The Wind on the Heath - A Gypsy Anthology (Romany History Series)John Sampson This magnificent Gypsy anthology was first published in London 1930. It contains over 300 items of prose and verse gleaned from classical literature, folklore, history and true Gypsy life. It has long been considered unique in its field and is very hard to find in its first edition. We have now re-published this scarce book incorporating the original text and illustrations. The book's 380 pages are divided into 12 sections designed to bring to light the chief facets of Gypsy life. They have been chosen for their historical and anthropological interest and are supported with illustrations of the real Gypsy way of life, and yet the same wind blows over all on this Gypsy heath. Contents include: The Dark Race. - The Roaming Life. - Field and Sky. - Gypsies and Gentiles. - The Romany Chye. - Gypsy Children. - Sturt and Strife. - Black Arts. - A Gypsy Bestiary. - Egipte Speche. - Scholar Gypsies. - Envoy. Also included is a glossary of Romani words. This important book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in Gypsy ways. |
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... soon is seen, issuing from his winter quarters, a little cavalcade, tilted cart, bag and baggage, donkey and dogs, 'rom, romni, and tickni chavis,' and the happy family is once more under weigh for the open country. With dark resless ...
... soon is seen, issuing from his winter quarters, a little cavalcade, tilted cart, bag and baggage, donkey and dogs, 'rom, romni, and tickni chavis,' and the happy family is once more under weigh for the open country. With dark resless ...
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... soon they moved to the music and ended with a frenzied dance in the fores glades. Sacheverell Sitwell. The. Nature. of. the. Hawk. IT is the nature of the oak to be sill, it is the nature of the hawk to roam with the wind. . . . The swart ...
... soon they moved to the music and ended with a frenzied dance in the fores glades. Sacheverell Sitwell. The. Nature. of. the. Hawk. IT is the nature of the oak to be sill, it is the nature of the hawk to roam with the wind. . . . The swart ...
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... soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Or let autumn fall on me Where ...
... soon or late, Let what will be o'er me; Give the face of earth around And the road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Or let autumn fall on me Where ...
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... soon, so long endure: The hill road wet with rain In the sun would not gleam Like a winging sream If we trod it not again. They are lonely While we sleep, lonelier For lack of the traveller Who is now a dream only. From dawn's twilight ...
... soon, so long endure: The hill road wet with rain In the sun would not gleam Like a winging sream If we trod it not again. They are lonely While we sleep, lonelier For lack of the traveller Who is now a dream only. From dawn's twilight ...
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... soon go down to the House of Clay Where slumber my Youth's compeers! For with them and the Pas, though the thought wakes woe, My memory ever abides; I mourn for the Times gone long ago, For the Times of the Barmecides! I mourn for the ...
... soon go down to the House of Clay Where slumber my Youth's compeers! For with them and the Pas, though the thought wakes woe, My memory ever abides; I mourn for the Times gone long ago, For the Times of the Barmecides! I mourn for the ...
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Common terms and phrases
almos Arthur Symons Aunt Rodi beautiful bebee behold birds brother camp chap Charles Godfrey Leland child cuckoo dance dark disant donkey earth Egyptian English Gypsies eyes face father fire firs fortune Francis Hindes Groome gentleman George Borrow George Meredith Gilderoy Gipsy Gipsy’s girl gorgios grass GYPSY LADDIE Gypsy Song hair hand hath heard Hedgehog horse Jasper John John Bunyan King lady language Lavengro Leland lisen live looked Lord man’s maser mother mysery never night o’er Petulengro Poems poor quesion race road Romany Rye round sars siés sill sing siser sleep sood sory srange sranger sream sweet tell tent thee Theodore Watts-Dunton there’s things thou art thought tree undersand unto Ursula vagabond W. H. Hudson wander wild William Hazlitt William Wordsworth wind woman wood words Wordsworth young