Poems about Dialect

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Bound No’th Blues

Goin’ down the road, Lawd,
Goin’ down the road.

by Langston Hughes 26 lines, 1 comment
Lonesome Place

I got to leave this town.
It’s a lonesome place.

by Langston Hughes 20 lines
Come Whoam To Thy Childer an' Me

Aw've just mended th' fire wi' a cob;
Owd Swaddle has brought thi new shoon;

by Edwin Waugh 52 lines, 2 comments
Owd Pinder

OWD PINDER were a rackless foo,
An’ spent his days i’ spreein’;

by Edwin Waugh 43 lines, 1 comment
I've Worn My Bits o' Shoon Away

I've worn my bits o' shoon away,
Wi' Rovin' up an' deawn,

by Edwin Waugh 43 lines
Th’ Sweetheart Gate

OH, there ’s mony a gate eawt ov eawr teawn-end,
But nobbut one for me;

by Edwin Waugh 44 lines
The Blackbird

Ov all the birds upon the wing
Between the zunny showers o' spring,-

by William Barnes 45 lines
Vields by Watervalls

When our downcast looks be smileless,
Under others' wrongs an' slightens,

by William Barnes 34 lines
Zummer An' Winter

When I led by zummer streams
The pride o' Lea, as naighbours thought her,

by William Barnes 18 lines, 1 comment
Blackmwore Maidens

THE PRIMRWOSE in the shade do blow,
The cowslip in the zun,

by William Barnes 43 lines
"The Girt Woak Tree That's In the Dell"

The girt woak tree that's in the dell!
There's noo tree I do love so well;

by William Barnes 57 lines
The Geate A-Vallen To

In the zunsheen of our zummers
Wi’ the hay time now a-come,

by William Barnes 44 lines, 1 comment
Come to thy Gronny, Doy

Come to thy gronny, doy, come to thy gronny,
Bless thee, to me tha'rt as pratty as onny;

by Ben Preston 47 lines
I Niver can call Her my Wife

I'm a weyver, ye knaw, an' awf deead,
So I do all at iver I can

by Ben Preston 61 lines
Woak Hill

When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden
Green-ruddy in hedges,

by William Barnes 49 lines, 1 comment
The Year Clock

We zot bezide the leafy wall,
Upon the bench at evenfall,

by William Barnes 79 lines
Mater Dolorosa

I'D a dream to-night
As I fell asleep,

by William Barnes 25 lines
The Child an' the Mowers

O AYE! they had woone child bezide,
An' a finer your eyes never met,

by William Barnes 34 lines
The Wife A-Lost

Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce,
Up steärs or down below,

by William Barnes 37 lines, 1 comment
The Broken Heart

News o' grief had overteaken
Dark-eyed Fanny, now vorseaken;

by William Barnes 24 lines
The Spring

When wintry weather's all a-done,
An' brooks do sparkle in the zun,

by William Barnes 34 lines
Evenén in the Village

Now the light o' the west is a-turn'd to gloom,
An' the men be at hwome vrom ground;

by William Barnes 16 lines, 1 comment
Hay-Carren

'Tis merry ov a zummer's day,
When vo'k be out a-haulèn hay,

by William Barnes 50 lines
Owd Moxy

Owd Moxy wrowt hard for his morsil o' breead,
An' to keep up his courage he'd sing,

by Ben Preston 53 lines
Woone Smile Mwore

O! MARY, when the zun went down,
Woone night in spring, w’ viry rim,

by William Barnes 42 lines
Tokens

Green mwold on zummer bars do show
That they've a-dripped in winter wet;

by William Barnes 20 lines
The Turnstile

Ah! sad wer we as we did peace
the wold church road, wi' downcast feace,

by William Barnes 33 lines
Vull a Man

No, I’m a man, I’m vull a man,
You beat my manhood, if you can.

by William Barnes 42 lines
Easter Zunday

Last Easter Jim put on his blue
Frock cwoat, the vu'st time-vier new;

by William Barnes 28 lines
The Castle Ruins

A HAPPY day at Whitsuntide,
As soon ’s the zun begun to vall,

by William Barnes 47 lines

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