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 ...
I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years,And the rattle of its boxes still is ...
Ah, the memories that find me now my hair is turning gray,Drifting in like painted butterflies from paddocks far away;Dripping ...
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 ...
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 ...
Said the white-haired priest, "So the boy has come, And the old, old dreams are o'er you,And you give no thought ...
They hadn't met for fifty years, or was it fifty-one ?They'd parted when their ship arrived their separate ways to ...
Oh, stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain,And let the doves of fancy loose to ...
The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime,And galvanized the old bush church at Confirmation time;And all the ...
"Wisha, what is the matter with Jim, I dunno?Is he right in the mind for this last week or so? Or ...
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