Vol 2: The Boat in the Farmyard and other poetry
A further collection of unpublished poems by the writer, artist, musician, poet and beloved headteacher, W T Quirk (1908 – 1977). Collection written in 1925-1926.
W T Quirk’s dedication: “Dedicated to my mother, who first taught me the value of friendship.”
Alphabetical list of titles of all poems in the category: The Boat in the Farmyard & other poetry
- A Rainy Day
- Anna Moyra
- Broken Bell
- Called I Thee Fair
- Castle Rushen
- Close of Day
- Cupid at Play
- December
- Deep in the Memories of Long Ago
- Early Morning – I General
- Early Morning in the Country- II
- Early Morning in the Snow – IV
- Early Morning in the Town – III
- Elegy in a Dismal Schoolroom
- Erystain after Rain
- Failure
- Fire Fancies
- Foxdale Eve
- Foxdale Stream
- From the Lowliest
- House Fever
- Isle of Man
- Lament for a Language
- Lines in Spenserian Stanza
- Lines to a Little Boy on Christmas Day
- Love’s Fever
- Man’s Limitations
- Morn from the East
- Mountain Tarn
- Noble Sixth Form
- November
- October
- Odelet
- On Hearing Spohr
- On Reaching my Seventeenth Birthday
- On the Passing of One Unknown
- Our Baby
- Paraphrase of Psalm 47
- Paraphrase of the Hundredth Psalm
- Peel Castle
- Puny Man
- Sixth Form Dirge
- Solace
- Storm along Castletown Front
- Summer Night
- The Boat in the Farmyard
- The Choosing
- The Dead Son
- The Epitaph
- The Lay of a Lost Bard
- The Man of Maths
- The Marsh
- The Pioneer
- The Rainbow
- The Sunset
- The Tramp’s Bed – I
- The Tramp’s Bed – II
- The Twelve thirty Express
- The Wail of the Dalton Sufferers
- To a Jackdaw
- To Death
- To Her
- To Keats
- To Mary
- To Shakespeare
- Tom Brown
- Whispering Spirits
- Written in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems
- Written on the Fly-leaf of William Cowper’s Poems
- Written on the Last Page of a Book of Keats’s Poems