IIISlim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,Peleus on Thetis stares.Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,Love has blinded him with tears;But Thetis’ belly listens.Down the mountain wallsFrom where pan’s cavern…
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The light of evening, Lissadell,Great windows open to the south,Two girls in silk kimonos, bothBeautiful, one a gazelle.But a raving autumn shearsBlossom from the summer’s wreath;The older is condemned to…
OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn,Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.Your mother Eire…
WHERE has Maid Quiet gone to,Nodding her russet hood?The winds that awakened the starsAre blowing through my blood.O how could I be so calmWhen she rose up to depart?Now words…
I WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on thefoam of the sea!We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;And the flame of the…
I met the Bishop on the roadAnd much said he and I.‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now,Those veins must soon be dry;Live in a heavenly mansion,Not in some foul…
ALL things uncomely and broken, all things worn outand old,The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lum-bering cart,The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing thewintry…
Bolt and bar the shutter,For the foul winds blow:Our minds are at their best this night,And I seem to knowThat everything outside us isMad as the mist and snow. Horace…
ALTHOUGH I shelter from the rainUnder a broken tree,My chair was nearest to the fireIn every companyThat talked of love or politics,Ere Time transfigured me.Though lads are making pikes againFor…
‘O cruel Death, give three things back,’Sang a bone upon the shore;‘A child found all a child can lack,Whether of pleasure or of rest,Upon the abundance of my breast’:A bone…