Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets Vol 3

CONTENTS OF VOLUME THREE -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- SAMUEL LAYCOCK (1826-1893) -- Lancashire Lyrics Written During the Cotton Famine, 1861-65 -- Welcome, Bonny Brid! -- Ther's No Good i' Ceaw'rin' i'th' Dust -- Sewin' Class Song -- The Shurat Weaver's Song -- Th' Owd Barber Eawt o' Wark -- God Bless 'Em, It Shows They'n Some Thowt -- Aw've Turned Mi' Bit o' Garden O'er -- Aw've Just Bin A-Lookin' at th' Scholars -- Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect -- Th' Stricken Stokers -- Quality Row -- Homely Advoice to th' Unemployed -- Th' Peers an' th' People -- Starved to Death -- To a Cricket -- Mally an' Jonas -- Bispham -- Mi Gronny -- Sam Bamford -- Th' Owd Pedlar's Gone Whoam -- RICHARD WATSON (1833-1891) -- From Poems and Songs of Teesdale (1930) [1862] -- Baliol's Tower and the Railway Bridge. A Dialogue -- On a Man Found Dead in a Byre at Harwood -- Gib's Auld Mear -- My Journey to Work -- The Epitaph, Written at Edinburgh Infirmary a Few Days -- to His Death -- DAVID WINGATE (1828-1892) -- From Annie Weir and Other Poems (1866) -- Scene -- Annie Weir -- THOMAS BLACKAH (1828-1895) -- From Songs and Poems, Written in the Nidderdale Dialect (1867) -- We May Be Lo' We May Be Poor -- T' Cobblers Roond -- Cheer Up, Jerry -- Hardcastle Moor -- JOHN BEDFORD LENO (1824-1894) -- From Drury Lane Lyrics (1868) -- A Glorious Trio -- The Sounds of Labour -- Herne's Oak -- There's Plenty for All -- From Kimburton, A Story of Village Life (1889) -- The Overflow -- The Common Reclaimed -- Bet Graham -- The Village Naturalist -- A Horrible Crime -- A Slap at the Game Laws -- Jim Blake -- The Lovers' Quarrel -- The Old and New Parson -- Poperlashun -- Farewell! to Kimburton -- ELLEN JOHNSTON (c. 1835-1873) -- From Autobiography, Poems, and Songs of Ellen Johnston, the 'Factory Girl' (1869) [1867] -- An Address to Napier's Dockyard -- A Mother's Love -- The Drunkard's Wife -- Lines To a Young Gentleman of Surpassing Beauty -- The Working Man -- Lines On Behalf of the Boatbuilders and Boilermakers of Great Britain and Ireland -- Lines To Mr James Dorward, Power-Loom Foreman, Chapelside Works, Dundee -- An Address to Kelvin Water -- The Factory Girl's Farewell -- The Last Sark -- The Sha'maker's Wife -- Nelley's Lament for the Pirnhouse Cat -- An Address to Nature on Its Cruelty -- Lines by Edith to the Factory Girl -- Rhyming Nelly, First Version -- Wanted, a Man -- The Last Lay of 'The Factory Girl' -- JOHN MACLEAY PEACOCK (1817-1877) -- From Hours Of Reverie (1867) -- There is No Christmas for the Poor -- Lines on the Floating out of H. M. Steam Ram, 'Agincourt' -- From Poems (1880) -- Recollections of the River Tyne, at Newcastle -- Night Scenes in the City -- The Coming Change -- The Centennial of the Great Republic (July 4, 1876) -- Stanzas to David Wingate, the Collier Poet -- JOE WILSON (1841-1872) -- From Tyneside Songs and Drolleries. Readings and Temperance Songs (1891) [1867] -- Life o' Joe Wilson (as far as It's Gyen) -- Me Muther's Warnin! -- Aw Wish Yor Muther Wad Cum -- Ne Wark -- The Gallowgate Lad! -- The Drapers' Appeal -- In Memory of the Hartley Catastrophe -- The Row upon the Stairs -- Jesmond Pic-Nic -- Acrostic -- Hannah's Black Eye -- Dinnet Clash the Door! -- Jimmy's Gettin Wark! -- It's Time te Gan te Bed -- Says He! Say Aw! -- Wor Tyneside Tallint Gyen! -- Benny 'ill not Gan te Scheul! -- Hungry Geordey! -- Charity! -- If Deed Foaks Com te Life Agyen! -- The Strike -- Deeth i' the Street -- FANNY FORRESTER (1852-1889) -- Poems Printed in Ben Brierley's Journal, 1870-78 -- Strangers in the City -- I. Homeless in the City -- II. Toiling in the City -- III. Dying in the City -- In the Workhouse-A Deserter's Story -- The Lowly Bard -- Song: 'Bring Me a Sweet White Rose!' -- A Mother's Letter -- JOHN GREGORY (1831-1922) -- From Idyls of Labour (1871) -- Reflections on the American War -- Nathan Heartless -- The Wail of Labour -- Horrible Frost -- Ernest Jones -- Grandfather Hoare, The Good Shoemaker -- From Song Streams (1877) -- Preface -- Eve in the City -- Sonnets on Chatterton's Church, Bristol -- The Battle-Song of Labour (1890) -- From Green to Gray (undated late poem) -- JOSEPH SKIPSEY (1832-1903) -- From Poems (1871) -- Hey Robin -- Get Up! -- The Collier Lad -- A Golden Lot -- Mother Wept -- The Hartley Calamity -- Verses -- From A Book of Miscellaneous Lyrics (1878) -- Man -- The Seer -- The Inner Conflict -- The Mystic Lyre -- Freedom -- Let England Beware -- The Thought Toiler -- The Downfall of Mammon -- From The Poems, With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake (1885) -- From Introductory Sketch -- From Carols from the Coal-Fields (1886) -- The Singer -- ALEXANDER ANDERSON (1845-1909) -- From A Song of Labour and Other Poems (1873) -- Recollections of Byron -- The Engine -- On the Engine in the Night-time -- Brighter the Flowers -- A Blessing on the Tinkers -- I Walk with the Stern Dante -- From The Two Angels and Other Poems (1875) -- Cuddle Doon -- From Songs of the Rail (1881) -- Prefatory Note -- A Song for My Fellows -- Rid of His Engine -- Jim's Whistle -- Nottman -- Railway Dreamings -- The Wires -- Bob Cruikshanks -- NOAH COOKE (b. 1831) -- From Wild Warblings (1876) -- Introduction -- The Violet's Complaint -- The Peasant's Farewell to Fatherland -- Labour's Charter -- A 'Quill ' for the Shuttle -- The Lowly Poet's Grave -- An Invitation -- Legal Justice -- The Weaver's Song -- The Heights of Wassel -- The Free Commoner -- JESSIE RUSSELL (b. 1850) -- From The Blinkin' o' the Fire and Other Poems (1877) -- Preface -- 'Father Clyde's' Welcome to the Authoress' Book -- The Blinkin' o' the Fire -- The Three-Tree Well -- 'Signs of Our Times' -- A Domestic Dirge -- The Muse's Protest -- The Carpenter's Wife's Advice -- Woman's Rights Versus Woman's Wrongs -- A Recantation -- Washing Day -- Tuning My Lyre -- The Kirn -- The Tower of Thor (Torthorwald) -- Betty's Trust -- A Letter to Australia -- WILLIAM MCGONAGALL (1830-1902) -- From Poetic Gems Selected from the Works of William McGonagall (1890-91) [1878] -- Ode to William McGonagall -- The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay -- The Tay Bridge Disaster -- From Last Poetic Gems (1968) -- A New Year's Resolution to Leave Dundee -- Women's Suffrage -- EFFIE WILLIAMSON (1815-1882) -- From The Tangled Web: Poems and Hymns (1883) -- Bonnie White Snaw -- Maggie and I -- A Mither's Sang to Her Bairnie -- ROBERT MAYBEE (1810-1891) -- From Sixty-Eight Years' Experience on the Scilly Islands (1884) -- [Ringing Tide] -- [Early Memories] -- [A Hot Summer] -- Loss of the 'Earl of Arran' -- Lines on the Loss of the 'Earl of Arran' -- ['Twas Early on a Summer's Morn] -- FREDERICK BARTLETT (fl. 1886) -- From Flashes from Forge and Foundry (1886) -- Patronize Pantomime -- A Christmas Appeal for the Poor -- ROBERT JONES DERFEL (1824-1905) -- From Hymns and Songs for the Church of Man (1890) -- Written in a Church -- From Social Songs (1890) -- Enough for All -- Work, Work, Work -- A Visit to a School -- From Musings for the Masses (1895) -- If the Masses Knew Their Power -- From Secular Hymns (1896) -- Goodwill to All -- CHRISTOPHER MURRAY BOUSTEAD (fl. 1892) -- From Rustic Verse and Dialect Rhymes (1892) -- Oft Jack an' Me -- Auld Jimmie -- The Model Stonebreaker -- BEN BRIERLEY (1825-1896) -- From Spring Blossoms and Autumn Leaves (1893) -- Owd Pigeon -- Those Town Hall Stairs -- Gypsies -- Hard Times -- Notes -- Thematic Index -- Index of First Lines -- Index of Titles.