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LANCASHIRE SONGS,
WITH OTHER
POEMS AND
SKETCHES :
BY
WILLIAM BILLINGTON
(Author of "Sheen and
Shade").
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ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.
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BLACKBURN:
J. G. & J. TOULMIN, "TIMES" OFFICE, CORPORATION-ST.
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1883.
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CONTENTS.
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Lancashire Songs.
(In Lancashire Dialect)
|
| Dedicatory
Sonnet |
| List
of Subscribers |
| Proem |
|
PAGE |
| Friends are few when fooak are poor |
1. |
| Heaw to ged rich |
3. |
| Nobudy knows bud mysel |
4. |
| Look under t' leeoves iv yo want ony nuts |
6. |
| Take care o' number one |
8. |
| Cowd winter is comin once moor |
10. |
| Where will t' goose come
fro ? |
12. |
| Wod con a weyver
do ? |
14. |
| Goo in to win |
16. |
| Owd Bass Dick |
18. |
| Rooas o' t' river side |
19. |
| Me an' mysel |
21. |
| The Anti-Malthusian's song |
23. |
| The Surat-weyver's song |
25. |
| Aw wod this war war ended |
27. |
| Blegburn Bill at Preston Gill |
29. |
| Tel-el-Kebir |
30. |
| Six week i' lodgins |
31. |
| Wonst |
33. |
Lancashire
Poems and Sketches.
(In Lancashire Dialect) |
| Owd Poncake John |
35. |
| Bob and Sal or drink-selling
Grocers |
38. |
| Bad times |
41. |
| Nowty Ned |
44. |
| Owd Smoor Pig |
67. |
|
Poems and Songs. |
| The bird's nest |
73. |
| Blackburn as it is |
75. |
| The cry of the crowd |
78. |
| The spinner's home |
80. |
| Time is on the wing |
82. |
| The Singer |
84. |
| A
summer morning |
86. |
| Be brave in the battle of life |
87. |
| Hypocrisy |
87. |
| Even so |
88. |
| Spring |
89. |
| To the memory of James Huffman |
90. |
| To the departing emigrants |
91. |
| Confidence carries the keys of success |
91. |
| Garfield |
92. |
| Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning |
93. |
| The Pilot Maxwell |
96. |
| The Indian famine |
100. |
| Festal Christmas |
100. |
| Night |
101. |
| The Old Stydd, Ribchester |
103. |
| The worship of wealth |
104. |
| A Christmas chime |
105. |
| The harvest |
107. |
| Farewell to the old year, 1880 |
108. |
| John Critchley Prince |
109. |
| Duty |
110. |
| Lucette |
112. |
| March |
113. |
| Capital and labour |
114. |
| Love's triumph |
115. |
| The flowers |
116. |
| May |
117. |
| June |
119. |
| A day out |
120. |
| My beautiful jay |
122. |
| Shortening days |
123. |
| Fraud the evil of the age |
124. |
| Where are the Blackburn poets gone? |
125. |
| What are we hoping for? |
127. |
| Let the Lords beware |
128. |
| The Peers and the people |
130. |
| Longfellow |
132. |
| To a transatlantic friend |
133. |
| To the memory of John Whalley |
134. |
| Christmas |
135. |
| To the memory of Edward Walker |
136. |
| Dryden |
136. |
| The market-house clock |
137. |
| Christmas thoughts |
139. |
| I can't make it out, can you? |
140. |
| Night |
142. |
| Blackburn to the fore |
143. |
| Why do I rhyme |
144. |
| Chatterton |
145. |
| Henry Kirke White |
145. |
| A merited retort |
146. |
| To George Salisbury |
146. |
