A Glass Of Beer
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A Glass Of Beer by James Stephens
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James Stephens – A Glass of Beer was published in 1918.
In the early years of Stephens writing poetry, he shared his strong views on the poverty around him. He did not accept the the roles society pressed on its more feeble civilians, and was very upset about the limitations. He used events happeni...
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James Stephens - A Glass of Beer
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there
nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer:
may the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair
and beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.
That parboiled imp, with the hardest jaw you will ever see
on virtue’s path, and a voice that would rasp the dead,
came roaring and raging the minute she looked at me,
and threw me out of the house on the back of my head.
If I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
but she with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.