Doomes-Day: The Sixth Houre by William Alexander
The Argument Some who themselves prophanely did defile, And gave to creatures what to God was due; Some whom with bloud, ambition did beguile, Who honour sought where horrour did ensue, Doe here with Witches meet, and strangely vile, Some Parricides and traitours in a crue, Who wanting all that unto grace belong’d, Most vainely […]
Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
Ees, last Whit-Monday, I an’ Meäry Got up betimes to mind the deäiry; An’ gi’ed the milkèn païls a scrub, An’ dress’d, an’ went to zee the club. Vor up at public-house, by ten O’clock the pleäce wer vull o’ men, A-dress’d to goo to church, an’ dine, An’ walk about the pleäce in line. […]
The Do’set Militia by William Barnes
Hurrah! my lads, vor Do’set men! A-muster’d here in red ageän; All welcome to your ranks, a-spread Up zide to zide, to stand, or wheel, An’ welcome to your files, to head The steady march wi’ tooe to heel; Welcome to marches slow or quick! Welcome to gath’rèns thin or thick; God speed the Colonel […]
Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
An’ zoo you didden come athirt, To have zome fun last night: how wer’t? Vor we’d a-work’d wi’ all our might To scour the iron things up bright, An’ brush’d an’ scrubb’d the house all drough; An’ brought in vor a brand, a plock O’ wood so big’s an uppèn-stock, An’ hung a bough o’ […]
Bishop’s Caundle by William Barnes
At peace day, who but we should goo To Caundle vor an’ hour or two: As gaÿ a day as ever broke Above the heads o’ Caundle vo’k, Vor peace, a-come vor all, did come To them wi’ two new friends at hwome. Zoo while we kept, wi’ nimble peäce, The wold dun tow’r avore […]
A Zong Of Harvest Hwome by William Barnes
The ground is clear. There’s nar a ear O’ stannèn corn a-left out now, Vor win’ to blow or raïn to drow; ‘Tis all up seäfe in barn or mow. Here’s health to them that plough’d an’ zow’d; Here’s health to them that reap’d an’ mow’d, An’ them that had to pitch an’ lwoad, Or […]
A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
We thought you woulden leäve us quite So soon as what you did last night; Our fun jist got up to a height As you about got hwome. The friskèn chaps did skip about, An’ cou’se the maïdens in an’ out, A-meäkèn such a randy-rout, You coulden hear a drum. An’ Tom, a-springèn after Bet […]
Arabian Night’s Entertainments by William Ernest Henley
Once on a time There was a little boy: a master-mage By virtue of a Book Of magic–O, so magical it filled His life with visionary pomps Processional! And Powers Passed with him where he passed. And Thrones And Dominations, glaived and plumed and mailed, Thronged in the criss-cross streets, The palaces pell-mell with playing-fields, […]
Civil War Songs
Civil War Songs – a small collection of American Civil War Songs [lwptoc] THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM by George F. Root, 1862 Yes, we’ll rally round the flag, boys rally once again, Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom And we’ll rally from the hillside We’ll gather from the plains, Shouting the Battle Cry […]
I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
translated by Fledermaus, Евгений Сухарников, © 2021 I have outlived my own desires I now detest my own dreams My suffering never expires It is no longer what it seems Under the storm of the most brutal fate My flowering wreath wilted away I languish in a disheartened state And only for the […]