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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... tents, black and low like the Arabs', and from cave to cave. A. very. Odd. Sort. of. Gentry. Symon Simeonis (1322). ONE day there came to Rheims a very odd sort of gentry. They were beggars and truands, srolling about the country, led by ...
... tents, black and low like the Arabs', and from cave to cave. A. very. Odd. Sort. of. Gentry. Symon Simeonis (1322). ONE day there came to Rheims a very odd sort of gentry. They were beggars and truands, srolling about the country, led by ...
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... tents. . . . I felt that the manners of these Gipsies were assimilated to those of the shepherd tribes of the remotes antiquity, and that in truth I saw before me a family of the pasoral ages, as described in the Book of Genesis. They ...
... tents. . . . I felt that the manners of these Gipsies were assimilated to those of the shepherd tribes of the remotes antiquity, and that in truth I saw before me a family of the pasoral ages, as described in the Book of Genesis. They ...
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... tent, the fresh morning journey into the blue unknown, the free wild wandering, the heath with the breeze brisk upon it, whispering bough, bramble-berried hedgerows, dapple of shadowy leaves on the floor of the silent lane; partridge ...
... tent, the fresh morning journey into the blue unknown, the free wild wandering, the heath with the breeze brisk upon it, whispering bough, bramble-berried hedgerows, dapple of shadowy leaves on the floor of the silent lane; partridge ...
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... tents are pitched along The rise above the sreamlet yonder. How gay, how free, that night-camp lies! What peaceful ... tent, the bear, Tame and unfettered, sprawls at ease; The seppe is all alive; and there The household, busy and at ...
... tents are pitched along The rise above the sreamlet yonder. How gay, how free, that night-camp lies! What peaceful ... tent, the bear, Tame and unfettered, sprawls at ease; The seppe is all alive; and there The household, busy and at ...
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... tents are sruck; each cart and load Is trim and ready for the road. Now all are off at once! and see, On the blank plain the moving masses Throng forth; in panniers on the asses The children play; and, near behind, Damsels and dames ...
... tents are sruck; each cart and load Is trim and ready for the road. Now all are off at once! and see, On the blank plain the moving masses Throng forth; in panniers on the asses The children play; and, near behind, Damsels and dames ...
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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