Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's Poetry, by first line

• Yorkshire Gypsy

  "O, you shall live in a great stone hall,
  In a parkland fair and wide,

  48 lines
• Farmer Hodgson's Prayer

  "THOO knaws, dear Lord, I wurn't one
  For ever begging on Thee,

  23 lines
• Will's Stead

  'My stead's far end o' neeawheer,
  Neea lass wud care to settle there:

  33 lines, 1 comment
• Song for a Gathering of Yorkshiremen

  (DEDICATED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE YORKSHIRE SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND)
  NORTH Country Dales!

  42 lines
• T' Farmeress To Her Son On Active Service

  .                                      &n

  35 lines
• Shepherd's Funeral

  A lile wind kindly blaws to-day;
  They're takin' Dick, fra' ower t' way,

  37 lines
• Mrs. Buffey Knitting

  Aa! sich a gale
  Will bring doon mony owd trees in t' dale.

  26 lines
• T' Lahl Hoose

  Ah's coomin' back fra' furrin parts,
  An', Aa! Ah's varra fain

  43 lines
• Japonica

  An old dalewoman speaks:
  "JAPONICA! Ay, it makes a brave show,

  54 lines
• Home-coming

  BEFORE I left I planted twenty
  Ruby hawthorns, they’d be plenty

  25 lines
• At Barden Brig

  By Yorkshire moor, by Yorkshire dale,
  We've wandered mony a league,

  27 lines
• At Harden Brigg

  BY Yorkshire moor, by Yorkshire dale,
  We've wandered mony a league,

  27 lines
• Fear

  Child: reet ower t' brow
                O' Warlock Rise

  23 lines
• The Farmer's Wife To Her White Heifer (For Dora Yates}

  COOM, Cush-Luve, coom, thoo should be in thi byre
  By t' edge o' dark,

  15 lines
• Darby An' Joan

  Darby speaks
  ALISON, don thi bonnet,

  14 lines
• Daft Maggie

  DON'T go there at cockshut. None on us go
  By yon track, for it's haunted. Didn't you know-

  33 lines
• T’ Football Match

  Eh! Thoo’s a seet wi’ thi bandaged head
  An’ collar-bone broke! Why do lads play

  7 lines, 1 comment
• Mrs. Uppleby Brown Passes Without Bowing

  EMMA JANE, Emma Jane, did iver you see
  Likes o' her! Some folk is terrible proud

  19 lines
• Progress

  FARMER SYKES speaks his mind:
  Do you think your wireless and aeroplanes

  20 lines
• Gypsy Bride

  FORGET 'at iver I ran barefoot
  An' danced round a brushwood fire,

  33 lines
• Granny Mat To Her Granddaughter Matilda

  Granny Mat: Doves are in ther cotes,
                          T' cow is

  23 lines
• T' Lass to her Galloway* "Jerry"

  Ho! my Jerry, to-day we go
  Afore sun-up, afore cock-crow,

  24 lines
• Swallow's Return

  HOW mony times have I told thee
  Niver to fasten t' stable door

  19 lines
• A North Sea Skipper

  How's the wind, Skipper?
  "It's nobbut a leet air;

  26 lines
• Shepherd Agnostic

  I ALLUS hated goin' to t' kirk,
    An' preachin' doant do owt

  28 lines
• A Letter

  I am here in Wensleydale
  Waiting fur a letter,

  11 lines, 3 comments
• All Or Nowt

  I DIDN'T knaw neets could be lonesome,
    'At day could be too long,

  13 lines
• My Cat And Meg’s

  I have a kitlin black as neet,
  A canty kit wi' ways sae sweet.

  16 lines
• Thoo

  I MAY not call thee "Sweetheart,"
  "My ain, my dearest Dear,"

  16 lines, 1 comment
• T' Croodle Beck (For Nod McGrigor Phillips)

  I SIT aside thi Croodle Beck
  Watchin' its waiters flow,

  25 lines

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