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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RINGSEND (AFTER READING TOLSTOI), by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poet's Biography First Line: I will live in ringsend Last Line: Whispering sea. | |||
I will live in Ringsend With a red-headed whore, And the fan-light gone in Where it lights the hall-door; And listen each night For her querulous shout, As at last she streels in And the pubs empty out. To soothe that wild breast With my old-fangled songs, Till she feels it redressed From inordinate wrongs, Imagined, outrageous, Preposterous wrongs, Till peace at last comes, Shall be all I will do, Where the little lamp blooms Like a rose in the stew; And up the back-garden The sound comes to me Of the lapsing, unsoilable, Whispering sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET LIVE AND HELP LIVE by EDWIN MARKHAM IN THE SUBWAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER LITTLE FEET by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 19. TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN |
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