Live Recordings (Second Collection)

from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (Second Collection, 1859)

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Track 2 - My orcha'd in Lindèn Lea 1:23
Track 3 - Bishop's Caundle 3:55
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Track 5 - A father out an' mother hwome 2:23
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Track 7 - Day's work a-done 1:29
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Track 13 - The leädy's tower 6:52
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Track 15 - The Maïd o' Newton 2:04
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Track 17 - Meäry's smile 1:32
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Track 25 - Our fathers' works 1:54
Track 26 - The wold vo'k dead 3:14
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Track 28 - Our be'thplace 2:07
Track 29 - The window freämed wi' stwone 2:09
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Track 39 - Bleäke's house 4:32
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Track 50 - The slantèn light o' fall 2:27
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Track 60 - Sound o' water 1:26
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Track 66 - The winter's willow 2:48
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