Lancashire Lantern: Lancashire Poetry Index

Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, an index to authors, first lines and titles of Lancashire poetry in books held within libraries in Lancashire, including the Lancashire Authors’ Association collection. The index provides details of the book in which a particular poem may be found and also a link through to the library catalogue to give the locations of the required volume.

First line index

Either browse through the first line index or use the A to Z below

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A friend o' mine - aw'll co him Tom

A gallant knight he sallied forth

A giant City, wrapped in slumber sound

A girl walked here, I follow the narrow path

A girl watches boys playing noughts and crosses

A glimmer of light, on an insect's wing!

A glint at owd familiar things

A goggle-eyed fuddler, as usual, bout brass

A Gonner dwelt o' th' Barrowfells

A Gonnor dwells o'th' Barrowfells

A good dame had a teapot stout

A good man gone, a Patriarch indeed

A graceful king of lake and river

A gradely chap is Carter Bill

A grand old painter died last night

A great little place is eawr valley

A grey stone hamlet of Eliza's age

A group of talented musicians entertained us

A gull glides on the wind

A hair upon our parson's head

A happy New Year! how the glad countless voices

A heather-covered grave it is

A hermit there was and he lived in a grot

A hostile visit did the Saxon

A huge red rocket explodes in the misty darkness

A hunting morn is o'er the hill

A hush of other realms it seemed

A is an ant very, very small

A is for Adam, who was married to Eve

A is for alligator crawling all around

A is for alphabet from A to Z

A is for amusing, which makes you giggle

A is for an armadillo that has a very hard shell

A is for Ancestors We should endeavour to trace

A is for ant sitting near a plant

A Jack Russell lives across the way

A key that opens by itself

A kind of cult has inculcated

A kind of hippopoto telegram

A king Devine? said Christopher

A King lives in his castle conforming to protocol

A kiss is pressing of two lips together

A lady lives next door

A lady sat in her chamber

A Lancashire neet is the king o' neets, An' there's nowt i' this world as hearty an' kind

A Lancashire neet is the king of neets

A Lancashire sky, watching me

A Lancashire voice on the desert breeze

A lark was singing in the rain

A leaf, that's all

A learned Rabbi of great renown

A light has faded from the western skies

A light hath beamed around us with more than earthly ray

A light is dawning in the East afar

A limpid river riplles by

A little bird came twittering to me

A little boat was half across the loch

A little box, but full of cheer

A little boy stood on the field

A little boy, named Simeon Pratt

A little boy, of eight years old

A little fair one came each morning

A little flower doth sweetly raise

A little girl of long ago

A little nook of wilderness

A little one, laid by its mothr's side

A little rosy beauty

A little rugged valley, high and green

A little smile upon a happy face

A little smudge of violet smoke

A little stream began to flow

A little village church

A little while to work and play

A long life spent in groping for the light

A long time ago, as the fairy tales say

A love ter watch them likely lads

A love the early frost upon a winter morn

A lovely island in the western main

A lovely Sabbath morn it wur, tort th' eend o' last July

A lyric of the morning years

A magic name! for still, on holidays

A maiden aunt have I whose hair is grey

A maiden sat singing beside her door

A man had a horse, as of old it is said

A man is not his flesh - he is a soul

A man may lie awake at early dawn

A man of middle size and middle age

A man of toil, my leisure hours are few

A man was our lost One of earnest beholding

A man whose name was Johnny Sands

A mariner sailed on a perilous sea

A masterpiece created in flesh, God-like, up-standing and tall

A merry heart, a merry heart, it shines upon the face

A merry little doffer

A merry little doffer lad

A message from space

A' met an owd feller on a moorland track

A meteorite is reported to have landed

A miden's song we often heard

A milkmaid went out from her dairy

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