"LIFE is a tragedy - hurrah!"

"Even in his tragedies there is room for laughter.  But not laughter for its own sake -- comedy relief. O'Neill is interested in comedy only when it expresses character; for it is life itself he records -- how man, the mixture of good and evil, the compound of vitality and aspiration, copes with the accidents that make up his life."   Alta May Coleman - Theatre Magazine 1920

The entire article, titled "Personality Portrait: Eugene O'Neill" can be found  here



ALL NIGHT I LINGERED AT THE BEACH
by: Eugene O'Neill

LL night I lingered at the Beach

And trod the board walk up and down--

I vainly sought to cop a peach.

 

I had prepared a charming speech,

To woo the fair ones of the town--

All night I lingered at the Beach.

 

Quoth I "Sweet damsel I beseech

That you will smile on me," poor clown!

I vainly sought to cop a peach.

 

With the persistence of a leech,

I clung to every passing gown--

All night I lingered at the Beach.

 

I swore my love to all, but each

Passed me the haughty freezing frown--

I vainly sought to cop a peach.

 

I prayed to all, both white and brown--

They only "kicked my dog aroun."

All night I lingered at the Beach--

I vainly sought to cop a peach.