Author: William Barnes (1801 - 1886)

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• Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect
• Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect

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• At the feäst, I do mind very well, all the vo'ks (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (Don't ceäre)
• At the feäst, I do mind very well, all the vo'ks (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - John Alden Carpenter (Don't ceäre)
• A Winter Night (It was a chilly winter's night)
• A winternight (It was a chilly winter's night) - Kees Schoonenbeek
• Come! (Will you come in early spring?) - Elizabeth Maconchy
• Don't ceäre (At the feäst, I do mind very well, all the vo'ks) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• Don't ceäre (At the feäst, I do mind very well, all the vo'ks) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - John Alden Carpenter
• Easter Zunday (Last Easter Jim put on his blue) - Sadie Harrison
• Ground song () - Alan Bullard [x]
• In Linden Lea (Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed) (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) - Ralph Vaughan Williams DUT FRI GER
• In the Spring (My love is the maïd ov all maïdens) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• In the spring (My love is the maïd ov all maïdens) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford, Ralph Vaughan Williams
• It was a chilly winter's night (A Winter Night)
• It was a chilly winter's night - Kees Schoonenbeek (A winternight)
• Last Easter Jim put on his blue - Sadie Harrison (Easter Zunday)
• Linden Lea (Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed) (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) - Ralph Vaughan Williams DUT FRI GER
• Lullaby (The rook's nest do rock on the tree-top) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• Lullaby (The rook's nest do rock on the tree-top) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Reginald T. Johnson, Frank Lynas, Herbert Popple
• My love is the maïd ov all maïdens (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (In the Spring)
• My love is the maïd ov all maïdens (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford, Ralph Vaughan Williams (In the spring)
• My Orcha'd in Linden Lea (Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed) (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) DUT FRI GER
• No, no! I ben't a-runnèn down (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (The farmer's eldest daughter)
• No, no! I ben't a-runnèn down (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (The farmer's woldest dā'ter)
• Seasons and times () [x]
• Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (The wife a-lost)
• Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (The wife a-lost)
• Summer's pride () - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford [x]
• The Bells of Alderburnham (While now upon the win' do zwell) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Paul N. Edmonds
• The Bells ov Alderburnham (While now upon the win' do zwell) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• The farmer's eldest daughter (No, no! I ben't a-runnèn down) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford
• The farmer's woldest dā'ter (No, no! I ben't a-runnèn down) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• The railroad () (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) [x]
• The railroad () (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Geoffrey Kimpton [x]
• There Liddy zot bezide her cow (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (The Winter's Willow)
• There Liddy zot bezide her cow (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Ralph Vaughan Williams (The Winter's Willow)
• The rook's nest do rock on the tree-top (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (Lullaby)
• The rook's nest do rock on the tree-top (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Reginald T. Johnson, Frank Lynas, Herbert Popple (Lullaby)
• The wife a-lost (Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• The wife a-lost (Since I noo mwore do zee your feäce) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford
• The Winter's Willow (There Liddy zot bezide her cow) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect)
• The Winter's Willow (There Liddy zot bezide her cow) (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
• While now upon the win' do zwell (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) - Paul N. Edmonds (The Bells of Alderburnham)
• While now upon the win' do zwell (from Poems of rural life in the Dorset dialect) (The Bells ov Alderburnham)
• White and blue () - Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford [x]
• Will you come in early spring? - Elizabeth Maconchy (Come!)
• Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) DUT FRI GER - Ralph Vaughan Williams (In Linden Lea)
• Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) DUT FRI GER - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Linden Lea)
• Within the woodlands, flow'ry gladed (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) DUT FRI GER (My Orcha'd in Linden Lea)
• Wull ye come in eärly Spring (Wull ye come in eärly Spring) (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) - John Alden Carpenter
• Wull ye come in eärly Spring (from Hwomely Rhymes. A Second Collection of Poems in the Dorset Dialect) - John Alden Carpenter (Wull ye come in eärly Spring)

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