Hope that you may understand!What can books of men that wiveIn a dragon-guarded land,Paintings of the dolphin-drawnSea-nymphs in their pearly wagonsDo, but awake a hope to liveThat had goneWith the…
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MUCH did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.
Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania,in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech. WE who are old, old and gay,O so old!Thousands of years, thousands of years,If…
THERE all the golden codgers lay,There the silver dew,And the great water sighed for love,And the wind sighed too.Man-picker Niamh leant and sighedBy Oisin on the grass;There sighed amid his…
‘What do you make so fair and bright?’ ‘I make the cloak of Sorrow:O lovely to see in all men’s sightShall be the cloak of Sorrow,In all men’s sight.’ ‘What…
ALTHOUGH I can see him still.The freckled man who goesTo a grey place on a hillIn grey Connemara clothesAt dawn to cast his flies,It’s long since I beganTo call up…
Man. In a cleft that’s christened Alt Under broken stone I halt At the bottom of a pit That broad noon has never lit, And shout a secret to the stone. All that I have…
I ASKED if I should pray.But the Brahmin said,“pray for nothing, sayEvery night in bed,“”I have been a king,I have been a slave,Nor is there anything.Fool, rascal, knave,That I have…
AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,And over the mice in the barley sheaves;Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.The hour of…
“NEVER shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.’“But I can get a hair-dyeAnd set such colour there,Brown,…