Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and Other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect

Part 10

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Wad--_would_ Waddn't--_would not_ Wark--_work_ Warst--_worst_ Wean't--_will not_ Weeap--_weep_ Weel--_well_ Wesh--_wash_ Wha--_who_ Whahl--_while_ Wheas--_who is, or whose_ Whooap--_hope_ Whoor--_where_ Winder--_window_ Winnut--_will not_ Wiv--_with_ Woak--_walk_ Woark--_work_ Wods--_words_ Wor--_were_ Woth--_worth_ Wrang--_wrong_ Wur--_our_ Wur--_was_

Yack--_oak_ Yah--_one_ Yan--_one_ Yance--_once_ Yer--_your_

INDEX.

Page.

Preface, 5

Awd Isaac, Part First, 9

---- Part Second, 25

---- His dying advice, 30

Dialogue on a Steeple Chase, 35

The Lucky Dream, 44

A strange effusion, 46

Lealholm Bridge, 48

Old Sam, or the effects of the Gospel, 51

Thoughts on Good Friday, 55

To a withered flower, 57

The country Love Feast, 59

Ode to Britain, 62

A voice from the dead, 63

To the Moor birds in a storm, 66

Lines on returning a borrowed Stick, 67

The thunder storm, 68

The Miser's away, 69

The Mistake, 71

The broken seal, 72

The Stone!, 75

To the rising Sun, 82

Lines in memory of the Rev. D. Duck, 84

An elegy on the death of a beloved child, 85

On the first text heard spiritually, 88

To a Squirrel in a cage, 90

To a bird singing in winter, 92

Petch's Elegy, 93

Reflections on Petch's tomb, 95

"Who hath believed our report?", 97

The Bees, 100

Caution from Limber Hill, 101

The village church in ruins, 103

Poetical reflections, 105

The two hours' task, 110

The country blunder, 113

A sinner saved by grace, 115

The portion of the Just, 117

The happy choice, 118

On the death of John Morley, 119

The servant's address to his master, 122

Sabbath morning musings, 125

Lines on leaving Fryup, 129

The Swallow, 131

A call to the careless, 132

To a horse, dying alone!, 134

Musings during affliction, 137

The Play, 144

The remote Christian, 146

Solitary reflections, 149

On some who had left us, 150

There is a God, 152

Confirmation, 153

The man of the world, 155

The rule of contrary, 157

On finding some Deistical books, in the house of one who once feared God, 160

On visiting Fryup, 162

The Three Voices, 164

Dialogue between Rosedale Bob, and Hartoft John, 165

A love letter, 170

Truth triumphant, 173

Reflections on a Backslider, 176

Village preaching, 178

The lodger in Liverpool, 182

Edom, 184

Reflections on absent Friends, 187

Last Job of an old Tramp, 189

Glossary, 191

_Whitby: Printed by Horne and Richardson._

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