By F.W. Moorman
(1673-1915) and Traditional Poems
Preface
Preface (To the Second Edition)
INTRODUCTION
POEMS.
An Honest Yorkshireman
From "Snaith Marsh" (1754)
When at Hame wi' Dad
I'm Yorkshire too
The Wensleydale Lad
A Song 1.
A Song 2.
The Invasion: An Ecologue
Elegy on the Death of a Frog (1815)
Sheffield Cutler's Song (1887)
Address to Poverty
The Collingham Ghost
The Lucky Dream
The Milkin'-Time
I Niver can call Her my Wife
Come to thy Gronny, Doy(1)
Owd Moxy
Dean't mak gam o' me (1875)
Coom, stop at yam to-neet Bob
Ode to t' Mooin
Aunt Nancy
Coom, don on thy Bonnet an' Shawl (1867)
My awd hat
Reeth Bartle Fair(1) (1870)
The Christmas Party (1876)
Nelly o' Bob's
Bite Bigger
Rollickin' Jack
Jim's Letter
A Yorkshire Farmer's Address to a Schoolmaster
The Window on the Cliff Top (1888)
Aar Maggie
Pateley Reaces 1874
Play Cricket (1909)
The File-cutter's Lament to Liberty (1910)
A Kuss (1912)
Huntin' Song
Spring (1914)
Heam, Sweet Heam (1914)
Then an' Nae
Owd England
Love and Pie
I's Gotten t' Bliss (1914)
A Natterin' Wife
O! What do ye Wesh i' the Beck
Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge(1)
Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge
A Dree Neet(1)
The Bridal Bands
The Bridal Garter(1)
Nance and Tom
The Witch's Curse(1)
Ridin' t' Stang(1)
Elphi Bandy-legs(1)
Singing Games
Hagmana Song(1)
Round the Year
New Year's Day
Candlemas
February Fill-Dike
Palm Sunday
Good Friday
Royal Oak Day
Harvest Home and the Mell-Sheaf(1)
Guy Fawkes Day
Christmas
Cleveland Christmas Song(1)
A Christmas Wassail(1)
Sheffield Mumming Song(1)
Charms, "Nominies," and Popular Rhymes
The Miller's Thumb
Hob-Trush Hob
Nanny Button-Cap
The New Moon
Friday Unlucky
An Omen
A Charm
The Lady-bird
The Magpie
The Bat
The Snail
Hallamshire
Harrogate(1)
The River Don
