At Casey’s After Mass (John O Brien Poems)
There's a weather-beaten sign-post where the track turns towards the west,Through the tall, white, slender timber, in the land i ...
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 ...
'Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection On the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without ...
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 ...
No, you don't quite get the meaning when the fun is at its heightWith the neighbours at the breakfast, and ...
The rambling road to Danahey's it goes by hill and plain,It wanders in among the trees and wanders out again.It ...
We meet him first in frills immersed,By everyone caressed and nursed, A bonny baby-rather!But, though they please his every whim,Fill up ...
Times I think I'm not the man- Must be some mistake.Me among the also ran? Cute and wideawake!Old and beat and crotchety- Sixty-five, ...
"We'll all be rooned," said HanrahanIn accents most forlornOutside the church ere Mass beganOne frosty Sunday morn.The congregation stood about,Coat-collars ...
They hadn't met for fifty years, or was it fifty-one ?They'd parted when their ship arrived their separate ways to ...
When the circus came to townWith its coaches and four, and its steeds galore, And a band and a painted clown,Out ...
The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime,And galvanized the old bush church at Confirmation time;And all the ...
"Wisha, where is he goin' to now With the hat on the back of the poll.And the hair of him curled ...
She saw The Helper standing near When grief and, care oppressed;"A Great, Big God," Who wiped the tear, And soothed the aching ...
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