Beautiful lofty things; O’Leary’s noble head;My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.“This Land of Saints”, and then as the applause died out,“Of plaster Saints”; his beautiful…
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Shepherd. That cry’s from the first cuckoo of the year.I wished before it ceased.Goatherd. Nor bird nor beastCould make me wish for anything this day,Being old, but that the old…
BEING out of heart with governmentI took a broken root to flingWhere the proud, wayward squirrel went,Taking delight that he could spring;And he, with that low whinnying soundThat is like…
There was a green branch hung with many a bellWhen her own people ruled this tragic Eire;And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.…
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand;What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?
I SAT on cushioned otter-skin:My word was law from Ith to Emain,And shook at Inver AmerginThe hearts of the world-troubling seamen,And drove tumult and war awayFrom girl and boy and…
AH, that Time could touch a formThat could show what Homer’s ageBred to be a hero’s wage.“Were not all her life but stormWould not painters paint a formOf such noble…
She hears me strike the board and sayThat she is under banOf all good men and women,Being mentioned with a manThat has the worst of all bad names;And thereupon repliesThat…
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide;The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed,Who cast round Fergus…
I RISE in the dawn, and I kneel and blowTill the seed of the fire flicker and glow;And then I must scrub and bake and sweepTill stars are beginning to…