First Gropings
By: by William Francis Mulcahy; introduction by J. Lester Lamphere.
Publisher: Transcript Press incorporated
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Dedham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Notes: Poems.  Many written during the author's years as a student during the 1920's at Revere High, in Revere, MA.  Bill was born in Yarmouth MA, on May 18, 1909, and died of Lobar Pneumonia in a hospital in Pocasset, MA, on September 7, 1934, at the young age of 25.  He was married to Gilda (Massa) (Mulcahy) Anderson (October 24, 1909 - June 30, 1992) and had two children, William Francis Mulcahy (June 26, 1931 - ) and Ethel Marie (Mulcahy) (MacIntyre) Hefferan (June 2, 1932 - ).  He was working on a volume of sonnets at the time of his death, which has remained unpublished.
Table of contents: title: Perspective - 11; title: Question - 12; title: Nocturne - 13; title: The Bells - 14; title: To Rupert Brooke - 16; title: Listening - 17; title: Vignettes - 18 including Sea Fog; Dawn in Harbor; Size; Getting Under Way.; title: Song - 20; title: Loss - 21; title: Paralysis - 22; title: The Work Basket - 23; title: The Fool - 24; title: Summer Day - 25; title: What is Love? - 26; title: The Choice - 27; title: Vision - 28; title: The Night is Still - 30; title: Not in the Spring - 31; title: Lilacs - 32; title: Thoughts at Twilight - 33; title: The Call - 34; title: Fulfillment - 35; title: The Mountain - 36; title: Love and I - 39; title: The Bore - 40; title: The Silver Stream - 41; title: The Tune - 42; title: To Do But This - 43; title: Paradox - 44; title: Change - 45; title: Golden Cities - 46; title: You - 47; title: To Hungtington - 48; title: My Poems - 50; title: The Old House -51; title: The Garden - 52; title: Prayer - 53; title: Fear - 54; title: To a Dreamer - 55