Romantic
Robert Emery
Robert Emery is represented here by verse printed in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 19 pieces.
A writer of Tyneside songs in the local dialect; the spelling of the printed texts is kept as the books give it.
Poems (19)
- Acrostic on the Death of Blind Willie
- Blind Willy's Flight
- Come up to the Scratch! or, the Pitman Haggished
- Fishwives' Complaint
- Hydrophobie; or, Skipper and Quaker
- Mechanics' Procession; or, a Trip to South Shields
- Miraculous Well; or, Newcastle Spaw Water
- Newcastle Wonders; or, Hackney Coach Customers
- Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water; or, The Pitman and Temperance Society
- Newcastle Blunderbuss! or, Travelling Extraordinary
- Owl
- Oyster-wife's Petition on the Removal of the Oyster-tub from the Quay
- Paganini, the Fiddler; or, Pitman's Frolic
- Pitman's Dream; or, a Description of the North Pole
- Pitman's Dream; or, a Description of the Kitchen
- Pitman's Ramble
- Sandgate Pant; or, Jane Jemieson's Ghost
- Skipper's Account of the Mechanics' Procession
- Steam Soup; or, Cuckoo Jack's Petition