Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HABIT, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poet's Biography First Line: Dear knows, 'tis long since brian lay Last Line: "like crows from haunted corn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Dear knows, 'tis long since Brian lay Bedfast, as by himself; While candles warmed his habit, gray As brown on broken delph. For thirty years have gone with him Since first his Katie dressed In decent black she might not trim With jet across the breast. Yet she, with both his ring and name, Soon doffed her shoulder cape, Lit up her weeds with lawn, and came To chapel in her shape. The while, for all a neighbour's grin, She took a crown's St. George From which a gallant bosom-pin Was fashioned at the forge. And when her years put on the tints Of living harvest leaves, 'Tis she came out in colored prints And Kilmacthomas weaves. Nor might the parish wonder should She yet be bravely gowned In finery that surely would Be silky to the sound. "Ay, faith! The hour is far away," Said one to me, "when Kate's Unmindful garb shall be as gray As blue on broken plates." "For when she aired her habit out On a bush the other morn, Unshadowed ravens fled the clout Like crows from haunted corn!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL |
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