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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.
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ID Number |
88 |
Title |
Ward Ogden |
First Line |
Beneath the wide and open sky |
Poet |
DIGBY, Ronald Y. |
Book Title |
A BACUP miscellany: prose and verse by local writers past and present / compiled by Harry Craven and Roanld Y. Digby |
Author of Book |
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Publication Date |
1972 |
Page Number |
120 |
Control Number |
M0018516LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
900 |
Title |
On Dr. Forster, Vicar of Rochdale |
First Line |
Full three feet deep beneath this stone |
Poet |
COLLIER, John |
Book Title |
Lancashire authors: a series of biographical sketches |
Author of Book |
SWANN, John Randal |
Publication Date |
1924 |
Page Number |
89 |
Control Number |
M0015058LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Pseudonym was Tim Bobbin |
ID Number |
1581 |
Title |
Fairy Fancies |
First Line |
Beneath a roof of immemorial trees |
Poet |
HOULDING, Henry |
Book Title |
Rhymes and Dreams, Legends of Pendle Forest, and other poems |
Author of Book |
HOULDING, Henry |
Publication Date |
1895 |
Page Number |
217-221 |
Control Number |
M0042609LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
1582 |
Title |
Moonrise |
First Line |
I walked beneath the calm autumnal trees |
Poet |
HOULDING, Henry |
Book Title |
Rhymes and Dreams, Legends of Pendle Forest, and other poems |
Author of Book |
HOULDING, Henry |
Publication Date |
1895 |
Page Number |
222-223 |
Control Number |
M0042609LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
1737 |
Title |
Nathan's shade |
First Line |
When Nathan lay, beneath a grass-clad mound |
Poet |
DOHERTY, Austin |
Book Title |
Nathan Barlow: sketches in the retired life of a Lancashire butcher |
Author of Book |
DOHERTY, Austin |
Publication Date |
18-- |
Page Number |
96-101 |
Control Number |
M0129193LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
2nd ed |
ID Number |
2874 |
Title |
A poet's epitaph |
First Line |
Beneath this stone, though few men know it |
Poet |
ATHERTON, Robert |
Book Title |
Poems of friendship and sympathy |
Author of Book |
ATHERTON, Robert |
Publication Date |
no date |
Page Number |
3 |
Control Number |
M0172493LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
3036 |
Title |
A voice from Spain |
First Line |
Beneath the mighty span of Heaven |
Poet |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Book Title |
Hours in the bowers: poems etc |
Author of Book |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Publication Date |
1834 |
Page Number |
63-64 |
Control Number |
M0067289LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
3121 |
Title |
A voice from Spain |
First Line |
Beneath the mighty span of Heaven |
Poet |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Book Title |
Homely rhymes, poems and reminiscences |
Author of Book |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Publication Date |
1864 |
Page Number |
106-107 |
Control Number |
M0018034LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Revised and enlarged edition of 1843 edition. Many of these poems also appear in BAMFORD, Samuel, Hours in the bowers; poems etc |
ID Number |
3411 |
Title |
A voice from Spain |
First Line |
Beneath the mighty span of Heaven |
Poet |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Book Title |
Poems |
Author of Book |
BAMFORD, Samuel |
Publication Date |
1843 |
Page Number |
104-106 |
Control Number |
M0067309LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
written previously to the invasion of that country, by the french Army under the Duke of Angouleme |
ID Number |
3848 |
Title |
Where I first met my wife |
First Line |
I met her not beneath the shade |
Poet |
BURGESS, Joseph |
Book Title |
A Potential Poet? |
Author of Book |
BURGESS, Joseph |
Publication Date |
1927 |
Page Number |
105 |
Control Number |
M0018012LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
3849 |
Title |
The mystery of love |
First Line |
Beneath a mighty oak tree's shade |
Poet |
BURGESS, Joseph |
Book Title |
A Potential Poet? |
Author of Book |
BURGESS, Joseph |
Publication Date |
1927 |
Page Number |
106 |
Control Number |
M0018012LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
4754 |
Title |
To General Scarlett, leader of the Heavy Cavalry at Balaklava |
First Line |
We knew that there was more beneath |
Poet |
HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert |
Book Title |
The Isles of Loch Awe |
Author of Book |
HAMERTON, Philip Gilbert |
Publication Date |
1859 |
Page Number |
306-310 |
Control Number |
M0127677LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Author was a Burnley artist and writer |
ID Number |
5030 |
Title |
The moorland flower |
First Line |
Beneath a crag, whose forehead rude |
Poet |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Book Title |
Poems and songs, edited by George Milner with a preface and an introductory essay on the dialect of Lancashire considered as a vehicle for poetry |
Author of Book |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Publication Date |
1893 |
Page Number |
155-157 |
Control Number |
M0003355LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Contains selections from "Poems and songs", 1883, and "Poems and songs, second series", 1889 |
ID Number |
5754 |
Title |
On George Dewhurst: the patriarchal reformer, of Blackburn |
First Line |
Beneath this plain, smooth monument of grit |
Poet |
CLEMESHA, Robert |
Book Title |
The poets and poetry of Blackburn (1793-1902), compiled by George Hull |
Author of Book |
|
Publication Date |
1902 |
Page Number |
64 |
Control Number |
M0042476LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Local epitaph 3 |
ID Number |
6204 |
Title |
Ravenna |
First Line |
One evening, as beneath an oak-tree old |
Poet |
GISSING, George |
Book Title |
A SELECTION of verses from the Manchester University magazine, 1868-1912, with a preface by Sir Alfred Hopkinson - Vice-Chancellor from 1898 to 1913 |
Author of Book |
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Publication Date |
1913 |
Page Number |
22-28 |
Control Number |
M0129212LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
6404 |
Title |
Bessie Lisle |
First Line |
Beneath a yew tree's solemn shade |
Poet |
COLLINS, George Thomas |
Book Title |
The poets and poetry of Blackburn (1793-1902), compiled by George Hull |
Author of Book |
|
Publication Date |
1902 |
Page Number |
266 |
Control Number |
M0042476LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
80811 |
Title |
Paveway |
First Line |
Hung beneath your eagle, thrusting for the sky |
Poet |
GRINTER, Martin |
Book Title |
Don't judge this book by its cover |
Author of Book |
THE MERSEYSIDE ASSOCIATION OF WRITERS WORKSHOPS |
Publication Date |
1990 |
Page Number |
41-42 |
Control Number |
1871474000 (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
82426 |
Title |
The moorland flower |
First Line |
Beneath a crag, whose forehead rude |
Poet |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Book Title |
Poems and songs of old Lancashire |
Author of Book |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Publication Date |
1992 |
Page Number |
11-12 |
Control Number |
1872226272 (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
82889 |
Title |
Underneath the sea |
First Line |
Down, down beneath the sea |
Poet |
CROSTON, Amy |
Book Title |
HIDDEN treasures: South Lancashire. Edited by Simon Harwin |
Author of Book |
|
Publication Date |
2002 |
Page Number |
110-111 |
Control Number |
0754339068 (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
83470 |
Title |
Sleeping beauty |
First Line |
Beneath a hawthorn's flowery shade |
Poet |
SHAW, L. O. |
Book Title |
Poems and dramatic pieces. Vol. I |
Author of Book |
SHAW, L. O. |
Publication Date |
1814 |
Page Number |
94-98 |
Control Number |
M0129933LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Burnley author |
ID Number |
83479 |
Title |
Harold, a romance in four parts: part IV |
First Line |
High throned beneath a crimson canopy |
Poet |
SHAW, L. O. |
Book Title |
The duel, the battle of Waterloo and other poems |
Author of Book |
SHAW, L. O. |
Publication Date |
1836 |
Page Number |
145-171 |
Control Number |
M0067298LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Handwritten title page reads 'The duel, the batil of Waterloo and other poems'; 2nd edition enlarged |
ID Number |
84100 |
Title |
Where the sunshine has been |
First Line |
How vain this little life, beneath the sun! |
Poet |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Book Title |
Poems, sonnets and translations |
Author of Book |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Publication Date |
1903 |
Page Number |
130-131 |
Control Number |
M0015289LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
84300 |
Title |
A poet's epitaph |
First Line |
Beneath this stone, though few men know it |
Poet |
ROBIN O'Bob's |
Book Title |
When the robin sings, and other verses |
Author of Book |
ROBIN O'BOB'S |
Publication Date |
1924 |
Page Number |
22 |
Control Number |
M0063782LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Robert Atherton wrote under the pseudonyms Robin Hesketh Banks and Robin O'Bob's |
ID Number |
84481 |
Title |
Under the linden tree IV |
First Line |
Beneath the Linden-tree we sit once more |
Poet |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Book Title |
Sonnets written impromptu |
Author of Book |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Publication Date |
1900 |
Page Number |
79 |
Control Number |
M0067286LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Author born in Todmorden |
ID Number |
84482 |
Title |
Under the linden tree V |
First Line |
Leafless the Lime beneath whose shadow wide |
Poet |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Book Title |
Sonnets written impromptu |
Author of Book |
STANSFIELD, Abraham |
Publication Date |
1900 |
Page Number |
80 |
Control Number |
M0067286LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Author born in Todmorden |
ID Number |
84622 |
Title |
A town. I |
First Line |
Beneath the sun's leaden iris |
Poet |
SUNDERLAND, Stephen |
Book Title |
Moor and tower |
Author of Book |
SUNDERLAND, Stephen |
Publication Date |
1983 |
Page Number |
4 |
Control Number |
M0129245LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Rossendale poet |
ID Number |
84625 |
Title |
Widdop |
First Line |
Crossing Widdop beneath high-walled cloud-battlements |
Poet |
SUNDERLAND, Stephen |
Book Title |
Moor and tower |
Author of Book |
SUNDERLAND, Stephen |
Publication Date |
1983 |
Page Number |
6 |
Control Number |
M0129245LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Rossendale poet |
ID Number |
85126 |
Title |
The moorland flower |
First Line |
Beneath a crag, whose forehead rude |
Poet |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Book Title |
Poems and Songs |
Author of Book |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Publication Date |
1883 |
Page Number |
1-3 |
Control Number |
M0043498LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Vol. X in Waugh's Complete Works |
ID Number |
85308 |
Title |
The moorland flower |
First Line |
Beneath a crag, whose forehead rude |
Poet |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Book Title |
Poems and Lancashire songs |
Author of Book |
WAUGH, Edwin |
Publication Date |
1870 |
Page Number |
1-4 |
Control Number |
M0008836LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Third edition, with additions. Dedicated to John Bright,M.P |
ID Number |
86247 |
Title |
Adolescence |
First Line |
Beneath a golden hanging moon, a velvet star-sprayed sky |
Poet |
MILLER, Alice |
Book Title |
Cage Without Bars |
Author of Book |
MILLER, Alice |
Publication Date |
1942 |
Page Number |
|
Control Number |
M0067313LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Poems by Oswaldtwistle author |
ID Number |
86259 |
Title |
English rose |
First Line |
Beneath |
Poet |
MILLER, Alice |
Book Title |
Cage Without Bars |
Author of Book |
MILLER, Alice |
Publication Date |
1942 |
Page Number |
|
Control Number |
M0067313LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
Poems by Oswaldtwistle author |
ID Number |
87387 |
Title |
The Wild Sweet Violet |
First Line |
The daisies grow beneath our feet |
Poet |
SINGLETON, Thomas |
Book Title |
Tales with a sting in their tails |
Author of Book |
SINGLETON, Thomas |
Publication Date |
1993 |
Page Number |
60 |
Control Number |
0533103142 (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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ID Number |
87434 |
Title |
The Lovers' Bower |
First Line |
Softly the time glides on reclined beneath |
Poet |
HOLDSWORTH, Edwin |
Book Title |
Poems from My Drawer Corner |
Author of Book |
HOLDSWORTH, Edwin |
Publication Date |
1925 |
Page Number |
21 |
Control Number |
M0063833LC (Check the catalogue) |
Notes |
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