Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODELL, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is sad and weary thinking how Last Line: And see odell, the tax-collector, hung! Subject(s): Curses; Taxes | ||||||||
My mind is sad and weary thinking how Our noblemen are all gone oversea; Are far from Ireland, and are fighting now In France, and Flanders, and in Germany. If they, whom I could talk to without dread, Were home I should not mind what foe might do; Nor see the tax-collector seize my bed To pay the hearth-rate that is overdue. I pray to Him -- who, in the haughty hour Of Babel, threw confusion on each tongue -- That I may see our princes back in power, And see Odell, the tax-collector, hung! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY DOG, JOWLER by JONATHAN DORR BRADLEY EPOGRAM; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT THE KING'S ARMS, DUMFRIES by ROBERT BURNS THE INVENTORY, IN ANSWER TO ... SURVEYOR OF TXAES by ROBERT BURNS AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON THEY'RE TAXING ALE AGAIN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE GREAT POLL-TAX VICTORY OF '88 by NOEL PETTY THE GRAIN-TRIBUTE by PO CHU-YI THE TAX-GATHERER by JOHN BANISTER TABB |
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