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 viewing 'the Rejoicings', in a Highland Glen, occasioned by the passing of the Reform Bill -- On the Abolition of Slavery in the British West India Colonies -- Definition of a Poet -- THOMAS MILLER (1807-74) -- From A Day in the Woods (1836 -- The Old English Wood -- From Poems (1841) -- Sonnet (To a Lady with a Basket) -- Summer Morning -- Song of the Outlaws -- JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE (1808-66) -- From The Fleet Papers (1841) -- The Death of the Factory Child -- From The Poetical Works of John Critchley Prince (1880) -- Lyrics for the People, No. III, 'There is Beauty on Earth' -- An Appeal on Behalf of the Uneducated -- Lines, respectfully inscribed to the virtuous and patriotic Wives -- and Mothers of England -- Anti-Corn-Law Lyric -- From Autumn Leaves: Original Poems, etc. (1856). -- A Thought on War -- SAMUEL BAMFORD (1788-1872) -- From Passages in the Life of a Radical (1844) -- From Poems (1843) -- The Day Storm of Thunder -- God help the Poor -- The Labourer's Orison at Sun-Rise, written with especial reference to the Corn Laws, and the general condition of the working classes at that time -- The Wild Rider, A Legendary Tale -- From Homely Rhymes, Poems, and Reminiscences -- The Landowner -- WILLIAM THOM (1799-1848) -- From Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver (1844) -- From [To the Reader] -- From [Recollections] -- From the Northern Star (1842) -- A Chieftain Unknown to the Queen! -- From Rhymes and Recollections of a Hand-Loom Weaver (1844) -- The Drunkard's Dream -- They Speak o' Wyles -- Whisper Low -- Jeanie's Grave -- Whisperings for the Unwashed -- GEORGE RICHARDSON (fl. 1844) -- From Patriotism: In Three Cantos, and other Poems (1844) -- From Patriotism -- Valedictory Stanzas -- ROBERT PEDDIE (fl. 1844) -- From The Dungeon Harp (1844) -- From [Introduction] -- Verses Written in Prison -- The Poor Man's Prayer -- The Covenanter's Song -- The Imprisoned Chartist to his Wife -- Langsyne -- THOMAS COOPER (1805-92) -- From The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself (1872) -- From The Purgatory of Suicides (1845) -- WILLIAM HEATON (1801-71) -- From The Flowers of Calder Dale (1847) -- Stanzas, on an Ash Tree in Ovenden Wood, near Halifax, on which the Author had cut the Initials of his Name -- years before. -- The Cry of Neglected Genius -- Grace Darling -- Stanzas on gathering two Daisies after a severe Snow Storm early in January -- From The Old Soldier; The Wandering Lover; and other Poems (1857) -- Lines, on the Holmfirth Flood, which took place on Thursday Morning, Feb. 5th 1852; by which dreadful calamity -- one hundred persons lost their lives. -- The Song of the Hand-Loom Weaver -- Wild Flowers -- What is Fame? -- The Author's Conclusion -- MARY PYPER (1795-1870) -- From Select Pieces by Mary Pyper (1847) -- Apology of the Authoress for her Muse -- On Asking a Lady to Subscribe -- To the Moon -- From Sacred Poems (1865) -- A Harvest Hymn -- On the Death of an Infant -- Here To-Day, and Gone To-Morrow -- Evening -- Epitaph-A Life -- 'MARIE' (fl. 1846-52) -- From The People's Journal (1847) -- Fellow Workers -- Heroisms -- From The People's Journal (1848) -- Crucified Spirits -- From The People's Journal (1849) -- Poet! Why Sing? -- From The People's and Howitt's Journal (1850) -- Labour -- Sibyl, The Far-Seer -- From Eliza Cook's Journal (1851) -- Posted Books -- From The Working Man's Friend (1852) -- Trees of Liberty -- JANET HAMILTON (1795-1873) -- From Poems, Essays, and Sketches (1880) -- From The Uses and Pleasures of Poetry to the Working -- Classes (1850) -- From Local Changes (1870) -- Luggie, Past and Present -- Oor Location -- A Lay of the Tambour Frame -- A Plea for the Doric -- The Demon Drink! -- Spring Scene in the Country -- Night Scene at the Fall of Sebastopol -- Medley of Thoughts and Feelings on the Italian Crisis -- The Sunday Rail--1. -- Effie--A Ballad -- GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) -- From The Ballad of Babe Christabel with other Lyrical Poems (1855) -- Preface -- Bridal Song -- Kisses -- Love-in-Idleness -- The Chivalry of Labour -- They are but Giants while we Kneel -- Song of the Red Republican -- Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Eight -- All's Right with the World -- The Awakening of the People -- The Fleet before Sebastopol -- From War Waits (1855) -- The Battle March -- Liberty's Bridal Wreath -- EDWARD CAPERN (1819-94) -- From Poems by Edward Capern, Rural Postman of Bideford, Devon (1859) -- Art thou a Poet? -- The Rural Postman -- The Lion-Flag of England -- The Author's Apology to his Friends -- My Thoughts -- JAMES MACFARLAN (1832-62) -- From Poetical Works (1882) -- The Wanderer of the West -- Northern Lights -- The Lords of Labour -- The Midnight Train -- The Street -- The Ruined City -- A November Night Piece -- EDWIN WAUGH (1817-90) -- From Poems and Lancashire Songs (1859) -- Come Whoam to thy Childer an' Me -- All on a Rosy Morn of June -- The World -- From Poems, and Lancashire Songs (1876) -- Eawr Folk -- From Poems and Songs (1889) -- Down Again! -- Dinner Time -- BEN BRIERLEY (1825-96) -- Go tak' the ragged Childer an' flit -- ISRAEL HOLDSWORTH (b. 1816) -- From The Literary Pic-Nic, and Other Poems (1872) -- As Poor as a Poet -- Competition -- Co-operation -- The Mysteries of Fate -- Chatterton -- War--A Political Song -- The Mother, on Viewing her Deceased Child's Photograph -- Men's Compositions--A Fragment -- Notes -- Thematic Index -- Index of First Lines -- Index of Titles.