William Billington: 'Lancashire Songs.' (original) (raw)

**__**―――――♦―――――LANCASHIRE SONGS, WITH OTHER POEMS AND SKETCHES : BY WILLIAM BILLINGTON (Author of "Sheen and Shade"). _______________ ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL. _______________ BLACKBURN: J. G. & J. TOULMIN, "TIMES" OFFICE, CORPORATION-ST. ___ 1883. _____
CONTENTS. __________ Lancashire Songs.(In Lancashire Dialect)
Dedicatory Sonnet
List of Subscribers
Proem
PAGE
Friends are few when fooak are poor	1.
Heaw to ged rich	3.
Nobudy knows bud mysel	4.
Look under t' leeoves iv yo want ony nuts	6.
Take care o' number one	8.
Cowd winter is comin once moor	10.
Where will t' goose come fro ?	12.
Wod con a weyver do ?	14.
Goo in to win	16.
Owd Bass Dick	18.
Rooas o' t' river side	19.
Me an' mysel	21.
The Anti-Malthusian's song	23.
The Surat-weyver's song	25.
Aw wod this war war ended	27.
Blegburn Bill at Preston Gill	29.
Tel-el-Kebir	30.
Six week i' lodgins	31.
Wonst	33.
Lancashire Poems and Sketches. (In Lancashire Dialect)
Owd Poncake John	35.
Bob and Sal or drink-selling Grocers	38.
Bad times	41.
Nowty Ned	44.
Owd Smoor Pig	67.
Poems and Songs.
The bird's nest	73.
Blackburn as it is	75.
The cry of the crowd	78.
The spinner's home	80.
Time is on the wing	82.
The Singer	84.
A summer morning	86.
Be brave in the battle of life	87.
Hypocrisy	87.
Even so	88.
Spring	89.
To the memory of James Huffman	90.
To the departing emigrants	91.
Confidence carries the keys of success	91.
Garfield	92.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning	93.
The Pilot Maxwell	96.
The Indian famine	100.
Festal Christmas	100.
Night	101.
The Old Stydd, Ribchester	103.
The worship of wealth	104.
A Christmas chime	105.
The harvest	107.
Farewell to the old year, 1880	108.
John Critchley Prince	109.
Duty	110.
Lucette	112.
March	113.
Capital and labour	114.
Love's triumph	115.
The flowers	116.
May	117.
June	119.
A day out	120.
My beautiful jay	122.
Shortening days	123.
Fraud the evil of the age	124.
Where are the Blackburn poets gone?	125.
What are we hoping for?	127.
Let the Lords beware	128.
The Peers and the people	130.
Longfellow	132.
To a transatlantic friend	133.
To the memory of John Whalley	134.
Christmas	135.
To the memory of Edward Walker	136.
Dryden	136.
The market-house clock	137.
Christmas thoughts	139.
I can't make it out, can you?	140.
Night	142.
Blackburn to the fore	143.
Why do I rhyme	144.
Chatterton	145.
Henry Kirke White	145.
A merited retort	146.
To George Salisbury	146.