SHY one, Shy one,Shy one of my heart,She moves in the firelightpensively apart.She carries in the dishes,And lays them in a row.To an isle in the waterWith her would I…
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I know that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do not hate,Those that I guard I do not love;My country is Kiltartan Cross,My…
DO not because this day I have grown saturnineImagine that lost love, inseparable from my thoughtBecause I have no other youth, can make me pine;For how should I forget the…
HE stood among a crowd at Dromahair;His heart hung all upon a silken dress,And he had known at last some tenderness,Before earth took him to her stony care;But when a…
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,And even old men’s eyes grew dim, this hand alone,Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-placeBabbling of fallen majesty, records…
THE Heavenly Circuit; Berenice’s Hair;Tent-pole of Eden; the tent’s drapery;Symbolical glory of thc earth and air!The Father and His angelic hierarchyThat made the magnitude and glory thereStood in the circuit…
THE Powers whose name and shape no living creature knowsHave pulled the Immortal Rose;And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,The Polar Dragon slept,His heavy rings uncoiled…
I HEAR the Shadowy Horses, their long manes a-shake,Their hoofs heavy with tumult, their eyes glimmeringwhite;The North unfolds above them clinging, creepingnight,The East her hidden joy before the morning break,The…
Saddle and ride, I heard a man say,Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea,What says the Clock in the Great Clock Tower?All those tragic characters rideBut turn from Rosses’ crawling tide,The…
Laughter not time destroyed my voiceAnd put that crack in it,And when the moon’s pot-belliedI get a laughing fit,For that old Madge comes down the lane,A stone upon her breast,And…