Nineteenth-Century English Labouring-Class Poets Vol 2

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Note on the Text -- HENRY BROWN (fl.830-35) -- From The Mechanic's Saturday Night (1830) -- From Sunday: A Poem, in Three Cantos (1835) -- MARY MARIA COLLING (1805-53) -- From Fables and other Pieces in Verse (1831) -- To Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, &c. &c. On being told by Mrs. Bray, that he had most kindly noticed me and my little verses -- The Moon and the Cloud -- The Eagle and the Toad -- The Birth of Envy -- JOHN JONES (b.74) -- From Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant (1831) -- Lines, occasioned by reading the following printed bill, fixed in the beak of one in a group of five stuffed owls in the shop window of a bird stuffer, at Richmond, Yorkshire. -- My Nose -- The Children's Dirge at the Interment of a Gold Fish -- On the Death of Gaffer Gun -- MARY HUTTON (fl. 1831-42) -- From Sheffield Manor, and other Poems (1831) -- The Prospect from Sheffield Manor Hill -- From The Happy Isle, and other Poems (1836) -- On the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill -- From Cottage Tales and Poems by Mary Hutton (1842) -- On Reading the Distressing Account of John Clare's Aberration of Mind -- On Reading a Letter in Frazer's Magazine, for Sept. 1836; Said to be from the Ettrick Shepherd -- Madame Lavalette -- RICHARD FURNESS (1791-1857) -- From The Rag-Bag, a Satire in Three Cantos (1832) -- From The Poetical Works of Richard Furness (1858) -- The Village Boy -- To the Memory of Ebenezer Elliott, The Corn-Law Rhymer -- THOMAS LISTER (fl. 1834) -- From The Rustic Wreath (1834) -- The Yorkshire Hirings -- Wreck of the Rothsay-Castle -- The Home-expelled Britons -- JOHN YOUNGER (1785-1860) -- From Thoughts as they Rise (1834) -- From The Autobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker (1881) -- There's a Poetry in Nature -- Solitary Reflections -- How Sweet were my Hours of Childhood's Day -- EVAN MacCOLL (1808-98) -- From The Mountain Minstrel (1836) -- A May Morning in Glenshira -- Stanzas, on vi