POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN COMMON ENGLISH BY WILLIAM BARNES AUTHOR OF POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET DIALECT MECA LONDON MACMILLAN AND CO. 1868 280. m. 202 PREFACE As I think that some people, beyond the bounds of Wessex, would allow me the pleasure of believing that they have deemed the matter of my homely poems in our Dorset motherspeech to be worthy of their reading, I have written a few of a like kind, in common English; not, however, without a misgiving that what I have done for a wider range of readers, may win the good opinion of fewer. W. BARNES. |