Poetry Codex

Romantic

John Shield

1768–1848

John Shield is represented here by verse printed in John Bell's Rhymes of Northern Bards (Newcastle, 1812), 5 pieces and in The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-side Songster (Newcastle: W. & T. Fordyce, 1842), 4 pieces.

A writer of Tyneside songs in the local dialect; the spelling of the printed texts is kept as the books give it.

Poems (9)

  1. Blackett's Field
  2. My Lord 'Size; Or, Newcastle in an Uproar
  3. Bob Cranky's Adieu
  4. O No, My Love, No
  5. Oxygen Gas
  6. Barber's News; or, Shields in an Uproar
  7. Bob Cranky's Leum'nation Neet
  8. Bonny Gyetsiders
  9. Pitman's Revenge against Bonaparte

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