William Butler Yeats Father Poems

1.
The Ballad Of Father Gilligan

The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day
For half his flock were in their beds
Or under green sods lay.
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2.
Father And Child

She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
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3.
The Ballad Of Father O'Hart

GOOD Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a Shoneen who had free lands
And his own snipe and trout.
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