Poems about Dialect

• Lonesome Place

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

  by Langston Hughes 20 lines
• Bound No’th Blues

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

  by Langston Hughes 26 lines, 1 comment
• 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, 2 comments
• The Spring

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

  by William Barnes 34 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
• 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
• The Broken Heart

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

  by William Barnes 24 lines
• Vields by Watervalls

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

  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 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
• 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
• The Year Clock

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

  by William Barnes 79 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
• 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
• Blackmwore Maidens

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

  by William Barnes 43 lines
• Woak Hill

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

  by William Barnes 49 lines, 1 comment
• Mater Dolorosa

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

  by William Barnes 25 lines
• Hay-Carren

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

  by William Barnes 50 lines
• Woone Smile Mwore

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

  by William Barnes 42 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
• 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
• The Turnstile

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

  by William Barnes 33 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
• 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
• Tokens

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

  by William Barnes 20 lines
• Easter Zunday

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

  by William Barnes 28 lines
• Death Of A Factory Child

  Hear me! ye firm and uncorrupted few,
  Followers of freedom! and of virtue too!

  by John Critchley Prince 145 lines

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