I walked among the seven woods of Coole:Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pondGathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,Where many hundred squirrels are as happyAs though they…
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WHAT woman hugs her infant there?Another star has shot an ear. What made the drapery glisten so?Not a man but Delacroix. What made the ceiling waterproof?Landor’s tarpaulin on the roof…
I BADE, because the wick and oil are spentAnd frozen are the channels of the blood,My discontented heart to draw contentFrom beauty that is cast out of a mouldIn bronze,…
COME round me, little childer;There, don’t fling stones at meBecause I mutter as I go;But pity Moll Magee.My man was a poor fisherWith shore lines in the say;My work was…
STRETCH towards the moonless midnight of the trees,As though that hand could reach to where they stand,And they but famous old upholsteriesDelightful to the touch; tighten that handAs though to…
I CRIED when the moon was mutmuring to the birds:“Let peewit call and curlew cry where they will,I long for your merry and tender and pitiful words,For the roads are…
WAS it the double of my dreamThe woman that by me layDreamed, or did we halve a dreamUnder the first cold gleam of day?I thought: “There is a waterfallUpon Ben Bulben…
Bald heads, forgetful of their sins,Old, learned, respectable bald headsEdit and annotate the linesThat young men, tossing on their beds,Rhymed out in love’s despairTo flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. All shuffle…
Whence did all that fury come?From empty tomb or Virgin womb?Saint Joseph thought the world would meltBut liked the way his finger smelt.
THREE old hermits took the airBy a cold and desolate sea,First was muttering a prayer,Second rummaged for a flea;On a windy stone, the third,Giddy with his hundredth year,Sang unnoticed like…