I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees,My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round myknees,My spirit rocked in sleep and sighs; and saw the moor-fowl paceAll…
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WE have cried in our despairThat men desert,For some trivial affairOr noisy, insolent sport,Beauty that we have wonFrom bitterest hours;Yet we, had we walked withinThose topless towersWhere Helen waked with…
I TURN roundLike a dumb beast in a show.Neither know what I amNor where I go,My language beatenInto one name;I am in loveAnd that is my shame.What hurts the soulMy…
“ALTHOUGH I’d lie lapped up in linenA deal I’d sweat and little earnIf I should live as live the neighbours,’Cried the beggar, Billy Byrne;“Stretch bones till the daylight comeOn great-grandfather’s…
While I, that reed-throated whispererWho comes at need, although not now as onceA clear articulation in the air,But inwardly, surmise companionsBeyond the fling of the dull ass’s hoof– Ben Johnson’s…
IAncestral HousesSURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high…
COME gather round me, Parnellites,And praise our chosen man;Stand upright on your legs awhile,Stand upright while you can,For soon we lie where he is laid,And he is underground;Come fill up…
Sang old Tom the lunaticThat sleeps under the canopy:‘What change has put my thoughts astrayAnd eyes that had s-o keen a sight?What has turned to smoking wickNature’s pure unchanging light?…
Who talks of Plato’s spindle;What set it whirling round?Eternity may dwindle,Time is unwound,Dan and Jerry LoutChange their loves about.However they may take it,Before the thread beganI made, and may not…
I think it better that in times like theseA poet keep his mouth shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He has had enough of meddling…