Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERSELF AND MYSELF; AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poet's Biography First Line: Twas beyond at macreddin, at owen doyle's weddin' Last Line: "and I'd say to herself: ""troth, I'm time enough old." | ||||||||
'Twas beyond at Macreddin, at Owen Doyle's weddin', The boys got the pair of us out for a reel. Says I: "Boys, excuse us." Says they: "Don't refuse us"-- "I'll play nice and aisy," says Larry O'Neill. So off we went trippin' it, up an' down steppin' it-- Herself and Myself on the back of the doore; Till Molly--God bless her !--fell into the dresser, An' I tumbled over a child on the floore. Says Herself to Myself: "We're as good as the best of them." Says Myself to Herself: "Shure, we're better than gold." Says Herself to Myself: "We're as young as the rest o' them." Says Myself to Herself: "Troth, we'll never grow old." As down the lane goin', I felt my heart growin' As young as it was forty-five years ago; 'Twas here in this boreen I first kissed my stoireen-- A sweet little colleen with skin like the snow. I looked at my woman--a song she was hummin' As old as the hills, so I gave her a pogue; 'Twas like our old courtin', half sarious, half sportin', When Molly was young, an' when hoops were in vogue. When she'd say to Myself: "You can coort with the best of them." When I'd say to Herself: "Sure, I'm better than gold." When she'd say to Myself: "You're as wild as the rest o' them." And I'd say to Herself: "Troth, I'm time enough old." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PREPARATIONS FOR WINTER by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL THE BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN: A JACOBITE BALLAD by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL THE BOUCHALEEN BAWN (THE FAIR-HAIRED LITTLE BOY); A SPINNING DUET by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7 by THOMAS CAMPION THE NEW CHURCH ORGAN by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON A SONG TO CELIA by CHARLES SEDLEY EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME by PHILIP AYRES DEATH by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK |
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