I, proclaiming that there isAmong birds or beasts or menOne that is perfect or at peace.Danced on Cruachan’s windy plain,Upon Cro-patrick sang aloud;All that could run or leap or swimWhether…
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SAY that the men of the old black tower,Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds,Their money spent, their wine gone sour,Lack nothing that a soldier needs,That all are oath-bound…
IA SPECKLED cat and a tame hareEat at my hearthstoneAnd sleep there;And both look up to me aloneFor learning and defenceAs I look up to providence.I start out of my…
I DREAMED that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of thewoodWith…
(or The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love) Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in…
SING of the O’Rahilly,Do not deny his right;Sing a “the’ before his name;Allow that he, despiteAll those learned historians,Established it for good;He wrote out that word himself,He christened himself with…
WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,My heart would brim with dreams about the timesWhen we bent down above the fading coalsAnd talked of the dark folk who live…
I swayed upon the gaudy stemThe butt-end of a steering-oar,And saw wherever I could turnA crowd upon a shore. And though I would have hushed the crowd,There was no mother’s…
A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden;around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, kneelinqwithin the temple.Anashuya. Send peace on all the lands and flickeringcorn. —O, may…