The Roots & Ridgeway groups welcomed Brian Caddy of the William Barnes Society to sessions where the poetry of Barnes was discussed...
These poems give a good introduction to the works of William Barnes and can be viewed free on-line at:
http://www.gutenberg.org Poems of Rural Life
First Collection
The Blackbird
Vellen o’ the Tree
Eclogue: The ‘Lotments
Uncle and Aunt
Hay-Meaken
The Clote
Shroden Feair: The Vu’ust Peart
Shroden Feair: The Rest o’t
The Happy Days When I wer Young
The Carter
Eclogue: Father Come Hwome
Sundry Pieces
The Hwomestead
Uncle out o’ debt an’ out o’ danger
The Wold Waggon
The Common a-took in
The Music of the Dead
The Hwomestead a-vell into Hand
Eclogue: The Times
Second Collection
My Orcha’d in Linden Lea
Ellen Brine ov Allenburn
Childhood
Meary’s Smile
Meary Wedded
The Young that died in Beauty
Minden House
The Wold Wall
Zun-zet
The Winter Crowvoot
Trees be Company
False friends-like
The Wife a-lost
The Bwoat
Pentridge by the River
My Love’s Guardian Angel
Third Collection:
The Lark
Woak Hill
Picken o’ Scroff
The Rwose in the Dark
The Child an’ the Mowers
The Turnstile
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