Frederic William Moorman

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Frederic William Moorman Face Poems

  • 1.
    These verses were written soon after the Old Age Pensions Bill came into operation.


    I'd walk frae here to Skipton,
    ...
  • 2.
    Mary Mecca,(1) Mary Mecca,
    I'm fain to see thee here,
    A Devon lass to fill my glass
    O' home-brewed Yorkshire beer.
    ...
  • 3.
    Thou wants my vote, young man wi' t' carpet-bags,
    Weel, sit thee down, an' hark what I've to say.
    It's noan so varry oft wer kitchen flags
    Are mucked by real live lords down Yelland(1) way.
    ...
  • 4.
    The Lord's bin hard on me, Sir,
    He's stown my barn away.
    O dowly, dowly was that neet
    He stole lile Doad away!
    ...
  • 5.
    One yeer owder, one yeer dearer:
    That's what I sal awlus say.
    Draw thy chair a little nearer,
    Put yon stockin's reight away.
    ...
  • 6.
    Fieldfares, bonny fieldfares, feedin' 'mang the bent,
    Wheer the sun is shinin' through yon cloud's wide rent,
    Welcoom back to t' moorlands,
    Frae Norway's fells an' shorelands,
    ...
  • 7.
    She leaned o'er her latticed casement,
    The Flower of Wensleydale;
    'Twas St Agnes Eve at midnight,
    Through the mist the stars burnt pale.
    ...
Total 7 Face Poems by Frederic William Moorman

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