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Winifred Mary Letts's Poetry, by popularity

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  • 'And She is Spoke'
    I'VE heard a half a dozen times
        Folks call it Reims.
    9 lines
  • Synge’s Grave
    MY grief! that they have laid you in the town 
    Within the moidher of its thousand wheels 
    39 lines
  • To Tim -- An Irish Terrier
    O jewel of my heart, I sing your praise,
    Though you who are, alas! of middle age
    33 lines
  • Casualty
    John Delaney of the Rifles has been shot.
    A man we never knew,
    26 lines
  • Screens (In a Hospital)
    They put the screens around his bed;
        a crumpled heap I saw him lie,
    23 lines
  • The Call To Arms In Our Street
    There’s a woman sobs her heart out,
    With her head against the door,
    34 lines
  • The Kerry Cow
    IT'S in Connacht or in Munster that yourself might travel wide,
    And be asking all the herds you'd meet along the countryside,
    33 lines
  • The Connaught Rangers
    I SAW the Connaught Rangers when they were passing by,
    On a spring day, a good day, with gold rifts in the sky.
    19 lines
  • The Harbour
    I think if I lay dying in some land
    Where Ireland is no more than just a name,
    28 lines
  • Chaplain To The Forces
    Ambassador of Christ you go
    Up to the very gates of Hell,
    41 lines
  • Easter Snow
    My jewel of the world, she sleeps so fast,
    She will not hear you, Spring wind, if you blow;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Spires Of Oxford
    I saw the spires of Oxford
      As I was passing by,
    26 lines
  • What Reward?
    You gave your life. Boy.
    And you gave a limb:
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Soldier In Hospital
    Courage came to you with your boyhood's grace
    Of ardent life and limb.
    48 lines, 1 comment
  • To A May Baby
    To come at tulip time how wise!
    Perhaps you will not now regret
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • The Deserter
    There was a man, - don't mind his name,
    Whom Fear had dogged by night and day.
    31 lines
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