My Curate’s Motor Bike (John O Brien Poems)
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
1Likely as not a ruined head gasketSpitting at every power stroke, if not a crank shaftBearing knocking at the roots ...
One would remember stillMeadows and low hillLaventie was, as to the line and elm rowGrowing through green strength wounded, as ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
AUTHORITY, with white-gloved hand,Holds up the traffic in the Strand.Obediently each well-trained wheelRolls to a standstill. I can feelThe bus ...
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
THE RIVAL SUITORSWainamoinen, old and truthful,Long considered, long debated,How to woo and win the daughterOf the hostess of Pohyola,How to ...
CAPTURE OF THE SAMPO.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,With the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,With the reckless son of Lempo,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,On the sea's smooth ...
THE ISLE OF REFUGE.Lemminkainen, full of joyance,Handsome hero, Kaukomieli,Took provisions in abundance,Fish and butter, bread and bacon,Hastened to the Isle ...
BIRTH OF THE SECOND HARP.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Long reflecting, sang these measures:"It is now the time befittingTo awaken joy and gladness,Time ...
The flag on the pavilion barely stirs,The water quivers gently in the sunLike some young promised maiden dreaming on,Half-waking, of ...
There is not any weed but hath its shower,There is not any pool but hath its star;And black and muddy ...
A handsome young airman lay dying,And as on the aerodrome he lay,To the mechanics who round him came sighing,These last ...
Men with picked voices chant the names of cities in a huge gallery: promises that pull through descending stairways to ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
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