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• English language -- Dialects -- England -- Yorkshire
• English language -- Dialects -- Texts

• Songs of the Ridings, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text and HTML)

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• Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and Traditional Poems, ed. by F. W. Moorman (Gutenberg text)

• Dialect Songs of the North (Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland and Cumberland) (sheet music; London: J. Curwen and Sons, 1910), ed. by John Graham, contrib. by Percy E. Fletcher (HTML in the UK)

• The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2013-2017), by William Barnes, ed. by T. L. Burton
  • Volume 1 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, First Collection, 1844): PDF and audio files at Adelaide
  • Volume 2 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Second Collection, 1859): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
  • Volume 3 (Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, Third Collection, 1862): PDF and audio files with commentary at Adelaide
• Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1903), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text and page images)

• The Barrel Organ, by Edwin Waugh (Gutenberg text)
• Bits o' Broad Lancashire: Poems in the Dialect (ca. 1888), by William Baron (HTML in the UK)
• Dialect of South Lancashire: or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary, Revised and Corrected, With His Rhymes, and an Enlarged and Amended Glossary of Words and Phrases Chiefly Used by the Rural Population of the Manufacturing Districts of South Lancaster (1850), by Tim Bobbin, ed. by Samuel Bamford (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (1865), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Lancashire Songs (sheet music edition from Hime and Addison), by Edwin Waugh (PDF files in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Manchester, UK: John Heywood, 1883), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)
• Poems and Songs (Second Series) (Liverpool: G. Walmsley; Oldham: W. E. Clegg, 1889), by Edwin Waugh (HTML in the UK)

• Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (EETS #1, second edition; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, 1869, reprinted 1965), ed. by Richard Morris (Gutenberg text)