydale
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO THE YORKSHIRE MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCITION
Preface
About two years ago I published a collection of Yorkshire dialect poems, chosen from many authors and extending over a period of two hundred and fifty years(1). The volume was well received, and there are abundant signs that the interest in dialect literature is steadily growing in all parts of the county and beyond its borders. What is most encouraging is to find that the book has found an entrance into the homes of Yorkshire peasants and artisans where the works of our great national poets are unknown. I now essay the more venturesome task of publishing dialect verses of my own. Most of the poems contained in this little volume have appeared, anonymously, in the Yorkshire press, and I have now decided to reissue them in book form and with my name on the title-page.
A generation ago the minor poet was, in the eyes of most Englishmen, an object of ridicule. Dickens and Thackeray had done their worst with him: we knew him--or her--as Augustus Snodgrass or Blanche Amory--an amiable fool or an unamiable minx. The twentieth century has already, in its short course, done much to remove this prejudice, and the minor poet is no longer expected to be apologetic; his circle of readers, though small, is