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Dorothy Una Ratcliffe's Poetry, by title

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  • A Dialogue
    MRS. HARDCASTLE;    Will's back again.
    MARY JANE:            What do I care ?
    17 lines
  • A Letter
    I am here in Wensleydale
    Waiting fur a letter,
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • A Luver’s Calendar
    January
    When snow’s on tops
    70 lines, 1 comment
  • A North Sea Skipper
    How's the wind, Skipper?
    "It's nobbut a leet air;
    26 lines
  • A Protest
    IT isn't fair to take my becks,
    My lile hidden tarn,
    24 lines
  • A Year
    Last winter, after sundown,
    I'd spend an hour or so
    16 lines
  • Afore Hallowe'en
    LAST winter, after sundown,
    I'd spend an hour or so
    16 lines
  • All Or Nowt
    I DIDN'T knaw neets could be lonesome,
      'At day could be too long,
    13 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
  • Autumn Tryst
    WILTA meet me. Lass, when rowans
    Are reddenin' Fox Ghyll
    23 lines
  • Builders
    Under my cherry-tree when work is done
    I smoke an' watch lile birds. They have begun
    9 lines
  • Buttercup Time
    WHEN I came back from Hell Fire Pass
    Minus a leg an' a hand,
    16 lines
  • Charm Against Rainbows (For A. Stanley Umpleby)
    NOO, mak' a lile cross
    Wi' sticks 'at 'll bend,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Charm For Butter-Making
    TAKE a twig of rowan,
    Bind it wiv a red
    8 lines
  • Cock-Leet
    IT'S nobbut cock-leet, Sweetheart! Hast come by Yorla Moor?
    Whya, Lad! thoo mun be famished! I' Muther's cheeany crock
    13 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
  • Dale Farm In Spring (For Ella Pontefract and Mane Hartley)
    T' ground rises brantly to nor'-east,
    Wi' t' walls zigzaggin' ower t' intake—
    33 lines
  • Darby An' Joan
    Darby speaks
    ALISON, don thi bonnet,
    14 lines
  • Doy*
    Thoo’s varra fain to meet me
    When work is done at t' Mill,
    16 lines
  • Doy, My Ain Doy
    LULLA, O Lullaby,
    Doy, my ain doy,
    30 lines
  • Farmer Hodgson's Prayer
    "THOO knaws, dear Lord, I wurn't one
    For ever begging on Thee,
    23 lines
  • Fear
    Child: reet ower t' brow
                  O' Warlock Rise
    23 lines
  • Fra' Dallow
    No matter wheer thoo wander,
    Be't North, South, East or West,
    25 lines
  • Fra' T Middle East
    THERE isn't a tree to be seen fra' wheer I am writin',
    There isn't a beck to be heard or sang of a bird,
    13 lines
  • Girl To Her Chance-Bairn
    SOME neets are made for courtin',
    Neets when a new-born moon
    48 lines
  • Granny Mat To Her Granddaughter Matilda
    Granny Mat: Doves are in ther cotes,
                            T' cow is
    23 lines
  • Gypsy Bride
    FORGET 'at iver I ran barefoot
    An' danced round a brushwood fire,
    33 lines
  • Home-coming
    BEFORE I left I planted twenty
    Ruby hawthorns, they’d be plenty
    25 lines
  • I Wrote a Letter
    I wrote a letter to my luve
    An' posted it yestreen,
    24 lines
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