The Birth Of The Land (Pat O Cotter Poems)
For a thousand years the Devil crouched On the white hot flags of hell:For a thousand years the Devil cursed The imps ...
For a thousand years the Devil crouched On the white hot flags of hell:For a thousand years the Devil cursed The imps ...
HEAR my advice, Adulterer obscene!And often in thy mind these precepts roll,E'er thou dost haste with appetite unclean,And headlong passion ...
If proud Pygmalion quit his cumbrous frame,Funereal pomp the scanty tear supplies;Whilst heralds loud, with venal voice, proclaim,Lo! here the ...
Well--I suppose you now sit all agogIn hopes to hear a smutty Epilogue,With filthy Meanings couch'd in modern Guise;Ye wicked ...
There's a wind blowing Cold through the corridors, A ghost-wind, The flapping of defeated wings, A hell-fantasy From meadows damned To eternal April And listening, listening To the ...
Though all thy gestures and discourses be Coin'd and stamp'd by modesty; ...
On life's broad fields, whate'er we sow, 'Tis certain we shall reap; The watching scribes, above, below, ...
If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I, What would it matter to me how the time might drag ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
I will tell you, Alighieri,why yesterday you couldn't write.Long ago, in Bologna, at MamaLuisa's brothel you mockedyour professor, his theologicalshortcomings. ...
Unmanageable as history: these Followers of Tammuz to the land That offered no return, where dust Grew thick on every ...
(To Paul Sykes, author of 'Sweet Agony') He demolished five doors at a sitting And topped it off with an ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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