“Oh stay, my man, what do you see?”
“Leave go, old woman, let me be.
She is so fair I ...
Lore & Legend
Poems in Category: Lore & Legend
Manx folk tales told briefly in rhyme. These six poems by W T Quirk appeared in the Mona’s Herald in spring 1964.
Excerpts of all poems in this category are arranged alphabetically by title below. To read the full poem click the excerpt title or the “Read whole entry” link.
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The Fairy Child
Maybe it’s like they should have known
To hang the kern outside the door;
But they were busy at the ...
The Preacher’s Donkey
The preacher was a sober man,
Of that there was no doubt;
But he was known upon the Plan
To ...
The Three Legs
‘Twas many hundred years ago
When on the Isle the mist hung low,
And Little People ruled the land,
A ...
The Wanderer
It was just after two on a May afternoon
In the year nineteen fifteen,
When the little Peel lugger near ...
The Water Bull
Among the strange immortals of our land,
Mona’s sweet Isle, long famed in verse and song,
There is a creature ...