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Rhymes of Northern Bards

by John Bell

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Verses on Northumberland Minstrelsy
  4. 4Weel May the Keel Row
  5. 5The New Keel Row
  6. 6Bonny Keel Laddie
  7. 7The Little P.D.
  8. 8Ma’ Canny Hinny
  9. 9Dol Li A.
  10. 10The Tyne
  11. 11Blackett’s Field
  12. 12Kiver Awa’
  13. 13Britannia’s Volunteers
  14. 14John Diggons
  15. 15Trafalgar’s Battle
  16. 16Chester Well
  17. 17Newcastle Beer
  18. 18My Lord ’Size; or, Newcastle in an Uproar
  19. 19Bob Cranky’s ’Size Sunday
  20. 20Bob Cranky’s Complaint
  21. 21The Bonny Geatsiders — 1805
  22. 22Bob Cranky’s Adieu
  23. 23O No, My Love, No
  24. 24Delia’s Answer
  25. 25The Colliers Rant
  26. 26Walker Pits
  27. 27The Bonny Pit Laddie
  28. 28The Pitman’s Revenge Against Buonaparte
  29. 29The Colliers’ Pay Week
  30. 30The Quayside Shaver
  31. 31Swalwell Hopping
  32. 32The Sandgate Girl’s Lamentation
  33. 33A Curious Description of the City of Sandgate, Wrote Some Years Ago
  34. 34The Crow’s Nest
  35. 35Sons of the Tyne — 1805
  36. 36Jesmond Mill
  37. 37Pandon Dean
  38. 38Nanny of the Tyne
  39. 39The Blue Bell of Gateshead
  40. 40The Newcastle Signs
  41. 41The Newcastle Bellman
  42. 42Oxygen Gas
  43. 43The Bards of the Tyne
  44. 44An Answer to the Foregoing
  45. 45The Raree Show Man
  46. 46Barber’s News: Or, Shields in an Uproar!!!
  47. 47Song
  48. 48A Rare Curiosity: Or, Crow’s Nest in Gateshead — A New Song
  49. 49The French Invasion
  50. 50Blyth Camps: Or, the Girl I Left Behind Me
  51. 51Beaumont’s Light Horse
  52. 52A Song in Praise of the Keelmen Volunteers. On Board the Lapwing Fr…
  53. 53The Sons of the Tyne: Or, British Volunteers
  54. 54Mary of the Tyne
  55. 55Newcastle Fair — October, 1811
  56. 56The Newcastle Beauties
  57. 57Song, on the Address of the Newcastle House of Lords, on Turning Ou…
  58. 58The Address of Sir J. Duncan, and Co.
  59. 59An Elegy, to the Memory of the Right Honourable the Lord Ravensworth
  60. 60Lines on the Death of John, Lord Delaval
  61. 61The Wallsend Rifle Corps
  62. 62Song — Written on the King’s Birth-day, 1808
  63. 63The Token Monger — A Song
  64. 64The Following Dialogue, in Bad Prose, Was Overheard by the Person W…
  65. 65Footy Again the Wall
  66. 66The Battle of Otterburn
  67. 67A Fytte
  68. 68The Battle of Otterbourne
  69. 69The Hunting of the Chyviat
  70. 70(Fit the Second.)
  71. 71The Hunting in Chevy Chase
  72. 72An Old Song on the Battle of Flodden
  73. 73The Flowers of the Forest; or, Flodden Field
  74. 74Verses on James the IVth, of Scotland. Who Fell at the Battle of Fl…
  75. 75The Battle of Reid Squair
  76. 76Fair ‘Mabel’ of Wallington
  77. 77Verses
  78. 78The Battle of Humbledown Hill
  79. 79The Laidley Worm of Spindleston-Heugh
  80. 80The Fisher Laddie
  81. 81The Kye’s Come Home
  82. 82Song
  83. 83Epitaph on William Bell, Late a Resident on Gateshead Fell
  84. 84An Excellent Ballad — On the Sickness, Death, and Burial, of Ecky’s…
  85. 85Stanzas, Addressed to Northumbria
  86. 86Thomas Whittle
  87. 87The Midford Galloway’s Ramble
  88. 88The Insipids: Or, the Mistress With Her Multitude of Man Servants
  89. 89Sawney Ogilby’s Duel With His Wife
  90. 90Song on William Carstairs, Schoolmaster
  91. 91Thomas Whittle, His Humorous Letter, to Master Moody, the Razor-Setter
  92. 92The Little Priest of Felton
  93. 93The Felton Garland
  94. 94From the Swains of Felton, to the Shepherds of Lanthernside, Northu…
  95. 95On the Departure of Mr Grey, of Felton, Who Died on Saturday, Augus…
  96. 96Carr of Etal
  97. 97Bedlington Tragedy — A Fragment
  98. 98Hotspur: A Ballad; in the Manner of the Ancient Minstrels
  99. 99Legend of Sewen Shields Castle
  100. 100The Following Lines Are Cut on a Tombstone in Haltwhistle Church Ya…
  101. 101Lines — Written at an Inn, in That Very Retired and Romantic Part o…
  102. 102Lucy Gray of Allendale
  103. 103Haltwhistle Fair
  104. 104Anna of the Tyne
  105. 105The Tyne
  106. 106The Spring
  107. 107The Banks of the Tyne
  108. 108A Song
  109. 109Hobby Elliott
  110. 110The Rising of the Clans in 1715
  111. 111On the First Rebellion — 1715
  112. 112A Fragment of a Song, on the Lord of Derwentwater
  113. 113Verses — On a Perspective View of Dilston Hall, the Seat of the Unf…
  114. 114Hexham Wood
  115. 115The Loyal Hexham Volunteers
  116. 116The Jolly Parson
  117. 117The Cockle Park Ewes’ Ramble — Part I — Or the First Day’s Ride — M…
  118. 118Part II — March 5th, 1811
  119. 119Part III — March 6th, 1811
  120. 120Song
  121. 121The Ploughman
  122. 122The Flower of Rothbury Forest
  123. 123The Piper at Capheaton
  124. 124Mary Gamal, the Vicar of Kirk Whelpington’s Daughter, Is Gone Off W…
  125. 125Song
  126. 126The Water of Tyne
  127. 127Andrew Carr
  128. 128Song
  129. 129Lines on John Thompson
  130. 130The Pitman
  131. 131A Song
  132. 132Long Framlington Fair, (or Tryst)
  133. 133Go All to Coquet and Woo
  134. 134The Fractious Farmer — A Song — 1792
  135. 135Satyr Upon Women
  136. 136Tweed Side
  137. 137A Song, Pasted Upon the Walls, and Scattered About the Town of Roth…
  138. 138Song
  139. 139Little Billy
  140. 140Sair Fail’d Hinny
  141. 141The Hare Skin
  142. 142Limbo
  143. 143A New Song, for the Year 1764
  144. 144Stockton’s Commendation
  145. 145The New Way of Stockton’s Commendation
  146. 146HARK to Winchester: Or, the Yorkshire Volunteers’ Farewell to the G…
  147. 147Stockton’s Commendation
  148. 148The Barnardcastle Tragedy
  149. 149A Song in Praise of the Durham Militia
  150. 150The Lass of Cockerton
  151. 151Rookhope-Ryde
  152. 152The Sedgfield Frolic
  153. 153Bobby Shaftoe
  154. 154The Pleasures of Sunderland
  155. 155The Frolicsome Old Women of Sunderland: Or, the Disappointed Young…
  156. 156Sunderland Bridge
  157. 157Elsie Marley, an Alewife at Picktree, Near Chester-le-Street
  158. 158Chester Lads for Ever
  159. 159Lumley Leads to Glory
  160. 160Chester Volunteers
  161. 161The Durham Volunteers
  162. 162Durham Old Women
  163. 163Epitaph — On John Simpson, of Hamsterly, Woolcomber
  164. 164ODE to the River Darwent
  165. 165The Hexhamshire Lass
  166. 166The Northumbrian’s Sigh for His Native Country
  167. 167A You a, Hinny Burd
  168. 168Up the Raw
  169. 169Broom Busoms
  170. 170The Waggoner
  171. 171Brandling and Ridley
  172. 172My Laddie
  173. 173The Sandgate Lassie’s Lament
  174. 174The Invitation
  175. 175A Song
  176. 176A South Shields Song on the Sailors
  177. 177A North Shields Song
  178. 178Monkseaton Races
  179. 179The Alarm!!! — Or, Lord Fauconberg’s March
  180. 180The Patriot Volunteers: Or, Loyally Display’d
  181. 181CULL, Alias Silly Billy, of Newcastle Upon Tyne
  182. 182Canny Newcassel
  183. 183Croakum Redivivus
  184. 184The Antigallican Privateer
  185. 185A New Song, on the Opening of Jarrow Colliery, 1803
  186. 186L — — The Peacock and the Hen
  187. 187The Tyne, a Fragment

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