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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RINGSEND (AFTER READING TOLSTOI), by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poet's Biography First Line: I will live in ringsend Last Line: Whispering sea. | |||
I will live in Ringsend With a red-headed whore, And the fan-light gone in Where it lights the hall-door; And listen each night For her querulous shout, As at last she streels in And the pubs empty out. To soothe that wild breast With my old-fangled songs, Till she feels it redressed From inordinate wrongs, Imagined, outrageous, Preposterous wrongs, Till peace at last comes, Shall be all I will do, Where the little lamp blooms Like a rose in the stew; And up the back-garden The sound comes to me Of the lapsing, unsoilable, Whispering sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RING AND THE CASTLE by AMY LOWELL EVE SPEAKS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 97. AL-WARITH by EDWIN ARNOLD THE TIMELY MEMENTO by PHILIP AYRES SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE by BERNARD BARTON ODE ON LORD HAY'S BIRTHDAY by JAMES BEATTIE |
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