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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREPARATIONS FOR WINTER, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL Poet's Biography First Line: There's my cabin with a brand new coat of thatch, norah Last Line: Crying, winter, I'm well prepared! | |||
There's my cabin with a brand new coat of thatch, Norah dear! 'Tis as cosy as the overcoat I've on; And the stack that's in the haggard you won't match, Norah dear! Sure the neighbours call it Lugnaquilla's son! I've put bushes in the gaps and the doors I've painted green; And the garden wall I've nately repaired. If I only had yourself, dear, I could say, like king or queen, Roll on, winter, I'm well prepared! There's an acre of potatoes in the pit, Norah dear! Troth, I've turf enough to light me to fame; And the corner of the kitchen where you'd sit, Norah dear! Is a pleasant place to talk or to dream. Ah, but lonesomest of all is my heart there above; If the wind through its corners you heard, You'd step into it at once with a turf load of love, Crying, winter, I'm well prepared! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HERSELF AND MYSELF; AN OLD MAN'S SONG 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 THE WHITE PEACOCK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET MATER AMABILIS by EMMA LAZARUS HOW THE GREAT GUEST CAME by EDWIN MARKHAM PARTING AT MORNING by ROBERT BROWNING THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7. OF PLEASURE AND PAIN by THOMAS CAMPION THE ROSE AND THORN by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL |
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