Anonymous

The Character of a Soldier (c1835-1860)

Anonymous

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

1. +A Queerish mak iv a dream! (Song)
   

Anderson, Robert (1770-1833)

. Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect: with notes and a glossary (1805)

. Ellwood, T. (ed.) (1904) Anderson’s Cumberland Ballads and Songs.

Burn, Peter (?-?)

. English Border Ballads  (1874)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

1. +“The White Ladye”
   

2. +Master William
   

. Poems (1885)

Craig Gibson, Alexander (1813-1874)

. Branthet Neuk Boggle  (1869)

. The Folk Speech of Cumberland and Some Districts Adjacent; Being Short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties. (1869)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+ Lal Dinah Grayson

+ Nature’s Church

1. +Jwohnny, git oot!
   

2. +The Runaway Wedding
   

3. +“Breezy Saint Bees”
   

4. +Billy Watson’ Lonning
   

5. +Mary Ray an’ me
   

6. +Cursty Benn
   

Dickinson, William (1799?-1882)

. The Song of Solomon in the Dialect of Central Cumberland (1859). In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+Laal Bobby Linton

+The Ore Carter’s Wife

+The words of oald Cummerlan’

Dudson, George (-)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+Ardenlee

+The Auld Spinning wheel

+My Heart sinks wi’ yon settin’ sun

Hale, James (-)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+ Oh! list ye to yon singing bird (Song)

Lonsdale, John James (1829-?)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+ The Ship-Boy’s Letter

+ Robin’s Return

+ The Warder’s Daughter

1. +Ruby
   

2. +Lily Graeme
   

3. +The Towing Rope
   

4. +The Children’s Kingdom
   

5. +Olaf’s Last Cruise
   

6. +A Midsummer Shadow
   

7. +“Aux Armes Citoyens!”
   

8. +A Sailor’s Life
   

9. +Leslie Gray
   

Rayson, John (?-1859)

. Miscellaneous Poems and Ballads, chiefly in the dialects of Cumberland and the English and Scottish (1858)

Richardson, John (1817-1886)

. ‘Cummerland Talk’ being Short Tales and Rhymes of that County together with a few Miscellaneous Pieces of Verse (1871)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+A Grummel or a Greàn

1. +“It’s nobbut me!”
   

2. +What t’ Wind sed
   

3. +Jobby Dixon
   

4. +T’ Woefu’ Partin’
   

5. +This Love’s a Curious Thing
   

6. +A Cummerland Dream
   

7. +What use’ to be Lang Sen
   

8. +“Git ower me ‘at can”
   

Stagg, John (?-?)

.  Miscellaneous Poems (1804)

. The Cumbrian Minstrel; being a Poetical Miscellany of Legendary, Gothic, and Romantic Tales, the scenes and subjects of which are principally laid in he Border Counties of England and Scotland (1821)

Stanyan Bigg, John (1828-1865)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+ Auld Gran’fadder Jones

+ T’ Auld Man

+ Lile Polly

1. +Little Jane
   

2. +I stand beside thy lonely grave
   

3. +Childhood
   

Woodcock Graves, John (1795-1886)

. In Gilpin, Sidney (ed.). (1874). The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country. London: John Russell Smith

+ D’ye ken John Peel?

+ Monody on John Peel

+ O give me back my native hills

+ Nursery Song