Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's Poetry, by popularity

• T' Lile Hoose (For Watson Dyke)

  I'SE coomin' back fra' furrin parts,
  An', Aa! I'se varra fain

  43 lines
• Life's Like A Fair

  LIFE'S like a Fair: a vast of work afore
  A few hours' fun;

  5 lines
• Lapwings And Laverocks

  No matter if things
      Go wrong at morn

  35 lines
• Return to Upper Wharfedale

  LATE afternoon I wandered
    Where summering fells are green;

  11 lines
• Yorla Intake

  UP on Yorla intake,
  Lookin' doon thoo sees

  11 lines
• In Sydney Harbour

  MRS. CARTER speaks:
  We came oot here in '87,

  29 lines
• Yorkshire Five (Aire, Wharfe, Nidd, Ure and Swale)

  WHEN I'se been by Tiber an' when I'se been by Seine,
  Listenin' theer messages, I lang to hear agen

  13 lines
• Richard Leigh

  Nobody seems to onderstand
      My luvin' Richard Leigh.

  16 lines
• Thi Coomin'

  TO be bonny 'gainst thi coomin’
  Theer's mony things I'd do,

  7 lines
• Richard Ryder

  RICHARD RYDER! Awake! Awake!
  Let's go a-ridin' to-day;

  23 lines
• October Moors (For Pauline Clough Young)

  They're leadin' brekkons doon fra' moors
        For cattle-beddin'

  18 lines
• T' Croodle Beck (For Nod McGrigor Phillips)

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

  25 lines
• My Cat And Meg’s

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

  16 lines
• Song for a Gathering of Yorkshiremen

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

  42 lines
• Isaiah Boswell (On the outskirts of Chicago)

  Now 'at our foki live in towns
  Fur winter months, I go an' sit

  11 lines
• Mrs. Uppleby Brown Passes Without Bowing

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

  19 lines
• T’ Emigrant's Sweetheart

  IT'S hard to see all bonnie things
  Alone 'at once we shared;

  25 lines
• Swallow's Return

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

  19 lines
• Wallflowers

  WALLFLOWERS i' my border!
  At t' hour when blackies sing

  25 lines
• T' Laverock

  UP on t' moor-tops,
  Wheer cotton-grass grow,

  19 lines
• Rake

  THERE'S no better dog nor Hardcastle's Rake:
  Not a hundred guineas would Hardcastle take.

  23 lines
• T' Bride

  To be bonny 'gainst thi coomin'
    There are mony things I'd do;

  7 lines
• Japonica

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

  54 lines
• T' Cat Hole Inn (For Alfred Brown)

  NEET wur murky an' wild an' starless,
  West wind beldered an' yelled,

  18 lines
• Tom's Chest

  TOM finished t' oak chest he wur carvin'
    When leddies-smock coom into flower;

  7 lines
• T' Owd Sheep Farmer (For J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, M.C.)

  SO t' Doctor thinks 'at my time is nigh:
  But does yon gomerill knaw

  25 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
• Lament

  T' WIND is in a cold airt,
  Hearken to its wail,

  18 lines
• T' Dancin' Star (For Alberta Vickridge)

  T' Owd .Nurse speaks:
  THOO climbs at dusk to brekkon hills

  20 lines
• Nannie Nole

  OLD Nannie has a garden
      Where thyme and lad's-love grow,

  16 lines

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