The Parting Rosary (John O Brien Poems)
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
Parson says I'm to make 'im a crossTo set up over his grave,'E's buried there by the Moated Grange,And I ...
What is sound, as standing for the world and the mind of man at any time, and in ...
A bunch of the boys were whooping it upIn the Malamute Saloon; An American guy from Peckham Rye Was playing ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence.You say (but use no words) 'this night is passingAs other nights ...
My Pa can hit his thumbnail with a hammer and keep still; He can cut himself while shaving an' not ...
When the young folks gather 'round in the good old-fashioned way,Singin' all the latest songs gathered from the newest play,Or ...
He thinks her little feet should pass Where dandelions star thickly grass; Her hands should lift in sunlit air Sea-wind ...
We've got our foreign service boots — we've 'ad 'em 'alf a day;If it wasn't for the Adjudant I'd sling ...
THE music blares into a ragtime tune-- The dancers whirl around the polished floor; Each powdered face a set expression ...
He thinks her little feet should pass Where dandelions star thickly grass; Her hands should lift in sunlit air Sea-wind ...
We sit together and talk, or smoke in silence. You say (but use no words) 'this night is passing As ...
I am a poet of the Hudson River and the heights above it, the lights, the stars, and the bridges ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
In Pat Mahoney's booze bazaar the fun was fast and free, And Ragtime Billy spanked the baby grand; While caroling ...
She was a Philistine spick and span, He was a bold Bohemian. She had the mode, and the last at ...
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
THIN sheets of blue smoke among white slabs . near the shingle mill . winter morning. Falling of a dry ...
ALL the policemen, saloonkeepers and efficiency experts in Toledo knew Bern Dailey; secretary ten years when Whitlock was mayor. Pickpockets, ...
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue, Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls, and, yes, you can feel ...
MOVING-PICTURE ACTRESS (After seeing the reel called "Oil and Water.") Beauty has a throne-room In our humorous town, Spoiling its ...
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