Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect | Page 3

William Barnes
51
Haÿ-Carrèn 52
Eclogue:--The Best Man in the Vield 54
Where we did keep our Flagon 57
Week's End in Zummer, in the Wold Vo'k's Time 58
The Meäd a-mow'd 60
The Sky a-cleärèn 61
The Evenèn Star o' Zummer 62
The Clote 63
I got two Vields 65
Polly be-èn upzides wi' Tom 66
Be'mi'ster 67
Thatchèn o' the Rick 68
Bees a-Zwarmèn 69
Readèn ov a Head-stwone 70
Zummer Evenèn Dance 71

Eclogue:--The Veäiries 72
FALL.
Corn a-turnèn Yollow 76
A-Haulèn o' the Corn 77
Harvest Hwome:--The vu'st Peärt 78
Harvest Hwome:--Second P e ä r t 7 9
A Zong ov Harvest Hwome 80
Poll's Jack-Daw 82
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