Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)

Keywords

poverty

• 1861. – God Bless The Year., by Henry Dowson, January 3rd 1861
• 1862, by [Unknown], Dec 27 1862
• A Batchelor's Fancy on the Distress, by [Unknown], September 27th 1862
• A Briton's Appeal, by John Parry (Boatbuilder), July 26th 1862
• A Broken Saw, by [Unknown], May 10th 1862
• A Christmas Carol, by K, December 28th 1861
• A Christmas Carol, by unknown, December 20th, 1862
• A Christmas Carol for 1862, by George MacDonald, 27th December 1862
• A Lancashire Doxology, by unknown, July 2nd 1864
• A Lancashire Witch’s Appeal to her Irish Sisters., by Margaretta, December 3rd 1862
• A Lay for the Poor, by John Baron, Nov 2nd, 1861
• A Mother's Wail, by John Plummer, 24th May 1862
• A Plea Fra' Lancashur (from Punch), by unknown, August 28th, 1862
• A Plea for the Cotton District, by Unknown, March 21st 1863
• A Plea for the Outcast Children of the Street and of the Abject Poor., by A Ragged School Teacher, March 29th 1862
• A Prayer for Peace, by John Charles Twist, Sept 5th 1863
• A Prayer., by E. Coe, March 7th 1863
• A Rhyme for the Time, by Willife Cunliam, 1864-1-30
• A Song for the Poor, by Thomas Lumb, 4th October 1862
• A Song of the Cotton Famine, by unknown, November 8th, 1862
• A Sorry Christmas, by unknown, Dec 28th 1861
• About the Fire., by Unknown, February 8th 1862
• All’s For The Best., by Unknown, March 9th 1861
• America, by J. R., Wednesday, October 15, 1862
• An Appeal for the Modest Poor, by unknown, July 5th 1862
• An Episode of the War., by John Plummer, October 13th 1862
• Aspiration, by W. A. Abram, November 1st 1862
• Autumnal Payments, by unknown, November 23rd 1861
• Aw Wod This War Wer Ended, by W. M. Billington, October 10, 1863
• Aw Wod This War Wur Ended, by William Billington, 1977
• Aw've Turned Mi Bit o' Garden O'er, by Samuel Laycock, 1977
• Awve Hard Wark to Howd up Mi Yed, by S. Laycock, May 9th 1863
• BEATA., by [Unknown], 1862-July-19
• Be Doubtful-Hearted Never, by Sheldon Chadwick, 18th October 1862
• Bill Harvey's Song, by Ebeneezer Elliot, September 17th, 1864
• Brighter Hours, by Georgiana Bennett, 23rd August 1862
• Brother Look Up, by Daniel Livingstone Naylor, Oct 4 1862
• Can You Help Us a Bit?, by Mr. W. Stitt Jenkins, October 25th 1862
• Charity! A Word to the Rich., by By The Author Of “Proverbial Philosophy”,
• Cheer up Lads, by [Unknown], March 7th 1863
• Cheer up a Bit Longer, by Samuel Laycock, 1866
• Christmas Is Coming!, by M.I.H.,
• Christmas, 1861, by W. A. Abram, Dec 21st, 1861
• Concert and Literary Entertainment in Aid of the Relief Fund (W. A. Abram poem), by W. A. Abram, May 31 1862
• Cowd Winter is Comin' Wonst Moor, by W. Billington, September 19th 1862
• Dialogue Between a Millowner and John Brown, by unknown, 8th November 1862
• Domestic Verses, by J. C. Prince, August 13th 1864
• Droylsden, by [Unknown], Jan 31st 1863
• Eawr Alley, by Adam Chester, 31/1/63
• Eawt o' Wark., by Joseph Ramsbottom, 1864 1864
• Extracts from Poetical Contributions, by unknown, May 16th, 1863
• Factory Lad, by Laon, January 14, 1865
• Famine, Fever, and Frost, by Anon., Nov 22 1862
• Farewell Old Year, by Thomas Hodson, Dec 26th 1863
• Father Christmas, by F. P. A., December 24, 1864
• Father Christmas., by W. Billington, December 27th 1862
• Few Can Work and Many Must Weep, by R. R. B., December 27, 1862
• Food or Work, by [Unknown], July 2nd, 1864
• Friends Are Few When Fooak Are Poor, by W. Billington, November 21, 1863
• Give Us Our Daily Bread, by Thomas Hodson, November 30th 1861
• God Help the Poor, by [Unknown], Feb 22nd 1862
• God Help the Poor, by unknown, October 19th 1861
• God Help the Poor, by W. H. Webb, April 5 1862
• God Help the Poor!, by Williffe Cunliam, 29th August 1863
• Gooin' t' Schoo, by Joseph Ramsbottom, 1864
• Harben’s Love Song., by Unknown, October 18th 1862
• Hard Times, by John Plummer, Wednesday, November 05, 1862
• Hard Times; Or, Th' Weyvur to His Wife, by "A Lancashire Lad," (James Bowker), 1866
• Hawbuck on the Harvest, by unknown, 22nd August 1863
• Hearts and Homes., by Unknown, October 4th 1862
• Heaw to Ged Rich, by W. Billington, July 16, 1864
• Hoamly Chat, by Williffe Cunliam, 11th July 1863
• Home is Home, However Lowly: A Proverb Paraphrased, by Alaric A. Watts, February 1st 1862
• Homeless, by Adelaide A. Procter, 25th October 1862
• How to Live on Three Shillings a Week, or the Poor Surat Weaver's Lament, by [Unknown], 7/3/63
• Hubbard’s Appeal (from Punch), by Unknown, February 28th 1861
• In Adversity, by J. Heywood, March 8th, 1862
• Into the Wilderness [What the Starving Scholar Said to His Bride], by W. A. Abram, January 10th 1863
• It's Hard to Ceawr i' th' Chimney Nook, by Samuel Laycock, 1977
• Lament for the Castaways, by W. A. Abram, December 27, 1862
• Lancashire Distress, by [Unknown], June 28th 1862
• Lancashire in 1862, by J. Bowker, 3rd Jan 1863
• Les Ouvriers de Rouen, by Louise Michel, October 1865
• Lessons of the Year (Punch), by unknown, Jan 10th 1863
• Let us Hope for Better Days, by William Billington, Sunday, July 31, 1861
• Life's Full of Trouble, by unknown, March 1 1862
• Lines, by Samuel Laycock, November 12th, 1864
• Lines on the Death of John Osbaldeston, by John Baron, February 22nd 1862
• Make Glad, by Robert Story, 1862-10-11
• Merry Christmas Eve, by Gerald Massey, December 26, 1863
• Monday Morning, by Henry Yates, February 27, 1864
• Mrs. Lofty and I, by unknown, 9th August 1862
• Municipal Candidates, by R. R., November 7th 1863
• Neither Work Nor Wages, or, The Cotton Famine, by E. R., 12th July 1862
• Oh! Rich Man, Hear What A. B. C. Can Say to Thee, by Alcæus, Dec 5 1862
• Oh, Ring The Factory Bell, by J. B. L., May 17 1862
• Old Shuttle, by W. F. M., Wednesday, July 09, 1862
• On the Waste, by unknown, February 15th 1862
• Owd Barber Periwig's Solilokwy, by Samuel Laycock, Nov 21st 1863
• Owd Jinny’s Egsperianze., by Williffe Cunliam, December 12th 1863
• Prayin' Jemmy, by S. Laycock, July 11th 1863
• Prince Rupert, by unknown, Dec 13 1862
• Random Thoughts on the Marriage of the Prince of Wales by a Benedict Who Knows What It Is to Be Hungry, by [Unknown], March 7, 1863
• Relief for Lancashire, by A Lankyshir Lad, February 28th 1863
• Remember the Poor, by Edwin Waugh, 24th January 1863
• Rest, by unknown, February 22nd 1862
• Series of Poems, by Henry Anderton, August 8th, 1863
• Short Time, Come Again No More" (from a Street Broadside), by [Unknown], 1866
• Song, by "L", May 10th 1862
• Song of the Emigrant, by John Baron, July 11, 1863
• Sympathy With Lancashire., by Hampden, October 23rd 1862
• Sympathy with Lancashire, by [Unknown], Thursday, October 23, 1862
• THANK GOD FOR SUMMER., by ELIZA COOK., 1862-05-24
• THE LANCASHIRE WORKMAN’S DREAM., by S.H.BRADBURY (“QUALLON”), 1862-10-18
• THINK ON THE POOR, by [Unknown], 1865-11-18
• Th' Owd Pedlar, by Joseph Ramsbottom, 1864
• Th' Petched Shirt, by Williffe Cunliam, 20th June 1863
• Th' Shurat Weaver's Song, by Samuel Laycock, January 10th, 1863
• Th' Surat Weyver, by William Billington, 1977
• The Beddin's Goan, by W. A. Abram, November 29, 1862
• The Beggar's Lamentation, by G. G. N., November 2nd 1861
• The Better Land, by L. S., June 13, 1863
• The Captives, by unknown, May 2nd 1863
• The Charities of the Poor, by Richard Monckton Milnes, M.P., January 11th 1862
• The Children in the Wood, by Eliza Cook, August 6th, 1864
• The Cotton Famine, by A Blackburn Weaver, May 17th 1862
• The Cotton Famine – Christmas, 1862, by Samuel Clarkson, 1st March 1863
• The Cream of Punch – 'Men and Bees', by unknown, 23/11/61
• The Cry of the Crowd, by William Billington, May 10th 1862
• The Cry of the Crowd No.II, by W. Billington, May 24th 1862
• The Cry of the Operative, by William Clarke, Nov 15 1862
• The Cry of the Unemployed, by Gerald Massey, Jan 2, 1864
• The Dying Workman., by John Plummer, November 8th 1862
• The Easiest Thing in Life., by Unknown, February 1st 1864
• The Factory Lass, by Joseph Ramsbottom, 1864 1864
• The Happy Family, by Celina, November 7th 1862
• The Infant, by Robert Buchanan, July 22nd 1865
• The Lancashire Bell Ringers, by W. Stitt Jenkins, June 27th 1863
• The Lancashire Factory Girl (An "Ower True" Picture), by H. M., 29/11/1862
• The Lancashire Hills, by E____h W____n, 1st August 1863
• The Lancashire Operative's Hymn, by John Plummer, Nov 22 1862
• The Lancashire Operative., by Jane Ashby, February 6th 1863
• The Lancashire Operatives' Appeal, by William Eaton, Wednesday, November 26, 1862
• The Lancashire Wail, by [Unknown], Wednesday, January 29, 1863
• The Mill-Hand's Petition, by [Unknown], 1866
• The Operative's Home, by W. M. Billington, October 3, 1863
• The Poor Man's Grave, by Robert Gilfillan, 12th April 1862
• The Poor Rich Man to the Rich Poor Man, by Thomas Barlow, July 9th 1864
• The Silent Mills of Lancashire, by Rev. J. Baker, Dec 27 1862
• The Smokeless Chimney, by E. J. B., June 21st 1862
• The Song of a Frame, by X, February 6, 1864
• The Song of the Street (From the Morning Herald), by W. H. Bellamy, March 4th 1865
• The Spinning Frame, by unknown, 28th June 1862
• The Starving Cotton Spinners’ Christmas Lament, by Rev. Thomas M. Freeman, December 13th 1862
• The Surat Weaver, by John Allinson, May 3rd 1863
• The Voice of Want, by David Little, August 16th 1862
• The Work Shall Fill the Mills Again, by John Plummer, Nov 15 1862
• Thenkful Jone, by Williffe Cunliam, 5th September 1863
• There Must Be Heaven, by Sheldon Chadwick, April 18, 1863
• There’s Still Enough!, by Unknown, February 1st 1862
• Things Tuh Think on at This Time, by E. Slater,
• Those Who Have Money and Those Who Have Not – Money King and Other Poems, by unknown, February 2nd 1861
• Th’ Poor Mon un Hiz Childer, by unknown, 1863-8-29
• Tickle Times (from "Lancashire Songs"), by Edwin Waugh, 1866
• Time is on the Wing, by William Billington, August 29th 1863
• To All the Suffering Sons of Toil, by [Unknown], Sept 6 1862
• To the Departing Emigrants, by William Billington, July 04, 1863
• To the Lords of Land, Mills, and Money, by Starvation, October 8, 1864
• Twelve Lines on Prosperity and Adversity., by W. Brown, August 22nd 1863
• Two Graves, by J. O. Tildesley, 30th August 1862
• Weeping, by Abe Jones, Nov 22 1862
• What Are We to Do, by Samuel Laycock, Aug 29th 1863
• While Takin’ A Wift o’ My Pipe., by Edwin Waugh, January 24th 1861
• Who Is My Neighbour?, by unknown, 6th December 1862
• Will the War Be over Soon?, by unknown, May 20th 1865
• Words from Hungry Lips, by Henry Morford, 1867
• Workhouse Porters, Or Brothers' Keepers?, by unknown, November 28th, 1863
• [Oh Men with Sisters Dear], by unknown, October 14th 1865
• [Untitled], by [Unknown], Dec 27 1862
• [Untitled], by Henry Cook, September 6th 1862
• ‘Lines’, by W. J. Grimshaw, 9/12/65
• ‘Twas Death., by Unknown, April 12th 1864