Poetry Codex

Romantic

Henry Robson

1775–1850

Henry Robson is represented here by verse printed in John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards (Newcastle, 1812), 4 pieces and in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 10 pieces.

Bell notes that Henry Robson was born at Benwell, near Newcastle.

Poems (14)

  1. The Colliers' Pay Week
  2. The Tyne
  3. The Spring
  4. The Sandgate Lassie's Lament
  5. Bessy of Blyth
  6. Gipsy's Song
  7. Kelvin Grove.--The Lassie's Answer
  8. Lizzie Liberty
  9. Nancy Wilkinson
  10. Newcastle Subscription Mill
  11. Peter Watson
  12. Peter Waggy
  13. Till the Tide came in
  14. Verses written for the Burns Club, 1817

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