I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berry to a thread;And when white moths were on…
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ALTHOUGH you hide in the ebb and flowOf the pale tide when the moon has set,The people of coming days will knowAbout the casting out of my net,And how you…
CRAZED through much child-bearingThe moon is staggering in the sky;Moon-struck by the despairingGlances of her wandering eyeWe grope, and grope in vain,For children born of her pain.Children dazed or dead!When…
O CURLEW, cry no more in the air,Or only to the water in the West;Because your crying brings to my mindpassion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hairThat was shaken out over…
BOOK I S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind,With a heavy heart and a wandering mind,Have known three centuries, poets sing,Of dalliance with a demon thing. Oisin. Sad…
WHAT they undertook to doThey brought to pass;All things hang like a drop of dewUpon a blade of grass.
I HAVE drunk ale from the Country of the YoungAnd weep because I know all things now:I have been a hazel-tree, and they hungThe Pilot Star and the Crooked PloughAmong…
The fascination of what’s difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart. There’s something ails our coltThat must, as if it…
YOU think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into…
BECAUSE there is safety in derisionI talked about an apparition,I took no trouble to convince,Or seem plausible to a man of sense.Distrustful of thar popular eyeWhether it be bold or…