Frederic William Moorman Year Poems

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


    I'd walk frae here to Skipton,
    ...
  • 2.
    I've lived all my life i' Keighley,
    I'm a Yorkshire artisan;
    An' when I were just turned seventy
    I became an Englishman.
    ...
  • 3.
    Mary Mecca,(1) Mary Mecca,
    I'm fain to see thee here,
    A Devon lass to fill my glass
    O' home-brewed Yorkshire beer.
    ...
  • 4.
    Draw back my curtains, Mary,
    An' oppen t' windey wide;
    Ay, ay, I know I'm deein',
    While to-morn I'll hardlins bide.
    ...
  • 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.
    ...
Total 5 Year Poems by Frederic William Moorman

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