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Subject: [SUNDERLAND] Poetry
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:08:50 EST

Can anyone help please..my mam found some handwritten poetry with some old
family documents, they are written in ink in old fashioned writing with the
titles but no authors...we don't have any family names on them so we don't
know which years they could be from, we don't know if they are copied from
other poems or made up by the author/ess...please have a quick read and see
if you recognise them:

"Betty Grew" - The dinner ending he divised to know
Where he his labours could the best be stow.......
"The Fruits of Intemperance" - I saw a little girl
With half uncovered form
And wondered why she wandered thus
Amid the winter storm.....
"Ten Little Niggers" - Ten little niggers going out to dine
One choked his little self and then there were
nine.....
(WE ARE SURE WE'VE HEARD OF THIS..IS IT LIKE THE AGATHA CHRISITE STORY? AND I
KNOW WE SHOULDN'T USE THE "N" WORD ANYMORE I AM QUOTING A POEM FROM ALONG
TIME AGO!!!)
"Katie Lee and Willie Grey" -Two brown heads with tossing curls
Red lips shutting over pearls
Bare feet wet and white with dew
Two eyes black and two eyes blue
Little boy and girl were they
Katie Lee and Willie Grey.....
"The lips that touch liquor shall never touch Mine" -
Alice Lee stood waiting her lover one night
Her cheeks flushed and glowing her eyes full of light....
(THIS IS ABOUT A GIRL WAITING FOR HER BOYFRIEND TO TURN UP WHO IS ALWAYS ON
THE DRINK, SHE GIVES HIM A CHOICE HER OR THE BEER...HE CHOOSES HER AND THEY
LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER)

There are loads more and they do seem to be this persons own work because of
the mistakes in grammer but I am not an expert on poetry. So please put your
thinking caps on so we can work out a date etc
thanks
Jo Foots

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