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Subject: PATRICK, SAINT (5TH CENTURY)
Matches Found: 17

AN IRISH FANTASY, by JOHN FRANKLIN BLUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: It so happens that I was born in cork'
Last Line: "it helps us think as we plant we shall reap."
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Trinity, The; Irish


AT SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY, by DONNCHADH MOR O'DALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pity me on my pilgrimage to loch derg!
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Repentance


BREASTPLATE OF SAINT PATRICK, by PATRICK (372-466)    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bind myself [or, unto myself] today
Last Line: Alone, and in a multitude
Alternate Author Name(s): Succat
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Religion


ENGLISH IN IRELAND (ST. PATRICK SPEAKS), by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With omens oft I strove to warn thy swains
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


IT'S A GRAND PARADE IT WILL BE, MODERN DESIGN, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint patrick was a proper man, a man to be admired
Last Line: And jam the bloody airwaves on the seventeenth of march
Subject(s): Parades; Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


SAINT PATRICK AND THE IMPOSTOR, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In uladh, near magh inis, lived a chief
Subject(s): Impostors And Imposture; Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


SAINT PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Forget the good saint patrick / and see the snakes again
Subject(s): "drinks & Drinking;patrick, Saint (5th Century);toasts;


ST. PATRICK [OF IRELAND, MY DEAR!], by WILLIAM MAGINN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fig for st. Denis of france
Last Line: Because all the liquor is out!
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


ST. PATRICK'S DAY WARNING, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: St. Patrick drove from ireland
Last Line: And may the saints preserve you.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Saints; Irish


ST. PATRICK'S DAY, SELS., by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I repeat it again, mamma, officers are the prettiest
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


ST. PATRICK'S FIRST CONVERTS, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn on the hills of innisfail!
Last Line: Was fulfilled in the land in an after day.
Subject(s): Lough Sheeling (lake), Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


THE BREASTPLATE OF SAINT PATRICK, by PATRICK (372-466)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I invoke upon my path
Last Line: Of the maker's eternal divinity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Succat
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


THE DEPARTURE OF ST. PATRICK FROM SCOTLAND, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice to your son already has the hand of god been shown
Last Line: And we shall meet again somewhere, within a little while!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Patrick, Saint (5th Century)


THE KILLARNEY SNAKE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is the time come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Last Line: Is it not come? Is it to-morrow yet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Animals; Killarney (lakes), Ireland; Legends, Irish; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Snakes; Serpents; Vipers


THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds
Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PURGATORY OF SAINT PATRICK, by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pause, o patrick! Thou art going
Last Line: Of this remote and lonely sea.
Subject(s): Donegal, Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Purgatory


THE WEARER OF THE GREEN; TO MY FRIEND JOHN JAMES DONOGHUE, M.D., by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis now just a year since, come saint patrick's day
Last Line: Unfortunate divil—he laughed at the green!
Subject(s): Green (color); Holidays; Ireland; Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Irish