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 Wo