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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS, by PADRAIC COLUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, to have a little house! Last Line: Out of the wind's and the rain's way. Subject(s): Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes | |||
O, to have a little house, To own the hearth and stool and all-- The heaped-up sods upon the fire, The pile of turf against the wall! To have a clock with weights and chains, And pendulum swinging up and down! A dresser filled with shining delph, Speckled and white and blue and brown! I could be busy all the day Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor, And fixing on their shelf again My white and blue and speckled store. I could be quiet there at night Beside the fire and by myself, Sure of a bed, and loth to leave The ticking clock and shining delph. Och but I'm weary of mist and dark, And roads where there's never a house or bush, And tired I am of bog and road, And the crying wind and the lonesome hush: And I am praying to God on high, And I am praying Him night and day, For a little house--a house of my own-- Out of the wind's and the rain's way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUMS, ON WAKING by JAMES DICKEY A FOLK SINGER OF THE THIRTIES by JAMES DICKEY WANDERER IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by CLARENCE MAJOR THE WANDERER by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN LONG GONE by STERLING ALLEN BROWN BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A VAGABOND SONG by BLISS CARMAN |
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