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Dosshouse Blues: A Collection of Lyric and Other Poems by John O'Loughlin
Dosshouse Blues: A Collection of Lyric and Other Poems by John O'Loughlin
BLUES
A collection of lyric and other poems by
JOHN O’LOUGHLIN
1. God's Sacrifice
2. Song of the Vicar's Daughter
3. Unrequited Love
4. The Lover's Dream
5. Solicitation
6. A Vindication
7. Regret
8. To A Painting
9. Desire
10. Wishful Thinking
11. The Universal Song of Life
12. Song of the Lonesome Drifter
13. They Take the Letters
14. Tribute
15. Complaint
16. Circumstances
17. Dosshouse Blues
18. Fantasy
19. Confessions
20. I Enter Song
21. Her Smile
22. Requiem
23. Dream Poem
24. Patois
25. Candle
26. Scene from the Confessional
27. Five Prose Poems
28. Lines to Set the Imagination Adrift
PREFACE
My father is a vicar,
A vicar's toast is he.
He chain-smokes like a trooper,
But gives his love to me.