Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
Turnèn things off
from Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Key to phonetic symbols
- Alternative pronunciations
- Table of common alternatives
- Introduction
- Third-Collection Poems with phonemic transcripts
- Woone smile mwore
- The echo
- Vull a man
- Naïghbour plaÿmeätes
- The lark
- The two churches
- Woak Hill
- The hedger
- In the Spring
- The flood in Spring
- Comèn hwome
- Grammer a-crippled
- The castle ruins
- Eclogue: John, Jealous at Shroton Feäir
- Early plaÿmeäte
- Pickèn o‘ scroff
- Good night
- Went hwome
- The hollow woak
- Childern‘s childern
- The rwose in the dark
- Come
- Zummer winds
- The neäme letters
- The new house a-gettèn wold
- Zunday
- The pillar‘d geäte
- Zummer stream
- Linda Deäne
- Eclogue: Come and zee us in the zummer
- Lindenore
- Me‘th below the tree
- Treat well your wife
- The child an‘ the mowers
- The love child
- Hawthorn Down
- Oben vields
- What John wer a-tellèn his mis‘ess out in the corn ground
- Sheädes
- Times o‘ year
- Eclogue: Racketèn Joe
- Zummer an‘ winter
- To me
- Two an‘ two
- The lew o‘ the rick
- The wind in woone‘s feäce
- Tokens
- Tweil
- Fancy
- The broken heart
- Evenèn light
- Vields by watervalls
- The wheel routs
- Nanny‘s new abode
- Leaves a-vallèn
- Lizzie
- Blessèns a-left
- Fall time
- Fall
- The zilver-weed
- The widow‘s house
- The child‘s greäve
- Went vrom hwome
- The fancy feäir at Maïden Newton
- Things do come round
- Zummer thoughts in winter time
- I‘m out o‘ door
- Grief an‘ gladness
- Slidèn
- Lwonesomeness
- A snowy night
- The year-clock
- Not goo hwome to-night
- The humstrum
- Shaftesbury Feäir
- The beäten path
- Ruth a-ridèn
- Beauty undecked
- My love is good
- Heedless o‘ my love
- The Do‘set militia
- A Do‘set sale
- Don‘t ceäre
- Changes [I]
- Kindness
- Withstanders
- Daniel Dwithen, the wise chap
- Turnèn things off
- The giants in treädes
- The little worold
- Bad news
- The turnstile
- The better vor zeèn o‘ you
- Pity
- John Bloom in Lon‘on
- A lot o‘ maïdens a-runnèn the vields
- Textual Notes
- Appendix: A summary of sections 7 and 8 of WBPG
- List of Contributors
Summary
UPZIDES wi’ Polly! no, he'd vind even with
That Poll would soon leäve him behind.
To turn things off! oh! she's too quick
To be a-caught by ev'ry trick.
Woone day our Jimmy stole down steäirs one
On merry Polly unaweäres,
The while her nimble tongue did run
A-tellèn, all alive wi’ fun,
To sister Anne, how Simon Heäre
Did hanker after her at feäir.
“He left,” cried Polly, “cousin Jeäne,
An’ kept wi’ us all down the leäne,
An’ which waÿ ever we did leäd
He vollow'd over hill an’ meäd;
An’ wi’ his head o’ shaggy heäir,
An’ sleek brown cwoat that he do weäre,
An’ collar that did reach so high
's his two red ears, or perty nigh,
He swung his täil, wi’ steps o’ pride,
Back right an’ left, vrom zide to zide,
A-walkèn on, wi’ heavy strides
A half behind, an’ half upzides.” alongside
“Who's that?” cried Jimmy, all agog;
An’ thought he had her now han’-pat, in his grasp
“That's Simon Heäre,” but no, “Who's that?”
Cried she at woonce, “Why Uncle's dog, once
Wi’ what have you a-been misled
I wonder. Tell me what I zaid.”
Woone evenèn as she zot bezide sat
The wall the ranglèn vine do hide, climbing
A-prattlèn on, as she did zend
Her needle, at her vinger's end,
On drough the work she had in hand, through
Zome bran-new thing that she'd a-plann'd,
Jim overheärd her talk ageän
O’ Robin Hine, ov Ivy Leäne,
“Oh! no, what he!” she cried in scorn,
“I wouldèn gie a penny vor'n; for him
The best ov him's outzide in view;
His cwoat is gaÿ enough, 'tis true,
But then the wold vo'k didden bring old folk didn't
En up to know a single thing, him
An’ as vor zingèn,—what do seem
His zingèn's nothèn but a scream.”
“So ho!” cried Jim, “Who's that, then, Meäry,
That you be now a-talkèn o’?”
He thought to catch her then, but, no,
Cried Polly, “Oh! why Jeäne's caneäry,
Wi’ what have you a-been misled,
I wonder. Tell me what I zaid.”
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- The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems , pp. 330 - 333Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2017