John Jeffreys - Awake Thee, My Bessy
Awake thee, my Bessy, the morning is fair The breath of young roses is fresh on the air The sun has long glanced over mountain and lake Then awake from thy slumbers, my Bessy, awake
John Jeffreys - Candle Gate
Who comes so late to Candle Gate? Who comes so late By rainy bent and roaring spate? Who knocks so late at Candle Gate? Who knocks so late ? Who knocks so low, yet will
John Jeffreys - Jillian of Berry
For Jillian of Berry she dwells on a hill And she hath good beer and ale to sell And of good fellows she thinks no ill And thither will we go now, now, now And thither will we go
John Jeffreys - It Is Winter
The abode of the nightingale is bare Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air The fox howls from his frozen lair: Alas, my loved one is gone I am alone: It is winter
John Jeffreys - I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing
I will go with my father a-ploughing To the green field by the sea And the rooks and the crows and the seagulls Will come flocking after me I will sing to the patient horses
John Jeffreys - Little Trotty Wagtail
Little Trotty Wagtail he went in the rain And twittering, tottering sideways he ne'er got straight again He stooped to get a worm and looked up to get a fly And then he flew away
John Jeffreys - Merry Eye
On the day ere I was born Underneath the ragged thorn Three old women hobbled by One, she had an empty sack One, she had a humpy back One, she had a merry eye
John Jeffreys - Otterburn
The lad who went to Flanders Otterburn, Otterburn The lad who went to Flanders And never will return Though low he lies in Flanders Beneath the Flemish mud He
John Jeffreys - Poem for End
So the last poem is laid flat in its place And Crickley with Crucifix Comer leaves from my face Elizabethans and night-working thoughts -- of such grace And all the dawns that
John Jeffreys - Stow-on-the-Wold
I met an old man at Stow-on-the-Wold Who shook and shivered as though with cold And he said to me: " Six sons I had And each was a tall and a lively lad "But