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The face on the barroom floor by robert service.
This poem is often wrongly thought to be by robert w service.
The face on the barroom floor is a poem written by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887.
The face on the barroom floor.
Service books and couldn t find it.
It is a favorite of mine because it speaks to the human condition and that is what psychology is all about.
27 sep 97 06 08 pm somebody was talking about this poem in another thread.
I looked through my robert w.
The face on the barroom floor by john henry titus written published in 1872 a later version was adapted from the titus poem by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887 and first published in the new york dispatch it has been wrongly attributed to robert service.
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I have been to the teller house bar in central city colo twice and saw the painting of the face both times.
With henry mollicone catherine o rourke patrick o halloran nathan milholin.
The face on the barroom floor hank snow tales of the yukon.
He then offers to sketch madeline s face on the floor of the bar.
The face on the barroom floor this poem is often wrongly thought to be by robert w service.
Butch whidden 9 10 2020 12 37 00 pm this is one of dad s favorite poems.
The face on the barroom floor poem by hugh antoine d arcy.
The face upon the barroom floor aka the face on the floor and the face on the barroom floor is a poem originally written by the poet john henry titus in 1872.
A later version was adapted from the titus poem by hugh antoine d arcy in 1887 and first published in the new york dispatch.
It is published here to the memory of hugh antoine d arcy its rightful father.
Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was therewhich wellnigh filled joes barroom on the corner of the square.
Chet atkins composer lyricist.
The story of a strange ballad poem written in 1887 which became a unusual portrait on the barroom floor in a quaint former boomtown in colorado and became the inspiration for one of the most performed modern american operas in history.
I finally found the above an inaccurate version on the web and also in a book called the best loved poems of the american people.
By hugh antoine d arcy thanks go to joe offer for providing this poem and to john lambert for the picture.
Written in ballad form it tells the story of an artist ruined by love.
He didn t speak it from memory but he did reference it often.
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It is published here to the memory of hugh antoine d arcy its rightful father.
