The Careys (John O Brien Poems)
Their new house stood just off the road. A fine big brick two-storey, All gabled, tiled, and porticoed, To flaunt its owners' glory. We ...
Their new house stood just off the road. A fine big brick two-storey, All gabled, tiled, and porticoed, To flaunt its owners' glory. We ...
There's a weather-beaten sign-post where the track turns towards the west,Through the tall, white, slender timber, in the land i ...
I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years,And the rattle of its boxes still is ...
Before the lad invested we had comfort here indeed;Our lives were as an open book, and he who ran might ...
Yes, that's the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is ...
Faith, 'tis good to see him comin' when the bell for Mass is flingin'Gladsome golden notes appealin' on the Sabbath-softened ...
The presbytery has gone to pot since this house-keeper came;She's up-to-date and stylish; but the place is not the sameSince ...
They have brought the news, my darlin', that I've waited for so long.Faith, 'twas little news they brought me; every ...
Old Father Pat! They'll tell you still with mingled love and prideOf stirring deeds that live and thrill the quiet ...
Faith, and little Miss McCroddie was the tidy little body, Just as trim and prim and handy as you'd ever wish ...
Now of all the old sinners in mischief immersed,From the ages of Gog and Magog,At the top of the list,from ...
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
'Twas Callagan who jerked the thumb-A mute, interrogating thumb- That set the people staringAt Casey's lot arriving late.They had in tow ...
"Wisha, where is he goin' to now With the hat on the back of the poll.And the hair of him curled ...
Tell me, what's a girl to do When the gossoons court and cozen?Some have none and some have two, More can count ...
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