Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
The rwose in the dark
from Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
Summary
IN zummer, leäte at evenèn tide,
I zot to spend a moonless hour sat
‘Ithin the window, wi’ the zide
A-bound wi’ rwoses out in flow'r,
Bezide the bow'r, vorsook o’ birds,
An’ listen'd to my true-love's words.
A-risèn to her comely height,
She push'd the swingèn ceäsement round;
And I could hear, beyond my zight,
The win’-blow'd beech-tree softly sound,
On higher ground, a-swaÿèn slow,
On drough my happy hour below. through
An’ tho’ the darkness then did hide
The dewy rwose's blushèn bloom,
He still did cast sweet aïr inside it
To Jeäne, a-chattèn in the room;
An’ though the gloom did hide her feäce,
Her words did bind me to the pleäce.
An’ there, while she, wi’ runnèn tongue,
Did talk unzeen ‘ithin the hall,
I thought her like the rwose that flung
His sweetness vrom his darken'd ball,
‘Ithout the wall, an’ sweet's the zight
Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light.
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 108 - 109Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017