POETRY - MY COLLECTION
I have put together here a selection of my favorites.
Click on the links to go directly to the words.
| W. B. Yeats | The Lake Isle of Inishfree |
| The Stolen Child | |
| Robert Frost | The Road Not Taken |
| Robert Service | The Cremation of Sam McGee |
| Louis MacNiece | Snow |
| Anonymous | A Poem for Girls |
| Anonymous | A Poem for Boys |
| Rudyard Kipling | Desiderata |
| Anonymous | You are Worthy |
| Anonymous | The Trimmings of the Rosary |
| Pastor Niemoetter | First they came for the Jews |
| William Philbin | Poor Clare Christmas |
| Anonymous | Trees |
| Anonymous | The Game |
| Patrick Kavanagh | Street Corner Christ |
| Robert Frost | Stopping by Woods |
| Padraic Pearse | The Wayfarer |
| Padraic Colum | |
| J.M. Plunkett | |
The reason so many of these poems are Anonymous is that I learned them from my parents - mostly my mother except for 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' which I think was my fathers favorite. I have long forgotten who wrote them but never the words of them.
